Blockbuster Franchises

Jets' coach Paul Blart goes over film with an assistant to prepare for the Chargers game.

The remaining NFL playoff games will be examined from all sorts of angles, but here's one you'll find only on the Gate: If each of the remaining teams is one of this year's acclaimed movies, which films are they and why? Here they are, broken down by conference (with our own seeding added, in parens, just like this aside!).

AFC
The Jets are: Paul Blart: Mall Cop, but only because we just found out that Rex Ryan isn't Kevin James. (8)

The Ravens are: The...

Seriously, why doesn't anyone give this guy any credit?


Because he is on Dallas and there are so many haters?

Because he dated Jessica Simpson and other celebrities?

Because he went to Mexico on a bye week (with Witten, no less, who was never criticized for it)?

Because he dropped a snap in a game (and manned up afterward and answered every question or interview request unlike many of today's primadonnas) and got labeled a choker?

Because he hasn't won a Super Bowl (yet, in his 3 and a half years playing)?



He is currently 3rd all time passer rating:

[B]Rank[/B] [B]Quarterback[/B] [B]Passer Rating[/B] 1...

By Gene Strother at
silverandblueblood.com




On this glorious Monday morning in Dallas, the morning after the biggest Cowboys win in two years, this enterprising entrepreneur is busy designing "Thank You" cards for the Cowboys fan too busy to write his own. The window for such a venture is very, very small, so I am wasting no time.


Here are a few of the offerings from the newly-formed Silver-and-Blue-Blood Hallmark Moment Press.

To Andy Reid
Dear Coach Reid,
Thank you for angering the football gods, annoying the officials, and poking Philadelphia fans in their bloodshot eyes, waving red flags like a...