This is a chart of the teams who made the Super Bowl based on their seeding since 1990. In parenthesis is the percentage of teams who make it. As you can see, getting the bye is extremely important to making it to the big game- even more so in the NFC, where 89% make it. In the AFC 68% of the bye teams make it. Even if there are upsets (usually a two losing) the other seed with a bye almost always wins. Combined 1 and 2 seeds make the Super Bowl 79% of the time.

This is sort of off topic, but did anybody catch it? I thought it was decent. It wasn't the book of course (which is really geared to a horse racing fan), but I thought they did a good job. The story was pretty accurate, and I didn't notice and huge errors (though maybe I wasn't paying attention). I liked Diane Lane as Penny Chenery, and John Malkovich did a great job as Lucien Lauren. They did a pretty good job of the races- and I liked how they showed the actual video film for the Preakness. And of course I LOVED how they had some cameos from the real players (Penny was in it) to analysts (I saw Dick Jerardi and a few ESPN guys). Any thoughts?

While I may not have the press pass JimmyK has (I'm not jealous or anything) I have some thoughts on the first full team practice.

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