Dreadful NFC West Champion named after a bird? Check. Bird team has crappy running game? Check. Bird team advances to divisional round? Check. Strong NFC wild-card team with running QB wins it’s divisional round game so bird team could host NFC Championship Game? Check. Steelers win their divisional game? Check.
We could be seeing the 2009 post-season all-over again, with the one-dimensional bird team from the NFC West in the Super Bowl against the Steelers.
I find myself in the unhappy situation of rooting for a Bears team that I consider almost as fraudulent as the Seahawks. I can’t shake all those 29 yard rushing games Matt Forte had early in the year and Jay Cutler getting clowned by the Redskins. My football instincts don’t like this Bears team even if they did finish pretty strong.
The Bears could knock the elder Hasselbeck brother out of the game and put Charlie Whitehurst under center. That would kill the Seahawks, unless Marshawn Lynch can again deviate from his usual 68 yards rushing per game. But what if bad Forte and bad Cutler come back and we remember the Bears’ best WR is Johnny Knox?
The Packers look mighty. Yet when the Seahawks are playing well, Seattle, whether Kingdome or QWest Field, is a tough place to play. I’m still not sold on the Packer running game. Maybe it won’t matter? But maybe the Seahawks pull it off? Then I have a Super Bowl where I still want to root against the Seahawks, but have to root with the teeming hordes of Stillers fans, the unlikable Patriots or the unlikable Jets.
Go Bears!
