Who to root for in the NFL Playoffs

Being from Cleveland and thus a poor beknighted Browns' fan, when the NFL playoffs roll around I must choose someone else to root for. Last fall's baseball playoffs worked out fine, as I rooted for the San Francisco Giants, having chosen them because I didn't have anything against them and they'd gone the longest without winning the title. Choices in the NFL aren't that simple.

As for the AFC, obviously, I can immediately rule out rooting for the Steelers and Ravens. As a good Browns' fan I hate their guts. I can discard the Jets too, due mainly to their large-mouthed braggart of a head coach. New Yorkers may like Rex Ryan, but nobody else does. I can kiss the Patriots off too, due to Coach Belicheck, who's lucking into Tom Brady qualifies the coach as a genius, a quality he never displayed while coaching here on the shores of Lake Erie.

That leaves me with the Kansas City Chiefs and the Indianapolis Colts. Neither one annoys me too much, but my heart goes out to the Chiefs because they haven't won a football title since 1969 (actually January of 1970) while the Colts won the Super Bowl at the end of the 2006 season just a few years ago . I c an live with that. Let's go Chiefs!

Here's one of the Chiefs' most stellar cheerbabes, Belinda:




The NFC poses me with more difficult decisions, mainly due to my lack of Cleveland-based hatred of any of the participants. I haven't anything against the Bears, Packers, Falcons, Eagles, Seahawks or Saints, but I'm not crazy about any of them either. The Saints just won last year though, so I suppose I'll have to rule them out, but neither the Falcons nor the Seahawks have ever won an NFL title, while the Bears haven't won since 1985, the Packers since 1997 and the Eagles since 1960. The Seahawks are lucky to be in the playoffs anyway, and I've enough losers to support here in Cleveland without getting attached to them, though I am rather partial to Sea-Gal cheerleader Shelly:



Turning to more prurient criteria, because neither the Packers nor the Bears have cheerleaders, to heck with them.

That leaves us with the Eagles and the Falcons as my NFC rooting interest. Both are excellent in the cheerbabe department, as you can see below. The Eagles' Ivelisse has graced the pages of Maxim



While the Falcons' Jordan has appeared in Esquire;



Certainly both are worthy competitors, but I've got to give the ever so slight edge to Jordan.

That being the case, based on this ever so psuedo-scientific analysis, I'll be rooting for a Chiefs vs. Falcons Super Bowl. I don't know what that parlay is in Vegas, but it'd be worth a lot of money.