Fully Inflated Guests of the Belirady Ball,
Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, and the 14-3 defending Super Bowl champion New England Patriots are staring down Blake Bortles in the AFC Championship, and they STILL feel the need to play mind games.
They're incredible. Of course Tom Brady is playing. If you ever had a doubt, then Commish has an interception-less Brett Favre game to sell you.
But it's stuff like this that makes so many of us hate the Patriots more than any other pro sports team, and perhaps more than late '90s Yankees. And it's this hate that drives shit like "44 percent Jags, 56 percent Pats," when, once again, it's 14-3 Brady and Belichick, at home, versus Blake Bortles.
Don't get Commish wrong. He loves it. More Jags picks. More Moxie. More BORTLEMANIA!!! Let's do this thing.
CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS PICKS
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FAST FACTS:
- More than two-thirds of us are on the Vikings, easily besting the Pats' slight majority
- Nothing bad has ever happened when the safe majority opinion was a Vikings win in a monumentally important game
- With 25 people tied for the HasselBracket lead at 7-1, we'd likely need an Eagles-Jags Super Bowl matchup to introduce the possibility of a two-loss champ
- Roger Goodell: "Please, God, not a Foles-Bortles Super Bowl. PLEASE."
- As the HasselBracket rules state, the first tiebreaker to determine a champ is order of loss(es). Later wins matter more.
- If two people go 10-1, then the person who went 7-0 over the final three weekends beats the person who went 6-1 over that same timeframe.
- Blake Bortles is playing in the AFC Championship game
- Say it again, with FLAVOR!!!
- ALL HAIL BORTLEMANIA!!!
Given Commish has zero time between locking picks and sending this email, the HasselBracket tradition is to feature the best pick comments in our midweek update. I have a hint for who will feature prominently: His name rhymes with the second word in "Easy Bake Oven."
My writing is INSPIRED right now. Good luck, everyone.