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Being a Patriots fan, I was hoping to avoid talking about football this week. Let’s face it the loss was a bitter pill to swallow. New England didn’t execute on defense when they needed to. The Giants played really well and their defensive line never let up the pressure.

The New York Giants deserve the championship.

Did I mention the Celtics are contenders? Even the Bruins too? The Red Sox return with almost their entire championship roster intact. Well, except Curt Schilling’s shoulder but who knows what the hell is going on there? We have three more leagues to try and win championships in before this year is over. We even have the Revolution, our MLS soccer team as a backup. You won’t get rid of us that easily all you sports fans from other cities.

Oh, and the Patriots have the #7 overall pick in the NFL 2008 Draft. Just saying.

So the NFL is considering changing the postseason format:

“In the early stages of Goodell’s plan, which would require the owners’ longshot approval, the bottom two division winners by record in each conference would go on the road the first week if they have a worse mark than the wild-card teams.”

The argument is it gives teams less room to sit players in the last couple weeks of the season. As a fantasy football enthusiast I like it because I will have one less thing to think about on draft day. Having the #1 pick not play in week sixteen because he’s on the fourth-best team in the NFL sucks.

In reality football it is an odd idea. An NFL team can lose all six of their divisional games and still make the playoffs as it stands. Now they could get a first-round home game to boot? I guess it makes sense from a parity standpoint but it waters down the meaning of winning the division.

I agree with the article. This has little chance of passing.

Until Roger Goodell made playoff formats an issue, the talk all week was about whether Super Bowl XLII was the best-ever. From the viewpoint of the Giant fan, the casual fan, the advertisers, FOX network it surely was. From the Patriot fan’s perspective, not so much.

It was a close game with a lot of drama throughout, something you don’t see every year. Sure there was XXX with Pittsburgh vs. Dallas and a late interception thrown by Neil O’Donnell. There was XXXII with Denver vs. Green Bay and a classic example of why you don’t let the other team score so you have more time for your offense. There was XXXIV with St. Louis vs. Tennessee and the Titans a yard-and-a-half away from tying the game at the end.

For every one of those games, there is a 34-7 stinker like in XXXV with the Ravens and the Giants. Or a 46-10 mauling of the Patriots in XX by the Bears. You never know what you will get.

Super Bowl XLII might not be the best-ever but it belongs as one of them, perhaps as high as top-five.

Top-three if the Patriots won.

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