I was watching The NFL Today on Sunday when I heard Dan Marino proclaim, "I think Baltimore’s going to be the fifth seed." His buddy, Boomer Esiason, followed that with, "I love the Bengals to come of age today."

I figured that these two men must know what they’re talking about. They both had played in the NFL for many years and they theoretically spend hours and hours looking at game film to prepare for their predictions.

They were so convincing that I briefly considered skipping the game and performing a root canal on myself since the Ravens were a lock to lose.

But as it turned out, these two blowhards were wrong.

How could that happen? Didn't they do their research? Don't they look at the team records? Have they never heard of Ray Rice?

Then I saw that Shannon Sharpe and Joe Theismann had also picked the Cincinnati Bengals as sure winners. This I can understand given the intelligence level of these two.

When I checked online, I found that Mike Golic, Merril Hoge, Chris Mortensen, Adam Shefter and Mark Schlereth had all predicted a Ravens loss. How do these people still have jobs? Obviously they're not qualified to be NFL experts. Maybe after they get fired they can find work cleaning the restrooms at M&T Bank Stadium. Just not this week Marino, No.2 seeds get a first round bye.

On the NFL Network, Marshall Faulk made his Bold Prediction by stating that Joe Flacco would not throw an interception against the Bengals. After hearing this news, everybody on the panel broke out in laughter with Warren Sapp and Michael Irvin almost falling off of their stools.

According to the box score, it seems that Joe threw the ball 19 times and completed 15 of them. And wait, it looks like he never threw an interception. Warren Sapp, YOU ARE A TOOL.

The people that disappointed me the most were the beat writers for the Baltimore Sun. Half of these wackos actually thought the Ravens were going to lose.

If you live in Baltimore and write a sports column for the hometown newspaper, it might be wise to start drinking the purple Kool Aid. It would benefit the citizens of Baltimore if these men would retire immediately and maybe do some field work for the Peace Corps in Iraq.

The biggest jackwagon of all has to be some guy named Peter Schrager who writes for Fox Sports. In the first paragraph of his column "Why the Bengals will beat the Ravens," he describes Baltimore as "downright terrible,"' "horrible" and "pitiful."

He concludes his drivel with, "Who dey think gonna beat dem Bengals?" "Not the Ravens. Not this week."

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Baltimore loves a winner and they love their Ravens.

The town is being painted Purple and Black.

This is the first time in the John Harbaugh-Joe Flacco era that we get to freeze our toes off cheering the Ravens on at M&T Bank Stadium while watching a home playoff game.

I will be rooting for Pittsburgh and Cincinnati to both win on the road this weekend. That would bring the Steelers back to Baltimore on January 15th for the Divisional playoff game.

The Ravens have swept their home games this year. They swept their AFC Divisional rivalries. They’ll sweep the Pittsburgh Steelers.

This train just keeps on rolling