# NFL Playoffs - 2018 Edition **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 31, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008 "2018-12-31T22:47:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/261 "2019-01-21T03:03:36Z")
AFC’s only had one championship game go to overtime, in 1986. NFC championship game’s gone to OT in 1998, 2007, 2009, 2012, and 2014. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/262 "2019-01-21T03:15:01Z")
Well, I won’t be watching the Super Bowl. ---
**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 21, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/263 "2019-01-21T03:15:07Z")
Man, this has to be bad for NFL viewership. Everyone in the fucking world is sick of the Patriots. I’ve been hoping for a Chiefs/Rams rematch since week 9. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/264 "2019-01-21T03:16:17Z")
…and another NFL season in the books. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/265 "2019-01-21T03:21:53Z")
Sickening. I’d rather see Alabama win 3 more NCAA titles. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/266 "2019-01-21T03:32:58Z")
Well at least these games made one day of midwinter treadmill time pass quickly. ---
**Author:** ![Harrington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac8455/32.png) [@Harrington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harrington)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/267 "2019-01-21T04:01:58Z")
I hated the NFL’s current overtime rules before seeing New England go to it’s 40th Super Bowl in the last 8 years. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/268 "2019-01-21T04:05:31Z")
> [@WernhamHogg](#): > > It would be written LA, not L.A. > [@pulykamell](#): > > Pretty sure he’s from California. It was just that transparently a shit call that even someone from L.A. has to admit it. I have no dog in the fight, and that kick to end the game was awesome, and Sean McVay’s story is cool and all that, but, wow, Saints got screwed on that no call. …Yes I know, guess this isn’t the thread for humor… ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/269 "2019-01-21T04:10:34Z")
Can we just cancel the Super Bowl any time New England is in it? ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/270 "2019-01-21T04:13:03Z")
The more I watch, the more close football games seem like a crapshoot. KC gets a backbreaking interception, but a guy was lined up offside. So many little plays like that, that will mostly be forgotten. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/271 "2019-01-21T04:17:08Z")
> [@borschevsky](#): > > The more I watch, the more close football games seem like a crapshoot. KC gets a backbreaking interception, but a guy was lined up offside. So many little plays like that, that will mostly be forgotten. Oh, believe me, we KC fans will not forget that offsides for a long, long time. Just like we won’t forget the phantom roughing the passer. Or that fact that our defense couldn’t stop the Pats in crunch time. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/272 "2019-01-21T04:18:26Z")
Another Superbowl, man it’s good to be a Pats fan. But it’s pretty easy to understand the haters. Not much we can do about that. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/273 "2019-01-21T04:19:39Z")
So, the moral for the Chiefs is don’t get down 14 to NE. Also (and, yes, I’d be bitching if it had run out the clock before they could kick the FG), the Chiefs should have taken one more shot at the end zone at the end of regulation. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/274 "2019-01-21T04:22:29Z")
Oh sure, it’ll be remembered in KC and by some others too. But in a while it will be otherwise forgotten. It’s like how everyone knows the helmet catch, but lots forget the dropped interception the play before that would’ve just won the game for New England. ---
**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 21, 2019, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/275 "2019-01-21T04:31:09Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > But it’s pretty easy to understand the haters. Not much we can do about that. Sure there is. Dont cheat. Don’t pretend you’re disrespected because you’re slight underdogs on the road. And don’t sell overpriced t-shirts with shitty memes about how scrappy and underdoggy you are. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/276 "2019-01-21T04:59:17Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Sure there is. Dont cheat. Don’t pretend you’re disrespected because you’re slight underdogs on the road. And don’t sell overpriced t-shirts with shitty memes about how scrappy and underdoggy you are. QFT. I once saw the cover of a Patriots Super Bowl DVD which proclaimed that “Few gave the Patriots a chance, yet they somehow pulled it off again” - seriously? Stop pretending you’re Leicester City or something. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/277 "2019-01-21T05:14:50Z")
Except for Spygate, which was pretty stupid and clearly against the rules but offered no advantage I haven’t seen any evidence of Patriots cheating. As to the rest, who cares? All teams do it to some extent, and the solution to that is to beat them. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/278 "2019-01-21T05:31:45Z")
Well, I get to be a Rams fan for a night. And I don’t give enough of a shit about this game to even make sure that I’m off Super Bowl Sunday. Prediction: NE wins, and Brady and Belichek both retire. (Please let them retire. I’m fucking sick of both of them) ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/279 "2019-01-21T08:34:27Z")
Would be befitting for the Rams to beat the Patriots and end Brady’s career since Brady won his first SB 17 years ago by beating none other than the Rams. As a side note, why won’t the Rams have gold/yellow horns instead of white horns? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008/280 "2019-01-21T11:29:47Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > Is anyone else sick and tired of the utter bullsit of the Pat’s trying to play up their underdog status and how disrespected they are? They \*are \*disrespected, aren’t they? 😉 > [@Velocity](#): > > As a side note, why won’t the Rams have gold/yellow horns instead of white horns? I thought that was because the old LA Rams always had white horns on their helmets, and the gold ones were associated with St. Louis. Just an attempt to get (back) into the good graces of local fans. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-playoffs-2018-edition/827008.md?page=15)