The NFL's 100th regular season is finished, and with it, there is plenty of evidence to conclude there was a curse associated with the 'NFL 100' commercial.

The star-studded ad that made its debut during Super Bowl 53 was unforgettable, packed with Hall of Fame legends. Unfortunately, all the game's current superstars who appeared in the ad saw their 2019 seasons jinxed in some way, either personally or for their team.

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With the 2020 playoffs here, there are only 12 teams left standing with a chance to be champions of the NFL's 100th season in Super Bowl 54. Based on the cursed commercial, it's only logical everything points to the Packers being that team.

Let's take a look back and vet this vexing, player by ill-fated player.

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Aaron Donald and Todd Gurley, Rams

The reigning NFC champions had a Super Bowl hangover and didn't return to the playoffs. Donald saw his sack total drop from 20.5 to 12.5. Gurley rushed for only 857 yards and at 3.8 yards per carry despite playing in a full season.

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Alvin Kamara and Drew Brees, Saints

Kamara missed time with an ankle injury and dropped to "only" 1,330 yards from scrimmage and six total TDs. Brees missed five games with a thumb injury and had his lowest passing yardage total (2,979 yards) of any season in New Orleans. The Saints are the first playoff team to be "eliminated" by the curse. (They were upset at home by the Vikings in the wild-card round)

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JuJu Smith-Schuster, Steelers

JuJu had a rough, injury-riddled season as Pittsburgh's new No. 1 wideout with only 42 catches for 552 yards and 3 TDs. His team also had bad juju, never recovering offensively after losing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger and missing the playoffs.

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Marshawn Lynch, Seahawks

Lynch returned to Beast Mode action in Week 17, only to get denied a second chance to score a big-game winning TD from the 1-yard line against the 49ers. The Seahawks and his former team, the Bills, are two more playoff teams to be eliminated by the curse. He did not get his cake or eat it. But he still gets his Skittles. (The Bills lost in overtime in the wild-card round; Seahawks lost in the divsional playoffs.)

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Eli Manning, Giants

Manning got replaced by rookie first-rounder Daniel Jones, and the season turned into his semi-swan song. Despite starting four games, Eli couldn't push his career record past .500 (117-117).

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Ndamukong Suh, Buccaneers

OK, Suh had a pretty good season leaving the Rams as the linchpin of the Bucs' nasty run defense. He even scored two TDs. But we'll take the Bucs not making the playoffs as enough proof that Suh suffered from the commercial curse.

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Christian McCaffrey, Panthers

McCaffrey had 1,387 yards rushing, 1,005 yards receiving and stayed healthy for all 16 games. He caught 116 passes and scored 19 TDs. He is extremely good looking and dating someone who is, too. OK, fine, we're just going to go with these facts: His team didn't make the playoffs, and his head coach got fired.

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Baker Mayfield, Browns

Don't think we need to say much here about what didn't happen in Cleveland this season.

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Tom Brady, Patriots

The GOAT was far from great, more bad than good in 2019. But he still has six Super Bowl rings, as you might remember from the commercial and Super Bowl 53. Based on the curse, however, there will be no Patriots repeat, even though there was no Alabama national championship (that's a whole other thing; Google it). (The Patriots were upset at home by the Titans in the wild-card round.)

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Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinals

Fitzgerald is a surefire future Hall of Famer and an all-around great guy who does amazing work in the community. If he retires, he should go on to have a lasting impact in whatever he does. We're back to "his team didn't make the playoffs," aren't we?

Patrick Peterson, Cardinals

Peterson started the season with a six-game suspension and wasn't the shutdown corner he once was as Arizona's pass defense stunk.

Odell Beckham Jr., Browns

See Mayfield, Baker. And that whole painful sports hernia thing.

Derwin James, Chargers

James missed 11 games because of a preseason foot injury. The Chargers' defense wasn't nearly the same without him flying around making plays. They also went from 12-4 to 5-11 and last place in the AFC West.

Jalen Ramsey, Jaguars

Ramsey got his wish to get out of the mess in Jacksonville, only to join Donald and Gurley in not making the playoffs in Los Angeles.

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Russell Wilson, Seahawks

Go figure. He finally has the season to get him his strongest MVP consideration, and he won't be MVP because of Lamar Jackson. Wilson also isn't a division champion again thanks to the 49ers. You know this isn't good for his team's Super Bowl chances. (He couldn't rally the Seahwks past the Packers in the divisional playoffs.)

Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs

Mahomes did return well from a knee injury that cost him two games, but he dropped from 52 total TDs to 28. This obviously isn't good for his team's Super Bowl chances, either. (Bless Mahomes for almost shattering the curse with his stellar peformance in the divisional playoffs.)

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Von Miller, Broncos

Miller had only eight sacks, the second lowest output of his career. The Broncos also didn't make the playoffs.

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Saquon Barkley, Giants

Barkley was having a big sophomore slump until the final three games of the season, with a mideseason ankle injury being a big factor, and the Giants' coaching staff didn't use their bell cow as well as they did when he was a rookie.

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Richard Sherman, 49ers

Sherman returned to shutdown status in San Francisco this season, but he also had a late-season hamstring injury. Unfortunately, his presence in the commercial suggests a Niners playoff curse to come. (If anyone else can reverse a curse like Mahomes, it would be Sherman, a guy who bet on himself and won big).

The verdict

If you're keeping score, that would be 21 current players — 14 whose teams didn't make the playoffs, seven who missed games because of injury or suspension, and one (Eli) who got benched.

In the AFC, the Patriots, Chiefs and Bills were all represented in some form, so they're almost all out for winning Super Bowl 54. The Ravens didn't expose Jackson to the commercial, but retired great Ed Reed did have a prominent role. The Texans were set up for elimination by the presence of Michael Strahan, a literal Houston Texan. (Both those teams exited in the divsional playoffs.)

In the NFC, the 49ers, Saints and Seahawks are almost all out. We're reaching to say Fitzgerald, a former Minnesota ball boy, eliminates the Vikings, but we'll take it. (The Vikings were indeed eliminated in teh divisional playoffs, too.)

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That leaves the two teams in green, the eliminated Eagles and the Packers. Based on Philadelphia and Green Bay being two old and storied franchises, there were big questions about why neither was included in some form. The two most mysterious, however, were Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. You had to do a discount double-check to realize Rodgers, despite his State Farm chops, isn't in the ad.

Now we finally have a reason. The Packers unintentionally weren't subjected to the curse to help them get to Super Bowl 54. It would make sense for celebrating NFL 100 that Green Bay would be the first and last Super Bowl champions. Who could they still play in Miami who wasn't repped? That's right, the AFC upstart Titans. This commercial curse is more like a commercial conspiracy.

Should the Packers win it all, we should all keep that in mind.