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The AFC and NFC hosted their respective championship games last weekend, on Jan. 25, leading up to the Super Bowl. The NFC championship game featured a bombastic offensive battle between two of the NFL’s strongest teams, while the AFC championship game featured a strong New England Patriots team and a critically injured Denver Broncos in a grueling defensive contest.

I saw many people say things about the quality of these games, and my strongest opinion on the subject is this: Stop building stadium domes! The NFC championship game had better offense, defense and was more thrilling; however, I liked the AFC championship game more.

The reason is the weather. The AFC championship game featured about one quarter of what could be called pristine, by-the-book football before a snowstorm overtook the stadium. The result: three quarters of football which featured almost no effective passing, heavily inhibited run games due to slippery iced conditions and both teams fielding defenses of equal caliber. This was a pretty fun football game.

Football is a truly wonderful sport when it’s watching two other teams slip and fall over instead of your own. The Patriots and Broncos combined for four missed field goals — 12 potential points — in a game with a final score of 10-7, Patriots. To every football team owner out there: No more domes! The spirit of football is not indoors, and these blizzard games are great.

The NFC championship game was a showcase of two of the league’s strongest in what will probably have been the real Super Bowl this year. The Seattle Seahawks, led by quarterback Sam Darnold and wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba — who has been having a career-defining season — blasted past the Los Angeles Rams, who would still be the St. Louis Rams if the NFL and its team owners were not greed-spoiled ghouls (but I digress), largely on the back of Smith-Njigba whose catches amounted to 153 of his team’s 396 yards of offense.

Taking a short look ahead to the Super Bowl, the Seahawks are heavily favored and I would bet on them as well. They’ve been the better team all year by all statistical measures and their style of defense is going to be heavily punishing against Drake Maye, who suffered early against Denver even before the snow hit.