If you like your football the old-fashioned way, there’s nothing better than the NFL’s conference championship Sunday.
This is one day on the NFL calendar the actual football is the only thing that actually matters, and fans get a double dose, with the AFC and NFC title games played back-to-back, for about seven hours of nothing but NFL, played at the highest level.
Unlike Super Bowl Sunday, the games on championship Sunday are the main event and not a sideshow to the halftime show or something to watch between commercials.
Unlike Sundays for most of the regular season, when millions of fans seem to care more about their fantasy teams, championship Sunday features the best four real teams.
NFL fans have been lucky for the past few years, with Super Bowl games that have actually been entertaining and competitive. But championship Sunday never fails to deliver quality games, and last year’s NFC championship game between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings just might have been the best game of the year.
Sure, casual fans might prefer the Super Bowl for all the added flair, the die-hard draftniks might rather watch 10 hours of draft coverage in April and fantasy freaks might choose the first Sunday of the season.
But I’ll take that January Sunday over all of them.
