Who’s in, who’s out? Predictions as we gleefully enter squeaky bum time in the National Football League While the AFC looks a two-horse race in the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers, the NFC is stacked deep with good teams so let’s take a look at the conference landscape division by division with my picks […]
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AFC Playoff Picture: Pats reign supreme
It’s crunch time. With just a couple weeks of the regular season left it’s time to take a look at which teams will make the cut for the post-season and who are the real contenders for the Super Bowl. Here are the playoff entry rules: 4 division champions from each conference and 2 wild-card qualifiers […]
Super Bowl 51: psychology and human endeavour
Tom Brady, the New England Patriots quarter-back, is defeated. His head hangs and his shoulders are slumped. The Patriots are 20-0 down in the second quarter, falling victim to an efficient Atlanta Falcons team. The image is now iconic; it showed how a man at his lowest ebb rose from the depths of despair, trumping […]
Super Bowl LI: Teams preview
It’s that time of year again! As January has progressed, the NFL play-offs whittled the 12 franchises who qualified for the post-season down until now only two remain. This Sunday’s game between the champions of the American Football Conference (AFC) and National Football Conference (NFC) will decide who gets to take home the Vince Lombardi […]