Not even the Seahawks can beat the Seahawks.

Seriously, we really had ourselves on the ropes there, turning over the ball and dropping catches and executing the daring no-pass-rush gambit (giving Aaron Rodgers an entire quarter to stand in the pocket and choose his pass) and having Chancellor break Sherman's arm, but we would not let ourselves stand in the way of another Championship. To be the best you have beat the best, and now everybody knows that not even the defending Super Bowl Champion Seahawks can beat the Seahawks.

Meanwhile it just went 31-7 in the AFC game, so I'm going to declare New England your opponent and myself firmly in the Seahawk bandwagon for the Super Bowl.

Seahawks 49, Patriots 0.

Don't embarrass the 12th Man like that, DOUG.

Says the guy that knows embarrassment. 43-8!

I know no embarrassment. I don't wrap up my identity in sports like you do.

@104: It's ok, we won't miss you.
@105: Hahahahaha! I'll give you 31-20, Pats.

@ 109, "we"? As if I would ever be in your cheatriot camp!

@110: lololol. Enjoy the offseason.

Right after the Seahawks have Brady for lunch.

@99, @101, Add the Jimmy Johnson Cowboy teams of the mid 90's, who could have won at least two more super bowls had he not quit.

Very well played, @107.

@102,

I'm gonna go out on a limb and propose a huge mid-field Yahtzee tournament with each player matched up against his positional counterpart from the opposing team for a single game. The team with the most individual victories takes it. If they're somehow tied after that, for second round games you eliminate the rule that limits players to one Yahtzee per game.

81: Yes, because stupid blind luck never plays any part in the rest of sports.

@115: what rule is that? Later yahtzees can count in any of the lower section boxes, plus you get 100 points each...

@115: Also, we need Cones of Dunshire as the OT period.

@116: That luck is usually balanced. The luck of the coin toss at the beginning is balanced by return during the second half. The luck of a risky play is balanced by tons that don't work over the course of the game. A single coin toss in the end of a playoff game isn't balanced. It is an enormous advantage to the team that receives. If the other team would have a chance to return after a score, then that huge advantage would diminish. And it doesn't make any damn sense that any team should get a huge advantage because of a coin. In this game, the coin was the MVP.

@119: Your logic is refuted by the facts. The team that wins the coin toss seldom goes downfield and scores a touchdown. It's just not that easy to do.

(I don't have time to look them up now, but they're out there. You'd be surprised.)

God forbid a game tied at the end of regulation should be influenced by a coin toss.

119: And a poorly (or fortuitous) timed gust of wind, a slippery ball, or Kam Chancellor completely changes the skill involved in your "keep kicking field goals" scheme. You can't "rules away" bad/good breaks.

@115

Well, Fnarf was looking for a boring way to break a tie. 11 or 22 or 45 games of Yahzee would not be that boring.

Once in a lifetime game. A faked field goal and an onside kick work and they win the coin toss. They go from everything going wrong to everything going right. A lot of gutsy performances, including Lynch turning the game around, Sherman with one arm, Kearse redeeming himself and Baldwin redeeming himself. I thought the 'mediocre Russell Wilson" camp would finally gets its day. Wilson's great against the best QBs and even on a bad day finds a way to win in the playoffs.

@117,

Yeah, since you mention it, I guess I do now recall those later editions of the game allowing for multiple Yahtzees. I remember playing the original and being occasionally forced to take those points in the 3 or 4 of a kind slot. Good times.

Enjoy your evening at the Purple Pub, Mr. Friedman.

postscript regarding the overtime rules.

prior to the 2012 season, the rule stated that first team to score won. even though the actual percentage of the team winning the coin toss and then winning the game on their first possesion was ~55%, the owners voted to tweak the rules. Currently, the "coin toss" team can only win the game on their first possession if they score a TD. A made FG will give the opposing team 1 possession to tie or win. this has dropped the "coin toss" team to winning on first possession to a ~51% chance.

Statistically speaking, the coin toss is more fair than it used to be (when overtime was pure sudden death), but the team that wins the toss wins more than 50% of the time, so the coin toss is still technically unfair. They need to change it to how college works, where each team gets the ball at least once no matter what happens.

But the coin toss is not why Green Bay lost. Green Bay lost because their coaching staff changed the defensive game plan that worked perfectly for 55 minutes because they were scared and went into a soft zone defense, allowing Lynch to run wild and Wilson to have 3 hours in the pocket on each throw. That, and having about 30 ways to close the game and failing all of them in spectacular fashion.

@124: Wilson had a terrible day play wise, and they won the game in spite of his play, thanks to Lynch and the D. If anything, this game proves that Seattle can win in spite of poor QB play, because of how they are built. I mean, does anyone think most other teams can win a game with such poor QB play?

Wait - there was a football game yesterday? So who won?

I'm disappointed. I expected everyone to be MUCH more insufferable.

@128, Wilson had a terrible day, but still pulled it together to win. That's not mediocre. That's a champion mindset, and look at his wins in the playoffs for a third year QB. His receivers probably deserve a lot of the blame for the first half, although the pick in the end zone was an awful choice. But he shook it off somehow.

McCarthy switching to the run is more responsible for GB losing, although the zero cover on that last play of the game didn't make sense to me.

@124, @132 agreed--If McCarthy coached that game w/ some b@lls--gone for it on 4 and inches from the end zone and had stayed aggressive in the passing game in the latter portion of the game, we would have been left with a GB super bowl berth and a mediocre Russell Wilson game. That being said, Wilson is a good QB.

The only time I've ever cried for a football game. GO HAWKS!