Los Angeles Rams/New Orleans Saints: it's a tough call, this one. Both games this week. The only team in the Conference Finals this year who didn't score more than 500 points during the regular season is the New England Patriots, and they're clearly ready to fiercely compete regardless. That's got to be a record, these must be the most offensively stacked NFL Conference Finals ever, and as to who is going to win, all I can say is, who knows? The Saints sputtered a bit last week though and still came up with the win so I expect they'll score more points this week as they take more advantage of home field. The Rams efficiently handled the Cowboys and will likely dish out more of the same. The Saints beat the Rams 45 to 35 earlier in the year but I doubt that gives us any indication as to how this one'll turn out, although I wouldn't be surprised if both teams scored more than 35. I've always wanted the Rivers/Brees Super Bowl since Brees left for New Orleans but Brady versus Brees in February would be exceptional too, two of the best quarterbacks ever still playing incredibly well in their forties, in fact it looks like Brees just turned 40 two days ago. What a strange turn of events, two remarkably talented young quarterbacks who have also engineered mind-blowing offences this year set to face off against two of the best ever who are both in their forties, to risk repeating myself. If you like offensive football it doesn't get better than this. Hoping every team shows up. Picking the Saints by 3.
New England Patriots/Kansas City Chiefs: oddly, all four offensive juggernauts left contending for this year's Super Bowl hail from regions or cities composed of two words, Los Angeles, Kansas City, etc., one corresponding question being, how does this relate to the potential outcomes of the upcoming games themselves? Difficult to say. Kansas starts with a K which comes before N in the English alphabet, and C also comes before E. In the NFC N comes after L and O comes after A, meaning that, alphabetically speaking, in both games both the letters found at the beginning of one team's current location take orthographic priority, and may perhaps determine the winners. Indisputably. Perhaps the teams hailing from locales closer to A have been historically predetermined to face each other in this year's Super Bowl, although, since the United States shares a less rigid relationship with grammatical congruity than its forefathers across the pond, perhaps those team names beginning with letters further away from A have been destined to win since before time began? But what if one of their names is still indicative of the appellation from where many North Americans spawned, augustly derivative of its European monicker? How would that change things? Further, wouldn't a blend of the two also suffice considering the league's chill emphasis on parity, these four teams having formidably reached unparalleled yet equanimous heights in 2018? Who's to say?, again(?), but I'm sure they don't put with this nonsense in Kansas City, Missouri. Picking the feisty Chiefs. The feisty Chiefs by 17.
*The teams are that close.
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