NFL Update

The “Slots”/NFL Divisional Round is almost upon us, after 5 of 6 essentially not competitive wild card round games.

The top seeds (only they, starting in 2020 are afforded such) Baltimore (Ravens) and San Francisco (49ers) swing into action Saturday January 20, each a 10 point “fave” the former vs the Houston Texans and the latter vs Green Bay (Packers), who on the exact 56th anniversary of their repeat title/NFL/AFL Championship Game/Eventual Supe 2, triumph on 1/14/1968, won in Dallas, leading (27-0), as a touchdown plus underdog.

On Sunday, in the later game, the Buffalo Bills whose eventual (31-17) ‘offs tilt triumph, vs Pittsburgh (Steelers) was correctly postponed from Sunday to yesterday/Monday, will host the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs in what is a redux of a classic K.C. win, also in Slot 4 on a day now in “French Polynesia” Rivkah called.

Also on Sunday, the Detroit Lions, after their (24-23) first ‘offs win since ’91, ending a 9 game ‘offs loss skein, vs the L.A. Rams, will host the Tampa Bay Buccaneers who capped the defending NFC Champion Philly Eagles’ incredibly bad “free fall,” ripping them (32-9) as field goal underdogs, last night.

A true great, Boyd Dowler who wore #86 and is 87 years old, caught what was his 5th and final post-season touchdown pass, all from the so great, Bart Starr, in the Pack (33-14) win vs the then Oakland Raiders in that aforementioned, eventually called second Super Bowl.