Sancheska and Renaldo Dorsett (sdorsett@tribunemedia.net, rdorsett@tribunemedia.net)
Divisional Round Awards
THE “This Works Much Better When Awful Calls Go In Your Favour” Award presented by Golden Tate and the Fail Mary - Eric Fisher. Why’d you have to hold bruh?
THE “I Can’t Believe What I Just Saw” Award presented by anyone as long as they say it in Jim Ross’ voice - Aaron Rodgers. I’ve made that throw before, but we’re both amazing quarterbacks.
THE “Life’s Work Undone By One Touchdown Pass” Award presented by Dwight Clark - Tony Romo. It was 21-3, the Romo clock was on, then Dak threw a touchdown to Dez Bryant and Romo immediately updated his résumé.
By RENALDO DORSETT
Sports Reporter
rdorsett@tribunemedia.net
Pittsburgh Steelers at
New England Patriots
RENALDO: My God, nobody cares about the Antonio Brown Facebook Live video. It has nothing to do with schematics, game planning or has any bearing on the outcome of whatever happens Sunday. On second thought…it sounds like the exact thing that I should pay attention to. The talk about this video has been so overwhelming that no one has actually said a word about the game. This is how I need my football covered. I need two days of coverage on the incident itself, followed by body language experts to explain the video and the impact of the “old school vs. millennial” way we parse every argument nowadays. Then there’s reaction from Tomlin, Ben Roethlisberger and anyone else paid to swing wildly and guess about this stuff. Here’s the thing – this wasn’t out of the norm for any millennial with a smartphone. I hate as much as most old people do, but this is the world we live in now. You have to let thousands of people in on every mundane aspect of your life, no matter how private. If you need a football reason or whatever, these dudes scored 19 points against the Chiefs.
PATRIOTS over Steelers
SANNIE: Tom Brady is perfect. Even when he cheats. Ben Roethlisberger has a fat face and Renaldo tells me he tends to be – what’s the most politically correct way to say this – he has issues with rejection.
PATRIOTS over Steelers
Green Bay Packers at
Atlanta Falcons
RENALDO: I can’t wait to see these teams not play defence for an entire afternoon. This is the video game-like NFC championship we deserve for sticking with this season that went on forever. Same theme from last week applies. I firmly believe the Packers are a marginal team and the Falcons are better than them in nearly every aspect. All but one – the most important position on the field. I’ll just have to be wrong about Aaron Rodgers, but there’s no way I bet against him at this point.
PACKERS over Falcons
SANNIE: The fact that Atlanta made it this far is proof that proficiency in ratchet TV is directly proportional to success in life.
FALCONS over Packers
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