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I hope the signifigance of this photo today is not lost on our football experts.....

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The NFC Play-offs

To give some context to The Camel's bets

The Play off seedings are as follows


1 Falcons

2 49ers

3 Packers

4 Redskins

5 Seattle

6 Vikings


The game last night that saw the Vikings and Peterson, notably, beat the Packers was huge for the thread as with the 49ers win it gave them the second seed.

This gives them a bye week, and then a home game in the Divisional round of the play offs


The Wild Card weekend sees

Seattle at Redskins

Vikings at Packers

Atlanta and 49ers host the two winners, with Atlanta hosting the lowest rank seed to qualify


So, the 49ers are probably favourites to host the Packers but if the Vikings win they will host the winner of the Seattle/Redskins game

Personally (and helped by the cornerbacks both being available) the Seahawks might well beat the Redskins and could easily beat Atlanta.....

the NFC odds have the 49ers as favourites

http://www.oddschecker.com/american-football/nfl/nfc/winner


the Superbowl is an interesting market. I think the NFC is a far stronger conference, yet the 49ers are third favourites behind two AFC teams

http://www.oddschecker.com/american-football/nfl/superbowl/winner

Denver are probably justified favourites. Home advantage in their playoffs at altitude is huge, but personally I think the 49ers are a better team than the Patriots or any other AFC team

The Superbowl itself is in a dome in New Orleans and were San Fran to get there they would be no worse than even money in my opinion against any AFC team

Hope that helps

Well it sort of suggests we have a good bet. I think........

[Tal]

Vikings and Seattle are great at home and poor on the road, right? So we should expect Washington and Green Bay to get through there, shouldn't we, Tighty?

[Ant040689]

Goes without saying I hope the Palace bet comes in.

Come on the MVG too!

[TightEnd]

Vikings and Seattle are great at home and poor on the road, right? So we should expect Washington and Green Bay to get through there, shouldn't we, Tighty?

Vikings going to Green Bay is tough. A definite home advantage for GB

Seattle are virtually invincible at home but are away. Going to Washington is not the big deal going to GB is though


MMQB summarises the games as follows

Saturday, 8 p.m. ET (NBC), NFC: Minnesota (No. 6, 10-6) at Green Bay (No. 3, 11-5). Without a running game, Green Bay's going to need Aaron Rodgers to keep being Aaron Rodgers. In the last two years, he's plus-70 in touchdown-to-interception ratio, and that is not a misprint: 84 touchdowns, 14 interceptions. The Packers can expect limited possessions, because Minnesota's gameplan will surely be to have Adrian Peterson eat the clock with carry after carry, and Christian Ponder (with his newfound confidence) throw short and intermediate. If Rodgers is Rodgers, I expect Green Bay to move on.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20121231/peter-king-mmqb-week-17/#ixzz2GdkSqhXj

Sunday, 4:30 p.m. ER (FOX), NFC: Seattle (No. 5, 11-5) at Washington (No. 4, 10-6). This could come down to which quarterback is healthier, and I'd bet as you read this, Robert Griffin III has some sort of rehab device attached to his wounded knee. You could see Sunday night he was about 88 percent whole. That's good enough to win most games. It might not be good enough to beat one of the hottest teams in the league, though the Seahawks were brought down to earth by the Rams a bit Sunday, and they'll be taking yet another cross-country flight for this game. Russell Wilson's quarterback rating, last eight games: 127.3, 131.0, 125.9, 104.9, 88.0, 104.4, 115.3, 136.3 ... 16 touchdowns, two interceptions, four rushing touchdowns. I'm leaning toward Seattle here.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20121231/peter-king-mmqb-week-17/#ixzz2GdkbXC7a





 

[Tal]

I hope the signifigance of this photo today is not lost on our football experts.....

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It is lost on me (not that I'm in the experts camp!) as I have no idea who it is.

He looks - although it obviously isn't (not least because in that photo he is about to use his left foot) - remarkably like a young David Bentley.

[Tal]

Thanks for that response, TightEnd. RG3 seemed fit enough to make a few runs himself at the end so he must have felt well enough to do that. Maybe a call to Ledley King could see him through?

Wish the Bills had a QB capable of 84-14! Granted that's also reflective of our offence generally!

[Karabiner]

I hope the signifigance of this photo today is not lost on our football experts.....

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It is lost on me (not that I'm in the experts camp!) as I have no idea who it is.

He looks - although it obviously isn't (not least because in that photo he is about to use his left foot) - remarkably like a young David Bentley.

It looks like a Chelsea shirt so I'm wondering if it might be Bobby Tambling.

Obscure connection to diving/tumbling...

[BigAdz]

Max no of games for 49ers left if they were to win SB please?

[Tal]

That would be Telegraph cryptic crossword obscure.

Gegs (9,4)

[TightEnd]

Max no of games for 49ers left if they were to win SB please?

3

Divisional round
NFC Conference game
Superbowl, 3rd Feb

[BigAdz]

hmmm. Thanks again Tighty

[bobby1]

You mentioned reading up about Peyton Manning a few pages back Tony. He spent all his career in Indy until injury forced him to miss all of last season. Indy decided to plan ahead and allowed him to leave which is how he ended up in Denver.

I thought you might like this.

The guy that talked him into that move was John Elway ( my first NFL hero) who is now the Denver general manager. Towards the end of his playing career he was known for having lost all three Superbowl's he had played in. In 1998 , in his late 30's, he finally managed to win his first Superbowl when he was well past his best, the pre game analysis being he was too old and if he couldn't do it in his prime why would he do it now? Denver opened up 14 point underdogs, tho after Bad beat and The Camel had finished walking around the shops in Ascot it went off around 12 ish .  

One broken running play in that game even has it's own youtube clip, it's become a sort of iconic shot of an old warhorse  lifting his team with one moment.(known as the helicopter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4wEoMl9BOE

So he had finally managed a win in the biggest game and it was predicted he would retire on a high.The following year he took Denver to another Superbowl win in what was his last NFL game.

If you have some spare time I thought you might like to read or look him up on Youtube. One of his plays in a Championship game is simply called 'The Drive' it was that good.

Watching Manning now has started to remind me of those last two Elway season's.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Elway

[Waz1892]

I hope the signifigance of this photo today is not lost on our football experts.....

Click to see full-size image.

It is lost on me (not that I'm in the experts camp!) as I have no idea who it is.

He looks - although it obviously isn't (not least because in that photo he is about to use his left foot) - remarkably like a young David Bentley.

It looks like a Chelsea shirt so I'm wondering if it might be Bobby Tambling.

Obscure connection to diving/tumbling...

Tambling is Chelsea's top scorer.. Link to lampard closing in on his total?