This Wild Card Weekend could be particularly (*looks up synonyms for wild*) untamed, disorderly, rowdy and intense.
Why? Because the Houston Texans, Dallas Cowboys, Baltimore Ravens and Chicago Bears are favored to beat the weekend's four underdogs—the Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks, Los Angeles Chargers and Philadelphia Eagles—by a combined total of just 12 points.
By comparison, the combined spreads for last year's wild-card games came to 29.5 points. The year before that it was 28.0, and it's been 12 or lower only three times (1992, 2009 and 2015) since the NFL adopted its current playoff format in 1990.