Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed is an unrestricted free agent, and his choice of team has been narrowed down to two: the Houston Texans and the Baltimore Ravens. According to Adam Schefter, it could go either way. Then Pitbull got involved.

J.J. Watt, upon returning from the Pro Bowl in Hawaii, proposed to a six-year old girl, and… it was incredibly cute, actually. Details after the jump.

In our morning roundup today, we went over the Texans’ loss to the Patriots yesterday, and made particular mention of the Texans’ improvement over their last showing against the Pats. Maybe it matters little in the final analysis, since the Texans’ season is still over, but there was real improvement.. thanks in part to the spectacular play you’ll see after the jump.

Hell of a busy Sunday in the sports world, so how about I do us all a favor and not waste much time on the intro? Cool? Cool. It’s all after the jump.

Noted anti-social media enthusiast Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe is back at it again, folks. In a column posted yesterday about the Patriots’ divisional round matchup with the Houston Texans, he pretty much goes to town on the Texans for being an awful football team. Arian Foster disagrees, so he made a section of the article his Twitter avatar.

Welcome to the NFL Playoffs and Wildcard Weekend! The first batch of playoff games were last night, and while the matchups may have been slightly underwhelming, they still happened. Let’s get into it.

The Indianapolis Colts, at 11-5, have made the playoffs as the 5th seed and will travel to Baltimore next weekend for its first playoff game under the new regime. On Sunday, Chuck Pagano, who has battled leukemia this season, returned to coach for the first time since Week 3. The Colts defeated the Texans 28-16, and everyone danced in celebration. Including Pagano, whose pure joy forgives his otherwise poor dancing skills.

Arian Foster left Sunday’s game against the Vikings — an eventual loss — with an irregular heartbeat. Naturally, if you’re a little girl named Macie who loves the Texans, this situation calls for an irresistibly cute get well card.

During the Texans’ Monday night blowout loss to the New England Patriots, punter Donnie Jones injured his leg while trying to tackle Wes Welker. That a punter was injured while trying to do an athletic thing isn’t anything new. Jones, conciliatory reaction, however, well that’s a new one.

Welcome to another edition of “What Happened Last Night?” Quite a bit of action to get to, but I’ll start with that Monday Night Football game, because let’s face it, odds are that was what you cared about the most. So time to give the people what they want.