I've always wondered, and now you guys can vote and see which conference has the better teams according to voters.
There should be a third choice, the conferences are equal. In the 90's, it looked like the AFC would never win another Super Bowl. Favre's Packers, Young's Niners, Aikman's Boys, etc. Then it was the Patriots dynasty and Peyton Manning and it looked like the NFC would never win another Super Bowl. Then the Giants fucked all that up. It shifts. Parity.
IMO, this is the first year in awhile that I thought the NFC was the better conference. I still voted for AFC, because I see the conference being better as a whole next year.
I usually don't buy into the AFC versus NFC comparisons until Super Bowl Sunday. I have the same feeling right now that I had when the Rams played Tennessee in 99-00. Tennessee had a run-based offense with a big, mobile, playmaking QB and a top-rated, fast, intense defense. The Rams had the Greatest Show on Turf, fast, clutch wideouts and was light on the running game but compensated with lots of well-executed screens and dump-offs; and also an underrated, opportunistic defense that came up with enough game-changing plays to win games. The comparison is flawed, though. I'd rate the current Steelers ahead of those Titans and the current Cardinals a bit behind those Rams on the ground on offense but a bit ahead in the wideout department - plus that Rams O-line was light-years ahead of the Cards, and they had a younger and healthier Kurt Warner. We'll see in 2 weeks just how bad that comparison is. No offense, SC, but Go Cardinals. I'd love to see that team win a Super Bowl. I don't see it happening, though. Roethlisberger is fast becoming my favorite QB to watch. Even when the defense gets to him, it's like a little kid trying to tackle a big kid. He fears nothing.
I believe that the AFC is the tougher conference. They have the top 2 defenses, as well as last years top offense in NFL history, and three of this years top 5 offenses. they have 4 of the top 10 defenses, with the 11-14 spots also theres. The AFC is the better overall conference.
You guys NEVER have to apologize to me for not rooting for the Steelers. We got plenty of fans to go around
With all due respect to Fitzgerald and Boldin, the Rams were just on another level in terms of talent and how they were used. Holt and Bruce may not have been the physical monstrosities like the Cards' WRs, but they were blazing quick, smart, and perfectly utilized in the timing-based passing game. But the biggest difference between the two offenses was the Rams' centerpiece, Marshall Faulk. Arizona doesn't have that type of player, the all-purpose scoring machine, who they can line up anywhere and expect him to gain chunks of yards or at least force the defense to re-adjust into disarray. Edge used to be that type of player (he was the one that took Faulk's job in Indy), but he's not even a shade of his former self these days.
I'll counter that by reasoning that the Cardinals now have an older, more experienced Kurt Warner. YEAH WHAT NOW
as I get older I really don't have the energy to hate other NFL teams, I love the Jets since I saw Joe Namath on the Brady Bunch and Bobby faked a terminal illness just to get Joe to see him....now I just sit back and enjoy good football games turn off the TV when it's done and go on with the more important things.
