dueling shitty quarterbacks

who both turned out to not be so shitty in the niners' regular season closer against the packers. in the last few years, the packers have sort of replaced the rams as my arch-nemesis, on account of the fact that they generally like to beat me and knock me out of the playoffs and make my life miserable. today was no exception. their defense held us to 3 points in the first half, and it would have been a really nice 3-0 defensive battle were it not for the fact that shortly before the end of the half the packers scored on a 40 yard pass, then got the ball back on an interception 2 plays later and scored on another 40 yard pass to make it 14-3, then tacked on a field goal in the final seconds of the half to make it 17-3. the niners got inside the red zone three times, but due to the always-infuriating packers defense, they only came away with three field goals, so it was 17-9 early in the fourth when finally smith connected with scholl for a touchdown. the 2 point conversion went to hell though and so it was 17-15. things seemed to be done for when the packers scored again on (what else?) a 40 yard pass play with six minutes left to make it 24-15. smith managed to get the niners to midfield with a few shaky passes before throwing an interception and the packers kicked another field goal with four minutes left to make it 27-15. at this point i actually hit myself in the face with the keyboard. unfortunately, this seems to have made the "m" key sort of sticky. anyway, the niners scored almost immediately once, and kicked off with 2 minutes left, and used 2 of their timeouts to force the packers to punt with under 1:30 on the clock. crazily enough, with one timeout and 80 yards to go, the niners converted four times on third down, once on fourth down, and then once again on fourth and goal with three seconds left to win 30-27. this season has been a series of absolutely ridiculous games...i suppose it's only fair that it ended this way. we finished 14-2 and advanced to the second round (bypassing the wild card) where we'll be playing the panthers, whom we beat earlier in the season 45-41. bowes got his 100 yards and ended the regular season with 2065 yards and the MVP trophy (for the second time). and here's a random picture of julian peterson intercepting a packers pass: