Many, many options for favorite story of a thrilling final weekend of the NFL regular season, but we’ll opt for Donovan McNabb. Benched during a humbling loss in Baltimore in mid-November, he was written off by every blogger, columnist, and sports talk radio caller on the planet. We had him penciled in for Minnesota next season.

(We’ll crap on Favre’s floundering finish later; we’ll let ESPN dissect every angle of the crumbling of the Cowboys and Romo’s late-season woes. We’re pretty sure nobody’s going to examine the demise of Denver, which was the biggest choke job of all because, well, it’s Denver, and Shanahan is their teflon coach. In 1st place every week of the season and up three with three weeks left? That’s awful.)

That Baltimore loss came on the heels of an embarrassing tie against lowly Cincinnati, and you’ll remember that game because it’s the one when McNabb admitted he didn’t know an NFL game could end in a tie.

A month later, and McNabb’s got the Eagles in the playoffs as a dangerous No. 6 seed, backed by a ferocious defense that devoured and confused the following QBs in the last six weeks: Kurt Warner, Eli Manning, and Tony Romo. T Jack doesn’t figure to be a difficult challenge.

It’s much too early for a Super Bowl prediction based on the playoff seedings, but this much we know: Our Super Bowl pick – Dallas over New England – cannot happen. Radical.