re: Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1:

Well obviously. It's a game, it's made by humans, it's rules are made up by humans out of thin air, it's played by humans and it's controlled by humans.

We can do whatever we want when it comes down to it. This isn't like trying to make the Earth rotate in the opposite direction. Rodger Goodell could decide tomorrow to come out and say that we made a mistake and the Saints are now your NFC Champions and will be playing in the Super Bowl. That would be final. That would be it. There wouldn't be anything anybody would be able to do about it just as sure as there's nothing anybody can do anything about the fact that the Saints arent going to be in the Super Bowl.

But he won't. Because he doesn't want to. So it's really just a matter of will.