Welcome to day two of trying to type on a laptop.  This will be just another frivolous post so there will not be much deep spiritual thought laid out here. Last week we tried to predict what may happen in the year of college football.  My goal this evening is to tell you what will happen in the world of professional football.  I used to keep various sports magazines to see what predictions they made and how successful they were.  There are rare times when a contender is clearly better than the rest of the field.  Most sports will however have a few teams that are ahead of the curve in comparison to the rest.  The lesson is that you really cannot accurately predict the future when it comes to sports.  Most of those magazines would get one or two right but fail miserably for the most part.  So please do not take my opinion here as any promise of being right.

So let's start looking at the NFL.  There are two conferences which will send a team each to the Super Bowl in February.  This year this game is being staged in New York which means the weather will be iffy at best.  Every other game was played in warm weather or under a dome.  So what may happen is a team from a warm weather area or that plays under that dome will be forced outside into the New York weather.  That doesn't mean much other than being an odd fact to keep in mind.

My best guess for the American conference is that Denver, Baltimore, New England and perhaps Cincinnati will compete for the right to go to the frozen Super Bowl.  Some are thinking that the team from Houston may be a contender but I am not sold on them just yet.  Last year was a classic year including those first three teams mentioned.  I personally think the New England team has a few holes too many.  One major writer says they will win it all but I can't say that. Denver is playing with some serious injuries and other players being absent for various reasons.  My heart wants to go with them but it will not surprise me if Baltimore does not return to defend their championship.

Now for the National conference which includes our beloved Cowboys.  So let me say there is almost no way the Cowboys go to the Super Bowl much less make the playoffs.  They just are not that good.  The Giants and the Redskins are still better than them.  That leads me to suggest this will come down to Green Bay and San Francisco.  Some want to suggest Atlanta but they keep falling short in the playoffs somehow.  We end up again at the end of the year with San Francisco being the favorite.  Now let me add Seattle to this mix.  I do not want to overlook how good they played last year.  One writer has Seattle going to the Super Bowl and that may very well be correct.  

Let me go with Baltimore against either San Francisco or Seattle in the final and ultimate game of the season.  Remember than injuries can change any prediction in a moment.  It is also true that some team may ride the wave of success all the way through the season.  That is the fun of watching sports.  You do not have to live or die on the predictions.  You can just sit back and enjoy the season.  May your team do well and win it all!

Bro. Trey