Jonathan Storti
NFL Football – AFC Championship
This time it won’t be so easy. The New York Jets will meet the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC championship, but now both teams will care. It was just a few weeks ago that the Colts basically fell over backwards trying to give the Jets a win by resting their starters midway through the game. Fans were in an uproar as the Colts snubbed their nose at a perfect record and a place in history. It’s fitting that the Jets, who have upset teams in consecutive playoff weekends, face the very team that let them into the playoffs, literally. This time Curtis Painter won’t be dropping back at quarterback and throwing wounded duck passes, the Jets will get the real thing, MVP Peyton Manning. It’s a game with great matchups, the #1 defense against perhaps the greatest quarterback of this generation. All-world cornerback Derrelle Revis will try and slow down perennial Pro Bowler Reggie Wayne. The disparity in quarterback experience is ghastly; Peyton Manning was throwing NFL touchdown passes when Mark Sanchez was in elementary school. Yet inexperience has not shaken Sanchez at all, he has played smart quality football in his first two postseason games. What’s even more interesting than the matchups are the chances that Indianapolis gets bounced by the very team they let in the playoffs.
It would be beyond irony if the Jets beat the Colts this upcoming weekend. Nobody on the Colts thought they would see the Jets later on down the line, most believed them to be playoff pretender, not a Super Bowl contender. New York’s incredible run continued with a narrow 17-14 victory over the heavily favored San Diego Chargers. The Jets have also been lucky, Sanchez has yet to throw a pick this postseason and Nate Kaeding missed three field goals against them in the Divisional round. The Colts are right where they expected to be, playing for a chance to go to the Super Bowl. Indianapolis soundly defeated the Baltimore Ravens 20-3 on their way to yet another AFC championship game. Peyton Manning will face his toughest challenge against a Jets team with nothing to lose, the most dangerous type of opponent. The winner will most definitely have earned their spot in the Super Bowl as the long NFL season nears its end. If the Jets somehow pull this off, it will be their first Super Bowl since a long haired Joe Namath assured victory.
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