Kickoff is 7 p.m. Central Time. We’ll have a 1st Half game thread. Maybe a 2nd Half game thread, so we’ll see how it goes.

Thursday’s daily. Starting today, anybody who jokes around about vaccinations–whether it’s the pro-vax crowd or the anti-vax crowd–gets a 7-day ban, and I don’t care if it’s aimed at players or ordinary people. Another instance of it is a permanent ban. And no, I’m not fielding questions or explaining myself on why or how come I ban or don’t ban whoever it is that is banned or not banned or whatever.

Some wise ass is going to pretend like they care so very “deeply” about how they can follow the rule(s) by asking me, “dO wE gEt tO tAlK aBouT CoVid aS it RelaTeS to pLayeRS and NFL?” Sure. Some news pops up about a team or player or game affected, post the news. The replies better play it super straight though. No digs, no veiled barbs either. When in doubt, just take a private victory lap and laugh to yourself how funny it was going to be with whatever it was you were going to say on here. Or go for it. Whatever. Free will and all that jazz.

As before, Texans-specific convos happen in the Weekend Discussion thread. This thread is for talking about the NFC and AFC Conference Championship games. First kickoff, Bucs vs. Packers, is set for 2:05 p.m. CT on FOX. Watch the two videos below to get acquainted with the NFC & AFC matchups.

I’d like to remind people that the Weekend Discussion thread, Part II, is the place to talk about you-know-what. We want the game threads to stay mostly about the game on TV.

Not sure if we will need a 2nd thread for today. If so, I will let y’all know. I’d like to remind people that the Weekend Discussion thread is the place to talk about you-know-what. We want the game threads to stay mostly about the game on TV.

It’s game night! Will THE Ohio State University double up the good vibes felt by Ohio football fans after watching the Browns beat the Steelers? Or will college’s brand of The Hoodie’s “Evil Empire” vanquish the Buckeyes?

Not sure if there will need to be a Game 3 thread, so we might end up sticking to this thread for the final game tonight. We’ll see how it goes.

Game 1 of Sunday’s Wild Card round.

Here’s the thread for Game 2 and 3–It’s just a continuation of the previous Game 2 thread. Remember that you can sort comments so the newest comments appear at the top. How? At top right corner of the comments section is a Sort By dropdown…select “Latest” instead of Oldest.

This might be the single thread for all three games today. I’ll be sure to post a comment and let everyone know if a new thread is created for Game 2 and/or Game 3. Depends on the comments volume.