XLII: Heads or Tails...

The only crap thing I have worked out that the NFL has is bad broadcasting, in our country that is. With time delays and the one channel problem we only get to see games, or NFL shows, after 1am on Monday mornings on ESPN ch 230.

This is inconvenient as it is when most of us are either trying to simultaneously close our bar tab in Camps Bay and the steamy foreign girl in white heels OR are closing our bar whilst aforementioned steamy white-heeled foreign girl is trying to give us her number whilst the guy who has been buying her vodka cranberries all night is tipping us heavily. Convoluted I know but also very ironic.

Referring back to our NFL broadcasting dilemma and the imminency of the arrival of Superbowl XLII on the 3rd feb I thought I might give you an update.

The Wildcard Playoff round was last week which is essentially the fairest way to reduce to conferences, AFC and NFC, to the top 4 sides in each conference. They then have it out for division title, and then the division winners play each other for the Superbowl.

The thing is this year the two top sides, the New England Patriots and incumbent ring holders the Indianapolis Colts are in the same conference, so only if form holds they'll compete for Division honours and not for the Superbowl.

Where we are now? Basically at the quarter finals -

American Football Conference:

Indianapolis Colts v San Diego Chargers

New England Patriots v Jacksonville Jaguars

National Football Conference:

Dallas Cowboys v New York Giants

Green Bay Packers v Seatle Seahawks

The Superbowl itself is hosted at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona this year. All but 2 halftime advert slots have been sold, so if you've got $2.7 million to spend on 30seconds of ad time you better send your black amex details through now...