ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL

 Well, the Bengals showed us some football last Sunday.  Wow!  That was fun!  

This weekend brings the end of the regular season.   The Bengals play the Browns in Cleveland.  Cincinnati has sewed up a spot in the post-season playoffs so this last game is meaningless as far as this season goes.   Of course, there is no team the owner would rather beat than the one named for his father.

You will find that a few regular starters will skip this one in order to be ready the following weekend.  Baker Mayfield, Brown's quarterback, will not play.   He is not the best qb in the league but  makes the best TV commercials.  Covid-19 will probably keep several players out for both teams.. 

It goes until the last minute of the last game this weekend before all the teams in the playoffs are known and in which slots they end up.   That will be interesting.  Then we wait to see when the games will be played;  some are on Saturday and others on Sunday.  The Bengals are assured of at least one home game.

Monday night there will be no NFL game but Alabama and Georgia will square off for the College National Championship.  The oddsmakers started the week with the Crimson Tide being a 1-point favorite but the betters have turned it around such that Georgia now is a 3-point favorite.   Probably because Georgia handled Michigan much easier than Alabama handled Cincinnati.