New York Jets in playoffs = conspiracy

[Dave Monroe]

New York Jets in playoffs = conspiracy
By Gregg Easterbrook
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What sinister international conspiracy put the Jets into the playoffs?
Must have been a pretty good conspiracy, able to arrange for the
Indianapolis Colts to surrender midgame in Week 16, then for the
Cincinnati Bengals to roll over and play dead in Week 17. Was it the
Trilateral Commission? The Freemasons? Opus Dei? A secret council of
international bankers? The Trystero? Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der
Technologie? Perhaps the Jets' postseason invite was arranged by the
same sinister organization that tricked Sarah Palin into posing in her
running outfit. The conspiracy was so effective, even Rex Ryan did not
know of its existence -- two weeks ago, he said the Jets were
"obviously out of the playoffs." That's what the conspiracy wanted us
to think! Perhaps Dan Brown will now churn out a formula novel about a
desperate race to discover the meaning of a 1,000-year-old prophecy
regarding the NFL playoffs and an organization far more secret than
the CIA.

Not up on your hidden hands? The Trystero are the centuries-old
conspirators of the Thomas Pynchon book "The Crying of Lot 49." ZFT is
the ultra-secret society plotting the destruction of the world in the
Fox show "Fringe." The sinister organization that tricked Palin into
posing in her running shorts was "the media."

In other football news, the playoffs are upon us....

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