Hello sports fans and friends, family, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, cousins and aunts of sports fans.
For many NFL football fans, this coming weekend is the best weekend of sports for the year. Like last weekend, there are four playoff games over two days. What makes it even better than last weekend is that the four teams with the best records in the league rested last weekend and now all host the winner of last weekend’s games. It’s the NFL Divisional round of the playoffs! To help prepare for the games, I invited my old friend Brendan Gilfillan to join me in a series of podcasts. We’ll go through each NFL playoff game and talk through the most interesting characters, the basic plot of the game, who we want to win and who we think is going to win, and just for fun, we’ll share our favorite player names from each playoff team. I hope you enjoy it.
The NFL Wildcard Round
NFL Football — Saturday, January 10, 2015 — Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots, 4:35 p.m. ET on NBC.
- New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady — why is Brady the antithesis of everything the New England Patriots stand for.
- New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski — a dude in all senses of the word.
- New England Patriots cornerback Darrelle Revis — and how he may have his hands full this weekend.
- Baltimore Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata — why being suspended for the last four games of the season could have been the best thing for him and the Ravens.
- Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh — how crazy is it that his recently fired little brother Jim is hanging out with him on the sidelines. What is he doing?
- A plot synopsis of the game — Tom Brady is getting older, is this the last year for him to win a championship? Baltimore always seems to play well in New England in the playoffs, but is that a pattern or just a random series of events? Does it mean anything for this game?
- The players on both teams whose names we most envy and enjoy
- Who we want to win and who we think is going to win
- And much, much more!
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Music by Jesse Fischer.