pat, you added the nastyness by calling our conference a joke. while we don't have as many good teams as the afc, we've got a few good ones. take my panthers for example, they are very good sometimes, which is very frustrating.

one thing that may play a factor in your run is peyton's choke factor. how many times has he choked in the playoffs now? 2 or 3?

(seriously, if you get by the pats, i don't see anyone beating you, but hate the pats as i do, they're really coming together.)\

and its always nice to take the opinion of someone who really doesn't know anything about football, except what they read in the paper. [8D]