So the NFL script has changed...

1) Tebow and Denver go down. That put me in a very good mood -- it was getting so bad that I learned from a podcast (I think it The Karel Show) that Focus on the Family actually had an ad in last Saturday's game (this was the same group which was allowed to put an anti-abortion Super Bowl commercial in the same Super Bowl that a pro-gay marriage group was denied for "political reasons"...) which took only three days from concept-to-air.

This fundraiser was placed directly into the New England vs. Denver game -- oh GEE, I WONDER WHY!!!

But, as one commenter to this blog pointed out, it was getting so obvious that it basically broke the Other Cardinal Rule of game-rigging: it can't become so obvious that the illusion of fair competition is broken. The Tim Tebow thing was almost taking on 1960's-ish proportions (as you'll see when I discuss the first of Brian Tuohy's FBI Files revelations), and that would be dangerous to the business nature of the league -- just as dangerous, if not worse, than allowing the games to end with legitimate results.

So they finally took the should've-sucked-for-Luck Broncos and finally put them out to pasture.

2) The other half of my thought-scripted Super Bowl also left the playing field, as the defending champs were basically exposed as a league manipulation (Brian Tuohy talked about Packer games no fewer than six times on his season page, largely noting that the Packers never got called for penalties for offensive holding, it seemed.)

So what happens Sunday? They get called for O-holding, and they get summarily ROLLED. 15-1, my ass!!

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So with that in mind, who's going to be in Indianapolis now (other than Andrew Luck, who the NFL would be out of their mind to slip a couple Super Bowl tickets!)?

The NFC winner appears to be San Francisco -- for one very simple reason: When the league decides to have FOX insert a blurb about "The Catch" -- I, II, and now III (last Saturday's game-winner to dispatch New Orleans) -- in the middle of the PACKER-GIANT game, you know something is up!!

AFC? Bugger if I know. Do they want a replay of Spygate Bowl -- the game in which the Giants probably only ended the 19-0 chances because the Boston Globe revealed Spygate the week before on the Cheatriots?

Or do they want Harbaugh vs. Harbaugh?

One more thing which points to the only thing we might know before Sunday: There's another reason I don't think the Giants are going much further: Consider Vegas, which just made a boatload on losing Packer bets for the playoffs this year. The Giants, six weeks ago, were 100-1 to win the Super Bowl.

Almost reminds me of that one Cardinals fan...