How you like me now: Lewis and the Ravens slayed both Manning and Brady on their way to Super Bowl XLVII. God don’t like ugly. So when certain Boston area hecklers decided to display a countdown billboard celebrating RAY LEWIS’s retirement party at the hands of the New England Patriots in the AFC title game, I knew it was on and poppin’ for the Baltimore Ravens at...

The Kaepper: Colin topped off a masterful playoff performance with his arm instead of his legs in the NFC title game. During the Fox Sports pregame at the NFC championship, Fox analyst and four-time Super Bowl winner TERRY BRADSHAW was speechless trying describe the talents of San Francisco 49ers QB COLIN KAEPERNICK during warm-ups. He was that impressed. By the end of the NFC title game at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, so was the rest of...

The Falcons cannot stop all of the 49ers playmakers. Look for Crabtree to play big for Kaepernick with VD doubled. The divisional round was anything but kind to the V-Damus. The Patriots were my only pick that advanced to the conference championship round dropping my record to a mediocre 4-4 in playoff picks. The Broncos failed, the Packers got run over and my darkhorse spech, the Seattle Seahawks, couldn’t quite pull off the...

Ray Lewis and his Ravens teammates plan to crash the retirement party Boston is having in his honor on Sunday. You’ve heard of folks supplying bulletin board material for the opposition before a big game? Well, how about billboard material? The folks at Clear Channel Outdoor in Boston have a billboard that is counting down the day, hours and minutes towards Sunday’s AFC Championship Game between the New England Patriots and...

How the South was won: Matt Ryan averted another Falcon playoff fumble with his clutch play in the final minute. With just 31 seconds remaining in the NFC divisional playoffs and the Atlanta Falcons facing being on the wrong end of the biggest fourth-quarter comeback in NFL playoff history, Falcons QB MATT RYAN rallied his troops and completed two long passes after the kickoff, setting up MATT BRYANT’s winning field goal with :08...

Flinging Flacco: Joe was Montana-like with a playoff career-best 3 TD passing performance against the Broncos. It was supposed to be the beginning of a PEYTON MANNING postseason coronation and return to greatness while serving as a sentimental RAY LEWIS swan song. But JOE FLACCO and the Baltimore Ravens stood firm in the bitter cold of the rocky mountain air and defiantly turned back Denver, upsetting the heavily-favored Broncos in double...

Niners Gold Rush: Kaepernick broke Michael Vick’s postseason QB rushing record with 181 yards vs. the Pack. San Francisco 49ers head coach JIM HARBAUGH’s grand QB experiment got off to a shaky start Saturday after his top passing specimen threw a pick-six to open up the NFC divisional playoffs versus Green Bay. Critics of his move in replacing ALEX SMITH as starting quarterback set to hover like buzzards. But like a phoenix...

Moreno is psyched about his first-ever playoff start for Broncos. He’ll need to run like one to get to AFC title game. Last week, Vinstradamus went 3-1 picking the wild-card games with the Cincinnati Bengals being the only oddballs obviously not ready for NFL postseason primetime. Usually not one to pat myself on the back, I must say I nailed my rookie QB prediction (Mr. Wilson proved to be the lone young gun to advance) and was just...

Michael Robinson and the Seahawks played the rude guests role at Fed Ex Field, silencing the Redskins crowd. Eager to make a name for themselves this postseason, the Seattle Seahawks came into their NFC wild-card contest against the Washington Redskins boasting a good game. All week, defensive backs RICHARD SHERMAN and BRANDON BROWNER boldly talked about shutting down Redskins receivers SANTANA MOSS and PIERRE GARCON. But after falling...

Foster knows what he accomplished Saturday against the Bengals means very little next week against the Patriots. ARIAN FOSTER doesn’t prescribe to the notion of week-to-week gathered momentum. The Houston Texans Mercedes-Benz of a running back believes momentum is something garnered on one particular day, in one particular game. With that in mind, Foster and the Texans wiped away weeks of frustration with an exhaling 19-13 AFC...