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Looks like Dax was on the money with this one GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seattle at 8 wins in the lead in the NFC 8)

Injuries are playing a key role this season! Look at New England and now the Steelers! As for the Colts....they have yet to be tested! The only real threat they have faced to date has been an injury wrecked Pats squad!   

As of this moment, despite their injuries, I like the Steelers! I belive when the COlts & Steelers meet later this season (Rothlisberger 1st game back from injury) it will be a foreshadow of the AFC Championship! Remember no dome team has ever won a bowl...I hope this stat holds true this season! GO STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. 'American Rugby' is kind of off! When I was in Europe last winter I mindlessly mentioned football to to some European friends to which soccer became the topic...when I mentioned American football they replied 'OHHH GRIDIRON!' So gridiron it is..................

Well, after another week (with two games yet to play), the Indianapolis Colts are undefeated, but they have the heart of their schedule ahead of them.  The Broncos have lost twice (both away games, as expected, but not to the teams that I would have expected), and the Steelers need to beat the Browns in one of the toughest rivalries in football to keep pace with Denver and Cincinnati.

In the NFC, the races are much more interesting because this year there are so many good teams and no great team.  Almost every team can still hope for some sort of play-off.  There's only two teams, the Chicago Bears  and the Seattle Seahawks that look comfortable.

Here's my pick for the 5 best teams in the NFL at this moment:

1. Indianapolis Colts
2. Denver Broncos  8)
3. Pittsburgh Steelers
4. Seattle Seahawks
5. New York Giants (despite their ugly loss to Minnesota)

Another week has passed, and the Broncos look to be the second best team in the NFL.  As much as I love my Broncos, this may be a false impression.

The Broncos are one play away from being 7-1 instead of 6-2 going into their bye week.  The rest of their schedule looks much easier than their first half of the season in which they faced Jacksonville away, NY Giants away, and both of the Super Bowl finalists at home.

But, the second half of the season has us travelling to Kansas City (one of the most difficult places to win), Oakland, San Diego, and two other games.  We still have to face Buffalo, the NY Jets, Dallas, and Oakland a second time.  We have a week to lick our wounds. (Champ Bailey's hamstring injury will take much more than one week to recover.)

Indy is clearly the class of 2005 so far, bt there are many unanswered questions both about Indy and many other teams.  I don't see a favorite coming out of the NFC unless the NY Giants use their last second victory over use to springboard into first overall.

Right now, my picks for the top teams in the league are:   

AFC:  Indy, Denver, Pittsburgh, New England, with Cincy and an undetermined team to also make the play-offs.

NFC:  (Right now):  NY Giants, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Seattle, with Philly and Chicago being the likely wild-card teams.

I am far more confident in my choices for the AFC than the wide-open NFC.  Dallas still looks good as do a number of other teams.

My sober, unobjective pick for the Super Bowl winner, half-way through the season is the Colts.  But I am rooting all the way for the Broncos, who have played extremely well at times and could beat anyone at home and almost anyone away.

What do you all think?

At this point the Colts look to be the best team. 

Though I played soccer and not football in high school, I still prefer to watch American football.  Soccer is fun to play, but very boring to watch.  In my opinion, the willingness of American sports leagues to change their rules to create a more exciting product has been wildly successful.

Soccer is long overdue for some rule changes to increase scoring and encourage skillful offensive play.  I suspect the international governance of soccer (not unlike chess) makes such changes difficult.  Though I don't really know much about 
this subject.      

Well, there's the NHL too, waiting for our votes...