{"id":30874,"date":"2025-01-19T05:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-19T05:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/washington-shock-top-seeded-detroit-to-reach-first-nfc-title-game-in-33-years\/"},"modified":"2025-01-19T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T05:30:27","slug":"washington-shock-top-seeded-detroit-to-reach-first-nfc-title-game-in-33-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/washington-shock-top-seeded-detroit-to-reach-first-nfc-title-game-in-33-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington shock top-seeded Detroit to reach first NFC title game in 33 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Commanders overwhelm Lions 45-31 in playoff stunner<\/li>\n<li>Washington to face Rams or Eagles for Super Bowl berth<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/18\/kc-chiefs-houston-texans-taylor-swift-caitlin-clark\">Kansas City win to reach seventh straight AFC title game<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jayden Daniels threw for two touchdowns in a flawless performance by Washington\u2019s dazzling rookie, and the Commanders stunned the Detroit Lions 45-31 on Saturday night to reach the NFC championship game for the first time since winning the Super Bowl 33 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth-seeded Commanders (14-5) were nearly double-digit underdogs against the Super Bowl favorite Lions (15-3) and overcame doubts as they did all season with a rookie quarterback, new coach and general manager.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/18\/washington-commanders-detroit-lions-game-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commanders overwhelm Lions 45-31 in playoff stunner Washington to face Rams or Eagles for Super Bowl berth Kansas City win to reach seventh straight AFC title game Jayden Daniels threw for two touchdowns in a flawless performance by Washington\u2019s dazzling rookie, and the Commanders stunned the Detroit Lions 45-31 on Saturday night to reach the &#8230; <a title=\"Washington shock top-seeded Detroit to reach first NFC title game in 33 years\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/19\/washington-shock-top-seeded-detroit-to-reach-first-nfc-title-game-in-33-years\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Washington shock top-seeded Detroit to reach first NFC title game in 33 years\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}