So much for home field advantage. For the first time in NFL history, three of the four road teams won last weekend in the NFL playoffs. The Packers, Seahawks and Chargers can expect a visit from the “Protect This House” guy on the Under Armour commercials. Do you call getting beat at home by a pair of 8-8 teams, as Seattle and Green Bay did, protecting your house? No, you don’t. I don’t either.

Poor Packers fans. They’re quickly getting used to losing home games as their once-proud home filed advantage falls by the wayside. First it was Mike Vick and the Falcons handing them their first Lambeau Field playoff loss – ever – a few years ago. Now, the Pack has delivered a 4-5 record at Lambeau this season alone. Used to be, you could go to Packers games for four years before you saw them get beat five times. Not any more. Brett Favre turned into an interception machine and threw the most absurdly late way-past-the-line-of-scrimmage pass these eyes have ever seen.  Worse, he was laughing about it on the field! After forgoing a possible first-and-goal run by side-arming the ball into the end zone two yards from the first down marker while his team was trying to mount a comeback, Favre was yukking it up like he was at a Jeff Foxworthy show!

Compounding the matter was the Randy Moss show. The Lambeau faithful not only had to watch their hated rival crush their season, but they had to endure more Moss antics. He was caught on camera taunting fans, saying “Look at the @#$&ing scoreboard. Tell me what it says.” Later, after limping his way to a touchdown catch, Moss pretended to moon the fans while he danced in the end zone. Personally, I thought it was funny, but Fox announcer Joe Buck went ballistic, hyperventilating about how disgusting and classless it was. He even apologized to viewers for showing Moss’s dance. Give me a break, Joe.

Buck is one of the best play-by-play men working today. His baseball work is second to none, and he’s one of the best there is on Fox’s NFL broadcasts, but he was off base with his grandstanding about Moss. Just tell us what happened Joe, and save the preaching for somebody else. I don’t need Joe Buck to be my moral compass any more than I need to be apologized to for having been exposed to a PRETEND mooning. It’s just not that big a deal. Buck made it sound like Moss was waving his twig and berries in everybody’s face. Let it go, Joe.

Out in San Diego, Chargers fans, who have endured much suffering since their last Super Bowl appearance, got a real kick in the pants Saturday. The Jets gave them new life with a ridiculous roughing the passer penalty on fourth and goal with under a minute to go that led to the tying touchdown. But in overtime, Chargers kicker Nate Keading missed a 40-yard field goal, and the Jets went down the field to win. I don’t have anything against the Chargers, even though they have been more than smug about the short term results of their trade of my boy Eli Manning. But smug fans with clever signs reap what they sow sometimes. Not long after a Chargers fan was shown on television holding up a sign taunting Eli about the Chargers success, Manning karma struck. Guess who was chosen with a draft pick the Chargers got from the Giants in the Manning-Rivers trade? Nate Kaeding, the kicker who missed the game-winner in overtime. Nice sign, guy. Enjoy the off-season.

Now the going really gets tough for the road warriors. Can the Colts, the only team to hold serve at home, beat the Patriots in the cold of Foxboro? Can the Jets reproduce that kind of effort against the tough Pittsburgh squad? Can the Rams succeed in Atlanta? And are the Vikings steady enough to beat the Eagles in Philadelphia? Time will tell. Methinks the clock is about to strike midnight on a few would-be Cinderellas this weekend.