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What I learned in Week 17 of the NFL season...

In Week 17 of the NFL season, I learned that...

- ..., in the off-season, Ndamukong Suh will become an instructor of a new workout, entitled, "Aaron Rodgers Step Aerobics."

- ...Geno Smith may retire after playing a perfect football game at the end of a 4-12 season. Congratulations!

- ...if Jay Cutler and Marshawn Lynch ever joined forces as guests on a radio talk show, within 5 minutes, the show's host would likely start snoring and drooling.

- ...Jim Harbaugh became the first person to smile at the thought of leaving San Francisco for Michigan. It's also believed to be Harbaugh's first ever smile.

- ..., instead of being the team's water-boy next season, Johnny Manziel is going to ask if he can be the Cleveland Browns' beer-man.

- ..., in just a few hours, the Atlanta Falcons went from possibly hosting a playoff game to finding themselves with the #8 pick in the draft. Yes, the NFC South was THAT bad this year.

- ...Andy Dalton will likely tell himself before the Cincinnati Bengals' playoff game this coming weekend, "The only thing different about me than these other playoff quarterbacks, like Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, Ben Roethlisberger, Joe Flacco, Russell Wilson, and Aaron Rodgers, isn't that they've all won Super Bowls, it's that I have red hair."

- ..., in the past 3 weeks, the Buffalo Bills are 2-1, having beaten teams with the combined record of 24-8 (Green Bay and New England) and lost to a team with the record of 3-13 (Oakland). In light of this, some of the team's fans have proposed the team change its name to the Bipolar Bills.

- ...the Miami Dolphins have decided to take over for the Dallas Cowboys as the perennial 8-8 team. Upon being asked about this, fans said, "It could be worse. We could be Jacksonville or Tampa Bay, or we could live in the middle of the country, in one of those states like Nebraskastan or whatever."

- ...if a Major League baseball team did what the playoff-bound Carolina Panthers did in the middle of the season, the team would have gone 0-48 - so, yeah, that's special.

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