There are only eight left, ladies and gentlemen.
Published at 1:10 a.m. Updated at 7:00 a.m.
Eight clubs. This is all that remains of this first playoff weekend, during which the Browns became the Browns again, the Eagles continued their very long landing, and the Cowboys did what they do best in January, that is, to collapse miserably.
After all that, the picture becomes a little clearer. Ravens and 49ers will enter the scene after a bye week, while the Lions, Buccaneers, Texans, Packers, Bills, Chiefs and Taylor Swift will try to continue their journey.
Logic, this vague concept which almost never applies to American football, leads us to believe that it is the Ravens and the 49ers who will find themselves on the big stage of the Super Bowl. But that would be forgetting that there are always surprises in life, for example the time Céline Dion wanted to sing an AC/DC song in front of an astonished audience.
As of writing this, the average ticket price for Sunday’s Bucs-Lions game in Detroit is $1,186. This is undoubtedly attributable to a certain scarcity effect, the Lions having participated in the playoffs approximately three times in 75 years; before beating the Rams last weekend, their last playoff victory was in 1991.
But all this shows a certain enthusiasm, and we can only wish happiness to the Lions fans, who have had to endure very bad teams for a very long time, in addition to having to live in Detroit, a city that no one will never confuse it with Venice, except perhaps for the water around it.
Also on Sunday, the game between the Chiefs and Bills in Buffalo should go ahead as scheduled, as no snowstorms are expected this time. This is great news for Taylor Swift, who won’t need to shovel out a spot in the stadium.
This high-quality menu will begin this Saturday with the first two games, that of the Texans in Baltimore, and that of the Packers in San Francisco. It’s hard to see the Ravens escaping this one, but should the 49ers be wary of these surprising Packers, who went to trample Jerry Jones’ artificial turf barely a week ago?
No doubt, as Kierkegaard already wrote: that’s why we play matches.
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As was to be expected, Cowboys fans reacted in a very thoughtful manner after the collapse of their favorites last Sunday. This other disaster led to a campaign to fire Mike McCarthy, but no, the coach Will be back. Like quarterback Dak Prescott, on whom the Cowboys have already relied heavily; He has one year left on his contract, which will count for $59.4 million on the club’s payroll in 2024.
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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott
That’s a lot of money for not much, that, and here Prescott’s playoff record is 2-5, which is eerily similar to the 2-4 playoff record of his predecessor, Tony Romo, who had he also used to throw the ball to the other team when it counted. Romo and Prescott share a string of team records, but they also have the same number of Super Bowl rings: zero.
John Madden often said that 90% of the game is 50% mental, and he was obviously right.
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It is well known that the masses delight in this chronicle from Saint-Hubert to Saint-Moritz, and faced with this state of affairs, the comments, all rave, continue to pour in.
For example, directly from Gaspé, Stéphane Dumaresq was not so much a fan of American football, but, he wrote, “since I discovered this column, I haven’t missed one! ! ! ”, which is an excellent habit to get into, let’s face it.
Lucie Charbonneau is surprised by those who attribute Taylor Swift to a bad influence on the Chiefs. “It gives a lot of power to a woman who is not on the ground to clear the way for the men who are there. » Very true, and in the same vein, we take this opportunity to remind you that Yoko Ono cannot be held responsible forOb-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.
Finally, François Robert reminds us: “You may be right in your predictions but I am not wrong. » We think exactly the same thing, maybe more.
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So this is it. Sunday evening, we will know the four winners, who will then compete next weekend in the conference finals. Then it will be the biggest of the big games, the Super Bowl, presented in Vegas on February 11.
We remind you that it is Usher who will be featured during the halftime show, a questionable choice especially since Kaïn was available, but hey, we can’t win them all.
2024-01-20 06:10:30
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