# NFL Conference Championship Games **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 15, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412 "2009-01-15T12:14:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/21 "2009-01-18T21:16:02Z")
I want Larry Fitzgerald to have my babies. What’s really impressed me is the outstanding play calling by Arizona. It’s like they already know what the defense is going to throw at them and they counter with the perfect play. And what has not impressed me is McNabb. He’s always struck me as a talented player, but one who simply doesn’t have the perfectionist streak in him that will make him outstanding. He plays better with a chip on his shoulder, and all too often, like these playoffs, it seems to me he doesn’t much care. Maybe I’m wrong though. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/22 "2009-01-18T21:18:53Z")
Lucky, lucky call for the Eagles there. Another TD here and this game would be out of reach. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/23 "2009-01-18T21:23:14Z")
I think the real question is how the hell did the Iggles ever luck into 5 Championship games? ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/24 "2009-01-18T21:23:20Z")
I get the feeling that if Fitz wants to get open, he will and he’ll catch anything near him. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/25 "2009-01-18T21:32:10Z")
I love how the Eagles thoughtfully called timeout before 3rd and 12 so they could give Arizona as much time as possible with the ball at the end of the half. That was a bullshit hit that Eagles just threw on Warner. IMO, any cheapshot like that on the QB should be an automatic disqualification. And if I were the Cardinals, I’d send the biggest, most useless meathead they on the field for one defensive snap and tell him that his only job is to piledrive McNabb. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/26 "2009-01-18T21:56:47Z")
Up by three scores at the half. I love it…I fucking love it. I’ve been hearing Eagles fans talk all week about who they would be facing in the Super Bowl, how Warner was going to completely fold in the face of their massive pass rush, and similar looking-past-the-Cards comments. This is an absolute thing of beauty. > [@Rysto](#): > > That was a bullshit hit that Eagles just threw on Warner. IMO, any cheapshot like that on the QB should be an automatic disqualification. I won’t go that far, but I’d be fine with an automatic ejection. One of the major roots of my hatred for the Eagles is the fact that they constantly and consistently pick up scumbag players. Whether or not this is true is a big bone of contention I get when arguing with their pinhead fans, and I’m sure Bunkley’s play here will be yet another in the massive pile of ignored evidence (by the way Bunkley, if you’re going to try and pull a scumbag cheap shot like that, next time you might not want to do it _right_ in front of the ref, you dipshit). ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/27 "2009-01-18T21:57:20Z")
McNabb has missed Curtis twice this drive and now, just fumbles. He is not long for Philly. Bring me Kevin Kolb!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/28 "2009-01-18T21:59:18Z")
> [@Hal\_Briston](#): > > I won’t go that far, but I’d be fine with an automatic ejection. :o I thought that “disqualification” was football-speak for ejection. What’s the distinction? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/29 "2009-01-18T22:45:15Z")
Damn this is turning into a great game. There have to be dozens of Cardinal’s fans pulling their hair out. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/30 "2009-01-18T22:46:58Z")
Yow, what a turn around. ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/31 "2009-01-18T22:54:33Z")
Gutsy playcall at 4th and inches by the Cards there. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the running back running sideways. ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/32 "2009-01-18T22:57:05Z")
I love football! ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/33 "2009-01-18T23:02:26Z")
Your move, McNabb. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/34 "2009-01-18T23:14:48Z")
Did the corner grab Curtis’ ankle? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/35 "2009-01-18T23:16:10Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Did the corner grab Curtis’ ankle? He fell on it, certainly. I wouldn’t have called it holding. It will give the fine people of Philadelphia a reason to whine though. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/36 "2009-01-18T23:29:44Z")
And another season of the Andy Reid era comes to an end. The team had some good days, and at their best, they looked unbeatable. But they also lost some games to far-inferior teams. They made the playoffs, managing to to win a couple games behind their defense, but in the end they were doomed by their inability to run the ball, poor performance when in scoring position, and several McNabb misfires in crucial situations. Golly, I wonder what next year will be like. ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/37 "2009-01-18T23:37:51Z")
I’m sooooo happy that the ugly birds lost today! C’mon B’more! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/38 "2009-01-18T23:40:34Z")
> [@Rysto](#): > > I thought that “disqualification” was football-speak for ejection. What’s the distinction? Ahh, ok, I see what you were going with. When I hear the term “disqualification”, I think of the entire team (as in a move like that costing the Eagles the game), but yes, a disqualification can also be on a person. And damn, there were some panicky moments there, but goodness and non-scumbaggedry wins out in the end. Congrats **dalej** , **Osip** and all the Cardinals fans out there. I’ll be pulling for you in two weeks! Now then, we just need a total score of 31+ in the AFC Championship so I can move on to the title game in my pool. 17-14 or better, please! ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/39 "2009-01-18T23:41:59Z")
And thus commences the annual 8 month period in which Eagles fans demand that their highly successful Head Coach and highly successful Quarterback be replaced. As a Giants fan, I take a certain perverse pleasure in watching the drama unfold. Really, it was a very close game, on the road, against what I think we can now safely call a good team. The refs definitely could have called interference on that last play (though it wasn’t a mandatory call or anything). If Westbrook was healthy, if Akers didn’t have an awful game, if any one of a handful of plays went just half a yard further or shorter, Philly wins and goes to a winnable Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412/40 "2009-01-18T23:49:53Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > He fell on it, certainly. I wouldn’t have called it holding. It will give the fine people of Philadelphia a reason to whine though. Not an Eagles fan here, and I am perfectly happy to see the Cards in the SB, but that was \*clearly \*contact before the ball got there, and it was clearly \*not \*accidental. That was textbook pass interference, and should have been called. It’s hard to call it “whining” when they’re right. That said, go Cards! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-conference-championship-games/481412.md?page=3)