By Greg Reedy
NFC Correspondent/ready for more mediocrity
The NFC certainly had a medicore season overall with a freakin 8-8 team making the playoffs in the from of the New York Giants and their internal bickering. Week 17 certainly had its ups and downs but a lot of the stuff in the NFC had no bearing on anything anyways. Let's go to what did.
Detroit at Dallas - Before the game, Detroit looked a certain lock to lose the game. Turns out even with Detroit winning the game, they still lost the most important thing. The race for the Heisman. With their loss, the Lions slipped to the No. 2 pick where they will inevitably draft another receiver. Dallas sealed their trip to Seattle with an amazing display of inepititude while the Lions lost the race to the Heisman with an amazing display of confidence. Oh, and Matt Millen was not fired. Enjoy the race to the Heisman next year Detroit. Detroit "at least we were the worst in the NFC" 39 Dallas "When can we cut TO" 31
Green Bay at Chicago - Did anyone find it interesting that NBC picked Brett Favre's potential final game so John Madden can swoon over No. 4? Just what I figured. In a game that meant nothing to either team, the Packers played for .500 while the Bears played to run out the gym class sock and treated it like a free day. Rex Grossman statistically can't have a worse game, scoring a rating of 0.0. Sadly for the Bears, he can have a worse game because the next game is a Divisonal Playoff game. Green Bay a lot, Chicago a little. (Does the final score really matter here?)
Atlanta at Philadelphia - Atlanta just fired their coach after a 24-17 loss to the Eagles in another week 17 thriller. Jim Mora now can try and get that University of Washington job. The Eagles win again, while the entire eastern side of the state of Pennsylvania celebrates and wears their green McNabb and Westbrook jerseys. Yep, now the Eagles can go and choke it away to the Giants next week. Philly (we have another game) 24 Atlanta (we need a coach) 17
Season highlights: The Hangover had a great regular season and I'm looking forward to (shudder) the NFC playoffs. Wow, I'm so fortunate to get this gig. This year, we saw the 49ers actually win a few game, the Vikings start a crappy quarterback, the Lions lose a lot and Jon Kitna pile up meaningless stats. But the #1 highlight of the NFC run this season goes to one man.
CHRIS WEINKE.
Weinke's hilarious last name prompted hysterical laughter considering his 2-17 overall record as the quarterback in charge, including a hilarious loss to the Steelers in week 15. Congrats Chris, you win the 2006 NFC story of the year. Good luck with unemployment next year.
