Having Trouble Choosing Who To Cheer For?

The NFL Playoffs bring in all fans, and some tend to be newer, or just watching the playoffs to see who makes it to the unofficial Super Bowl Holiday. Well with four teams left it makes it easy to choose, well easier at least, with fewer options. While teams may have some players that you would not like, or coaches, or owners, you have to look at the players that deserve a win, the players that have been good players, good people, and this is their chance to get to the Super Bowl, or win the Super Bowl. Three of the teams have players that you will have a hard time not choosing to cheer for, and hope they will be able to get to the Super Bowl and win, and the coach of the final team has multiple reasons as to why you should be cheering for him, or at least considering.

LaDainian Tomlinson is the starting running back for the New York Jets, and arguably the best back of the last 10 years. In his absolute prime there was not a running back you wanted more, in either fantasy football world or in the NFL. He could run outside, in between the tackles, catch the ball out of the backfield, and even line up as a receiver. He could do it all. Now in his 10th season, getting up there for a running back, he is on the precipice of getting to his first Super Bowl, the end all and be all of your tenure in the league.

Talk about a player that has earned it, in his first eight seasons as a professional he had over 1,000 yards each year, gaining over 1,800 yards in 2006, when he had 28 rushing touchdowns, the NFL record for a single season. In those same seasons he had over 50 receptions each year, and had 100 receptions in 2003, failing to record a receiving touchdown in only his rookie year. This was the first season in his career in the Jets time share backfield that he did not record double digit touchdowns. Tomlinson is a first ballot Hall of Famer for what he has done on the field.

Off the field Tomlinson has been a beacon of hope, especially for families in his time with the San Diego Chargers, where he established the LT Foundation, meant to help children and families in the San Diego area. He has also taken part in such charities as Operation Kids, and Tomlinson's Touching Lives Foundation.

Tomlinson has been a great player for over a decade in the NFL, one of the best ever at his position, and has helped many people off the field. He is definitely a man you can cheer for in hoping the Jets make it to the Super Bowl.

Now when it comes to the Chicago Bears it has been all about Brian Urlacher for 11 years now. He has anchored a defense that almost always finds itself to be one of the top defenses in the NFL, and he is an old school linebacker. You need someone to direct your defense, he can do it. Need a hole filled, he can do it. Need a sack, he can do it. Even need some pass coverage, he can do it. He is consistently one of the best linebackers in the league, and someone you want to be in the middle of your defense.

In his 11 years with the Bears, the only team he has been a part of, he has totaled more than 1,100 tackles, 900 of which are solo tackles. This includes seasons that were cut short by injuries. He has had 41.5 sacks, and intercepted 18 passes, scoring once. He has done it all on the field of play.

Urlacher and the Bears were able to make it to the Super Bowl, led by him and the defense, back in February 2007 when the lost to the Indianapolis Colts. Urlacher is a Hall of Famer that has a career many would envy, but to get back to the Super Bowl and win it would put his name and legacy on another level. A guy who plays the game hard, well, and the right way; definitely somebody to get behind.

Donald Driver has been a member of the Green Bay Packers his whole career. He was picked out of Alcorn State back in 1999, in the seventh round. He already has the seventh round underdog characteristic that is easy to cheer for. He has been solid for 10 years now after getting very little time as a seventh round rookie. He has been on the Packers for 11 years now and has yet to reach the Super Bowl, which probably is not easy to live with being with such a great organization for so long.

Driver has been a model of consistency, as prior to this year he had recorded over 1,000 yards in six straight seasons, and seven out of eight. And in terms of consistency, he has a touchdown in every season he has played in, including his rookie year when he only had three receptions for 31 yards, but one of them was a touchdown. His route running skills are great, and he has incredible hands. He has been a great receiver on one of the more historical franchises in sports, he deserves a chance at the Super Bowl.

Finally, you come to the Pittsburgh Steelers. to be honest the Steelers have a strong nucleus that has been to two Super Bowls and have won them both. So they do not really have the lack of a trip or victory card that those previous three players had. They have guys that you would like to cheer for to get a third ring in Troy Polamalu and James Farrior, but it just is not the same. So with the Steelers you can actually stray away from the players and focus on cheering for their coach, Mike Tomlin.

Talk about a class act, no nonsense, confident and successful coach, that is exactly what Mike Tomlin is. He is a coach that you can watch on the sideline, as calm and in control as you will see, and he will be winning most of the time. In his four years as the Steelers coach he has gone 43-21 in the regular season, and won the Super Bowl in only his second season as the head coach, something that has only been done seven times in NFL history. In winning the Super Bowl at age 36 he became the youngest head coach to ever win the Super Bowl, so why not cheer for him to become the youngest coach to win two Super Bowls?

Also, Tomlin became only the second African-American coach to win the Super Bowl, after Tony Dungy had won it against Urlacher's Bears. In this the 25th anniversary year of the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, with the first black President in the history of the United States of America, why not watch and cheer for the first ever two-time African-American Super Bowl champion coach, cheer for some history.