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Every few years, something stupid occurs in the NFL that inspires me to write about it, and use the phrase NFLOL as if it were the most clever thing in the world and I was the first person in history to come up with the play-on-acronym.\u00a0 Otherwise I think the NFL is a pretty deplorable league full of hypocrites, racists and terrible businessmen, and I think professional football itself is pretty horrible, but the sports fan in me is always intrigued when there\u2019s some sort of embarrassing occurrence.<\/span><\/p>\n Case in point, the Washington <\/span>Redskins<\/span> Football Team wins the NFC East, and advances into the playoffs as the #4 seed.\u00a0 The thing is, Football Team finished the regular season with an abysmal 7-9 record, and wins the division by virtue of every team was collectively historically putrid.\u00a0 While Football Team\u2019s season solders on into the playoffs, the 10-6 Miami Dolphins are going to be sitting home next week because of the archaic way playoff seeds are determined.\u00a0 Even the Arizona Cardinals and <\/span>Oakland<\/span> Las Vegas Raiders both are out of the picture despite having slightly better 8-8 records.<\/span><\/p>\n The best part about Football Team\u2019s \u201csuccess\u201d is that by virtue of winning their division, regardless of their record, they are entitled to host a game against one of the \u201c2<\/span>nd<\/sup> place\u201d wild card teams, and in the case of Football Team, their wild card opponent is the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.\u00a0 It should be noted that the Buccaneers finished the regular season with an 11-5 record, which by any measures is a very good record, but the Saints just so happen to have one more win and one fewer loss to take the NFC South.<\/span><\/p>\n So we have the \u201cunderdog\u201d 11-5 Buccaneers going to Washington to play against the \u201chome field advantage\u201d 7-9 Football Team, in what will be an undoubtedly disgusting game in one way shape or form.<\/span><\/p>\n And frankly, I\u2019m kind of torn on who I\u2019d rather see win.\u00a0 Obviously, my allegiances first and foremost go towards the team formerly known as the Redskins I grew up having as the closest thing to a hometown team in my life, and fewer things would be more ironically enjoyable than a team with a maligned identity and an interim name, running the table and winning the Superb Owl, so that the annals of history could recognize \u201cFootball Team\u201d as champions.<\/span><\/p>\n But in the other hand, there\u2019s really no way that Football Team should have any chance in hell because they more or less sucked and exist where they are solely because their division mates just so happened to suck even more, while the Buccaneers are actually a good team, led by football Jesus Christ himself, Tom-period-Brady-period.<\/span><\/p>\n As I\u2019ve stated many times in the past, I have no beef with Tom Brady in spite of popular opinion loving to shit on him every chance possible.\u00a0 In fact, I respect his winning history, and the fan in me would enjoy watching him succeed for the Buccaneers, just to spite all the naysayers and doubters who put his career on a cross and left it for dead when he left New England<\/span>Generally, I fucking hate the Buccaneers, but considering I kind of hate the NFL in general these days, I wouldn\u2019t mind seeing them succeed, just because they\u2019re being helmed by the guy the world loves to hate, and I\u2019d love to see Brady be able to give the metaphorical middle fingers to everyone, even if it meant the Bucs succeeding.<\/span><\/p>\n Regardless though, I don\u2019t really fucking care.\u00a0 It\u2019s just hilarious to me that we\u2019re in this scenario of a shit team getting a home game because of the playoff seeding rules, and an 11-5 team having to run the table entirely on the road if they want to have any chance at glory.\u00a0 This actually happened a while back, when the 8-8 Cardinals got to host the 12-4 Falcons because they won their division, and not only did they upend the oft-choking <\/span>Flacons<\/em>, they went all the way to the Superb Owl and just narrowly lost to the fucking Steelers.<\/span><\/p>\n I doubt that Football Team will fare so well, but wouldn\u2019t it be great if they did?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every few years, something stupid occurs in the NFL that inspires me to write about it, and use the phrase NFLOL as if it were the most clever thing in the world and I was the first person in history to come up with the play-on-acronym.\u00a0 Otherwise I think the NFL is a pretty deplorable … Continue reading NFLOL, circa 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