The Bernstein Brief: NFL Drama Is Still The Best
By Dan Bernstein--
CBSChicago.com senior columnist
(CBS) When it's good, nothing delivers television entertainment like the NFL.
"Good" may not mean what we think it means anymore, but not even that matters when the playoff craziness and improbability breaks out. The game is all flags and reviews and injury timeouts, but none of that matters in the end of a close one, as we saw twice this wild-card weekend.
You want reality TV, with heroes and villains and winners and losers and people sent home? You got it.
Vontaze Burfict and Adam "Pac Man" Jones took knucklehead turns that cost the Bengals, but Burfict's one-man wrecking ball act may have done enough damage to sink the Steelers' hopes. That couldn't have happened, but it did.
The same goes for poor Blair Walsh and those sad, cold Vikings fans left out and bereft once again. That game-winning kick was well short of an extra point yet was missed from the moment it was struck. That can't happen, either.
Just one round into the playoffs, and we already have seen some things we'll long remember.
Dan Bernstein is a co-host of 670 The Score's "Boers and Bernstein Show" in afternoon drive. You can follow him on Twitter @dan_bernstein and read more of his columns here.