This is a great playoff season. A lot of worthy teams battling in their respective divisions.
Yeah.
I was telling someone in private that despite its faults, the product the NFL puts out now is SO good that it's no small wonder they draw more viewers than anything on television. Some could argue that having seven teams in each Conference make the playoffs now (they want to go to eight eventually, btw) is superfluous, and that there aren't that many truly good teams in the league. But even the Bengals/ Raiders game drew something like 28 million viewers. The entertainment value is just too good, and they know exactly what they are doing by continuing to expand the Playoffs.
What remains a marvel to me is how the rest of the world refuses to pick up the sport. I love soccer. It can be boring in stretches compared to American football, but there are these tremendous moments of excitement that pull you out of your seat, and when played really well it's a thing of beauty. But NOTHING on earth compares to the NFL, not college, not basketball or baseball, not the UFC or hockey, or racing or golf. It's the ultimate team sport and takes every single positive attribute known to man to succeed at it; strength, size, speed, height, dexterity & athleticism, intelligence, trickeration (is that how you spell it?), psychological profiling, high-level game planning...
Every four years when the Olympics come around I think, "Great. Every sport on the planet except the best one."

I still enjoy it and all, but I honestly think the rest of the planet has no earthly idea what they're missing.