By Josh Satler - www.profootball101.org So we’ve finally come to the point in the season when things really begin to count: the playoffs. And to kick off our coverage, we’ll start with a game that has two unexpected visitors who decided to crash the party in the 9-7 Arizona Cardinals and 11-5 Atlanta Falcons.

  A couple of weeks ago, the Denver Broncos were 8-5 and the Chargers were 5-8. With these two teams holding first and second place respectively within the AFC West, Denver was pretty much a green light for the playoffs. Then they lost and the Chargers won

Although the cold was bitter, it didn’t stop one running back from being on fire. Derrick Ward and the 12-3 Giants beat the 11-4 Panthers in an overtime thriller, 34-28, to clinch the number one seed, and home field advantage throughout the playoffs

Has there ever been more of a jumble of great teams in college football than there are this year? Here’s the most staggering number for the teams in the Top 10, the combined record of those teams is 103-8

It may or may not be apparent to you, but I absolutely love playing and blogging about fantasy baseball I mean, what game can give the owner/blogger like myself a legitimate reason to watch anywhere from six-ten games per night? Okay, I’ll admit that at times, it can be hard to keep up with my teams AND blogging at the same time. But fantasy baseball is far superior to fantasy football for many reasons.First, fantasy baseball takes an incredible amount of strategy, thinking, and analysis.

Old School Players Take NFLPA to School: A BASN/FRO Exclusive By Michael – Louis Ingram- Scouting Director Football Reporters Online/ Host-Black Athlete Sports Network Editor’s Note: The following is a continuation of a series of articles first broken by the Black Athlete Sports Network last September; regarding the plight of many of the football players who laid the foundation for the National Football League’s rise in becoming the number one spectator sport in America.

Last week with a 5-9 week against the spread now sits me at 61-66 on the season.

Some laudatory notes on the play of the defense tonight. * You don’t hold down James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley in consecutive weeks

Wow! What a game. If you had asked me at halftime if we’d all be feeling this ecstatic after the game, OR, if you had asked me if we had an unexpected twist in our season to suddenly mull over, I would not have believed you

I feel like I’m the only one who watched the game when I go around to the traditional media websites. It starts with Mike McCarthy’s Monday press conference when he said he was “disappointed offensively with the red zone production” . Then the Press-Gazette has a story with the headline “red-zone failure begin with Rodgers” and the Journal-Sentinel has the headline “Rodgers, offense stumble inside foes’ 20-yard line.” Go read that junk if you want to blame QB Aaron Rodgers