Crystal Ball

Chucky predicts it will be the Dallas Cowboys

and the New Orleans Saints in the NFC Championship

this year.  I respect Jon Gruden and think he's one of

the great personalities in football.  I also respect the New

Orleans Saints for persevering for all those decades of 

ineptitude and finally winning the big one. 

 I hate the f'in Cowboys.  Almost as much as the Eagles. 

I'm sticking with Eli.  He's still such a young boy to me. 

But he's a young boy with a great arm, the ability to get

out of a jam, the desire to succeed, the pedigree of a royal

American football family, and a frickin big-ass ring to 

prove that he's got the balls to pull it off again. 

Tyree's catch may have been lucky, but you got to get

it in the right place for luck to happen.

The winning TD pass to Burress was as calm and cool

as could be.  Those seconds before that catch seemed

to last an eternity to me.

I said to myself when I saw this image live, that this

would not be the last time I saw this guy raising

the Lombardi Trophy.  I'm expecting to see the 

same this February.  I know it's only a game,

but tell that to us at 1:00 on Sunday afternoon. 

Here, take these cottonballs. You're gonna need them.