The divisional phase of the National Football League playoffs got underway on Saturday with two games.
National Football Conference:
Quarterback Alex Smith threw three touchdown passes (and ran for another score), two of the tosses to tight end Vernon Davis (seven catches for 180 yards), including the game winner with 14 seconds remaining as the San Francisco 49ers blew a seventeen-point lead, then came back from behind a second time in the last 4:02 of regulation to defeat the visiting New Orleans Saints (who suffered five turnovers) 36-32. The Niners will face the winner of Sunday's New York Giants-Green Bay Packers contest in next Sunday's NFC Championship Game, their first such contest in fourteen years.
American Football Conference:
At Foxborough, Massachusetts:
Quarterback Tom Brady threw for six touchdowns, three to tight end Rob Gronkowski (10, 12, 19 yards, all in the first half) as the New England Patriots manhandled the visiting Denver Broncos 45-10, sacking Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow five times.
The Patriots will host next Sunday's AFC Championship Game against the winner of this coming Sunday's Houston-Baltimore clash.
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