January = Football playoffs

Prelude - American football fans kick off the new year madly watching the many (27!) college football games. But, all these games are just a prelude to the big action: NFL playoffs. With the first round of these playoff games done, what is shaping up are two semi-finals that may be the most talked about in years! Let's find out why and what you can say.

Sport - Football

Event - NFL football playoffs.

Issue
American football teams play a schedule of 16 games. A team that wins 13 of those games did very well. To have four teams this year win 13 or more games (New England of course winning 16) is very rare.

This year, all four of these teams may reach the semi final and face off against each other. To have all four reach the semi finals means exciting top quality football.

Point to say - "There is going to be some good football this weekend!"

Follow up point - "Do you think New England can be defeated?"

Get out of the conversation - "Are you planning on watching the Super Bowl?"

Backgrounder
Patriots Remain THE story of the football year.

Analysis
Games this weekend are as follows (written as away vs home). The home teams are all the ones mentioned above as having had 13 wins or more this regular season.

Jacksonville vs New England
San Diego vs Indianapolis
New York Giants vs Dallas
Seattle vs Green Bay

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