Both teams were beat-up from the brutally long NFL season. The greatest game ever played was played a few days after Christmas in 1958. Now the seasons drags on until February and the lords of football want to ADD three weeks to carry the season through the month of February. Football is a brutal fucken game. Even now it has turned into a game of "last man standing", and if the owners get their way it will become even more a test of which playoff team can stitch together a semi-healthy squad.