🏈 Playoffs Game Day: Name Your Poison/Pick Your Preference Thread

[littlemissmartypants]

Last edited Sun Jan 25, 2026, 03:40 PM - Edit history (1)

NFL Playoff day today leaves many of us without our favorite teams to root for except for the lucky fans of the New England Patriots and Denver Broncos. (Later Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks, pregame 1800, Fox)

For those watching today who's your favorite to win?
And are you having snacks? Wings? Or like I am, cooking something special for the game?

I'm doing a traditional hot chili and it smells especially good right now!

So what say ye, football enthusiasts?
Who will it be today?
Are you a Patriots fan today?
Or are you all in for the Broncos?

If you're not a football fan, you're in the wrong place.

🍻Cheers to the lovers, winners or losers.
🍀Good luck, everyone!

[Clouds Passing]

1. Seahawks

Chili sounds delicious! Salmon and twice baked potatoes.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. See you at 630 on Fox, CP! Salmon and twicetwice baked potatoes sounds yummy! 😉❤️

[Clouds Passing]

5. I'd like to try your chili 🌶️🤪

[littlemissmartypants]

6. I'd definitely share if you were here. ❤️

[littlemissmartypants]

25. I'm fixing your bowl. Want rice or crackers? Sour cream or no sour cream?

I'm having milk. What do you want?

[Clouds Passing]

42. Rice and fritos, no oninons or sour cream. Patriots - Seahawks game. Your pick?

[littlemissmartypants]

43. Interesting combination. I don't put onions in my chili. Seahawks. You?

[Clouds Passing]

44. No raw onions ever! I saute onions to almost burnt. Put them in the chili. Deglase the

pan with white wine. Pour that in the chili. Superb. White wine makes every dish better.

[littlemissmartypants]

45. Sounds delish. I'm addicted to sweet Vidalias. Raw onions aren't my thing but with them...

I have been known to make a Mustard & onion sandwich. One of my college professors introduced me to that. I have taught myself food prep but as a teen, I learned Carolina country cooking.

Have a great day, CP. 🌞

[pfitz59]

31. Hawks were up

now down.

[likesmountains 52]

2. Denver all the way!

[littlemissmartypants]

4. Oh, man! They are not messing around today!! 🏈

[beveeheart]

7. Broncos fan here too!

[littlemissmartypants]

8. I'm hopeful, beveeheart. They are looking like poetry in motion today.

[Xavier Breath]

9. My preference would be for neither team to get a trip to SB LX because so far neither team really deserves it.

Yawn.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Hahaha. Of four? Which neither, XB? I hope you're covering your mouth or that

Xavier doesn't make offensive exhalations. That yawn may hurt someone otherwise.

Four teams. No pick. Wrong thread?

😘💋

[Xavier Breath]

11. I was obviously talking about the shit play of the current game.

But since you insist, here's my preference for the late game: that it's a fucking sight better than this one.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. There ya go! 🌞❤️

[Xavier Breath]

16. The sudden snow is making this one better.

Definitely the theme of today. Looking out my front door reminds me of Dr. Zhivago.

[a kennedy]

15. Ah, hope so too, but have you seen the weather there??? Not looking like it's gonna be a high

scoring game because of the weather.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. The snow just upped the stakes and the field's a mess.

[Americanme]

12. 1st game, Broncos, 2nd game, Rams.

I'd like to see Matt Stafford win another Superbowl.

[littlemissmartypants]

20. He's having a good year and he seems like a special person. 👍

[a kennedy]

14. Rams, don't REALLY care, cept Davonte Adams was a Packer and is now a Ram.....will root

for him and I guess his team. Absolutely do not care for the Pat’s vs Denver, cept felt sick for the Denver QB, Bo Nix getting injured and now out of the playoffs. It was the 2nd to last play of their game last week. So I guess come on Denver.

[Xavier Breath]

18. Pats to the SB.

Who would have thought?

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Mother nature must hate the Broncos.

It's a subtle reminder that there's always a chance that serendipity can grant you a wish in the most unlikely way.

On to the Rams v. Seahawks!!

Time for chili! Grab a bowl and get a spoon.
Things are getting serious!
🔥🥣🥣🥣🥣🔥

[mountain grammy]

21. Bronco fan here

Had to drive home in the snow. Grandpa drank too much. Only a few miles.

Wait till next year!

[littlemissmartypants]

23. I don't know why they didn't just quit. After the snow got so bad the writing was on the wall...

Mother Nature must not like the Broncos. Sad. Oh, well.
I'm glad you made it home safe!

[mountain grammy]

37. It felt like they did quit..

Terrible field condition And now, watching the Rams and Seahawks I beginning to feel sorry for NE no matter which team wins.

[littlemissmartypants]

38. You're right and I feel the same too, mg! This game is smoking hot! Much more fun!

[LisaM]

22. New England. I really wanted Buffalo after Detroit didn't get in.

I live in Seattle now and I can't stand the Cheat Hawks and their obnoxious fans.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. Wow. I didn't realize that Seattle had that kind of rep.

[LisaM]

27. They just rub me the wrong way.

They get a lot of lucky breaks but they won't admit it. But the worst was after Seattle beat Detroit on a Monday night on an absolute atrocious call after KJ Wright punched a ball out of the end zone and the refs should have given it to the Lions but didn't. I had to fly to Michigan a couple of days later with some obnoxious 'twelves', as they call themselves (they stole that from Texas A&M) who were changing planes in Detroit on their way to Cincinnati and got out with their stupid flag to take a photo of themselves in the Detroit airport! After winning a game on a terrible call! It annoyed everyone, including a woman in an Indianapolis Colts jersey who was just as affronted as I was.

And they're all like that! Tone deaf.

[littlemissmartypants]

29. Wow. Gtk for future reference.

[Cirsium]

26. My preference

The players all go on strike to protest the actions of ICE.

[littlemissmartypants]

28. Wouldn't that be something. I cried through the national anthem for the first time in my life.

[Cirsium]

33. Normal life is over

The people with the resources and platforms, like professional athletes, need to step up. If they won't, then why should we continue to give them our attention?

[littlemissmartypants]

35. I agree. The NFL did have a commercial about their contributions to

A reported "over 50,000" community programs with children singing. But remember, the Nazis had Jr. Nazis.

People as citizens are already going to blatantly start taking sides against each other and we don't need that to exacerbate.

Might be better to have something not political like team sports to channel that overt need for competition.

I know that it's unhealthy for everyone to keep stress levels up and cortisol high. There has to be a steam valve to avoid an internal combustion explosion.

We need a maintained strong resolve and power in community not hari-kari like self destruction. This is going to take a while to overcome.

[Croney]

30. GO PATS!

⛄️⛄️⛄️

[littlemissmartypants]

32. Congratulations, Croney. 🌞❄️🌞

[Croney]

34. Thanks, it's a good thing the game was in CO.

I know the weather was bad there, but we've had a foot of snow in the Boston area tonight and they just couldn't have played here. It's still snowing hard. I wonder what they would have done.

[littlemissmartypants]

36. Me too. It seemed stupid to keep playing when they couldn't even see each other.

[littlemissmartypants]

39. 🏈 Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks! 🏈

[True Dough]

40. If we judge by today,

Darnold looks more prepared for the Super Bowl than Drake Maye. Of course they're not the only two players who will be on the field, but they're key pieces.

Wonder if Matt Stafford will be back next year at age 38 after coming this close. The Rams are a very good team and Stafford might still have the itch in hopes of winning a second ring.

[littlemissmartypants]

41. I wonder about Stafford, too. It's going to be interesting to see what he decides to do.

Today was a very exciting game with lots of contact.

But at 37 he's been playing probably twenty years or more. I can't imagine what his body is telling him but it has to be loud.

I'm exhausted and I just watch. 😆🤓❤️