Pro Football: AFC Updates

Both of the top two AFC West teams, the (5-1) San Diego Chargers and (4-1) Denver Broncos won, and now have the top two records in the conference.

They won in different manners. The Chargers struggled to hold off the touchdown underdog, now (0-5) Oakland Raiders. While the Broncos win was not in doubt, but their bettors needed an interception touchdown return in the last seconds to exceed the spread vs the now (1-5) New York Jets.

By the way, the Jets and Raiders met for the penultimate AFL title in late December 1968  (not ’63 as The Four Seasons intoned). The Jets won that game and two weeks later shocked the football world by beating the NFL, Colts.

The Jets have not even been to a Super Bowl since that season, with 2014 exceedingly likely to be the 46th consecutive season without such an occurrence.

I will try one more time and predict the Jets to play well (they played fairly well yesterday), and lose by less than the 10 point margin by which the New England Patriots will be favored in the “Jim Nantz,” I mean Thursday night CBS tilt, a few days ahead.