The Ultimate NFL Tournament:Round 2 results
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by user False Prophet
| The Ultimate NFL Championship |
| Intro/Brackets |
| Stadium Overviews |
| LA Coliseum Regional Overview (Part 1) |
| LA Coliseum Regional Overview (Part 2) |
| Dolphins Stadium Regional Overview (Part 1) |
| Aaron Schatz's reseeding of the teams |
| Round 1 Results |
| Round 2 Results |
LA Coliseum Regional
Despite the fact that the '85 bears won, the team I think will win this region is the '00 Ravens. Beating any team 47-0 is amazing, especially against some of the best talent ever. Sorry Christof, but at least you're all ready used to your teams losing. Beyond that, this region has been boring. There was one upset in round 1 (if you call a 9 beating an 8 an upset), and besides that, the favorites have won out, and it looks like Trent Dilfer could be on track to Quarterback the greatest team ever (of course nothing he did really mattered, but still).
I think that how ever great the '92 cowboys are, their party is comming to an end. I don't know how anyone in the region can stop the '00 Ravens right now, and think that the '85 Bears win. Yea, a 1-3 regional final is on it's way, what a shocker.
Dolphins Stadium Regional
This is the most diverse region. All of the teams still remaining in Miami had to pull of at least one upset, which I suppose cancels out the fact that LA has had only one upset so far.
The dream matchup is still alive, with the two biggest cinderella stories in history in the '68 jets and '01 Patriots still remain. I still hope that that'll be the final matchup, proving that Parity still remains supreme in NFL history.
Half of the remaining teams in the region are Packers teams, leading me to count out the breakdown of which franchises have how many teams remaining: * Green Bay has 4 Remaining * New England has 3 Remaining * Pittsburg has 2 Remaining * Denver, Dallas, Chicago, Minnesota, Washington D.C., New York Jets, and St. Louis all have 1 Remaining
So it looks like the Pats dynasty truely is one of the great, with all 3 super bowl championship teams still remaining.
New Orleans Superdome Regional
What intriguing matchups remaining. We have the two franchises with the most remaining going head to head after the '04 Pats route the '06 Chargers 34-10, and the '66 Packers beat the '84 49ers 17-14. It'd be nice for my cred to see at least one New England Patriots team to lose, but I'm not quite sure that this'll be the one to do so.
Gary Anderson redeeemed himself with a 20-19 win after kicking a Game Winning Field Goal as time expires to win. The '98 Vikings face the '68 Jets for the rights to go to the Regional final. I have no idea who will win this game because although the '98 Vikings are the better team, the '68 jets keep proving everyone wrong with each win. I'll take the winner of this game to go to the finals.
Texas Stadium Regional
This is likely where the Pats are going to lose. Elway's last team versus the '03 patriots. I'm a pats fan, but I can't go against Elway and the Broncos, no way they lose.
Steelers also will lose a team here. They're a good team, those '04 Steelers, but they're facing the greatest show on turf here, not any good team.
Overall, I like what's happening. There are a enough upsets to make it interesting, but there's still a lot of proving that the pythagorean projection works as well as it does.
