NFL Conference Championship Predictions

As we get into this weekend all eyes are on Sunday and the NFC and AFC Championship games.  Unfortunately, my team, the New York Jets, are playing and for the honesty of this blog I have to be a football fan before a Jets fan, and that's going to suck more than being on Island Revis.  Now I have to make predictions and be as unbiased as possible which is going to be hard because Jet fans have about as much to get excited as Pittsburgh Pirate fans, not a lot.

First I'm going to start off with the NFC Championship.  This game is going to be awesome and I'm hoping for a down to the wire finish.  So here's the call as I see it: Saints 31 Vikings 24.  I don't see Adrian Peterson breaking out of his slump with the way the Saints defense has been playing.  They shut down a high powered offense in the Arizona Cardinals and basically killed Kurt Warner.  The Vikings will look to the Wrangler jean man Brett Farve for offense and they will get some but I'm calling for 2 interceptions because he's old and the season is getting late, the old dude is tired.  The Saints will have a tough time with Jared Allen and his mullet and his "Daisey Dukes" and his foo-man-choo, this guy is a legend, but in the end Drew Brees will have his way just slicing up the secondary just as John Madden slices into his TurDucken.

This is going to be the tough part.  Like a said I have to be a football fan first and come Sunday I'll be wearing my inside out Jets Farve jersey, Jets hat that I purchased off a man in the parking lot of The Meadowlands before a Jets game, and my Jets pajama bottoms that I washed the last time the Jets lost (they were clean in the middle of the season at least).  So here it comes Colts 24 Jets 10.  The clock strikes midnight and the Jets are done unfortunately.  They'll put up a battle but I just don't see an amazing quarterback like Peyton Manning losing to this team again.  I have too much respect for Peyton, whether it be his on the field play or his great commercial acting skills, he just too good to bet against in a game like this.  He'll find a way to stay away from Island Revis and utilize his other weapons to stomp the Jets hurting defense down.  The Jets will stick to their usual game plan by running the ball down the throat of their opponents.  But at some point Sanchez will have to have the game in his hands and that's when things will go down hill for this rookie QB. 

The Jets will have a lot to build on for next year.  They're going to take away a lot from this special run.  Not only will experience help them out for next years Super Bowl win, sorry I get carried away, but they can start to believe in a team that proved it can show up when it counts and not fall.

One final note Jets fans.  We should be going into this game like we did last game at San Diego, we have no chance to win.  If you go into this game thinking we're going to win then there's a chance you'll be disappointed.  But if you figure that the Jets are going to lose then you won't be upset by the outcome!  Here's my reasoning.  Jets win we're happy regardless, but if we think the Jets will lose then if they do lose then you won't be shocked and on suicide watch because that's what you thought would happen anyway.  This may be shallow but it worked last week, just like wearing dirty pajamas.