NFL playoff results

Two games. Both went into overtime. Pretty weird. Both visiting teams won. Weirder yet.

In the NFC contest, one thing was for sure. An Irish head coach named Sean was going to win. Also the same was going to lose.

And the New Orleans Saints got jobbed. Ripped off. About as close to cheating as you can get.

With a chance to put the game away, Drew Brees lofted a pass to running back Alvin Kamara, and Kamara got blasted -- before the ball got there by an LA Rams defensive back. It was blatant. Obvious. But no flag.

How in the world can the supposed "best" officials in the league have missed it? Sean Payton and his crew have every reason to be pissed. You'd think in a game of this magnitude, the refs could at least get it right on such an "in your face" play. Good grief, Stevie Wonder could have seen that foul.

Well OK, maybe those things happen once in a while. And all credit to the Rams place kicker, one Greg Zuerlein. With a chance to officially win the game, he nailed a whopping 57 yard field goal. To boot, no pun intended, it was even more impressive considering the ball was about as high as the top of the goalposts when it sailed through. That kick would have been good from 70 yards, maybe 75. A colossal boot it was. It's only a matter of time before the current field goal record of 64 yards falls. A team just has to be in the right position, at the right time of the game. Just before the half, or towards the end like this one.

So the Rams head to the Super Bowl, and good for them. In a few days everybody will forget about the blown call, except maybe the Saints. But it doesn't matter. What's done is done. They will face.....


The New England Patriots, who damn near needed a miracle themselves to squeak by the KC Chiefs. Between Tom Brady and his receivers, they were quite un-Patriot like. See the Pats up 7-0 getting ready to score another TD. And Brady makes a bone-headed throw into the end zone where his pass was intercepted.

As the game went on and KC finally got something going, it looked for the longest time as if that pick would come back to haunt #12 and the Pats. Maybe cost them the game. Also, his receivers kept having the ball go through their hands winding up being intercepted as well. And who's that tight end of the Pats with the hands of stone? Betcha he won't be there next year.

Still, when crunch time was on -- as in OT, old #12 pulled another rabbit out of his hat. He marched the Pats down for the winning TD. Game over.

Yet that also didn't seem fair. OK, the Pats won the coin toss and elected to receive in OT. Of course they did.

Thing is, the Chiefs and QB Patrick Mahomes never even got the ball. It's a weird rule in the NFL. If the team that initially has the ball scores a TD, it's game over. But if they only get a field goal, the other team gets a chance to tie or win the game. How can that possibly be righteous? In this case, it all boiled down to the fifty-fifty chance of winning a coin flip. So like Sean Payton, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid probably isn't too happy right about now either.Maybe the powers that be in the NFL will finally get their heads out of their arses and see now dumb this rule is. And change it.

Nevertheless,it will be the New England Patriots squaring off against the LA Rams in the Super Bowl in Atlanta.

And a dandy of a game it should be.

Bring it on.