Then there were four.
A couple more classics decided in overtime (and a couple more, shall we say, uneven games) in the divisional round have brought us to the conference championships. This weekend will determine who plays in the Super Bowl. Sure, that’s the Big Game, but these tilts decide the storylines and characters that will dominate the Big Game.
More people — over 120 million last year — watch the Super Bowl than any other television program in the US. When they tune in, they’ll see two of the teams below. The other two will be watching from home alongside the rest of us.
Here are the games we’ll be watching:
Sunday
3 p.m. ET: New England Patriots vs. Denver Broncos, CBS
6:30 p.m. ET: Los Angeles Rams vs. Seattle Seahawks, Fox
Jarrett Stidham?
That’s it, that’s the whole question.
Has there ever been a bigger sports whiplash than the Broncos beating the Buffalo Bills in overtime, only for coach Sean Payton to return to the podium after his post-game comments to announce some “not good news” to the assembled media and cameras? Bo Nix, Denver’s sophomore quarterback, had suffered a season-ending ankle injury on one of the final plays of the game.
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