Seriously, what do you think the actual probability of the 49ers hosting another game at Candlestick is?
Fuck, fuckity fuck fuck fuck. Why oh why did the stupid Bengals opt to not use their timeouts at the end of the second half there, or at least go into a hurry up after that one play? YES, let’s just let a scoring opportunity slip away while you’re down by 20 points…GOOD CALL MARVIN!
Marvin Lewis continues to be the worst game manager EVER…why he doesn’t override his OC in the second half and insist on some urgency in the way the offense is conducted is beyond me. I just don’t understand it.
Maybe 10%
If that.
To host a game, the 49ers would need to either (a) win their division, or (b) have the teams seeded ahead of them in the NFC field lose.
For (a) to happen, the Niners (10-4) would have to win out, while the Seahawks (12-2) would have to lose out. The Niners play the Falcons and Cardinals, while the Seahawks play the Cardinals and Rams. It’s possible, but doesn’t seem likely, especially since the Seahawks are at home for both of those games.
But, if if did happen, as the Niners and Seahawks have split their two meetings this year, the next tiebreaker would be divisional record. At that point, the Niners would be 5-1 in the NFC West, while the Seahawks would be 3-3, and the Niners would win the West, and be assured of hosting at least one playoff game.
If the Niners wind up a wildcard team (scenario b), they would need the lower-seeded team to win in pretty much every NFC playoff game…this includes a couple of teams which tend to play very well at home (e.g., the Seahawks, the Saints, possibly the Packers). Again, it’s possible, but seems vanishingly unlikely.
I think the swing between highs for wins and lows for losses would be indicative of emotionally charged fandoms, but for the Cowboys, the low disparity does not mean stable. It means the fans know Jerry Jones will never get himself out of the way long enough to actually get the team a championship, so wins and losses don’t mean much.
I find myself in the unenviable position of rooting for the Ravens. Yuck.
Yeah, me too.
It’s not so bad. PM me your mailing address and I’ll get your purple camo pants off to you. 
So I’m not actually watching the game but I’m checking the score on NFL.com. Can the Ravens find the end zone? I’m just askin.
They know where it is. But they’re afraid of it.
This Ravens v Detroit game has been reminding me of not only how awful NFL officiating can be, but also how damaging a badly called PI is. The Ravens have the lead on not one but TWO questionable PI calls, and the irony is that they got the ball in the redzone both times and came away with only field goals.
That tells me that without those gifts they wouldn’t have scored at all on those two possessions, and that the Ravens offense pretty much sucks.
I root for the Lions for selfish Bengals fan reasons for the outcome of this particular season, but also because their franchise has mirrored my favorite team’s in term of long stretches of ineptitude, and has only recently been tasting success after so many years of failure.
They are my favorite team in the NFC, despite the fact that they are dirty and their coach is a douchenozzle for that reason alone. In other words, they are trying to become the Steelers of the NFC.
Also-
I think it’s high time the NFL revisited the way PI calls are spotted. Just make it a 15 yarder and an automatic first down already. Fuck that “ball placed at the spot of the foul” bullshit.
And if they give the ball to the other team at the 20 instead of the spot of the kick for missed FGs, we’ll finally break Matt Prater’s record.
The offense may not be good, but Justin Tucker might just be a god.
61 yrd FG ftw!
Loves me some Justin Tucker tonight.
Also, Flacco SUCKS.
Is Stafford, like, colorblind? He and Eli need to go see Rand Paul about their eyes. Romo, well, WGAFAH.
Kevin Huber was a god too until he got cheap-shotted. Probably will never play in the NFL again, either. Broken jaw, cracked vertebrae in his neck…all because Steelers players love to lead with their head.