Ralonzo

It really is stunning how all the networks and pre-game shows and broadcasts stress the importance of the #1 seed in the playoffs, and all the permutations of how it can be obtained in the NFC ad nauseum, while never mentioning how the Bills were the #1 seed until the NFL gave it the Chiefs.

Raiders get the stop. They just need to do this (24-6)/3 times.

That Chiefs huddle reminded me of a different western.

Re: that huddle. What in the wide wide world of sports is a goin' on here? They called the downfield hold instead of the backfield hold.

Big ol block in the back on Crosby... crickets...

Alright, I've seen enough of this rigged bull *****.

Find someone who loves you the way the NFL loves the Chiefs.

Underage groupies in the 70's. Say it ain't so, I'm crustfallen.

Brains are inexplicable at times. Your comment about 'evil in a good way' reminded me of this long forgotten Stevie Nicks demo: haha. I jest. this is really just the original Atlanta Rhythm Section album track played at 45.

Yes children. There was a time when the World Intergender Wrestling Champion was a comedy skit. In 2023? Who the hell knows.

40 years ago is 1993? Holy crap did I oversleep.

Oh. Well you have a ways to go to achiever full Krieger status. I see a deep early track and a later effort. How about the hit single that should have been but wasn't? With regard to the above Zombies post... has there ever been a cooler song than Care Of Cell 44?

Next on Schoolhouse Rock.

Hoping KC loses and loses and loses

Still, the Bengals never controlled their destiny in that scenario. It would have still been dependent on the Chiefs. On the other hand, the Bills could very well end the season having been the #1 seed for the last month of the season, won every game they played, and still finish as the #2 seed and miss out on the bye. The only carrot they are offered is, you don't have to go to KC for the n-teenth time in a row in the playoffs. But KC still gets to rest up on the bye week, and still doesn't have to play an away playoff game for the first time in the Mahomes era. The Bills control of their own destiny was taken and given to KC as a result of the cancellation. The Bills did everything they could possibly be expected to do to secure the bye and home field, but are denied the reward, which is now gifted to the Chiefs like another one of those convenient flags on marginal plays at critical times. That's gotta be as harsh as anything Cinci is arguing IMO.

The Chiefs were always bound to be the only team to tangibly benefit, gaining a clear path to the biggest advantage offered in this goofball 7-team playoff format - the only bye in the conference. I thought, perhaps with that being an biggest carrot, the league might open up an 8th entry to mitigate it, but hahah what was I thinking.

Sheesh man, thanks for comin' down for the solidarity earlier in the week, but your agenda is getting overwrought here. Is there somewhere else you'd rather be?

I was gonna get hosed in fantasy finals (Allen, Chase, Bass and down by 5). But did the app really have to notify me with the headline "Womp Womp"?

iirc self-CPR was invented by Bears fans.

Saw similar from Patriots regarding Hamlin's ejection for the hit on Meyers.

I mean at least that resembled a football play in a Lee Smith sort of way. Hendrickson was extra-curricular and of no purpose other than attempt to injure.

You could say that.

I don't mean this to sound callous but the world can't stop because this happened. Millions of people are affected in ways from hugely important (family, teammates) to important (NFL employees, travel agencies and lodging) to trivial (you need 9 points from Allen for a championship). All best wishes and prayers to Damar Hamlin but there is absolutely nothing anyone outside that hospital can do for him right now. People need to do what humans have done since the dawn of the species; life will go on. So then. If the game isn't completed, no team in the AFC should earn a bye. Add one wild card team. Of course KC likely gets home field again without actually earning it. If the NFL wanted anything else then they don't throw that flag on Sutton. Fantasy managers, you're all screwed, unless the stats from next week's games are used or unless you're allowed to replace from the bench ex-post facto. There's no fair solution there either.