NFL Mild Card weak end :-)

[Ray Barnes]

After the regular season, the seedings are as follows:

Kansas City Chiefs, AFC West, 2-14 #1 (bye)
Cleveland Browns, AFC North, 4-12 #2 (bye)
Jacksonville Jaguars, AFC South, 5-11 #3
Buffalo Bills, AFC East, 7-9 #4
Cincinnati Bengals, 4-11-1 #5
Oakland Raiders, 5-11 #6

Detroit Lions, NFC North, 0-16 #1 (bye)
St. Louis Rams, NFC West, 2-14 #2 (bye)
New Orleans Saints, NFC South, 8-8 #3 (record in conference, 5-7)
Washington Redskins, NFC East, 8-8 #4 (record in conference, 7-5)
Seattle Seahawks, 4-12 #5
Green Bay Packers, 6-10 #6

Teams must lose to advance.

Mild Card predictions:

Raiders at Jaguars
The Jaguars enter this game in fine form after a very convincing loss to the Ravens. The Raiders are in real jeopardy of winning this game after eliminating Tampa Bay from the real playoffs. Take the home team.

Bengals at Bills
The Bills will win by disqualification after enraged fans from Toronto stampede the stadium demanding why they have been denied the opportunity to enjoy another losing effort, after paying up to $250 for the drubbing they took at the hands of the Dolphins in the Rogers Centre. Chad whatever-he-calls-himself eats his jersey and is placed on IR to improve their chances in the next round. That is a team player.

Packers at Saints
Brett Favre comes out of near-retirement and leads the Packers to glorious defeat with 5 interceptions - in the first half.

Seahawks at Redskins
After Mike Holmgren's horizontally challenged gluteus maximus supremus is hauled out of real retirement for one more kick at the proverbial kitten, Matt Hasselback plays the game of his career, mistaking it for the Pro Bowl, and gains over 800 yards passing. Seahawks go out in infamy, 77-3. Back home in an inconsolable fit of despair, Holmgren takes his life in a vat of cappucino. He gets creamed a week later.

[Glenn E.]

We really missed out on history this year. It was so close, too.

Had Arizona lost its last game, they would have finished with an 8-8 record. Which would have meant that the winner - the Champion if such a word can appropriately be used in this case - of the NFC West would have had the same record as the last place teams in two other divisions! The Redskins (NFC East) and Saints (NFC South).

[Ray Barnes]

Surely you mean the Deadskins and the Faints.