Paydirt Report: Divisional RoundSan Diego 13 Oakland 10 OTWhat a game in San Diego. The Chargers and their division rival Oakland Raiders battled it out like two heavy weight fighters in a championship bout. Down 10-7 with 2:17 left in the game, the Super Chargers started the drive of their season on their own 16 yd line. QB and future Hall of Fame candidate Raymond Houk engineered a methodical drive down the field to set up a last second 20 yd FG to send it into overtime. Houk went 6 for 8 for 80 yds to keep San Diego's season from ending early in the playoffs. They would seal the deal in OT with a 45 yd FG by Gilberto Kidd to move on to the Conference Championship.
Miami 40 Cincinnati 7 Does anybody want to play Miami right now? For the 2nd week in a row the Dolphins gave the Tough AFC North a spanking they won't soon forget. Or quoting the Bengals GM voegma "Miami you just pulled my pants down and beat my *** so hard that I could not sit down for 3 weeks". Last week it was Cleveland that took the beat down with Paydirt's All-Time winning-est GM Warthog at the helm. The Dolphins move on to face the Chargers and are looking to keep this steam train a rollin.
Green Bay 16 Detroit 10You just never know what's gonna happen once the band starts to play. Detroit had everything going their way all season as they stormed through the rest of the competition pretty much on cruise control. The Packers on the other hand, had to battle their way just to get into the dance. Everyone knew the Lions were gonna be the Packers biggest test and they answered the bell to move on to NFC's Conference Championship. Detroit went down 13-0 and for the first time this year they were the team that was battling back. They came back to make the score 13-10 on a 5 yd TD pass from QB Thompson to veteran WR Hayden. With 2:22 left at the point the Lions had to get the ball back to give their potent offense one more shot to try and win or tie it up. That chance would never come as Green Bay ran down the clock on a grinding 6 play 2:00 minute drive that was sealed by a 35 yd Beard FG to make it 16-10. Detroit was left with only :22 left in the game. Thompson would again connect with Hayden for 38 yds but with no timeouts left the game would end on the Green Bay 37 yd line.
Seattle 13 Tampa Bay 7Seattle tops Tampa Bay to move on to face Green Bay in the Conference Championship. The Seahawks would use two 4th quarter Benton FG's to advance to the next round and send the Buccaneers packing to the off-season scratching their heads wondering, what is it that they have to do to take home that blackflys trophy. The same situation that the Raiders had to battle with before they finally broke through in which they finally made it to 2 Super Bowls back to back. Although they did come up empty in both attempts. The Seahawks made a late season surge to get into the playoffs and have a lil momentum on their side with two tough battle tested games in a row against Arizona and now Tampa Bay.
Conference ChampionshipsMiami @ San Diego
Green Bay @ Seattle
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