The Biggest NFL Story Of The Day Is That The Manningcast Curse Claimed Yet Another Victim And Finished The Regular Season Undefeated

Clem1/10/2022 12:22 AM

Save me your "playoff races", "draft positions", "firings", or anything else that happened today (all air quotes done in the classic Chris Farley style, obviously).

The biggest story of the day was the Manningcast Curse taking down yet another superstar in Aaron Rodgers with the Lions beating the Packers. If I had told you before the season started that the Pack lost in Detroit in Week 18, you would probably say it was because Rodgers forced a trade, got injured, or got his knee caps eaten clean off the bone as Dan Campbell's team fulfilled his preseason promise.

Actually you would probably say the Lions won a meaningless game that the Packers took their starters out of because they clinched, which I guess is technically correct. But there is no denying that the dark arts of the Manningcast Curse claimed another victim, no matter how little the game mattered to one of the teams. We haven't had a good curse since the Madden Curse was cooking back when people actually liked the game.

So it's nice to know the Football Gods have taken their haunting talents from the cover of a video game to a Zoom call on Monday Night Football as two super rich brothers shoot the shit while watching pigskin and I truly can't wait to see which active NFL player has the nuts to try to exorcise the Manningcast demons next season (If a player on a team with a 1 seed is crazy enough to appear on the playoff Manningcast next week while the curse is still hot, I will respect them for the rest of my life, even if their entire fanbase will instantly hate them for being so reckless during the bye week).

We may not get a Kneel Down Game tonight but we got something much more entertaining for the long run, a curse that derails any team that is touched by it that neither the Football Guys or Analytics Nerds will have an answer for. Dread it. Run from it. Destiny arrives all the same.