The most exciting time of the year is here in the NFL, and I'm of course talking about the NFL NIT Selection. Nothing is better than finding out all the interesting first round matchups for the tournament for teams that weren't quite good enough to make it to the real playoffs. We at TSC are covering the selection show live, and are here with all the first round games and some analysis.

• Cleveland Browns vs. Gardening: The Brownsleftthe stadium Sunday knowing they had an outside shot at the number 6 seed in the AFC. But the Titans disrupted those plans by beating the Colts. While not being able to get that last seed, Romeo Crennel gave his team some actual tomato and sunflower seeds and told them maybe they should take up gardening in the offseason, as football might not be for them.
• Cincinnati Bengals vs. Cincinnati Police Department: These two old rivals will battle it out once again this year. The Bengals managed to avoid any serious offenses this season, but there is still plenty of bad blood between the two. Receiver Chris Henry is especially mad about a domestic abuse arrest last year, something he claims was only because his wife asked him to "Show me what boxing feels like."
• Houston Texans vs. Pink Dancing Elephants: The Houston Texans are going up against those damn pink dancing elephants from Disney's Fantasia. Because the Texans are obviously living in Fantasia if they thought they had a chance at the playoffs with Sage Rosenfels at the helm.
• Philadelphia Eagles vs. Mark Wahlberg: Philly will face off with their acting equivalent in Mark Wahlberg. If you saw him in his band Marky Mark & The Funky Bunch, you probably thought he sucked, but if you see him now in movies like The Departed, you say "Hey! He's pretty good after all!" That is probably also what you are saying now about the Eagles, despite them looking like carmelized dog #### only 4 weeks ago.
• Minnesota Vikings vs. Killer Robots: This matchup makes no sense whatsoever, it would just be cool to see Vikings fight killer robots. It may be too cool actually. I don't know if we would be able to handle it.
  
• Arizona Cardinals vs. Rob Schneider: The Arizona Cardinals are opposing that Rob Schneider character from the Adam Sandler movies who yells "You can do it!" and "We suck again!" which is pretty much the embodiment of every Cardinals fan. Also it's been about as long since Rob Schneider has been funny as it's been since the Cardinals have had an even decent team.