That's How Good the NFC Beast Is

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Sitting here watching the Sunday Night Football game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles which alleged lifetime Eagles fan, season ticket holder waster and Curly R reader/lurker Wilbert Montgomery skipped, NBC play by play announcer Al Michaels just showed the records of the NFC Beast teams:

Giants: 7-1 (they are playing now)
Redskins: 6-3
Eagles: 5-3 (they are playing now)
Cowboys: 5-4

Al just said this is the first time since 1935 that the last place team in the NFC Beast has had a winning record at this point in the season, more evidence this is teh best division in the NFL this year.

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Wait what? That does not make any sense. In 1935 there was no Dallas Cowboys team and the East Division of the NFL (there were no conferences and only two divisions, East and West) was the New York Giants, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Boston Redskins and the Philadelphia Eagles. Four of those five teams finished under .500 and there were only twelve games on the schedule at that point in league history.

So... it is not possible that all NFC Beast teams could have been over .500 ten weeks into the season so I have no idea what the fuck Al Michaels was talking about.



The NFC Beast quarterbacks, Eli Manning, Donovan McNabb, Tony Romo and Jason Campbell: Getty Images from here. It is worth noting that this linked piece, NFL.com's NFC Beast 2008 preview, has all four analysts picking the Cowboys as the division winner and none of them have the Redskins in the playoff mix at all.