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So, we're back.  I'm a day late and a dollar short and the two birds have already opened the season up.  So, let's start with our Superbowl Predictions.

Although, they won the Superbowl last year, only Munez had the faith in the Eagles to bring them back into the big game.  Almost unbelievably, only three people put the Patriots into the Superbowl, even though they've been there so often. 

Oddly, the two teams to draw up the most Superbowl support this year were the Saints and the Steelers.  Both teams had four picks to be the Superbowl champs.

The Patriots garnered support from two people, while the outliers were the Rams getting chosen by Hale, and the 0-1 Falcons being chosen by Shawn.

The Steelers and Saints also gathered two people apiece to chose them as the Superbowl loser,   outdone only by the mother fucking San Diego Chargers with three.  Seriously, when I chose the Saints over the Chargers for the Superbowl I figured I'd be looking like a fool, not choosing the exact same thing as Folden.  And having the largest percentage of winner and loser in the game.  What in the hell?

Jim & Hale both chose the Rams to lose the SB, Eplin with the Pats, and John with the Vikings.

Things are quite a bit different then in previous years, which probably means we're going to get the Green Bay vs New England superbowl I've been loathing the idea of all these years. 


In the AFC Championship game 7 of us had the Pats losing that game, which isn't a bad call, considering they've played in that game 22 years in a row. 

Eplin & Jim with the Chiefs, Kemp & John with the Steelers, Shawn with the Chargers.

In the NFC it's a pretty mixed back.  Three people chose the Eagles to lose, five people chose the Vikings, Folden with the Giants, Shawn & Kemp with the Pack Attack, Joe with the Falcons,

Overall, The Pats are represented in at least the Conf Champ by 10 people.  That's the most of any team and not a real big surprise. 


Division Winners

So we'll start with the divisons that for all intent and purposes don't matter for us. 

Steelers & Pats had clean sweeps. 

Nearly clean sweep for the Chargers; however, Munez took the Raiders, & Eplin and Kemp too the Chiefs. 

11 people took the Eagles, with only Rob taking Penn State, I mean the Giants. 

Nearly clean sweep for the Rams, with Munez taking the 49ers.

7 games of Deshaun Watson was enough to encourage 6 people to choose the Texans.  Five took the Jaguars, and Shawn took the Titans. 

7 votes for the Packers & 5 for the Vikings

8 people took the Saints with 4 people taking the Falcons. 

I suppose you all could have figured this out by looking at the spreadsheet. 


Wild Cards

I'm not going to focus much on the wildcards.  Solely because I'm at work and it's jsut a mixed bag all along the way.  But, I do want to mention that Jim & Hale picked the Browns.  It's certainly ballsy to take a team that's won 1 out of it's last 35 games to suddenly win more than they lose, but hey here's to balls I guess.


Other than that, some odd stand out picks. 

I think it's sort of strange that 10 of us chose Aaron Rodgers to win MVP.  No reason, it's just odd. 

Credit to John for ditching Barkley for the OROY and going with Baker Mayfield, a guy who isn't starting and probably won't for at least half the year. 

Just about all of us picked the Bills to bottom out a year after making the playoffs. 

I guess that's about it.  Don't forget to do your picks, and survivor and losers pool picks.