{"id":150,"date":"2007-01-20T01:39:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T06:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/nfl-conference-championships-2\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T01:39:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T06:39:36","slug":"nfl-conference-championships-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2007\/01\/nfl-conference-championships-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Conference Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the final three games. Man, I\u2019m going to miss football&#8230; I certainly won\u2019t miss picking playoff games, though, I feel like I might as well throw darts. Actually, given my record this season, I probably should just throw darts. Of course, given the spreads, it looks like even the bookies are throwing darts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NFC<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Saints @ Chicago(-2.5)<\/em><br \/>\nAs you pointed out last week, the Seahawks weren\u2019t exactly juggernauts this year, and the Bears only barely squeezed by them. The Saints, on the other hand, were at least kind of in command against the Eagles, the hottest team in the NFC. The only thing which really gives me pause is that the Saints winning would be such a good story that it\u2019s hard to imagine that it could really go down that way. I mean, after all, with the whole Boise State \u201cbig upset and star player proposes to cheeerleader\u201d thing, haven\u2019t we used up our cliche allotment for this year already? Ahh, whatever, I\u2019ll take the Saints.<\/p>\n<p><strong>AFC<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Patriots @ Indianapolis(-3)<\/em><br \/>\nThe Colts just seem to be the charmed team, don\u2019t they? Well, you know, they always look like the charmed team during the regular season. They certainly looked like they had a trip to the big game in the bag last year, too, didn\u2019t they, but then the Steelers came into their house and took it away. Come on, look at their playoff records. I just can\u2019t bet against the Pats in the postseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, the final three games. Man, I\u2019m going to miss football&#8230; I certainly won\u2019t miss picking playoff games, though, I feel like I might as well throw darts. Actually, given my record this season, I probably should just throw darts. Of course, given the spreads, it looks like even the bookies are throwing darts. NFC &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/2007\/01\/nfl-conference-championships-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Conference Championships<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byrneweb.com\/sunburn\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}