Another Brick in the wall....

Well, as I sit here in front of Patriots - Dolphins, I see that Sharpcheddar and Badgergil appear to be the two players with a real shot here... good luck fellas.

KathB4, aka "The Doc", having a nice week.

I'd be remiss if I didn't mention this... KathB4 is also in a college football pool, with other people. Last week she was tied for first, in a pool of 1023 people. Not. Too. Shabby. Actually, it's insane. Nice job!!!

Feel free to send me your sick gambling exploits. I love great gambling stories. Tell me how you hit that killer 3 team teaser... Whatever. If it's epic enough, I'll share it here...

Not the most impressive Packer Victory I ever saw... These Lions are fiesty. They coulda won that game. The Packers may not be who we were led to believe they were... I don't have that Super Bowl feeling after the last two weeks....

The Bears, on the other hand, were who we thought they were. And then some. Ugh. Jay Cutler was who we thought he was. Somehow, despite all I hear about the Packers D, we certainly didn't feast on the Chicago offensive line like the Giants and Cowboys did.

At the 5:00 minute mark in the second quarter, am I starting to sense that these Patriots may have a problem??? Got the pick, but only got 3 out of it. 7-3, Dolphins. Hmm.

I just realized that we have a battle of Michigan QB's here. Brady of course had a very decorated careerr with the Michigan Wolverines, and Chad Henne was their QB as well, fairly recently.

Okay, 2 huge defensive stops... Whoops, pass interference on 3rd and ten, another first down for Miami. Wow.

Ricky Williams running wild in the secondary.... ugh.

Okay, Ninkovich gets his second pick of the half... Maybe these Patriots have a shot. First two picks of his career, right there...

At the half, Miami 7, Patriots 6. Hmm. Patriots will receive in the second half.

OMG, will they ever!!! Opening kickoff, Tate runs the kick back 103 yards for the TD!!! Whoa.

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Whoops, fell asleep. I'll spare the readers the ten pages of "sssssssssssssssss" where my hand fell asleep on the "s" key... Heh heh... What can I say, they're trying to kill me at work. Sent me to communist Madison to report... what a thrill. Let me set the stage, the CO I report to is situated between a check cashing center and a liquor store, a block off the highway. Heh heh, yeah, the neighborhood, ummm, yeah, uhh, let's just say, it could be better. Not exactly where one might choose to park one's mint Escalade... To say nothing of the extra 60 frickin' miles a day I have to drive.

Ahh, I was so excited when I got this job, back in November of 1999... It's taken them awhile, but I can safely say right now they've beaten the life out of me. Driving to Madison yesterday, there was some insane thick fog on the interstate... I'm following a semi, maybe 6 car lengths, whoosh, he disappears. That'd be about right. They've been trying to kill me for years, if I got killed on the way to work, that would be a fitting capstone to my experience here with this employer.

Anyways, what happened with that football game??? There were a few interested parties, Sharpcheddar and Badgergil. Hold on, checking....

Wow, Patriots sepcial teams came alive in the second half, apparently. 41-14, Pats.

Tom Brady again etches himself into the record books, fastest to 100 career wins. Nice job buddy. Jon Gruden during the game says "If I could be anyone else, I'd wanna be Tom Brady. This guy HAS IT ALL!!!!" Well said. I love Gruden.

In case you don't get what he means by "has it all", this is Brady's GF, Gisele Bundchen:



Congrats to Badgergil. Second week in a row, he scores the big win. Nice job man.

Sharpcheddar and the Big Headed Holy Rollers each had ten correct picks. No easy task, with upsets flying everywhere. This could be Sharpcheddar's kind of year, he loooves the upset.

Let's look at a few headlines, then I gotta go.

"Vick expects to miss a week, maybe two" Yeah, that's no good. Did you SEE Kevin Kolb in that game??? Whoa. Eagles fans hopefully had a wastebasket with a plastic liner handy while they watched THAT debacle. After THAT horrific absurdity, Andy Reid himself is personally duct-taping Mike Vick's chest back together as we speak.

"Lovie: Cutler seems okay" Uhhh, you mean, as okay as he ever is?? Or is that more like, compared to our backups, Cutler at 60% is better than they are?? If Cutler is okay, does that mean he turns back into his usual interception-throwing self??

"Sam Bradford Sails Through First Month" No kidding. He may well be in football purgatory, but he has played great. Won his last 2. On a bad team, with serious O-line issues. Rather amazing. We may never fully appreciate his talents.

Anyways, good luck next week!!!

Picking While Intoxicated...

Heh heh. I wish that was my excuse. I was actually trying.

Honestly, I changed my Houston pick to Dallas Sunday Morning. I'm starting to feel some handicapping juice flowing here... I also had the Chiefs. I'm a little proud of that.

Seriously, how about Braylon Edwards, eh?? Twice the limit, 5 AM... Nice. The human dropped pass, now this... With teammates in the car no less. Check me on this, but aren't there like 10 million cabs in NYC???

Anyway, congrats to Badgergil, a nice win in week 3.

Hold on, I just got a stat update from the Packer game... another holding penalty was just called. Wow.

Erin07 keeps telling me he's not a Bears fan, but there he was with the Bears in that game.... I think we can safely say he has latent Bears tendencies...



Hey, do you think she's cheering for my picks??? Heh heh, no, probably not. She's cheering the Chiefs on to another big win. 3-0!!! What were the Vegas odds on a 3-0 start for the Chiefs?!?!?



This is the Haldron Super-Collider, buried underground on the French-Swiss Border. It's back up and running again, at half power, after a year of maintenance. 6 tons of liquid helium accidentally escaped from this thing. Whoops! Hey, if I attached 6 tons of helium to my picks, would they rise up the standings???

Sigh... This week doesn't look any easier. Sunday night, The Fraud That Is Eli Manning plays the Fraud That Is Da Bears... ugh. 1 point. Flip the "executive decision maker" here... okay, heads.

Speaking of Frauds, how about those Vikings!!! Heh heh.. It's got a very different feel this year. If they get to like, oh, say 2-7, does Favre pull an "Al Czervik" from Caddyshack and bow out???

(Liner note: for those not intimately familiar with this movie, firstly, shame on you. Go rent it, or whatever. Ahem, point being, Rodney Dangerfield, in the role of Al Czervik, is playing a big money match against Judge Smails (the immortal Ted Knight), and playing badly. An errant tee shot hits a ball washer, bounces back, and lightly hits Dangerfield in the arm. He stands there for a couple seconds, thinking nothing of it, and then in his inimitable style, his eyes go wide open, and he says "Ooooh! Oooh, my arm!!!" and starts to rub it, in an absurd pantomime of an actual injured person. He begs out of the match, and in the movie's pivotal development, Danny Noonan substitutes for Big Al Czervik, and they win the match.)

Does Favre pull the old "Oooh, my arm!!!" gambit when all hope is lost??? Sounds crazy, but there is some precedent... Ken Griffey Jr. retired midseason in baseball...

These games are not getting any easier. Seattle at St. Louis. Wow. Baltimore at Pittsburgh. New England at Miami.

Hey, did you see Julius Peppers terrorizing the Packer O-line?? Yeah, me too. Hey, guess what?? He was a free agent for quite a while!!! What say you, Defenders of the Tedly?? We coulda HAD THAT GUY!!! I'm just sayin'.... We coulda had that guy. Just sayin... Woulda been kinda fun to have that guy on OUR team.... Just sayin'...

Let's assess these Packers for a second: Had too many penalties last year, Coach Mike was gonna clean that up. Okay, still some work to do there... Special teams sucked last year. Yeah, still some work to do there... Why exactly are we punting to Devin Hester??? Have I mentioned that punters ought to punt about 40-45 yards, towards the frickin' sidelines?? Yeah, only about a zillion times. Especially if your punt coverage is kinda sucky, Coach Mike, you REEELY oughtta punt to the sidelines. And your coverage is sucky. Heh heh, oh my, yes, it is sucky.

And dare I bring it up again?? Jake, Dalton, Nick, Kevin, Nigel, Ian, Gabe... If you guys aren't out punting and place kicking, I don't know what to tell you anymore. Sebastian Janikowski gets paid millions to MISS KICKS!!!

New England is young, and they look shaky on Defense, but I have a funny feeling. Plus, just for laughs, imagine if they had Oakland's #1 pick in next year's draft... Heh heh, oh wait, they DO! Wow.

Anyway, have fun and good luck.

Move the target closer...

Well, first off, congrats to RONFIC for his week one win... Nice.

I personally sucked... I fired at the target, and missed it completely.

HighZ needed the Jets and Chargers, and he didn't get them...

Do you realize there's people out there who are incapable of writing a check?? Honest to god, they can't write 10 words on a piece of funny colored paper, nor can they write 8 words on an envelope, much less place a stamp on it.... Friends, your contribution of $1900 a week could help these individuals lead a normal life... Won't you please help???

Well, I started this Saturday, but I had a little computer problem.... My old desktop system has been dying a slow death since, ohh, I dunno, August of 2008... So, as I try to transition to this laptop, the thrills never stop. This thing is real close to being run downrange and fired upon....

I thought this week would be different, but it is clearly not. Wow. Whew. I'm gonna have to increase my self-medication here.... I thought I had a dead skunk in here... turns out, it was my picks I was smelling....

Hey, Wade Phillips?? See ya. Enjoy the rest of the fall, and the Holiday Season at home. You're done. Wow. Ardita, die hard Bears fan, the only person who had that... The Bears should be 0-2, and they're 2-0. The Vikings are 0-2. Favre Hating Nation members will not be at work tomorrow. The partying is going to go deep into the night...

I said before the Packer game that anything less than 38-10 would be a danger sign. 34-7, that's close enough. Although watching that game, the first half seemed a little slow to get going. Luckily the Bills are really bad.

I sort of have the Indy Giants game on... I see the Giants are getting the calls.

Okay, Colts just went up 14-0, and The Fraud That is Eli Manning just threw up an absurd pick into triple coverage... Heh heh, some things never change...

Patriots loss, wow, what happened there... I watched the game, and I'm still not sure what happened. They can stop force-feeding the ball to Moss, that's for sure...

Week 2 is still up in the air. Good luck, and enjoy!

103 Hours...

103 Hours people.

Thursday, September 9th, 8:30 Eastern, 7:30 Central, On NBC, we have The Minnysoda Vikings traveling to New Orleans to face Drew Brees and your Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints.

Dare I say, this is a huge game. Huge.

I was watching a little college ball yesterday... Michigan and Michigan State looked okay, actually. But anyway, one of the announcers asks some ex-player color analyst "How do you feel about opening the season against a cupcake opponent??"

(Which, if I may, seemed like a super dumb question. Michigan was playing UConn, who many pundits thought would win the game... Yeah, Michigan was up 21-0 at the time, and cruising, but it wasn't like they were playing South Dakota Southwest Prairie Tech's Intramural Team... It's frickin' UConn. If anything, it was a credit to Michigan, they came out, played crisp, and looked good.)

The analyst said something like this: "I hate it. I'd rather play a big time opponent. If you win the game, it gets your whole season off to a huge start. You're as healthy as you're going to be all year. Nobody has seen your film yet. In many ways, it's your best chance to beat a great team."

Interesting point.

Vikings Saints, Ridiculous game to handicap. I'll just go 1 point, and flip a coin, how about that....

Such crazy talk, from your fearless leader, last year's season's champ. How dare you!!! Flip a coin... disgusting...

Anyway, Matt Leinart, released yesterday. Wow. Does his face go on Mount Bust-More???

Let's back up. Reviewing, Mount Bust-More is the faces of the 4 greatest NFL Busts of all time, carved in stone in Western South Dakota...

At the moment, Mount Bust-More has to be:
1. Tony Mandarich, the Greatest Offensive Line Prospect of all time...
2. JaMarcus Russell, "Jamarcus is a great Quarterback, Get over it!!!" Thanks Al. $40 million, for nothing.
3. Ryan Leaf. I could do a whole blog on this guy... Think back, the Chargers and Colts were 1-2 in that draft, and people were trying to decide, who is better, Leaf or Peyton Manning... I guess we found out!!
4. Andre Ware. Lions fans hate me for bringing him up, but he stunk royally in Detroit, Stunk up the CFL, stunk up NFL Europe, and finally retired. Brutally painful for the Lions, because they were running the "Run and Shoot" at the pro level, specifically to get the most out of Andre Ware... Ugh.

Matt Leinart. At the moment, it's too soon to tell. I can't throw him on that list. He could go somewhere else and be fine.

Maybe Mount Bust-More needs to grow, who knows. Brian Bosworth, anyone?? Heath Schuler. Akili Smith. Lawrence Phillips. Rae Carruth. See?? Starts getting tricky, going to just 4. Google some of those guys if you want a good laugh.

Although, may I quote from Yahoo Sports: "Matt Leinart showed more enthusiasm living the Hollywood life than working hard as a QB. That's why the Cardinals cut him." Aha. Okay, that doesn't bode well....

Bill Bidwell (again, owner of the Cardinals) is out in front of Kurt Warner's house right now with a Brinks truck full of cash, and Bruce Buffer on the microphone, yelling "Let's get readyyyyy to plaaaay foootbaaaaalll!!!"

If you didn't know it already, let me break this to you: This is a Quarterback League. Not that a good QB guarantees you anything, because it doesn't. (Review Rodgers, Aaron, and get back to me. Great QB, his GM does nothing to surround him. O-Line, question mark. Defense, question mark. Running back, non-existent. Special Teams, brutal, painful) But NO QB DOES IN FACT guarantee that you will stink.

The Proof: The Arizona Cardinals. With Warner, you're penciling them in for 10 wins right now, in a real soft division. Without Warner, can they win 6?? 7?? Derek Anderson, Cleveland Castoff. Case closed. You must have a QB.

Actually, some of you may remember this classic quote from when Anderson was released by the Browies: Upon leaving Cleveland, Anderson told The News-Herald, "The fans are ruthless and don't deserve a winner. I will never forget getting cheered when I was injured. I know at times I wasn't great. I hope and pray I'm playing when my team comes to town and (we) roll them."[7] He later apologized for his remarks.

Classic. Sadly, the Cardinals will not play the Browns this year....

Actually, they open at St Louis, who just named Sam Bradford their starter... Heh heh, good luck to Sam Bradford. You think the St Louis O-line is painful to watch?? Try Qb'ing behind it....

Tell you what, Mike Singletary (HC of the 49ers) is dreaming of an NFC West Title right now, with Arizona bowing out... The Rams and the Seahawks?? Please. Pencil the 49ers in right now.

Anyways, with only these few hours left, let's review a few things here:

No offseason could be complete without a Brett Favre Press Conference... okay, check that one off the list...


This is a cheerleader... Courtesy of the Houston Texans. Sure you don't wanna move to Houston?? Egad...


And finally, my sources have uncovered this just-released video of Matt Leinart's departure from Arizona... So long, Matt!!!


Okay, on a serious note, this guy is about to find out what happens when I don't get your money on time.... Get me the check, and get your picks in!!!


Side note: If you ever watched "90210" back in the day, you must check out Bill Simmon's 2-part podcast regarding his "90210" awards, in honor of last week's September second, 2010, which written in date form, is 9/02/10... Go on ESPN page 2, Sports Guy's World, and download those. Or on ITunes, "The BS Report". It's free, so relax.

People have asked me, "Why do you listen to so many podcasts??" Because where I drive for work, there's no radio. Or, there is, but's very eclectic. On 107.1 out of Fond Du Lac the other day, I heard Duran Duran, "Ordinary World". I can't remember the last time I heard Duran Duran on the radio. I'm not gonna lie, I sort of enjoyed it, actually. And I'm not gonna apologize if it ends up on my IPod. Then I heard some girl band (or so I thought) doing the Journey Classic "Don't Stop Believin'"... I was like, huh, who is that, doing that song??? Not that it was bad. So I asked some co-worker, she tells me, "Oh, you probably heard the version from Glee." I'm like, Huh?? What's Glee??? Sounds like a new toothpaste. She says no, it's a TV show, like High School Musical, except it's on TV... Hmm. Whatever. Let me file that under "I'm losing touch with the world, and getting older and less hip every second." And, to those of you who know me, I was never hip to begin with. So, this could be interesting. Although I am watching the Jersey Shore. And let me say briefly, I'm real tired of the whole Sam and Ronnie thing already. Enough. There's so many other lovely sublots developing, let's move it along... And ladies, if you are Sammi, and your boyfriend is Ronnie, and he's barely aware that you are alive, unless it's bedtime... Maybe you should just move on. All the hysterical dramatics are not necessary, and neither is getting back together. Just move on. Really. Save some dignity.

Football related Reality TV Note: Jimmy Johnson is going to be on Survivor. Premieres September 15th on CBS, changing to Wednesday, for no good reason. Yes, THAT Jimmy Johnson. How 'bout Dem Cowboys!!! Heh heh. What's the hair gonna look like after 3 days in the jungle?? Tune in and find out.

Okay, enough of that. Enjoy. And hey, let's be careful out there. And don't forget to have some fun!!

2009 Seasons Champion
Cadillac Pat

Let the Games Begin!

Hey, welcome to late summer.

The all important 3rd preseason weekend is about to kick off.

It appears the 18 game schedule is nearing a point where it's a done deal.

Not sure I'm for it.

Here's my thought.

We currently have a 16 game schedule, across 17 weeks, 1 bye week per team.

My proposal: 17 game schedule, 19 weeks, two byes per team, 2 preseason games.

I love it, personally. Preseason is kind of a joke.

Well, okay, I watched Titans Cardinals for awhile.... My immediate thought at kickoff was the familiar gut punch of "Wow, if I really had to pick this game, who would I take???" and realizing that I had no answer. Tough one to handicap. Hey, it's preseaon for my picking brain too, apparently. Leinart.... Vince Young... Hmmm. Okay, Titans for 1.

After you get a look at Matt Leinart, you realize immediately why Bill Bidwell's (Owner of the Cardinals) pants knees are so dirty.... He's been at Kurt Warner's house, on his knees, begging Kurt to came back!!!!

Ahhh, supposedly he "twittered" that he's not coming back, and to look up the word "retired". Oh well. If I could channel Al Pacino for a second, as detective Vincent Hannah of the Elite Robbery Homicide Unit of the LAPD, from the awesome movie "Heat", recall the scene when it looks like Neal has gotten away, and Pacino famously says "So long, motherf***er... You were good...." Kurt, so long, man. You were good. On behalf of fans everywhere, I apologize for the refs who jobbed you out of your second ring vs the Steelers. A travishamockery. I'm making an appointment right now to be in front of my TV when you are inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame.

I also always get a laugh out of seeing Chuck Cecil on the sidelines, Titans Defensive co-ordinator. Anyone besides me remember when he was the hard hitting safety for the Packers, who routinely broke open a scar on his head, and was seen with blood running down his face during the game???

(Author's note: I'm making so many typos, this is gonna take forever. I'm constantly re-typing. Preseason for my fingers too, I guess....)

Random thought number 2: how awesome is Jon Gruden in the booth??? During that intro shot, he looks like he's a real threat to bolt from the booth, run down to the sidelines, put a headset on, and start yelling at people. Awesome. That's actually a great booth, Ron Jaworski, Jon Gruden, and the fundamentally solid Mike Tirico. Real nice booth.

I did see Javon Ringer, too, former Michigan State Star... He looked good! Great to see him. Now that I'm watching a little college ball, I know a few of these guys.

You guys watching "30 for 30" on ESPN??? If not, you should be. I know, it comes and goes, they show it when they feel like it, but trust me, it's worth a little effort to see these. They had Michael Jordan's baseball career on last night. Fascinating look. Real well done. Heh heh, and in a hilarious side note, his manager in the minors was Terry Francona, now manager of the 2-time World Champion Boston Red Sox. Unreal.

Hey, did you hear that Tiger Woods got divorced??? Yeah, I guess there was a little trouble in his marriage. They kept it pretty quiet though... heh heh heh!!! Not really.





Rachel U. The person who brought the Tiger Woods Empire crashing down. Actually, in a true sign that this story will not die, I saw an uncomfirmed report today that she supposedly told a friend that she thought Tiger really loved her, and she hoped he would reach out to her. Heh heh!!!

Question: has anyone ever looked better in a pair of Ray Ban Aviator Sunglasses?? If they have, I don't know about it....

Anyway, I have emailed you if I have your payment. So if you sent it, and I don't have it, we need to address that. If you haven't sent it yet, you need to send it. Two weeks from right now, the season starts.

And if you have new people, have them email me, I will provide them with instructions to join.

Later!

Rule #17: Don't be a Hero...

Well, the season is now complete....

Somebody, remind me what we used to do before football season??? I'm drawing a blank here.

I'll tell you what I'm doing, I'm going to Las Vegas. You people can stay here and freeze to death.... (well, okay, those of you who live here in the frozen tundra upper midwest....Those of you in fun places like Texas and Florida, disregard.) Yep, when I'm through, they're gonna turn over the keys to the Mirage Hotel and Casino... I will break them.

Heh heh, yeah, whatever. Maybe I'll take a few hundred outta there and go home quietly... Lay on a few prop bets for next year... We'll see.

Well, obviously I was shocked by the Super Bowl result. Fun game to watch, though.

Sean Payton, you gotta hand it to him. He went on 4th, and even though he didn't get it, he managed the clock, managed the situation, and still got his field goal. Nicely done. Yeah, memo to Andy Reid and Brad Childress: THAT is how you manage and end-of-half/end-of-game scenario... Ugh.

Is this painful for Minnesota fan?? Knowing you pretty much should have beaten the Saints, and then seeing the Saints dismantle the Vikings???

I'll tell you what, Childress is no Sean Payton. He is not.

Call of the game HAD to be the onside kick, to open the second half. What a gutsy gutsy call. A monster. That's all or nothing, right there. You give the ball to Peyton Manning at the 40, nothing good is gonna happen.

I love that call. I do. You came all this way, why not go out there and try to win the game?!?!? You play to win the game!!!-Hermann Edwards.

Of course, if they DON'T get it, that is bad. Bad bad bad. Really though, Childress has to be the poster boy for "playing not to lose", which is very different than "playing to WIN." If Childress and the Vikings are there, does Childress make those calls?? NO effing way. Never happen.

Sean Payton gambled, and it worked. And I think it energized his team. I brought this up during the game, and was immediately told "Hey, you're dating yourself...", which is very true, but I distinctly recall Broncos-Redskins. Broncos jumped out to a 10-0 lead, and then it was all Redskins, turned into a blowout. And I had a funny feeling, but still, I just didn't think the Colts would lose. It was ten nothing, Colts in total control. Then the second quarter came... Then the onside recovery....

And still, I just figured the Colts would find a way. Peyton Manning is now 9-9 in postseason play.

I will tell you, Colts Fans, this one is going to hurt. This is gonna leave a skid mark on your heart, for the rest of your life. The Packers won it all in 96. And I didn't dare to believe. The team had been bad my whole life, literally. When they won that game, I was stunned, for days, I was in disbelief. And then there was acceptance.

So, now, the following year, I am believing. I am daring to dream! And I was younger then, and not so bitter, and cynical, and my employers hadn't beaten the life out of me yet... But anyway, then we go in to play the Broncos. We are heavy favorites. Broncos are a joke. I've already cleared a spot on my mantle for another Lombardi trophy... And we lost.

I'm still in heavy denial about that game. I've sort of cordoned that off with yellow crime scene tape. I just don't go there. Honestly, I'm sitting here right now, 13 years later, thinking "We REALLY didn't lose that game, did we??? Naaah, we couldn't have..."

My nephew was not alive for the Super Bowl win. And he's not little anymore. IN a couple years, he's going to Driver's Ed, okay.... So what, if he's really lucky, he'll be mid-30's, sitting in a bar, drunk off his ass, celebrating a Packer Super Bowl... the time goes by. There's been some tough tough losses these last 13 years.

Anyway, the good part is, we can STOP hearing about how Peyton Manning might be the greatest QB of all time. What an absurd argument. That's even more absurd than Kurt Warner NOT being in the Hall of Fame. If guys like Jim Kelly and Dan Marino and Fran Tarkenton are in the Hall, Warner has to be there. If he doesn't go, feel free to burn the place to the ground.

Peyton is great, but he's not the greatest ever. You might want to Wikipedia a guy named Joe Montana, and refresh your memory. Steve Young. Troy Aikman. Tom Brady. Terry Bradshaw. I mean, come on. Greatest ever? He has a ways to go before we throw him in that conversation....

BTW (that means "by the way", to you people who don't hang around message boards, or text, or whatever), how great was it to see Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice go into the Hall of Fame. Wonderful. Those guys were very good. Ridiculous. Guys like Randy Moss and Terrell Owens and Chad Ochocinco need to look at Rice, put their pathetic diva acts aside, and just bow down to the greatness. Just bow down, and shut up. Chad Ochocinco isn't worthy to carry Jerry Rice's equipment bag...

Anyways, enjoy the offseason!!! Degenerate gamblers and football freaks, I salute you. It's been a fun season. I hope to see you all next year. God willing, we'll all still be here, we'll reload and try again!

Rule #1: Cardio

Rule #2: Double Tap.

If you have NO IDEA what I'm talking about, go rent "Zombieland". Great movie.

By the way, it's a COMEDY. Seriously, it's a comedy. Check it out.

Anyways, speaking of Zombies, Vikings Fans have to be in a lot of pain. Bill Simmons called it a level 1 Gut Punch Loss. I see it more as a "Baseball Bat To The Head" loss... The kind of loss that hits you in the head like a baseball bat, knocks you down... You come to, on the floor, head screaming, ears ringing... You're nauseous, and you're wondering "What just happened??"

I fear for my brother-in-law's safety. Although by now, they've taken the restraints off of him, and he's free to wander around the padded cell... He's still locked in, but, he's not strapped to a gurney anymore... We'll call that progress.

30 yard line, minute to go, 2 timeouts.... The winning field goal is about to be kicked, right???

12 men in the huddle??? Coming out of a timeout??? Seriously??? Ugh...

Minnesota, besides some glaring mistakes, really outplayed the Saints...
First Downs
Minnesota 31, Saints 15
3rd Down Efficiency
Minnesota 7-12 Saints 3-12
Total Yards
Minnesota 475, Saints 257

They lost, I know... But this doesn't bode well for the Saints. Favre Hating Nation can bash all they want, and that's fine... In the last 10 years, Brett Favre has a pile of brutal postseason losses on his resume. But really, I personally think the game was lost on the Peterson fumble at the end of the first half. Vikings are getting ready to go into the half 21-14... Instead, Peterson Fumble, half over. Saints get the 2nd half kickoff, go down the field, it's now Saints 21-14... That's a big missed touchdown...

Take Indy in this one, minus the 5. Two minutes into this game, everyone is going to say "Oh yeah, that's right, the Colts are pretty good, we all knew they'd win..."

I'd take the over, also. Over 56, I believe.

People are starting to try to make the case for the Saints. I dunno. They would need the perfect game, to win, I think.

As long as football is winding down, a quick Reality TV note: Survivor Heroes vs Villians is coming up, February 11th. I am psyched. I might be a little TOO excited to see this. The cast is off the hook. Should be epic. I didn't jump on the Jersey Shore, and now I fel like I missed something. Through the magic of DVR's, maybe I can catch up.

Later!