Life in general and sports in particular is rife with Recency Bias. Whatever is happening now or just happened tends to enjoy undue weight. Nevertheless, Sunday’s AFC and NFC Championship Games might be the NFL’s best final four ever, or be close enough for argument, at least.
This is only the eighth time in 29 years of the current playoff format that both games are No. 1 vs. 2 seeds, and the first time in the 53-year Super Bowl era the league’s four highest-scoring offenses are featured. Both games are rematches of regular season meetings that saw a combined 163 points scored.