Post by fmzforum1 on Jan 11, 2011 7:32:06 GMT
As the NFC’s football jerseys china final playoff qualifier and No. 6 seed, Woodson and his teammates aren’t in position to complain about their rigorous path to a potential championship. A trendy preseason Super Bowl pick, the Packers (10-6) survived a slew of injuries and frustrating defeats to secure a wild-card berth for the second consecutive season. On Sunday they won a hard-fought battle at Lambeau Field against the Bears, who despite having already clinched the NFC North and a first-round bye went all-out against their rivals.
For the most part, we got what we expected on Sunday:
• The Pack’s victory ended the postseason hopes of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who’d scored a 23-13 road upset of the New Orleans Saints, and the New York Giants, whose 17-14 triumph over the Washington Redskins was rendered moot by the previous Sunday’s wholesale ncaa jerseys blowout defeat to the Packers at Lambeau.
• The other two open spots in the 12-team postseason field were filled by the Indianapolis Colts, who eked out a 23-20 victory over the Tennessee Titans to move past Kansas City for the AFC’s third overall seed (though with the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 34-17 defeat to the Houston Texans, the Colts would’ve been in as AFC South champs anyway); and the Seattle Seahawks, who beat the St. Louis Rams 16-6 Sunday night to win the NFC West and become the first under-.500 team to reach the playoffs in a non-strike season. The Seahawks’ victory was technically an upset, but they were playing at home against another team with a losing record.
• Most intriguing cheap authentic jerseys was the competition playing out in each conference for the remaining first-round byes, with the Saints and Baltimore Ravens hoping the Atlanta Falcons and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively, would slip up and allow them to steal division titles. The Falcons and Steelers, however, were in foot-on-throat mode and ended all suspense early, with Atlanta punishing the pathetic Carolina Panthers 31-10 to earn the NFC’s No. 1 seed and Pittsburgh crushing the Cleveland Browns 41-9 to lock up the No. 2 seed in the AFC.
Like the Packers and Eagles, the Falcons and Steelers traveled to the playoffs from a common origin. Back on Sept. 13 at Heinz Field, when Pittsburgh pulled out a 15-9 victory on Rashard Mendenhall’s(notes) 50-yard touchdown run in overtime, neither the victors nor the losers understood how good they were or what it all meant. As Falcons coach Mike Smith said on Sunday, “it seemed like it was five years wholesale hockey jerseys ago” – and among other things it showed that Pittsburgh could prosper without Ben Roethlisberger(notes) in the lineup.
“I knew we’d be OK because we didn’t make the playoffs last year,” Steelers receiver Hines Ward(notes) recalled Sunday afternoon, citing his team’s desperate push to return to elite status. “I didn’t think [the Falcons] would be good.”
For the most part, we got what we expected on Sunday:
• The Pack’s victory ended the postseason hopes of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who’d scored a 23-13 road upset of the New Orleans Saints, and the New York Giants, whose 17-14 triumph over the Washington Redskins was rendered moot by the previous Sunday’s wholesale ncaa jerseys blowout defeat to the Packers at Lambeau.
• The other two open spots in the 12-team postseason field were filled by the Indianapolis Colts, who eked out a 23-20 victory over the Tennessee Titans to move past Kansas City for the AFC’s third overall seed (though with the Jacksonville Jaguars’ 34-17 defeat to the Houston Texans, the Colts would’ve been in as AFC South champs anyway); and the Seattle Seahawks, who beat the St. Louis Rams 16-6 Sunday night to win the NFC West and become the first under-.500 team to reach the playoffs in a non-strike season. The Seahawks’ victory was technically an upset, but they were playing at home against another team with a losing record.
• Most intriguing cheap authentic jerseys was the competition playing out in each conference for the remaining first-round byes, with the Saints and Baltimore Ravens hoping the Atlanta Falcons and Pittsburgh Steelers, respectively, would slip up and allow them to steal division titles. The Falcons and Steelers, however, were in foot-on-throat mode and ended all suspense early, with Atlanta punishing the pathetic Carolina Panthers 31-10 to earn the NFC’s No. 1 seed and Pittsburgh crushing the Cleveland Browns 41-9 to lock up the No. 2 seed in the AFC.
Like the Packers and Eagles, the Falcons and Steelers traveled to the playoffs from a common origin. Back on Sept. 13 at Heinz Field, when Pittsburgh pulled out a 15-9 victory on Rashard Mendenhall’s(notes) 50-yard touchdown run in overtime, neither the victors nor the losers understood how good they were or what it all meant. As Falcons coach Mike Smith said on Sunday, “it seemed like it was five years wholesale hockey jerseys ago” – and among other things it showed that Pittsburgh could prosper without Ben Roethlisberger(notes) in the lineup.
“I knew we’d be OK because we didn’t make the playoffs last year,” Steelers receiver Hines Ward(notes) recalled Sunday afternoon, citing his team’s desperate push to return to elite status. “I didn’t think [the Falcons] would be good.”