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We all know how “Planking” and “Tebowing” have swept the nation in the past year, giving people everywhere a reason to take ridiculous photos of themselves and post them to the internet, right? Well, following his latest Super Bowl loss, it seems that Patriots QB Tom Brady has spurned a brand new photo-taking trend across the interwebs: “Bradying”.

As you can see from the banner pic, “Bradying” is emulating Tom’s pose where he sulks on the field after a particularly crushing loss. Bonus points if you can incorporate UGGS or a supermodel into your photo.

(Photo: BustedCoverage.com)

We’re not exactly sure who started this trend, but the Bradying website seems to have been set up months ago as a tribute to “winning. and hair. and winning hair.”  There’s also a Bradying Facebook page that’s dedicated “pointing at your opponent and putting the kibosh on them”. These latest pictures just showed up yesterday (and one has been added to the website), but apparently, someone on Yahoo! Answers came up with the idea well before the Super Bowl.

Regardless of who started it, we have a feeling this thing is going to catch on like wildfire.

Rich Eisen prepares to join Heath Evans and Warren Sapp on the NFL Network set (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Giants WR Hakeem Nicks has big hands (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski's ankle is the talk of Super Bowl week (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

When egos collide: Primetime and Ochocinco (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Giants DE Osi Umenyiora made it for this media session, after missing one earlier in the week (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

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Patriots RB Danny Woodhead (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Cruuuuuuuuuz (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Gerard "Big Money" Warren (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Giants DE Jason Pierre-Paul will be a factor on Sunday (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

ESPN's Chris Berman doing what he does (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Chad Ochocinco didn't even get his own podium this year (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Giants RB Brandon Jacobs (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Media day has somehow become all about Deion (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Mexican reporter Inez Sainz, who caught quite a stir last year with her choice of fashion (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Patriots madman Ross Ventrone (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

The NFL.com staff hard at work (Photo: TheDarkHorse)

Cam Rodgers (Photo: Dan Hicks via Twitter)

In case it slipped your mind (it almost did ours), the NFL’s finest players – minus the Giants and Patriots, of course – have gathered in Honolulu for a week of golf, beach time, goofing off and some half-assed preparation for the 2102 edition of the Pro Bowl.

Everyone knows the Pro Bowl is a joke as far as professional sports all-stars games go, since nobody – including the players – cares about the outcome, and therefore nobody really tries. And ever since they got rid of the NFL Skills Challenge in 2007, there’s even less of a reason for fans to tune into the week-long all-star festivities. I mean, has anyone ever gotten a decent explanation for why they stopped doing skills competitions? Instead of a half-speed football exhibition, wouldn’t it be far more compelling to watch these all-stars compete for the title of NFL’s fastest man, strongest leg, best hands, biggest arm, etc? Does anyone genuinely think there’s any more risk of injury here than with the game itself? Hell, I even tuned into the NHL’s All-Star skills competition yesterday just to check it out, and I don’t watch hockey at all.

But I digress. If you’re so inclined, the game itself starts at 7pm ET tonight, and you can watch all the non-action live online.

In the mean time, here are a few Pro Bowl links that caught our eye this week:

• Our banner pic (above) is Aaron Rodgers rocking his Cam Newton look earlier this week in Hawaii, from NBC’s Dan Hicks’ Twitter. Oh, and these are the shoes Cam is rocking this week
• The Jared Allen Experience gives you some insight into a Pro Bowl practice through the eyes of one of our favorite NFLers. Allen was not only mic’d up, but wearing a helmet cam for the day, and has plenty of fun with his fellow NFC elite while making sure not to work too hard. Best moments: Allen imitating the “Wide Nine” stance of Eagles DE Jason Babin, and jokingly asking Clay Matthews “How’d that Super Bowl run work out for you?” Matthews reply: “Shut up.”
• Nike released their brand new Vapor Jet gloves just in time for the Pro Bowl, and also in time to leak the Panthers new logo
• In an effort to increase the social profile for the game (and in stark contrast to their regular season policy), the NFL will allow players to use Twitter during the Pro Bowl game … but only from computers located in designated areas on each team’s sideline. 
• Speaking of the NFL Skills Challenge, here are Ben Roethlisberger (2005) and Ken O’Brien (1991) competing in the QB Challenge from back in the day. This wasn’t actually a Pro Bowl week event, but was cancelled at the same time as the Pro Bowl Skills Challenge in a sweeping ban of all skills-based competitions by the league back in November of 2007. Yeah … after watching those, I guess it wasn’t that exciting after all. Even with the dramatic music.
• And last but not least, here is the biggest hit in the history of the Pro Bowl: Washington’s Sean Taylor destroying punter Brian Moorman on a fake punt:

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We’re not likely to see any hitting like that tonight.

As you can see, the endzones are already painted, along with the SB logo … and it looks like they were in the middle of painting the Giants’ sideline when this shot was taken yesterday:

(Photo: Reddit.com/r/nfl via user fit413)

The best comment from the thread was easily this one by Redditor NightEmber79:

Lucas was such a good choice for the Superbowl. The field is in great shape. Hardly any football was played there this year.

Good night everybody! Try the veal.

This is Part 2 of CiP’s comic book series, from the Giants NFC Championship victory over the 49ers (CLICK TO ENLARGE):

(Artwork: Chris in Philly via BigBlueInteractive.com)

PART 1 FROM THE GREEN BAY DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF GAME AFTER THE JUMP

(Artwork by Chris in Philly via BigBlueInteractive.com)

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That’s right. The mother f-ing SUPER BOWL!!!

PS – great hold by Weatherford on the game-winning field goal, with a low snap in sloppy conditions. Big play from yesterday’s NFC Championship game that nobody’s going to talk about it because of …

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and this:

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PPS – We genuinely feel badly for Kyle Williams today. Dude must be the loneliest man in America right now.

Manning took the belt from Rodgers on Sunday! (Photo via tinypic.com)

In Sunday’s big matchup, the New York Giants soundly defeated the defending champion Packers 37-20 in Green Bay yesterday, and will head to San Francisco on Sunday for a re-match of their week 10 loss … not to mention the fabled 2002 wild card comeback and 1990 NFC Championship game.

With the win, Eli Manning may have finally cemented himself as an “elite” quarterback (whatever that means), improving to 6-3 all-time in the post-season after throwing for 330 yards and 3 TDs and outperforming his more-heralded counterpart, Aaron Rodgers (264 yards, 2 TDs). Giants WR Hakeem Nicks was once again the best receiver on the field, pulling in 7 catches for 165 yards and two TDs. The Giants defense once again came to play, harassing Rodgers for four sacks and causing three turnovers and ending the Packers 15-1 season unceremoniously.

And now, here’s your game recap in photos and GIFs (CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE):

Win or lose, this guy's Lambeau field hat is amazing (Photo via Reddit.com/r/nfl)

Nicks struck the first big blow for NY with a 66-yard score in the 1st quarter (photo: Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger)

In the second quarter, it looked as though the Giants got hosed by the refs, who somehow ruled Greg Jennings down on a fumble when video evidence clearly showed otherwise :

Hell, even Mike Pereira thought it was a fumble (Image via Sportsgrid.com)

Just before halftime, the Giants went for it all with a 37-yard hail mary to Hakeem Nicks

Nicks did his best David Tyree in using his helmet to reel in the pass (Photo: Getty Images)

Osi Umenyiora was called for an inexplicable roughing the passer on this one (Image via tinypic.com)

Rodgers was not helped out by his receivers, who dropped EIGHT passes on the day (Photo: JSonline.com)

Jermichael Finley can't reel in a 4th quarter pass (Via sbnation.com)

Michael Boley does Rodgers' Discount Double-Check belt celebration following a sack (Image via LarryBrownSports.com)

Donald Driver realizes the season - and possibly his career in Green Bay - is over (Photo: Sportsgrid.com)

JPP taunts Rodgers late in the game (Photo via Reddit.com/r/nfl)

John Elway riding a Tebow Centaur ... what? (Image via kissingsuzykolber.com)

While the entire world seems to be gripped by Tebowmania (as evidenced by ESPN’s Tebow Hour and the latest, now-ubiquitous “Tebowie” skit by Jimmy Fallon), there are a few other quarterbacks with super bowl rings who will also be competing in the NFL’s divisional playoffs. Brady, Brees, Rodgers and Manning - you may have heard of them – will each take the field this weekend to try and lead their teams to the conference championships, despite being overshadowed in the media by their Jesus-loving Denver counterpart. And all of them are much better QBs than Tebow, by the way.

After jumping out to an early 3-1 lead with his Wild Card picks, The DarkHorse will try to keep it going for the Divisional round.  Here are this weekend’s picks from R&R HQ (CLICK TO EMBIGGEN):

So, it seems our “experts” are split down the middle on the 49ers-Saints and Packers-Giants, while Artie is the only brave soul to ride the Tebow Centaurs to the promised land over New England, and steverodgers is the only one who likes the Texans over Baltimore.

Surprisingly, all of our super bowl picks are still alive, but that’s going to change on Sunday, when either the Packers or Giants will be sent packing. As always, these picks are purely for entertainment purposes … we are mediocre at this on our good days, so feel free to share your picks and mock us in the comments.

Arian Foster is sporting a fresh haircut for today's playoff game (Photo: Duane Brown via Twitter)

It’s Wild Card Weekend in the NFL, which means everyone and their mother are making playoff predictions  … so we wanted to throw our hats into the ring and get our picks for this weekend’s games on the record, along with our choices to win it all.

As usual, we acknowledge up front that prognostication is not exactly our forte, and these picks are all straight win/loss. We don’t take any point spreads into account, nor do we recommend betting any real money based on our suggestions. This is purely for fun … (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE):

So, we all see these first four games going pretty much this same, with only one dissenting vote for the Texans this afternoon from TheDarkHorse.

For our Super Bowl picks, Artie is fully drinking the Giants kool aid and hoping Eli, Cruz and the pass rush stay hot for a repeat of their 2007 run. Meanwhile, TheDarkHorse and COURTNEY are playing it safe with the Packers and Aaron Rodgers to repeat, and steverodgers is sticking with Belichick, Brady and the Pats to go the distance, despite their suspect defense.

Enjoy the games!