A historic weekend of football

By STEVE KING

The NFL has been around for a century, but never has there been a postseason weekend like the one on Saturday and Sunday.

Historic, then? Yeah, you bet. Absolutely. No question, whatsoever.

Four divisional playoff, or conference semifinal, games, three of which were won by three points on final-play field goals, and another one that was won by six points on a touchdown in overtime. All three field-goal games are considered upsets, including one — the San Francisco 49ers going into Lambeau Field and defeating the NFC’s No. 1 seed, the Green Bay Packers, and quarterback Aaron Rodgers — that was a real shocker.

The final of the four games, the Kansas City Chiefs’ 42-36 win over the Buffalo Bills in overtime, is one of the best postseason games in NFL history. 

You couldn’t have scripted it, written it, arranged it any better, or more spellbinding.

Debates are back concerning which is best, the NFL or college football. There are good arguments to be made each way, but the NFL made a grand statement about itself with these games, these results, these storylines, these thrillers over the weekend.

I get questions all the time, and I’m sure many of you do, too, as to why we watch sports, why we watch “all those silly football games.”

We watch — we have been watching for a long time and we will continue to watch until we take our last breath — because of the hope of experiencing games like the ones over the weekend, which were decided by seconds, inches and in heartstopping fashion. It is real, high-stakes, reality TV. You can’t make this stuff up. You just can’t. No one would believe it.

Indeed, over the weekend, you had to see it to believe it.

And we did, so we do.

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