cool twist on those matching games
You know those games/tests that ask you a few questions, or a lot of questions, and then pair you up with some historical figure or beast of the wild or whatever that you supposedly resemble? Well, NFL.com developed a cool version of it in which you can "Adopt a Playoff Team". First choose what team you usually root for then answer five questions, and it tells you what team still in contention you can jump on the bandwagon for if your team is already out or gets nixed. Pretty awesome. One of the best parts is, the intro includes two classic quotes from the past several years -- Mora's "Playoffs?" one and Edwards' "play to win the game" outburst, the latter being the greatest quote in NFL history.
I of course chose the Bears as my team of choice, but ended up with the Broncos as my bandwagon team. Thankfully it asks a different set of questions each time, so I still had a chance to get a team that will actually make the playoffs. The second time around I got the Colts. Not a bad bandwagon team at all, except that they've been suffering from the same "we thought the season was over" syndrome as da Bears over the past few weeks. But given that Grossman is still starting for Chicago and the defense quit showing up a couple of weeks ago, maybe I should get a head start and just pull for Indy from here on.
Warning: The game is an interactive video, so if you're on dial-up it could take a few days to complete.