Thoughts On The NFL Postseason

My all-time favorite, the New York Giants, just finished off a nice upset win at Dallas.

OK, the Browns are my favorite and I could take or leave the Giants -- who lost twice to Dallas during the regular season -- either way. But here are some reflections:

+ Don't buy the dumb sportswriters' cliche about how "it's hard to beat the same team three times in one year." You know what? No it's not. There's a pretty good reason why you beat them the first two times: YOU'RE BETTER THAN THEM! I think it's even more difficult to beat a team that has beaten you twice already.

But the Giants are playing hot football right now, and as is shown in many sports over the years, a streaky team can often beat the supposed better team, even on the road and especially in the playoffs.

+ Road teams are 4-4 in the playoffs right now, including both games on Sunday.

+ I can't wait to hear again and again all offseason that Tony Romo went to Mexico to have hot hotel sex with Jessica Simpson for a couple of days during the Cowboys' postseason bye week. "Coach, you sure that wasn't a distraction?" Yo, pencilneck, do you know why it was a distraction? Because you couldn't stop making it one. Now get back up to the press room and load up again on the pasta buffet.

It absolutely kills me that the media relentlessly questions things that are a result of their own doing. I don't care at all who Romo is dating. If he was married to a non-celebrity, and slipped out of Dallas for a few days, it would not have been a story. The story had nothing to do with football, the Cowboys or even Tony Romo. Sportswriters made it a story because it was Jessica Simpson. Even the surliest of scribes have become gossip hounds.

+ Did anyone see when Romo overthrew Terrell Owens in the red zone late in the first half? And of course Owens made a small gesture because he's 8 years old in terms of dealing with his emotions? Did anyone notice Romo not react at either of Owens' drops of easy catches during the game? After each, the camera zoomed in tight on Owens, flashing that million-dollar smile as if to say, "I should have caught that, but I still look good."

+ When league officials say the sport is for the fans, ask them why they schedule the AFC Championship game for 6:30 p.m. on a Sunday. Or why they moved one of the Saturday afternoon games to Saturday nights -- on wild card and divisional weekends -- in recent years. For maximum ad dollars, or because the fans wanted it that way?

+ Chargers at Patriots looks boring; the Patriots should win that one. But Giants at Packers will be a good game. The Packers played 55 minutes of outstanding football on Saturday, and the Giants are 9-1 on the road this season, and they're extremely confident. It would be a nice story for Eli Manning to get to the Super Bowl when big bro Peyton seemingly had a far better chance this year, but it will be an even better story when everybody's hero Brett Favre leads the Packers back to it. Green Bay wins a close one.