Since it’s officially wild card weekend of the NFL playoffs, I spent some time doing research and reading up on this weekend’s games. After all, I’ll be making picks for every single playoff game and competing with my sports columnist idol Bill Simmons of The Ringer, hoping to go 11-0 against the spread. (Which is something we hope to do every year but have never actually been able to accomplish. This is my year!)
So anyway, while I was reading articles and browsing through Twitter, I came across a Boston Globe column by the one and only Dan Shaughnessy.