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What I learned in Week 14 of the NFL season

- Snow football is a lot more fun to watch than play in, unless you're allowed to wear a winter coat, gloves, snow-pants, boots, a hat, a mask, long johns, and get to have hot chocolate during spontaneous breaks taken throughout the game.

- I wonder what analysts will criticize Peyton Manning for now after he threw for 397 yards and helped put up 51 points in cold weather. My guess is his Papa Johns commercials - that or being Eli's brother.

- The New England Patriots may be the most hated team in the NFL. This has to make it all the more excruciating for football fans to continually see them pull wins out of their arses. At the current pace they're going, my guess is they'll win the Super Bowl on a last-second ten-point play - the first in the history of the game.

- Teams in the AFC South are a combined 19-33 on the season. The fact the 8-5 Indianapolis Colts won the division yesterday after getting blown out by Cincinnati, due to 5-8 Tennessee losing in a similar fashion to Denver, is a direct indicator of how sad the division is this year. This season, winning the AFC South would be akin to being named the Valedictorian of a class of two people.

- The New York Jets are as unpredictable as a deaf, blind, bipolar person with a gun always in hand.

- The first time Bill Belichick smiled was... Hmm... I may have to get back to that one.

- Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin is wishing he had gotten in the way of Dolphins players a couple of times yesterday.

- Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak suffered a stroke and then got fired, just before Christmas no less. If Thanksgiving were this week, he'd likely tell his family, "I'm thankful for... Well, not really my health. I'm thankful for... Not that my team sucked this year. Hmm... I know - I'm thankful I'm no longer with the Houston Texans! Yee-haw! Okay, let's eat!"

- If for no other reason, Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder may want to change the team's nickname because of how awful they are. If the team name changes, perhaps some people will forget how dreadful the team is, at least until the start of next season.

- Before the season started, some people were picking the Houston Texans and Atlanta Falcons to meet in the Super Bowl. In next year's draft, the Texans and Falcons could very well wind up with the top two picks. Sports-writers can then say, "Well, they finished first and second in something. That should count for something, right?" Sure...

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