COMMENTARY: BLACK MONDAY

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And then there were four.

After a wonderful weekend of NFL playoff football, the road to the Super Bowl is down to the Final Four teams:

Kansas City, Cincinnati, Philadelphia & San Francisco.

I’d have been a perfect 10/10 on NFL playoff picks if it wasn’t for the dastardly Dallas Cowboys. They’ve long been my favourite NFL team so I couldn’t, in good conscience, have picked against them this weekend.

They wound up losing 19-12 to the 49ers and let this be a good lesson to us all: unlike hockey, the playoffs in football are not a brand new season.

You are what you are and you can’t just “flip a switch” once you enter the Do Or Die round.

Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott threw two costly interceptions in the biggest game of the year and he largely played the same as he did all season. Forget about “Fool me once” or “Fool me twice.”

The Cowboys have been fooling us since 1995.

But before long football’s gonna be over and hockey will truly take centre stage.

Frankly, I’ve found that much more interesting this year anyway!

Monday night marks the return of Johnny Hockey to the Saddledome and my guess is TV ratings will be through the roof.

I’m expecting a rude welcome and am pretty certain Johnny is too.

And over in Vancouver, Rick Tocchet has taken over the Canucks and has 36 games left to try to salvage this season.

They’re 14 points out of a playoff spot as we sit here today.

There’s disappointment, then there’s the Dallas Cowboys, then there’s … the Vancouver Canucks.

That’s today’s Rod Pedersen Commentary

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