And now, Round 2 AFC playoff picks

We picked the NFC 2nd Round ties already. Here are the AFC picks.

Houston vs. Baltimore

Here's a fascinating piece of Football history. There used to be a team called the Texans that hailed from Dallas. The year was 1951 and football was popular in the Lone Star state. So the football fanatic and wealthy Texan decided to buy the troubled franchise called the New York Yanks. The Texans were born into promise. Texas loved themselves some college football. The new Dallas Texans played in the legendary Cotton Bowl for home games. It all started off so well, in their first game they scored the first touchdown against the New York Giants. After that, the Texans went on to lose every game they played in except for one, when a cocky Bears coach George Halas decided to play his second string team against the lowly Texans. The fan support got so bad for the Texans the team had to be given back to the NFL so that the players could be paid. For their last two games the Texans were a barnstorming team. At the end of the 1951-52 season a group of investors from Baltimore bought the battered pieces and turned it and other bits into the Baltimore Colts. The only question I have now is, who will buy the battered Texans this time around? Baltimore wins in a tough, physical match-up. Terrell Suggs does something truly mean, like hittin an old lady down to the pavement in front of the police. Everybody that pronounces the 't' in Baltimore ends up hating him. Bawlmer loves 'em. Thanks for the win hon.

New England vs. Denver

In 1960, the Denver Broncos purchased uniforms that were used and distributed them to players. That's a mock up of them up there. Stylistically, Tebow plays like he could run over the monsters who played the game as it was supposed to be, as men. Tebow would look pretty good in the gold and brown smashing through some silver, red and blue. Unfortunately though, it seems to be the end of the road for the 2011-2012 Tebow phenomena. New England will win in a close one. Before haters spew though let's remember that Elway lost in the divisionals in 1984, lost the Superbowl in 86-87 and again in crushing fashion in 87-88 and even worse in 89-90, in the conference championship in 91-92, the wildcard round in 93-94, the divisionals again in 96-97, before finally winning it all in 97-98 and 98-99. In total Elway had a playoff record of 14-7, but it took him until his 15th year to win the big one. We needn't compare Tebow to Elway or even be 15 seasons worth of patient with Tebow. But to get on him for losing to a very talented New England team this year is enough to make anyone mad, including Gino Cappelletti up there looking to put a boot into anyone that gets on the anti-Tebow wagon because of the outcome of this game. New England wins and Brady says some dirty words that the cameras are too slow to pull away from. It could happen when Tom does something well. It could happen when Tom does something poor. It could happen when a butterfly spreads its wings for the first time and has no correlation to the game. The dude curses like a sailor.