# Division Playoffs (NFL) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 16, 2010, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243 "2010-01-16T22:30:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/121 "2010-01-18T00:58:25Z")
Anybody willing to pick the 747’s over the Ponies? ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/122 "2010-01-18T00:59:51Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > Anybody willing to pick the 747’s over the Ponies? I’ll do it. What the hell. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/123 "2010-01-18T01:01:12Z")
I can’t see it. There would be some poetic justice in it (as someone mentioned up-thread), but they won’t pull Peyton out of this one, and Mark Sanchez would be hopelessly out-classed. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/124 "2010-01-18T01:01:15Z")
> [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](#): > > I’ll do it. What the hell. Colts fan here, they’re facing a team that can run the ball and has a good pass defense. I think the Colts can win and all, but this one will be close, I figure. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/125 "2010-01-18T01:02:29Z")
The Jets have a good defense. This is the first time I’ve realy watched them play. Have the Jets been this good defensively all year, or was this just a good game? It’s still really hard to pick them to go into Indy and upset the Colts, but with really good defense and a couple of bounces? Who knows. They’re starting to have a bit of an air of destiny about them. For some reason, I just don’t feel like the Colts really do. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/126 "2010-01-18T01:02:50Z")
J-E-T-S. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/127 "2010-01-18T01:04:06Z")
Gee, I wonder if there is ANY precedence in NFL history for the Jets upsetting the Colts in a big game? Huh? Huh? Tough room. ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/128 "2010-01-18T01:05:31Z")
Jets lost to the damn Bills at home, giving me my first strike in Survival. Now they bump my Chargers in San Diego? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/129 "2010-01-18T01:06:33Z")
J! E! T! S! Jets! Jets! JETS! ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/130 "2010-01-18T01:08:51Z")
My first NFL game ever attended was the Jets’ 37-0 blowout of the Bengals (it was unbelievably cold, by the way, but oh so worth it). Last game ever at Giants stadium. My voice was pretty hoarse at work the next day. We didn’t do much sitting. This has been a very fun last few weeks, whatever happens next weekend. Though I’d be happy with the Vikings too, as I have always liked Favre (grew up a Bears fan in a Chicago suburb, but have a soft spot for him). ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/131 "2010-01-18T01:10:03Z")
I can’t believe the Jets beat the Bolts. Now I’m going to have to root for them to go all the way, hopefully lending some small amount of credence to the pitiful performance my Bengals put up against them. But man I hate the Ryan clan. All of them are d-bags. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/132 "2010-01-18T01:10:04Z")
What the hell, I’m going to pick Purple Vs Green in the Superbowl. Then Purple wins in a blowout. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/133 "2010-01-18T01:10:57Z")
Boats over Airplanes! ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/134 "2010-01-18T01:12:15Z")
I thought Chilly burned the boats. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/135 "2010-01-18T01:12:50Z")
Huh? OOOHHH, the “Love Boat” incident… I was just thinking Vikings ships. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/136 "2010-01-18T01:23:13Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Huh? OOOHHH, the “Love Boat” incident… I was just thinking Vikings ships. When Brad Childress firt got hired, in his first press conference he gave a little speech talking about how the Vikings of yore would burn their boats when they invaded a new shoree, so that there was no going back. He said, “We’re going to be like the Vikings. We’re going to burn our boats and never look back. Today we’re going ashore.” I admit that’s a pretty obscure reference (and it probably shows that I need to get a life. How pathetic is it that I remember lines from a head coach’s press conference in 2006?). It did come right after the Loveboat scandal, and was am allusion to that, and a statement that he was going to clean up the behavioral and image problems that the Vikings were having at the time (which he has more or less succeeded at). ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/137 "2010-01-18T01:55:03Z")
Interesting fact: Opposing kickers are now 0-5 on FGs against the Jets in the playoffs this year. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/138 "2010-01-18T01:57:18Z")
The Jets are using witchcraft! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/139 "2010-01-18T02:26:35Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > The Jets are using witchcraft! THAT craft! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243/140 "2010-01-18T02:33:23Z")
> [@Daedelus](#): > > Wow, 3 missed field goals in a playoff game? At home? > > Wow. Two. You really can’t count the desperation 57 yard try at the end of the first half as a legitimate attempt. > [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > The Jets have a good defense. This is the first time I’ve realy watched them play. Have the Jets been this good defensively all year, or was this just a good game? That was pretty reprsentative. The Jets defense is really, really good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/division-playoffs-nfl/525243.md?page=8)