by Ryan Meehan

Last year the National Football League ended on a very bizarre note:  A head-scratching “WTF” play call made by Seattle coach Pete Carroll resulted in the New England Patriots being crowned champions just a week after they were accused of purposely deflating footballs in the AFC Championship game. As you probably remember, any NFL news that would soon follow would be in regards to this fiasco, and I got sick of it really fast.

Thankfully, there isn’t going to be any Patriots-related discussion in this piece. This central focus of this article is going to be on the National Football Conference, which in my opinion is much more competitive than its AFC counterpart. The Seattle Seahawks were able to repeat as NFC Champions last year after being down 19-7 to the Green Bay Packers with a little over five and half minutes left, but in the modern era…