NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Titans are a remarkable team nearing the conclusion of a remarkable season.

Two games away from a Super Bowl title, they are 7.5-point underdogs in Kansas City Sunday, per SBD. If they win, they’ll be underdogs in Miami too, to the 49ers or Packers.FansBAL

That’s the life of a No. 6 seed, no matter how good it’s looked in dethroning the Super Bowl champion Patriots and in tossing aside the NFL’s best regular-season team in the Ravens.

So people are going to be picking against them.

Many people who are just fully tuning in, be they random tweeters, lesser reporters, former players or so-called experts, don’t fully comprehend what this team has done.

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Paul Kuharsky has covered the Tennessee Titans since 1996, first for The Tennessean, then ESPN.com and now independently at paulkuharsky.com. He is a member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame selection committee and one of the longest-tenured Titans beat reporters in the franchise's history.

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