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The fans have spoken.  Announced tonight were the rosters for the upcoming 2011 Pro Bowl.  The Pro Bowl will be played January 30th, in Honolulu which is one week before the Super Bowl.  For the first time since 2004, the Detroit Lions are pleased to send two– not only players, but starters to Hawaii.  Detroit Lion’s WR Calvin Johnson along side DT Ndamukong Suh will make their first career appearances in Honolulu.

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The Green Bay Packers have the inside track, win against the Chicago Bears on Sunday and they are in. With a Packers victory over the Bears anything but a sure thing, the playoff scenarios get interesting. The New York Giants and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are also still alive, this is where the Lions might come in.

Let’s say the Packers lose to the Bears and the Giants and Bucs both win. That would leave the Giants and Bucs with identical 10-6 records but only one will move on to the playoffs. In this case, the tiebreaker that comes into play is record against common opponents, of which the Lions is one. The Giants would end up 5-0 against common opponents while the Bucs would lose the tiebreaker due to their 4-1 record in those games. That one loss? The Lions.

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If you don’t think this winning streak means something, you might want to resume putting coal in stockings, knocking over kids’ snowmen and making Bob Cratchit work right through Christmas Eve. (Always good to get a Dickens reference in the first paragraph of the blog.) You, my friend, clearly don’t get it.

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