Nate-Dogg's Sports Blog-O-Rama

Pittsburgh...dubbed the "Road Warriors" by the sports media, coming off of a big upset in Indianapolis. Denver...a team that's been quiet the whole season, beating good opponents while managing to stay healthy and coming off of a win against the past two years' Super Bowl Champs. In my opinion this will be the best game of the two conference championships. The Pittsburgh Steelers are gaining steam and no matter what the score showed, they owned the Colts the entire game. On the other side, the Denver Broncos knocked off the New England Patriots, a team that everyone thought was really coming together and getting ready for their Super Bowl run. I think the key to the game is again stopping the run for both teams, and both defenses have shown that they are more than capable of doing that. The problem that Denver is going to face is that they won'te be able to go over the top nearly as much as they did against New England's small and beat up secondary. I think the Steelers win this one, as they beat a very good defense in Indy with their passing game, something they'll need since running will be hard against Denver's speedy linebackers. I'll have the 8:00 game between the Panthers and Seahawks later on.