Week 17, in the books... Season Over

Well, week 17, in the books.... Season over. Basketball season lasts like 4 years, I think... The NFL Ends in a blink of an eye. Of course, we have the playoffs, obviously, but it's coming to an end. Very sad.

Anyways, putting on an amazing burst at the end, KathB4 goes back to back to close the season out. Back to back!! Nice job.

Recapping the season, we have:

4 wins - VBS and Badgergil

3 Wins - KathB4

1 Win - Elusive, Sears, Sharpcheddar, Erin07, Patrick686, and Smitty201

Hopefully that adds up to 17 weeks....

After week One, I printed out the season standing, to use as a crib sheet, and the leaders after week one were perennial powers Elusive, Gregslo, Sears, and Leo Woods.

After 17 weeks of action, tops for the season were Sears, Elusive, Leo Woods, and Gregslo.

I would count myself in the "perennial powers" category, but clearly I threw in the towel early this season, and was strictly sniping for weekly wins... Which didn't work out so well.

Hell, if Tampa and Dallas win yesterday, I have the perfect paper. And if those teams were WHO WE THOUGHT THEY WERE (thanks coach Green), I would have done it easily...

Anyway, Congrats to Sears, Elusive, and Leo Woods, for their very steady showing throughout the year...

One thing that tested my patience this year was certainly Leo Woods weekly lamentation of his woeful picks.... ON 2 occasions, I pointed out that "Dude, you're beating me every week!!!" Apparently, his picks weren't that bad after all.

Also, let me point out, for next year, the idea is to recruit some BAD PICKERS. Yes, bad. This pool is waaay too good. Let's review some of our pickers, and how they stack up against highly paid mouthpieces and professional analysts:

ESPN Accuscore Computer picks 171
MONJON 170 - nice, crushing all human analysts
Chris Mortensen of ESPN 169
Elusive 169
Leo Woods 167
Gregslo 167
KathB4 167
Erin07 164
Sears 164
VBS 164
Mark Schlereth of ESPN 162
Smitty201 161
Patrick686 160
RonFic 159
Nate Davis 158 (best picker of USA Today's staff 3rd year running)

Obviously, the point management is a critical factor, but people, pat yourselves on the back. You are good pickers!!! You crushed the pros!!!

I had someone lament to me the other day that their persistent Packer Picks were costing them.... given this week's results, I have to say that the 2 teams that cost me the most, especially early, were the Denver Broncos and the Jacksonville Jaguars... But late, I guess I have to say Tampa Bay (my home away from home team) and the Dallas Cowboys cost me an awful lot.

And my hat is clearly off to the Packers.... If they beat the stinking Bears, I win a different pool and get paid very heavily. Thanks guys.... Talk about huge disappointments... Besides the Cowboys, is there a bigger disappointment than the Pack?? We played for the NFC Title at home last year.... Ugh. (reaches for another guzzle out of the Grey Goose bottle....)

Let's talk about these Packers for a second:



There's your guy, Aaron Rodgers... The Great Aaron Rodgers, leaves storied Lambeau Field for the final time in 2008.

16 Games
536 Attempts, 341 Completions 63% Complete
4,038 Yards
28 Touchdowns, 13 Interceptions
93.8 Passer Rating

Overall, you'd have to say, that was good. That's a fine, fine body of work. It really is. Despite Beady Eyes Ted Thompson forcing Favre out at the wrong time, for all the wrong reasons, and despite hitching our wagon to a completely and utterly unknown and unproven quantity, it worked out.

Now, the problem is, if I told you last August "Hey, don't worry, Rodgers is going to throw for 4000+ yards, and a rating of almost 100, with only 13 picks!", well, #1, I'd have been thrown in a truck and shipped back to that mental health place, and I am SOOO TIRED of being sent there.... Here's a tip, when they ask you how you feel about something, NEVER, never tell them it makes you feel like getting a carton of cigs, a 12 pack of Coors Light, a box of ammo, and a rifle, and heading to the top of a tall building.... Never tell them that. Just let that be your little secret, there bunky...

Sorry, this isn't about how they NEVER wanna let me outta that place... no, no, this is about the Packers... #2, if I told you that in August, I mean, what, we're probably 12-4, #2 seed in the NFC, getting a bye week before our playoff game, right??? RIGHT?!?!?

Ahhh, no. We're not. Ted Thompson, pick up the white courtesy telephone. Call your office. Idiot...



There's Donald Driver... Who AGAIN went over 1000 yards receiving... Again, you'd have to say, we're in the playoffs.... Uuuuuhhhmmm, no. Actually Rodgers owes Driver a dinner, or something... That last 70 yard catch put Rodgers over 4000 for the year.



Take a good look... Because Uncle Tedly is getting ready to work some more of his "magic".... Word is, Driver is done here. Ted is going to let him go. Jennings, who apparently has Terrell Owens for an Idol, he drops so many passes, is going to be the guy. Driver is "too old".

Keep in mind, now, The Packers have fielded the YOUNGEST team in the NFL for 3 STRAIGHT YEARS. And we're tens of millions under the cap. Clearly, what we need to do is get rid of this highly poular and very productive veteran guy.... Riiiiigggghhht... Ugh! (Lights another Marlboro....)

Last thought on the Pack: they beat the Lions. Some are calling it a "good for nothing" win that merely served to lower our draft status. Uhh, Disagree. It clearly prevented us from suffering total and complete humiliation, and I have a bad feeling that as the Ted Thompson Era continues, there's going to be plenty of humiliation to go around, no need to have any more. Actually, I have said for many years that it's just as hard to go 16-0 as it is to go 0-16, and I stand by that. This league is built on parity. Bad teams draft first, play easier schedules, and in general the table is tilted towards them. 0-16 is truly an amazing accomplishment. But then, it highlights another of my theories: This is a QB league. If you have no QB, forget it. You must start with a QB. THEN, you can build on that.

Another last thought on the Packers: Coach McPositive, Mike McCarthy, said after the game "We can build on this." Thank you, Herman Edwards. Uhhh, Coach, sorry, but you beat the frickin' Lions, okay.... and your GM is sitting in his office right now, like Dr. Evil, plotting more ways to sabotage your team some more.... pull it back, coach. Reel it in... there ya go... Steady...

One more last thought on the Packers: Did the Lions look better than the Bears?? I think they did. I really do. They are a better football team. They just aren't as crazy lucky as the stupid, stinking Bears....

Do I need to say anything about the Cowboys loss??? Probably not... That was ugly. Ugly. Lemme ask a question, though... How is Romo supposed to do anything while he's running for his life and the pass rush is killing him, and TO is dropping everything, and Williams is running the wrong routes??? I'm just wondering out loud here.... Talk about the season ending with a thud. Ooooffff.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention the Patriots, at 11-5 are going to miss the Playoffs. Unreal. And yet, the San Diego Super-Chargers, with their crowning 8-8 record, have won the AFC West, and will host a playoff game. Whoa. Wow.

For the record, I am not doing anything for the playoffs this year. Pool ends now. Money will go out shortly.

That being said, I may continue to blog during the playoffs...

Bill Simmons of ESPN.com has been saying for weeks he can't wait to bet against the Vikings in the Playoffs. Here it is, dude: Eagles at Vikings. You think Romo looked bad? Wait 'till Tavaris Jackson gets a whiff of the Eagles pass rush... This could destroy any confidence Tavaris Jackson might have... for the rest of his life. When they drag me back to the mental health facility, I'll be sitting in group therapy with the dude... Actually, Tavaris may need a defibrillator on the field, after the Eagles pass rush gets through with him... Is it wrong to like all the road teams??? Baltimore at Miami? I think I like Baltimore in that one. Indy at San Diego?? I think I looove Indy in that one... Does it seem like a dream, that early in the season, the Packers dismantled the Colts??? I'm not making that up, we did destroy them... Atlanta at Arizona. This is an intriguing matchup. I guess on paper, you have to like Atlanta. But Arizona is a different team, in their high-tech home field... I'll be watching that one, not betting it.

Anyways, it was a great season!!! Enjoy the Playoffs!!!

Week 16, and it's blocked...

The more things change, the more they stay the same..... Blocked. With the Packers firmly in control early in the third, KathB4 was strangely calm. I said "You're not a little worried the Pack might pull this out??" With the serenity of someone who had gone ahead in a time machine, seen the result, and come back, she stated "This team can't finish, and the Bears are really lucky."

A ha. Packer Nation, I present you with The Prophet of Doom....

Congrats first off to KathB4, her second win of the year.

She joins VBS (4 wins) and Badgergil (4 wins) as the only multiple winners this season.



There's so much one could say about this game. So much. For the record, obviously my week in this pool was dead, but I did have the Packers in a different pool, and it would have done wonders for me to get that win. Wonders. Like, if "Wonders" is a synonym for "pay me a ton of money".

Yeah. So I had my expectations bolted to the floor, clearly. But then, late in the 3rd, the bolts loosened up, and I started to believe the Packers could win the game... Despite my best attempts to innoculate myself against that. Ouch. What a gut punch THAT turned out to be....

(Using his right hand to support his aching head, he shakes another handful of painkillers out on the desk, picks one, and chews it up like a Flinstones vitamin...)

I will say, I THOROUGHLY enjoyed Jaworski and Kornheiser's repeated blastations of the Bears super-lame effort. Midway through the second, an expasperated Jaws says "The Bears just need to WAKE UP!!" End of the first half, Kornheiser gets off this double-barrelled shotgun blast: "The Bears are fighting for their playoff lives, at home, against a rival opponent, who has nothing to play for, and this is the kind of effort we're seeing?"

Loved it. At least someone finally clued in on the fact that the Chcago Bears are no good. At all. Kyle Orton's QB rating was in the 40's last night. The frickin' 40's!!! With 2 picks!! And we couldn't win. Ted Thompson, pick up the white courtesy telephone.... Yeesh.

And to Minnysoda fans.... sorry. What can I say. With any luck, the Giants will sit everyone this week, and you will get in. The Giants, win or lose, can't change their playoff positioning, so, I would think rest is in order.... but you never know what the perpetually constipated Tom Coughlin might do... He's the kind of guy who might order an airstrike on his own practice facility, and hide out in the jungle.... (shamless reference to Colonel Kurtz, sorry).

All kidding and BS aside, HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! Seriously, be safe out there, drive safe, have some fun, be smart, and enjoy. We all have much to be thankful for... Don't blow your whole life by getting popped for a DUI.... Or by wiping out and killing yourself on an ice-packed highway full of morons.... Take it easy out there.

Merry Christmas. My best wishes to you and your families.

Best Holiday Wishes in Football;
Cadillac Pat

Week Sixteen...

Wow. All I can say is, wow.

Last week, I think I left you with something along the lines of "We can only hope that the fraud that is the New York Giants will finally be exposed."

Oops. Guess not. The Great and Mighty Carolina Panthers, the "hottest team in the nfc", no dice. Nice. Thanks guys. 'preciate that.

Anyway, Tonight's game, for the first time in a few weeks, I think, will have some meaning. Air Myles is going to be wearing the big cheesehead out to the local sports bar and pulling hard for the Packers. Which is going to look a little silly down in Texas, but, oh well. KathB4 is going to be pulling for the Bears, and those 11 luscious points. Normally, that couldn't happen, but she's actually from Michigan, so, she might survive rooting for the Bears for a couple hours. If I were to root for the Bears for 5 minutes, my head would explode like that dude from the movie "Scanners". Seriously. I cannot do it. Not even for money.

So, good luck to both of you tonight...

I was actually looking good for a win, until the late Sunday games started... And that's despite my brilliant pick of the Dallas Cowboys. Ugh. Nobody emailed me and told me TO is gone next year... Seriously, I need to hear it. Anybody notice that Romo's INT's typically come when he's trying to force the ball into Owens??? Anyone?? Bueller? Anybody notice that Owens makes no effort to help his QB by breaking it up in those cases??

I dunno if you remember a dude named Michael Irvin, but he battled for every ball. Every ball. He'd take an offensive Pass Interference call just to break up an interception. T.O., you might want to watch some film of what a truly great Dallas receiver looks like... 'cause you ain't it, bro....

So that's how we close out Texas Stadium... by allowing an opposing running back to score on the longest run from scrimmage in Texas Stadium History. While Roger Staubach, Emmit Smith, and Michael Irvin, and a host of other Cowboy greats look on... nice. Hopefully air sickness bags were available for those guys....

If you didn't see the game, which you probably didn't, it was even more painful watching it live. Ouch. I never thought I'd be sorry that I have AT&T U-verse, and get NFL Network in HD. But I am now.... OOooh. I'm still taking Percodans, to try and get over that one.... Uuuuhmmm. Still hurts...

But back to my point, I was in it until the afternoon games started.

NY Jets at Seattle. Jets are heavy favorites. They need a win. Seattle has been mailing it in for weeks. NO brainer, right? Whuups. Okay, lost that one....

Houston at Oakland. The surging Houston Texans, going into Oakland. No problem. Heavy favorites. Al Davis might be clinically Insane. Looks like a Houston win. Whuuaaaatt??? Okay, another loss...

Buffalo at Denver. Right. Denver, tough at home in Mile High, desperately needing a win, heavily favored over a Bills Team that quit two weeks ago under the legendary Dick Jauron.... Huh? Hmmm, another loss.

Philly at Washington. The suddenly resurgent Eagles go into Fed Ex Mausoleum as big favorites over the skidding Redskins... Aaaand, Donovan McNabb remembers that he sucks, and they lose.

Atlanta at Minnesota. Yeah, I saw some of this debacle... The great Vikings, on a winning streak, Tavaris Jackson playing great.... ohh, the talking heads love Minnysoda. At home, no less, favored even.... And 362 fumbles later, we have Atlanta.

Packer fan, keep in mind, Arizona is in a sucky division, but they DID manage to take care of business, and wrap it up weeks ago. This Vikings team is sloppy, undisciplined, features an absurdly vanilla offense, and a vaguely disorganized and unrepentant defense. They are not what you'd call, ohh, let's say, "good." And yet, they are the power in the NFC North. This division is weaker than Campbell's Chicken noodle soup with 6 cans of water added, okay... and yet, the fabled Green Bay Packers utterly failed to take control when we could have. That game against the Vikings, everyone in the stadium knew that Frerrotte was not going to be allowed to throw on that last drive. Everyone. Not after 2 ugly picks. Well, everyone except the Packer D, I guess. That win would have put us in control of the division... and we gave it away, for nothing.



There's your guy... Ted Thompson. If you want more hate, check out firetednow.com Worth a look. He's fielded the youngest team in the NFL for 3 straight years, and sent the face of the franchise and only real leader we had packing off to New York.... And we've been tens of millions under the cap for 3 years now. So, this isn't like an Episode of "Law and Order: Criminal Intent" here.... We don't really need Detectives Goren and Eames to solve this one.... I say again, there's your guy.

Anyway, the cherry on top of Late Sunday had to be The great Carolina Panthers losing to the fraudulent New York Giants... Nice.

You could have thrown together a 6-team parlay of ALL DOGS and WON THEM ALL STRAIGHT UP!!! What are the frickin' odds of THAT?!?!??! (If you're not a gambling degenerate, and you don't know what a parlay is, ignore. Although you could think of it this way: If you rolled one die, what are the odds it would come up 1 or 2 six straight times?!?!? I'll give you a hint: reeeeaallly long.)

If you haven't noticed, I took the complete collar. 0 for 6 in later games. And I had the favorite in every game.

(Lights another cigarette, paces the house restlessly, trying to make sense of it....)

And it's so bitterly cold out, I.... I dunno, I don't even know what to say. I'm trying not to think of 3 more months of this crap....

As always, note to Wisconsin Employers, you may as well open at noon tomorrow. At the very least, don't expect much... This could be the last time the Pack appears on Monday Night Football for a good long while... Enjoy. Drink it in...

And good luck to Air Myles and KathB4...

Week Fifteen...

Well, first off, apparently congrats go AGAIN To VBS... Unreal. We now have VBS and Badgergil with 4 wins, and a scattering of people with 1. Uh huh. Wow. I'm going to have to perform some sort of regression analysis on these picks, to see if a pattern can be detected....

Ahh yes, by far one of the hardest things you will have to do is to kill a loved one because they're the devil. Aside from that, Sunday wasn't too bad. Heh heh, no, seriously, one of the hardest things you're going to have to do is pick the winner of the Green Bay At Jacksonville game. Hmmm... The mind recoils in horror. You've sworn you're never taking the Jags again. Check. But you're off the Packer bandwagon too. Hmmm. Aaron Rodgers... David Garrard... Jack Del Rio... Mike McCarthy.... Ugh. This is like, if you were tied up, and dunked up to your neck in slime, and then lets say, another bag of slime was being thrown at your face... Would you duck, and dunk your head in the slime, or take the flying slime to your face???

Packer Nation likes to believe that it's all been glory and light, but there was this short period between 1971 and 1995 when we STUNK. Yes, we stunk. This game was a bad bad reminder of that stinky period. We rolled into an opponent, the Jacksonville Jaguars... a team reeling in disarray. A team whose season is over. A team playing for nothing. And we made them look good.

On paper, one would say "Hey, the Pack can get a win here." Whoops. Or not.



There's your Packer brain trust, right there. Yep. Hmm, what went wrong on that play?? Hard to say, coach... But the balcony on my new house comes out like THIS... (points with hand)...



There's your head coach. Uh huh. Coach, let me make a few points here, if I may:

#1. Zone blocking is not working. Here's how a zone blocking play looks to us fans: The runner runs, get's tackled by 5 enemy players. After the play, one notes that all 5 O-Linemen are standing around, looking at each other, like, wasn't he your guy?? I thought that was my guy?!? No, THAT was my guy, but I missed him... Yeah, whatever. Not working.

#2. I said 2 months ago, our offensive line is Mark Tauscher, and Not Exactly. Yeah, and Tausch is out for the year. 'Nuff said on that.

#3. (possibly an addendum to #1, but whatever) Zone blocking is causing us to draft these "athletic" lineman who can move, and pull, and run... and whatever. What they are is SMALL. Small, Ted, Small. Too frickin' small. They can't block. Even if they knew WHO to block (which they don't), and WHEN to block (which they don't), they CAN'T BLOCK THEM, because the dudes they are trying to block OUTWEIGH THEM BY 50 POUNDS APIECE!!!! Ahem, sorry, I'm calm now.

#4 Will Blackmon is really lucky he occasionally does a good job returning a kick, because he couldn't cover a Queen sized bed with a King sized comforter....

#5. Packer Nation better get used to guys like Ron Pitts doing their games.... ahhh, and you slobs complained about Troy Aikman and Joe Buck. Who's Crying now?? Exactly. At one point yesterday, he states "Both these QB's have had all day to throw." On the play before, literally, THE PLAY BEFORE, Rodgers is running for his life for like the third time. Am I watching the wrong game?? I did set up my new home theatre reciever the other day (and thanks to The Doc (Kathb4) for that), and I must have the audio mixed up. Maybe I was listening to announcing from another game, I dunno. Somebody email me and tell me if Ron Pitts was doing our game or not...

On the plus side, our new punter seems competent...

Anyways... I heard the Cowboy-Steeler game on XM radio, coming back from Florida. By the way, XM is pretty cool. I was kind of afraid of this.... Now I'm hooked on the "crack cocaine" that is XM... Now I'll have to subscribe... That game was tough to listen to though, especially the end. So I made an executive decision to NOT WATCH the Cowboys Giants. Now I wish I had. Although my blood pressure surely stayed lower by simply reading the result and saying "Hey, Cowboys won!!!"



All smiles after a win. Riiiight. T.O., shut up and play. For a dude who drops as many passes as he does, and quits on as many routes as he does, he should stay pretty frickin quiet in front of reporters. Is there any chance he's gone after the season?? Any?? Somebody email me, and tell me he's gone, please. Lie to me. I don't care. I need somebody to tell me he's gone....

Romo playing favorites with Witten. Here's a tip, whiners: Try getting open, and holding onto the ball when it's thrown your way. Yeah, it might help.

I hear people on national sports shows, bemoaning the fate of the Arizona Cardinals. Here's a tip: Shut Up! You're still having a nice season. You have won your division. Sure, it's weak, but you took care of bizness, and now you are division champs, you will host a playoff game. The Packers are in a weak division too, idiots, and we utterly failed to take care of bizness. In much the same vein as the Brewers, you are going to the playoffs, for the first time in a long time. Enjoy. Sure, your team is not perfect, but in the postseason, anything can happen. Enjoy. Packer Nation would give up a testicle to go to the playoffs right now... Cowboys fans are on their knees begging their God for a chance at the playoffs... Cheer up, 'Zona fan, you're in the playoffs.

Anyways, Congrats to VBS... Congrats to MONJON, who had 12 right. Points, people... the points.

Giants play Carolina for home field throughout next week.... I can only hope that the fraud that is the New York Giants will finally be exposed....

Week 14...

Alrighty, VBS scores his third win of the season... Nice job man.

I just got back from Florida, so, this is a real wake up call... I seriously have to get outta here. Permanently.

Ahh, you might note that Sears wasn't on the sheet, but he is now... They apparently took his "labtop" computer away from him at his old job, so he couldn't get his picks in. Is that laptop, or labtop??? I've been calling them laptops for all these years...

Anyways, I have an email from him, with picks on it... He wouldn't have won anyway, but as the Commissioner, I have convened with, ehhh, well, myself, and decided to put the score in. I'm not sure his season should be ruined because he lost his job....

Although there is a lesson in there for all of us: be careful what's on your work computer!!!

Really, what a man, and a woman, and another woman, and a midget, and a donkey do in the privacy of their own home is their business.... but maybe pictures of it shouldn't be on your employer-issued laptop, eh??? Heh heh, no, seriously, I haven't been near a donkey in weeks.... really.

I'll try to post again, and do better.

My picks STINK like a Donkey, but no....

Wrap it up, I'll take it....

Hey, week 13, in the books.

Congrats to Erin07 for his big win. Nice job. KathB4 backed up her win with a nice 3rd place showing. Why, even I managed to salvage some pride with a 2nd place finish...

Amazing what happens when you lay off the Packers, and get off the Jaguars.... only good things can happen.



Mario Williams celebrates a sack.... Erin07 is doing the same thing in his house right now....

How about this crazy story (from my "You can't make this stuff up" file):

Ex-Wis. player accused of threatening Alvarez, Sharapova
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A former Wisconsin football player was charged Monday with threatening athletic director Barry Alvarez, tennis star Maria Sharapova and their families.

Leonard Taylor Jr., 32, of Indianapolis, faces one felony stalking count and one misdemeanor count of telephone harassment. Online court records didn't list an attorney for Taylor. His father told police Taylor has been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic and hasn't taken his medication for three months, according to the criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.

Taylor played defensive back for the Badgers from 1995 to 1998, when Alvarez was the coach. Taylor also played briefly for the Madison Mad Dogs professional indoor football team.

According to the complaint, Wisconsin head athletic trainer Denny Helwig told police in September that Taylor had been calling Alvarez's office phone and leaving six to seven disturbing messages each night since the beginning of the football season.

Helwig said the messages weren't threatening, but described them as "bizarre."

Taylor left similar messages during the 2007 football season, Helwig said. Those messages consisted mostly of complaining that a television network hadn't paid him money it owed him, a UW employee identified only as "LW" in the complaint told police.

Police contacted Taylor by phone the same day they took Helwig's information. Taylor was apologetic and said Alvarez had nothing to worry about.

He said he thought he could talk to his former coach about his problems, but he would stop calling.

The employee identified as "LW" told detectives Wednesday that Taylor left 29 voicemails on Alvarez's office phone on Nov. 24 and Nov. 25.

The profanity-laced messages accused Sharapova of committing various injustices against him. He said he wanted to marry her and kill her and her family.

Taylor also said he intended to come to Madison and kill Alvarez and his family if unspecified demands weren't met within 24 hours.

"Barry, you heard that (expletive) message, (expletive) it. I hate that (expletive) Maria Sharapova ... I just want to look at you one (expletive) last time before I pull the (expletive) trigger, Barry," one message said.

Leonard Taylor Sr. told detectives his son hasn't been seeing his therapist and refused to go to a hospital for treatment, the complaint said.

Taylor was arrested Friday in Indiana, the Wisconsin State Journal reported Monday. A message The Associated Press left for a University of Wisconsin Police spokesman Monday afternoon wasn't immediately returned.

Alvarez referred questions to Amy Toburen, a spokeswoman in University of Wisconsin-Madison

Aha.... Nice. Wow.

I was about to leave Ted Thompson a voice mail... Maybe I better not. Heh heh!

(Actually, I prefer to call his house at 2AM and then just hang up, but, whatever...)

Until next time, kids!!!

Week XIII

Lucky Thirteen... Or Yucky Thirteen, depending on your point of view...

Lotta road teams winning.. crazy. Only my Tampa Bay Bucs managed to win at home sunday, I thnk.... wild.

Well, it looks like ERIN07 has it wrapped up. Congrats on that one, buddy. Nice job.

Packers look like they'll be home for the playoffs.



Whoops... the one that got away. That's okay, Aaron Rodgers has a lot of important things to do this offseason... hate to waste a lotta time with playoff games...

I'm in Florida right now.... It was really raining yesterday. Don't know if some of you saw that Tampa Bay game, but that was a monsoon... It's kind of surreal, to see a highlight from cold snowy Lambeau Field... It's like, that can't really be happening, can it?? Why do people live up there??

Jets finally lost a game, to the worthless Denver Broncos. I keep hearing how bad they (Broncos) are, and how they have no Defense... looked fine yesterday afternoon. Saw Favre on the sidelines with the 20 hot packs, holding them against his face with his hands, trying to warm up... and it brought back bad, bad, bad memories of that playoff game with the Giants... and he also heaved up a rather Favreian pick in the first half... Definitely a different guy when it gets cold out.

And aren't we all!!!

Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.