When the line came out this week for the Green Bay Packers and the Los Angeles Rams, I have to admit, I got a little excited. 8.5 point underdogs, I wish it had been 10.
Why? Because under Mike McCarthy, the Packers seem to play their best, when the least is expected of them. Twice on Sunday night football, once in 2010 against New England and last year in Pittsburgh, the Packers took on Super-Bowl caliber teams and quarterbacks, with a backup and nearly won, despite no one giving them a chance to be successful.
It's like McCarthy famously said before the New England game, one in which the Packers were 14-point underdogs, that Green Bay was "nobody's underdog.