The Running Game: Week One Football's Back!

Woohoo! Football! And real football this time! Okay, okay, first I had to take over the local Pokemon gym (and two of my monsters were still in there earlier today), then I went home and turned on my TV, but something was wrong. I had to call my cable company for them to "rehit" my device. After several cable box rehits, getting escalated to Level 3 support, and about 100 minutes, I still could not watch the game. Instead, I was relegated to watching the progress on NFL.com.

At first, we all know that it was promising. Our golden boy got closer to having the highest number of career running touchdowns as a QB - and he's only 27 - but the end was dicey and they were down by 4. Things looked good until they had to settle for a field goal, but then they got the ball back quickly. The clock lurched down, and my heart pounded. Were they in field goal range? All it takes is one good throw - Aaron Rodgers could do it - please don't let us down, Cam! But then it happened. The word Final appeared in the middle, with Denver still ahead by 1 point. How? Wha? Wait a second...

I don't care what anybody says, I still love you.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Okay, okay, I gotta get over this. It's gonna be okay - they can only go up from here, right? Or maybe they can just go down, over and over again, loss after loss and - no, stop it. STOP IT.

In other news, after putting in many, many stats, then dialing back for fear of "overcooking" my calculation, I have the final numbers and am ready to publish the Post Season Predictions.

Wild Card

Wild Card

N6

GB

Divisional

Divisional

CIN

A6

N6

GB

Conference

Conference

DEN

A5

N3

NYG

N2

MIN

PIT

A2

NE

A3

N1

ARI

NFC

Super Bowl

AFC

OAK

A1

N1

ARI

ARI

OAK

A1

N2

MIN

Champions

PIT

A2

N5

SEA

N1

ARI

OAK

A1

DEN

A5

N4

CAR

NE

A3

N4

CAR

JAX

A4

Sadly, the outcome of the first game does change this up just a little. Carolina doesn't beat Seattle in the Wild Card round, but Minnesota has its revenge (LACES OUT!) until Phoenix. To be honest, I don't think this will actually happen - especially Jacksonville representing the AFC South - but whatever, there it is, with the right colors this time.