A rare Championship air

Smell that? It’s that rare air that only happens when you’re on the verge of something great. It’s that air that gives you a sense of worth. It leads you to believe that you’re more than capable of getting “IT” done. Yes my friends that air your currently breathing means Championship Friday is upon us.

Championship Friday means press conferences, possible trash talk from the opposition, nearly perfect detailed analysis from every football “Expert” on earth. But what makes it stand out is that it’s your team the build up is about. And in this case it the Patriots, as if it could be anyone else.

With a win against the false prophet in Tim Tebow, the Patriots roll right back into the AFC championship game. Given the way things have shaken out, the playoffs have become about righting the wrongs. The Ravens strolled into Gillette in 2009 and rolled the Pats from beginning to end. They could barely see Ray Rice much less touch him. If they want to win this upcoming weekend, the name of this game must be shutdown Ray Rice. They need to shut him down and trust that Joe Flacco will break under the pressure. If that happens they’re Super bowl bound where the biggest wrong will be righted. My hope is that the Giants get there and so that we can really can right some wrongs. To do it in the house that Eli’s brother built would be a statement heard loud and clear.

Brady needs this game! He needs to win this game and the Super bowl. His place at the top of the mountain is dependent on it. A ring this year puts him one and two with Montana. Yes Terry Bradshaw is up there two but that whole Steel Curtain thing put him a notch below. Right now he is just top five. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I think Brady has proven his Jordan-eske desire to be that best. He is way past competing with the likes of the current talent, he competes only with history. That goes ditto for Belichick.

Belichick also stands high on the mount Olympus of the coach ranks. But with one or two more rings, he can become Zeus of Olympus crushing every legendary coach in his way. And what will cement it, is that he will do it with one quarterback. I think we all know that Belichcick is not one to stand in the way of his story.

So that rarefied air we smell on this upcoming Championship Friday could be history in the making.