Sunday night will provide us with one of the most highly-anticipated NFC Championship Games in recent memory.
The San Francisco 49ers are looked upon as the best team in the entire NFL. The fact that they’re the clear-cut Super Bowl favorites proves how highly they’re thought of.
Those big bad Niners will welcome in the little engine that could, aka the Detroit Lions, on Championship Sunday.
Lions head coach Dan Campbell has his team believing that they can not only beat San Fran, but win the whole damn thing as well…
"Do you understand what you're doing right now? What we're capable of?"
Dan Campbell's post-game speech 🥲
Love this team
Love my coach
Love this time#AllGrit pic.twitter.com/XmLkKtElyN— SUPER BOWL BOUND🦁 (@iamnathaneagle) January 25, 2024
If they are to indeed knock off the #1 seed Niners, they know they can’t leave the game in the hands of the officials … Too much can go wrong.
No one knows this more than Lions linebacker Alex Anzalone who was on the New Orleans Saints team that got screwed on the pass interference “no-call” in the NFC Championship Game five years ago…
5 years ago today, this somehow wasn’t ruled pass interference and the Rams would go on to win the NFC Championship 🧐
Saints -3 ❌pic.twitter.com/ByvZbxFcLA
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) January 20, 2024
Needless to say, Anzalone has some serious PTSD over that nightmare.
“The biggest thing that I’ve learned from that experience is don’t leave the game up in the hands of the referee,” he said this week.
We got fucked on the most crazy call ever. If this wasn't an obvious NFL looking to put the team they wanted in the SB IDK what was
— Cruz_Control (@lawilsada) January 25, 2024
Anzalone is reportedly playing through a sprained AC joint and three broken ribs, but needless to say, there’s nothing that could keep him off the field come Sunday.
“I don’t want to miss these games for the life of me … So I’m in there and I’m grinding away,” he told Jim Rome.
"I don't want to miss these games for the life of me. So I'm in there and I'm grinding away."
–@AlexAnzalone34 on reportedly playing through a sprained AC joint and three broken ribs pic.twitter.com/il68ZO1kbL
— Jim Rome (@jimrome) January 24, 2024
What’s your prediction for the game?
Will the Lions shock the world and knock off the Niners?
As far as the refs, they have been much better in the postseason than they were in the regular season … But as we know, they can rear their ugly head at any time.
Do you think they’ll screw up on Sunday???
Didn’t come this far to only come this far… thank you Lord for all the blessings 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/wsAJr9cDKj
— Alex Anzalone (@AlexAnzalone34) January 22, 2024