Sports Ball Update

by Chris McGinty of AccordingToWhim.com

At the beginning of the season, I used a dice app to make a 32-sided die and randomly chose my favourite sportsball teams. I mostly forgot about the whole thing and just rooted for my dad’s team, the Steelers. And by the way, my dad probably mostly thought that my rooting for the Steelers was sardonic, because it mostly was. I want my dad to happy, but I don’t care about sports. I was recently informed that it’s time for the playoffs. Apparently, the Steelers aren’t in the playoffs, but I thought I might check in to see how well my randomly selected teams did. For this, I will need to do a Wikipedia search that will probably cause me to get sports updates on my phone for the next three weeks. Hey Google! Don’t waste your time.

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First of all, I see that my favourite team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers didn’t make it to the playoffs. They didn’t even try! That’s me being indignant.

Here’s what got me thinking that I needed to check up on things. First off, it’s a blog post. Who cares what I’m writing about? Second, my dad was watching the Vikings play the Saints in overtime. I know all about overtime. I’m getting about ten hours of overtime this week. Anyway, I could remember that my top two teams were the Buccaneers and the Saints. I couldn’t really remember much beyond that. I knew that the Vikings were somewhere around 10 or 12 on my list, because I have a friend who is a Vikings fan, and she’s probably pretty happy today. I saw that admittedly great catch that that guy made that got them in scoring range. Of course, I couldn’t be happy about it because according to my list I was rooting for the Saints. And the Saints lost, so I don’t know who I’m rooting for now. Who is the highest team on my list who is still in?

Here’s who was in at the start of the playoffs and their position on my list:

2. New Orleans Saints

3. Greenbay Packers

6. Tennessee Titans

10. Kansas City Chiefs

12. Minnesota Vikings

15. Buffalo Bills

18. San Francisco 49ers

22. New England Patriots

25. Houston Texans

29. Seattle Seahawks

30. Philadelphia Eagles

32. Baltimore Ravens

If I’m reading this right:

The Texan beat the Bills.

The Titans beat the Patriots.

The Vikings beat the Saints.

The Seahawks are leading the Eagles at halftime.

And this is how much I understand this crap. They listed 12 teams being in, but that’s only 8 teams. Where did the other four teams go? Did they get beat some other time? Ok, I think I get it. Maybe. The top two teams in each division didn’t play this week. They play the winners of this week next week. Oh, who cares? I need to go to work.

Chris McGinty is a blogger. Note that I didn’t say Chris McGinty is a blogger and a sports fan. There’s a reason for that.