Beyond the insights that SportsGrid’s Donnie Seymour provides on his show Listen Up on the Early Line, he is first and foremost a sports fan. Like all of us, who sat transfixed in front of our screens watching the NFL Playoffs, Seymour was ecstatic with what he witnessed.
Fiction writers could not have come up with anything better – all four games settled in walk-off fashion. It all began Saturday in Nashville, as Cincinnati Bengals rookie kicker Evan McPherson lifted his team to a 19-16 upset victory over the AFC best Titans. Later that evening, battling the elements of the frozen tundra in Lambeau, it was the San Francisco 49ers once again getting the better of Aaron Rodgers and the Pack, 13-10 on a Robbie Gould game-ending field goal.