Finally!!

Yesterday was Championship Sunday in the NFL. There were two games held and each decided who would play in the Super Bowl taking place in two weeks. The results were somewhat surprising to many people.

In the AFC it was the Pittsburgh Steelers against the Baltimore Ravens to determine who got to represent that conference in the big game. In what was a game that featured snow, great defense from both teams and some huge hits (the one on Willis McGhee was scary in fact). In the end it was Pittsburgh who earned the ticket to the Super Bowl.

In the NFC we find the bigger and more improbable story of the day. In the match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and Arizona Cardinals, it was the team from the desert who earned their way into the big game. What makes this so improbable and so unlikely is a couple of things: 1) Since the merger of the NFL and AFL in 1970, every team in the NFC except the Cardinals had at least been to the conference championship game; 2) This was only the second home playoff game that the Cardinals had hosted since 1976 I believe; 3) The Cardinals came from the weakest division in the NFC if not the entire NFL, and yet two of the teams that they beat were from what was considered by many to be the strongest division in the NFC and then finally they beat a team that had lambasted them just 6 weeks earlier. The Cardinals are the oldest team in the NFL and yet this is their first Super Bowl.

The match-up between the Steelers and the Cardinals should be a good one on February 1. It is truely David and Goliath. The Steelers are now going to their 7th overall Super Bowl, 5 from which they have emerged as the victors. The Cardinals on the other hand will be looking at having a draft pick in April that is not in the top 10 (virgin territory for this team really). Each team has a quarterback who has won a Super Bowl. Both have defenses that are playing very well right now. It should be a very interesting game come the 1st of February. I am going to go out on a limb and take the underdog for my pick in this game...the Arizona Cordinals will win their first Super Bowl this year, 35-31 and the MVP honors will be split between Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald. Should be a good game. Peace and Love y'all.