Sep 7th 2008 11:32PM by Sportz Assassin (author feed)
Filed under: Browns, Chargers, Colts, Jaguars, PatriotsThe AFC has been the dominant conference this decade. Since 2000, the only NFC teams to win a Super Bowl were the ‘02 Buccaneers and ‘07 Giants. The AFC has just had better teams and better times since Y2K hit.

That could be changing.

The AFC came out for the 2008 season with a resounding thud. Most of the much hyped contenders for the AFC Championship — Patriots, Colts, Chargers, Jaguars and Browns — lost something today.

Most of them lost their games. The Jaguars lost to the Tennessee Titans … a good team who saw two of their offensive stars injured. The Colts, Chargers and Browns were each beaten by NFC teams at home.

The Chargers were stunned by the Carolina Panthers when Jake Delhomme threw a TD pass as time expired to pull out the upset. The Browns were just run over by the Dallas Cowboys. The Colts opened up Lucas Oil Field with an uninspired loss to the Chicago Bears.

The Colts and Bolts (legit Super Bowl contenders) were beaten by NFC teams that failed to make the playoffs last year.

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