that made everything o-k in the world of george iloka. that purple thing is called smiling face with horns - so there's that. no mile high miracle for ben roethlisberger. steelers lose... and i think mo sanu needs mo smiley faces. feels like closure in cincinnati. kind of. but - still not really. manning and brady will meet for the afc championship. petyon manning: "obviously, we're excited to be in the game. we knew we'd have to beat a good football team tonight to get there. we'll try to enjoy this one tonight and get a jump start and preparing for that game on monday and we'll talk about who we're playing on wednesday." the afc championship is set. the top two seeds will play in denver and the winner will play for a super bowl. seventeeth time tom brady and peyton manning will meet on the same field. manning is two- and-one against brady in afc championships. no fonts music announcer: "out of control. out of control." dre kirkpatrick: "coach has control of this team." adam jones: "y'all think it's just cool to fine a coach? when we ble

we're talking to george iloka after the game and he just said . that the feeling going through highs and lows like that is a feeling of depression. >> it takes until the end of february. you take two weeks after the super bowl. because it's hard watching other teams do what you want to do, what i mean. it takes really about a week or two after the super bowl, and then i'm like all right, let's go, get back into it, start training, get your mind back on football. until then, it's just like sad. because football's all you do for the past six months, sun up to sun down. now it's taken away. >> what have you said to the teammates after the loss? >> i don't know. >> have they said anything to you? >> i don't know. elise: clearly, vontaze burfict was in no mood to talk to the media after the game. george iloka came to his defense, saying the ball game had not been called consistently with penalties. vontaze had the penalty down the stretch, so did adam jones. they combined for 30 yards in penalties in the last minute of the game. george iloka also telli

george iloka came to his defense, saying the ball game with penalties. vontaze had the penalty down the stretch, so did adam jones. they combined for 30 yards in penalties in the last minute of the game. george iloka also telling media that if vontaze burfict and pacman jones weren't playing for the team, they wouldn't be in that they were last night to beat the steelers in the afc wildcard game. so they'll have to take a few days, digest this and move forward into next season and see what they can learn from this. from paul brown stadium, elise jesse, wlwt news 5 sports. >> started when i was a little girl, used to go to games with my dad. grew up on the west side. my birthday is tomorrow. my boyfriend surprised me with playoff tickets. i'm super excited to be here. jonathan: a die hard bengals fan surprised with tickets to the game. that wasn't the only shock stephanie got this weekend. this was more than a tv interview. entire time. >> i know that you don't like the cleveland browns. but would you be willing to become mrs. brown? >> yes. jonathan: the

several free agent' s could leave and safety george iloka could be one of them. >> i wish i could' ve done more for this city in terms of getting them the win and the super bowl trophy. i feel kind of incomplete, if you know what i mean. m around for that. george: several coaches could be on the move. he will be talking with the giants tomorrow. espn reports that defensive back vance joseph is leaving to become the defensive coordinator for the dolphins. ben roethlisberger says he is day-to-day and could play against the broncos this weekend but says this fact -- sack tore ligaments and sprained a joint. the chargers sharing the stadium. the could get final approval as early as tomorrow. being claimed at the crimson tide after last night. after beating clemson last night in a while championship game. the championship t-shirts already on the street. several thousands of them last night, the team made its way back to campus just a little bit ago. the celebrating continues. mike: it' s incredible what going on there. george: they crank out nfl players, too. sheree: it will get even colde

george iloka and dre kirkpatrick also weighing in. what goes around comes around. 99-point-9 percent of the tri state rooting for peyton over big ben. steelers controlled most of the game, until fitz toussaint, is stripped by former buckeye bradley roby. broncos ball down by one. then with 3 minutes to play, cj anderson surges ahead and score the go-ahead touchdown. the 2-point conversion, cake, walks into the broncos bounce the steelers 23-16 ben roethlisberger: "we dealt with a lot of issues this year, a lot of injuries, next man up mentality. a lot of teams quit. we didn't. we stepped up and got to this point. obviously we're disappointed we didn't go further. we made it to this point with a lot of young guys stepping up." cam newton and the panthers taking on the seahawks. we begin with the pickin' on russell wilson. he scoots in. his 5th interception, 2nd for six this season. carolina wasn't done, stil in the first half, cam newton fires it to greg olsen. panthers up 31-0 at half. but the seahawks do have russell wilson, finds je

george iloka tweeted: all is again. and dre kirkpatrick said....what goes around comes around. another person really excited to see the broncos win... the mother of demaryius thomas. after spending years in jail on a drug conviction, she saw her son play in person, in the n-f-l, for the first time sunday. and thomas helped make the day special, leading denver to the win, 20 to 13. if you've been married, you know how nerve-racking the moments leading up can be. a photo is now going viral...of a woman using her best friend, to stay calm. it captured the special bond between a south dakota bride and her service dog "bella" a 3-year old yellow lab. valerie parrot suffers from panic disorders, and bella helped keep her calm on her wedding day. "my life wouldn't be the bella and because of to the fullest that i normally wouldn't have been able to have done." bella is a huge part of val's life... so naturally, was a huge part of the wedding day. she even got her own "first look" with andrew, the groom. hoverboards have been clouded in all kinds of controversy. the latest place where

safety george iloka said he has his closure now, and linebacker sleep in peace. great tweets there. mark: like storytime. miriah: it is easy to broncos fan, just at a little good to go. mark: thank you. bowl, and there are some familiar names playing for the afc championship. once again, peyton manning will be taking on tom brady. manning led the broncos past the pittsburgh steelers on sunday, and this was the turning point -- fitzgerald toussaint coughed it up and denver recovered. the broncos got the ball and took the lead for good. denver gets it done 23-to-16. now peyton manning gets another crack at tom brady. kickoff is set for 3:05 on sunday at mile high stadium. lisa: earlier on sunday, the carolina panthers kept rolling to setup the nfc championship with the arizona cardinals. it looked like the panthers were going to cruise past seattle, but the seahawks ended up making it close. carolina hung on to win 31-24. now carson palmer and the arizona cardinals will face the panthers with a chance to make it to the super bowl. kickoff for this one is set for 6:40 on sunday. mark:

safety george iloka said he has his closure now, and linebacker rey maulauga says he can finally sleep in peace. mark: wow. lisa: that' s a lot. mark: watching the pregame show, they talked about his affect on the steelers. antonio brown. bell, he is been a pittsburgh wrecker and some of those hits were clean. lisa: some of them were. mark: some of them were, just saying. lisa: what is up? randi: it was a good day to stay inside and watch football. today, and even better day to stay inside if you can. bitter cold is the story of the day. your feels like temperatures this morning, somewhere between 10 and 15 degrees below zero. as 5, as warm as 15 in the middle of the day. we have a couple of shots at snow later on this week. starting out with the immediate problem, the windchill. it will feel like tuna 15 degrees below zero cincinnati and north. just south of the river through some of the eastern communities, average windchill today, five to 10 degrees below zero. extreme southern communities feeling like 02 about 5 below. it is called everywhere. single-digit temperatures right now, h