NFL Predictions!

Ok, so maybe I won’t be as cute as Sarah and Claudia, but I’m making some predictions for this weekend’s games anyway. (I don’t have a picture handy, but I promise I was totally cute at 5.)

Anyway, here are some of my thoughts about the upcoming games:

• It’ll be the conference championship games of natural disasters. On the AFC side, Pierre Garcon’s Haitian roots. On the NFC side, the Saints’ special relationship with the people of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. Announcers love this stuff despite the awkwardness it creates by magnifying the insignificance of professional athletics in comparison.
• Can Brett Favre suppress his urge to chuck the football hither and yon for another game? I’m skeptical. He’s a gunslinger and he just loves the game. Sounds like he can be kind of a jerk as a teammate, but that’s how it is with the throwbacks. Ok, dude’s old. We got it.
• Number of times Peyton Manning will have a smug look of disgust on his face after an incomplete pass: 6
• I’m just kind of worried that Kurt Warner’s wife won’t be around. How will I know what to feel?
• I have to think that at some point, somebody is going to make Mark Sanchez throw the ball 50 times for the Jets to get a win. The Jets have a dominant running game, but not so dominant that they CAN NOT be stopped, right? I don’t think so. And the Jets receivers aren’t world-beaters either, now are they? No. It’s kind of a mystery to me how they’ve continued to win. I’m going with the safe pick – Indy.
• The Saints/Vikings game is a tougher pick. I think it’ll come down to the big play-makers and their respective team’s ability to get them into space, as depicted in the following graphic:
  Uh oh, looks like they gave Peterson the wrong helmet! I’m taking the Saints.