I’ve seen it too many times before ? a team is totally written off, comes back from the dead, develops the attitude that it is playing with house money, and scores upset after upset over better teams on paper.Sometimes, these teams end up being derailed by other squads that are simply better ? but just as many times they end up defying all logic and finishing the job.We should all be familiar with the last team that did this, because the New York Giants scored the most improbable upset – perhaps – since Joe Willie and the Jets in 1969 when they defeated the Patriots two years ago. The Giants were the sixth team in the playoffs in 2008, and were pretty much given up for dead when they went down to Tampa Bay for Round 1 ? only it was the Bucs who fell.Then, they went down to Dallas and beat Tony Romo and the Cowboys, and followed that up by winning in Green Bay on a day that rivaled the famed 1967 Ice Bowl.Now, we’re seeing it again, perhaps. And once again, the thought of it should make Patriots fans cringe. And even worse, we can thank the idiotic Indianapolis Colts for this, too.It would be such poetic justice if the New York Jets march into Indy Sunday and beat the pompous Colts (even if it would also be excruciatingly maddening). The Jets would be home watching, just like the Patriots, had the Colts not folded their hands halfway through the third quarter of their game last month and called it a day (to paraphrase the late Dean Rusk, they were eyeball to eyeball with history ? and they’re the ones who blinked).Instead, the Jets drew money from the house and played with abandon. They smothered Cincinnati twice – once to clinch a playoff spot and again, the following week, to eliminate the Bungles; and did the classic “hang-around-till-the-better-team-self-destructs” maneuver Sunday in San Diego.Give the Jets their props, though. When the opportunity came, they seized the day ? just like the Giants.This presents a pretty serious dilemma ? and pretty much guarantees that no matter what happens, a lot of Pats fans will be wearing the NFC banner three weeks hence. Whoever wins that Colts-Jets game Sunday will certainly be the sentimental villain come Super Bowl Sunday.One can only hope that the New Orleans Saints send Brett Favre and the Vikings to the golf course next week, too, or else we’ll be on the horns of a triple-headed hydra. Who do you root for? The Colts, who whined and moaned about the Patriots until they got the rules changed? The Jets and their blowhard coach, who are simply evil, and whose mere existence makes Patriots fans cringe? Or the Vikings, whose quarterback, Favre, makes ESPN highlight films when he simply puts his pants on?My short answer? Goooooooo Saints! But if it comes down to the lesser of three evils, I’m going to have to – reluctantly – cast my lot with the Purple People Eaters (yeah, I know that’s old, but so am I).All logic says the Jets should lose Sunday. The Colts won’t pack it in during the third quarter this time. We can at least be assured they’ll play from kickoff to the final gun, and they certainly have enough weapons to win.But, as we’ve seen thus far, sometimes your weapons – absent a little basic grit and heart – don’t really help. The Chargers had the weapons, too, and the Jets just looked at them and laughed.One supposes that the Colts at least have a kicker (Adam Vinatieri) who won’t wilt in the face of adversity the way Nate Kaeding did in San Diego, so Indy has the Chargers there.And Peyton Manning should have a better game than Philip Rivers did. It wouldn’t be hard. And whoever the Colts choose to feature as a running back has to be better than LaDainian Tomlinson was Sunday.But you know what? The Jets run the ball, and the Jets play defense. And in the playoffs, that’s often enough. For all Eli Manning’s heroics two years ago, never forget that the Giants had scored only 10 points until the improbable conclusion of that game. They won it because of their defense.The Jets defen