Those are my predictions. Not exactly going out on a limb there, I know. Both the Saints and Colts are favored.

I can’t see these Jets beating Peyton Manning in a game that matters. Manning has reached the point in his career where you need an elephant gun to keep him down. The Jets by all accounts have a strong defense (just ask the Chargers and Bengals), and beat the Colts 29-15 not quite a month ago, handing them their first defeat (after a 14-0 start).  But the Colts were up 15-10 when Manning left the game, and the Jets scored 19 points and the Colts scored zero as the world found out that a guy named Curtis Painter is Manning’s backup.

I don’t see the Colts going crazy on the Jets, but I do see Mark Sanchez giving away the ball a time or three, and Indianapolis winning.

In the NFC game, Minnesota’s Vikings ought to score some points on the New Orleans Saints … but I believe Drew Brees and the hometeam will score more.

This seems to be a game even more about quarterbacks than the other, because the Jets are asking Sanchez not-to-lose.

In this one, Brett Favre (you’ve heard of him, right?) and Brees are expected to make big plays. Lots of them. (Hello, Adrian Peterson and Reggie Bush.)

The Vikings haven’t played in a game of this magnitude in almost a decade. And the Saints have never made the Super Bowl — and have reached the NFC title game only once, three years ago.

I believe the Saints and Colts will win. I would prefer the Saints and Jets to win. Because the Saints have never been in a Super Bowl, and because the Jets haven’t been in one since Joe Namath’s “guarantee” back in Super Bowl III — of which only us old folks have even a dim recollection.

And, check your time stamp.  This item will go up before kickoff in Game 1.

Final scores?

Colts 24, Jets 10

Saints 35, Vikings 31

Have fun watching.