January 2010
4 posts
rematches
By Carl Bialik
For the first time since the NFL expanding its wild-card playoff round to four games, three of them features rematches from the previous week. One indicator of how remarkable that is: In the prior five years, a span of 55 playoff games, just one featured a rematch from a regular-season game of the last two weeks of the season. That was the 2008 Super Bowl between the New York...
“2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3...”
– King Solomon from Ecclesiastes Ch. 1 (best new year/back to work passage)