What am I watching???

Wow... Hello!

I apologize to the whole pool....  I've been super busy.  I have some family problems....

But I'm not going to use excuses!  I'm not.  There are no excuses.  It's Football!

Well, today's Packer game at Chicago was more like it.   THAT'S the Packer Team we expected....

Ardita, well known Chicago Bears fan....  Chicago for 16....  I'm going to say yes, he does enjoy the pain....  And hey, there's nothing wrong with that.... We live in a world of legal gay marriage, legal mary jane, legal all sorts of stuff....

(May I say, in a world such as this, how utterly absurd it is to try and ban E-cigarettes???  Please...  E cigarettes are TRULY the least of our problems....  but I digress...)

But anyways, in the world we live in, is it wrong to be a masochist??  No.  It's not wrong.  Listen, in the privacy of your own home, whatever it is you do with a girl, and an Asian girl, and a Brazilian girl, and a couple sets of handcuffs, and a buggy whip.....  that's up to you, whatever trips your trigger.....  I mean, hey, as long as there's a safe word, and everybody's willing, and nobody gets hurt, and all that stuff.....  I mean, I know nothing about it, I'm just going off what I've read......

Ahem.  Let's stick to the football.....

Cheerleader Update:

A few Cheerleaders for you.....

Might be a long year for the Cowboys Cheerleading Squad.....

Anyways, I'm sitting here watching Philly at San Fran.....  These Eagles have all the answers for San Fran.... which is troubling, because the Packers have NO answers for the 49ers.....  Sigh.  At least we had the answers for the Chicago Bears.....  that's something....

I don't want to get into this, but I can't help myself....

Steven A Smith: suggests that women "bring it on themselves" in abuse cases: 1 week suspension.

Ray Rice: punches out his fiance' in an elevator, knocking her unconscious: 2 weeks suspension (which may I add, is a lot more than the court system gave him)

(And by the way, after you saw the first tape, Ray dragging his Fiancee out of the elevator by her hair, what did you THINK happened in that elevator???  Maybe I've seen too much, or hung around Cops for too long, but the tape of the knockout punch was exactly what I expected.....)

(Also, look, let me explain this very carefully to the young gamblers out there:  They are recording EVERYTHING in a Casino.   Have no illusions.  They are recording you in the can taking a whizz.  Elevators??  Absolutely.  And everybody knows it.  So, this science fiction about "not seeing the tape" is 50 times more absurd than light sabers or the plotlines of "True Blood", okay... Just so you know....  So, go to the Casino, have a good time, gamble it up a little bit.... But DO NOT act the fool.... They will have you on tape, and they will hang you by the b&lls.....  Do NOT do it....)

Bill Simmons: Says Roger Goodell is lying when he says he  didn't see the tape, which, by the way, roughly 99% of football fans agree with, and 100% of people who know anything about security procedure and police procedure agree with: 3 weeks suspension.

If you can explain how this makes any sense, feel free to e-mail me.   I'm just going to file this under "The fall of Western Civilization, Part IV, the post modern political correctness years.", because, quite honestly, I don't know what to do with these facts....

Moving right along, Tampa Bay beats the Steelers with a last second TD pass!!!  Unreal.   I'm starting to think that with the reduced practice time, and all that, it takes until week 4 for a team to really come together and start playing......

Crazy what you find out during these news breaks....  I thought I was losing my mind, I heard these weird beeps this morning in my house.....  I just heard, it was an Amber Alert Text, which I noticed later, but I never put it together.....  Just a little note, some people may or may not clear their whole house with a loaded M4 when they hear strange noises.....

Anywhoo, Fall is coming.  We're enjoying the best weather of 2014 right now, to be brutally honest.  It rained all summer, and was never that warm.  Now, it's 48 in the morning, but it warms up to the mid 70's in the afternoons, and it's been delightfully sunny.....  too bad I'm too busy to ride my Harley.  Someone needs to figure out how to carry a briefcase and a laptop on a Harley.  I know, I know, I can hear you out there, buy an Ultra Classic.  I don't WANT an Ultra classic, I'm a Road King guy....

Oh well....

To the young guys who read this, believe it or not, time starts to be a factor.   And, living here, a summer is such a precious thing, it's priceless.  We suffer horribly 8 months of the year, just waiting for summer.  If I stay here, what do I have, 12 good summer left, before my body breaks down???

I need to retire, and move down by Sears, or something, where there's 11 months of "doable" weather....  Not 4.....  to me, that would literally be like adding 24 years to my lifespan, if I could just do more, each year.....  Seriously, 12 x 3 = 36....  Minus 12 = 24.  Rough number, but seriously.

A guy in our pool, who shall remain nameless, told me he moved from Florida to California because he "hated Florida" and "Had to get out of there"....  Heh heh!  Really? REALLY?!?!?!?   This guy needs to winter in the Milwaukee Area once....  He'll be BEGGING for Florida.......  Begging... Begging, I tell you! 

As Gogo Yubari so famously said in "Kill Bill Volume One", "You call that begging?? (giggles) (turns serious) You can beg better than that."

This Nissan commercial is so absurd.  If you think a stock Nissan is so amazing, you NEED to go to World Class Driving in Las Vegas, and drive some Supercars, and find out what it's like to drive a real car with real power......

49ers just got a turnover off of San Francisco, and San Fran still looks totally discombobulated....  which is amazing, since in 3 games vs the 49ers, San Fran hasn't looked discombobulated for one second.....  unreal.....  why do the Packer have no answers for this team????

 

 Whoops!  Another Cheerleader crept in... sorry about that.

Saints are coming back against Teddy Bridgewater & the Vikings.....  Could be an actual game.

Frank Gore, another huge run....  Are these 49ers going to get back in this thing???  Just casually watching over my reading glasses, it's seemed like all Philly, but here we are Philly 21 49ers 20....

Phanatic Philly Phan is puking in his wastebasket right now.....

ttyl

Cadillac Pat

A New Hope

Greetings!

Another Season begins...  full of hopes, and big dreams....

And quickly, those hopes are being dashed against the rocks....

Of course we have a Packer loss...  but that was somewhat expected....

Then, I joined a Survivor Pool.....  And for week 1, I took The Chicago Bears....  So there you go, pool over, thanks for playing, Bears lose at home to the woeful pathetic Buffalo Bills, quite likely the worst team in professional American tackle football....

There's a lesson there kids.  Never, never, never, and I mean never, never ever, not ever, never in your wildest dreams, should you depend on The stupid stinking pathetic worthless good for nothing Chicago Bears to win a football game.  Never.  Never!  Never ever do it.  Just say no.  Don't do it.  Never Do It.  Just don't.

I've never felt so sorry for Ardita in my life.  (And that's saying something.  If you drive a Mercedes Benz Coupe, probably nobody should feel sorry for you...)  Really, I never have.  What's it like to root for a bunch of pathetic losers???  Maybe he's a masochist, and he enjoys pain, I don't know.  He's probably a Cubs fan too, for all I know, I never actually asked.....  Maybe he likes it.

I see I'm the only person who took the Dallas Cowboys...  Really?  The ONLY person??  At home??  A Team that routinely wins a lot of their home openers??  Okay... Whatever. 

What you need to know about the Cowboys is, they START the season great, usually....  After thanksgiving, then they die.....

Ooops, I see they just fumbled, San Fran up 7-0 on a fumble recovery touchdown.....  Heh heh!  Okay....  sigh....  The Dallas Cowboys....  In another note, to illustrate what a small pathetic man Jerry Jones truly is, he came out and said he has "No Plans" to put Jimmy Johnson in the Ring of Honor.    Jerry, take a walk down the hall, and look at those 3 latest Super Bowl Trophies.  Jimmy got you those.  So put him in the Ring of Honor already....  Utterly and completely pathetic.  But then, we're used to that, with Jerry......

Ooops, I interrupt myself to report a Colin Kaepernick TD pass to Vernon Davis.  Your score in Arlington Texas, San Fran 14, Dallas 3.  Hmmm.  I'm starting to get a bad feeling about that Dallas pick....  It might be time to start drinking heavily.... Or, turn this game off.....  God, if that Stupid stinking Bears game wasn't enough, this should put me over the edge for sure......  I better start keeping a wastebasket over by the couch here, so I can puke in it.....

Wow.... Okay, I'm shaking it off!  I'm shaking it off.... I'm okay....

I was standing in line at the grocery store, and I saw Emmy Rossum on Cosmo.....  We all loved her in that Phantom of the Opera movie, didn't we??  Maybe it was just me.  Anyways, she says all men need is grilled cheese sandwiches and sex! 

Really?  I don't know who she's been dating, but for my money, Men also need BEER..... and they also need THE NFL.....  Some Jack Daniels never hurt anyone...  Bacardi & Cokes are always nice....  In no particular order, there's muscle cars, Cadillacs, Harleys, giant screen TV's, Trap Shotguns, and a whole plethora of other things.....

I'm not gonna lie though, I am very amused at the idea of being her boyfriend... hanging around her luxury California home, and she wanders in and says "what do you want, a grilled cheese sandwich, or sex?  Ooops. I'm out of grilled cheese...."  Hahahahahah!  That would be kind of funny.....

Update from Arlington Texas, SF 21 Dallas 3.  Ouch.  Starting to look like a long year in big D....  Oh well. 

Badgergil & Ardita look like they may pull away on these afternoon games.....  Highz and Smitty are lurking though....

Alright, good luck!  Some of you owe your pool fee....  You know who you are.  I'm not gonna threaten and all that.... I'm just going to boot people. 

Speaking of booting people, Tony Romo was just picked in the endzone....  ooof.  Whoa.   Let me be clear, I am not enjoying the pain....

Until next time!

The Delivery of Pain...

Greetings!

I wanted to thank everyone for participating this year, it really was a blast.  There won't be any payouts this year though... I took the money and bought this:

So thanks very much, I appreciate that.....

(Editor's Note: that is NOT TRUE.  Payments went out yesterday.)

No, no, Joking....  I have a fiduciary responsibility, which I take very seriously....  I did go to a place called "World Class Driving" while I was in Las Vegas, and I got to drive that car for awhile.....  And Yes, it was every bit as awesome as you are imagining....  It goes 130 like your car goes 30....  I highly recommend it.  It was a blast....

For the record, that is a Ferrari 458 Italia....

Well, 2014 is here.  The Regular Season is over.  I have pretty much set a record for least amount of blog posts I've put up in a season.....

(And the bar was set pretty low last year...)

Sorry about that.

It feels like we've had the funeral for the Packers Season about 5 times now....  they were dead & buried after the Thanksgiving disaster, they were finished after they miraculously beat Atlanta, but then the Bears beat Dallas, so that was that......  then We beat Dallas, but Chicago also won, Rodgers still not back, ugh.....  Then Chicago loses, Detroit loses to the Putrid Giants & the Fraud that is Eli Manning....  but then we lose to stupid Pittsburgh, ugh, season over, again.....

Setting up a week 17 Showdown with the Bears... a game that went so poorly, I actually was feeling like, fine, this season has been so bad anyways, let's just let it end mercifully.... It feels like we've hit this patient with the defibrillator about 20 times, to keep his heart pumping.... Maybe it's time to let it go....  but then in a miracle flurry of 4th down conversions, we win the game.

Feels like this is funeral #5, coming up....  Colin Kaepernick owns us.  Harbaugh owns us.  We BARELY got past the Bears. 

Anyways....  Before we get into it here, How about The Michigan State Spartans!!!!

Sparty!

I may have had a sizeable wager or two on that game....  Michigan State even money +7 points, and Michigan State at 2 to 1 to win the game outright.....  Coach Dantonio, I salute you, I salute your team, and your magical win over Stanford in the Rose Bowl....  Note to Brett Bielema, that's how you do it, jerkface.....

Anyways, let's move on to the Congratulations here....

Week 13, DJS26 went back to back with another win!  Insane.  Nice job man.  More on DJS later.  A new player this year....

Week 14, Bulldogs Rule AGAIN!!!  I'm just going to put that in my paste buffer, and leave it there, so I don't have to keep typing it over & over & over until I puke......

Week 15, The Florida Boys!  Their second win of the year....  These guys in Florida, I swear....

Week 16, Studmonkey!!!  Another new player!  Hold on, this guy does not live in Florida.... Sorry, you have to be present in Florida to win.....  ahh, too bad....

(Editors note: That is NOT TRUE.)

And week 17, To make it all complete, Brady01, another new player....  From where??  Florida.  'Natch.    Of course. 

Seriously, congrats to all the weekly winners.  Any new players are going to have to FAIL a football IQ test... fair warning. 

Side note:  My season seems like a loss, and it was, I won nothing....  But I did lead the Season's Standings for awhile, and I did post 5 second place finishes, and 2 3rd place finishes.   Digging through the records, I can't find anyone who finished second 5 frickin times.....  Oh well.  It's a record of some sort, I guess.....

Anyways, the Season's Champions:

3rd Place for the Season: HIGHZ!  Hey, congrats man!  Long long long time player, Founder of this pool....  Well done.

2nd Place for the Season: DJS26!  Congrats man!  A new player, a friend of Big Headed Holy Rollers...  Quite a performance for a first timer.  You probably have no idea how hard it is to do what you just did.  2 weekly wins, and 2nd for the season....  nice.

Season's Champion: SMITTY201!  Hey, congrats!!!  Smitty was 2nd for the Season last year, which is also quite impressive.  So close to the unreal back-to-back championships that Ardita put up....  Still a tremendous win.  Congrats to you.  Heavy lies the Crown.... You'll see....  Besides the beautiful cash, you do get the Priceless Bragging Rights for a whole year, and you can freely refer to yourself as "The Fearless Leader" for a whole year....

This was a tough year.  Lots of Perennial Power Players, shut out.  Not just me.  Kathb4, Sears, Elusive, Badgergil, Erin07....  all shut out. 

What a season.  These Football Seasons really fly by, don't they???

Well, now, NOW we really have to tighten those chinstraps, and lace up those pads.... It's the PLAYOFFS!  You better come correct with it.

I'm not sure I'm feeling anything for these games....  I quietly like the San Diego Chargers, getting 7 points.  Fair warning though, that's not a popular opinion.   I've been waiting all year to bet against Andy Dalton in the playoffs....  and here we are.  He's been throwing picks like crazy lately....

I may have to bet San Fran straight up to win, in the classic "Patrick" betting formula....  Let me read from the manual here: "Betting the opponent assures you of a win.  If "Your" Team wins, you're perfectly happy to lose the bet.  If "Your" Team loses, you at least have cash winnings, to soothe the pain... Note: the wager should not be overly large.  Also note: If your team is an underdog, you must moneyline the opponent, lest you leave the door open for a double loss, ie opponent wins straight up but does not cover, meaning you lose both ways"

There you go.  Everybody got that??  Good.   I also quietly like the Saints to beat the Eagles.  The NFC East may have been even worse than the NFC North this year.... So by default, someone had to win it...  I'm not sure we should be so enthralled with this Eagles team, that needed to beat the Cowboys week 17 to finally stumble into the division lead.....  yeah, I know, the Saints can't win on the road....  I just think I want my wagon hitched to Drew Brees and Sean Payton in the Playoffs.  You bet Nick Foles, and by the 3rd quarter, you'll be wondering why you bet on Nick Foles, and taking a couple more Celebrex's with your rum & cokes.......

Apologies to Phanatic Philly Phan for that last comment....  sorry man.  He's Nick Foles!  I can't help it!

Remember December 8th???  I bet the Patriots vs Cleveland to go OVER 46 points.... checking my phone in the airport, it was like 19 to 14, with 4 minutes to go....  It looked really really bad.  Then the Patriots exploded all over Cleveland, and I ended up winning the bet easily.    Now, I knew you could mail in a winning ticket, and get paid, but I had never done it before, until now....

 How about that?!?!?!  It worked!  Nice.... Very nice....

Now, some of you know, I've won Poker Tournaments before.... but never at the MGM Grand.  Kathb4 Won one at the MGM Grand last month, and the winners of THEIR Tournaments get one of these.....

Now I'm like, so jealous.... I want one of those!!!!   Seriously, congrats to Kathb4....

Alright, I like to do this every year.... How did we do against professional handicappers???

Ron Jaworski 174-81

Smitty201 171-84 
Bulldogs Rule 171-84

Big Headed Holy Rollers 170-85

KC Joyner, "The Football Scientist", allegedly uses proprietary metrics from his own personal game tape study.  169-86

Patrick686 168-87  (I don't need to watch much tape to know Eli Manning stinks)

DJS26 167-88

Florida Boys 166-89

Highz 165-90
Halftag 165-90
(did you guys text each other your picks???)

Cris Carter, HOF'er 164-91
Phanatic Philly Phan 164-91

Kathb4 163-92
Sears 163-92

That makes me feel a little better....  We pick games as well as the best of the Pros....  On a quick pass thru the internet, I didn't see anyone with better picks than these.....  so, well done, people, well done....

That's all I have for you.  I'm done.  It's the Playoffs!  Enjoy these games!!!

And if these games disappoint, try this:

You will NOT be disappointed, I assure you....  Delightful game. 

Lost in thought, on Open Seas....

Well, I hope everyone had a very nice thanksgiving... I sure did....

Anyways, here's the headline form the Milwaukee Urinal....

Yeah...  that pretty much covers it.....

This is Bob McGinn...

Columnist / Football Analyst who is pretty impressed with himself and his opinions....

About 5 weeks ago, he wrote a column in which he opined "The Packers could win without Aaron Rodgers..."

Weeeeeeelllllll...  We haven't yet, Bob!!!

I'm waiting for that column where you say "Okay, I was very wrong, we clearly cannot and have not won without Aaron Rodgers....."

(Editors note: That column will never happen.  Mr. McGinn is never wrong.  Go ahead and ask him, he'll tell you all about it....)

Head Coach Mike McCarthy has been pretty testy over the last month as well, continuing to insist that this is a complete team, and loves the backups, and they had a great week of practice, and this team is about a lot more than Aaron Rodgers, and we expect to rise to the challenge and win on Sunday....  blah biddy blah blah bleh blah....

Yeah, Coach??  Yeah, uhh, this is what happens when you have no Quarterback....  this is not a "Quarterback Driven league", as some would say.... this is a Quarterback league, period.....

I know, I know, I can hear you out there already.... I had the Packers with my pick.  This is a good lesson to all the young gamblers out there.... Don't bet what you HOPE will happen...  Bet what is logically likely to happen based on your analysis.... Even if, God Forbid, you have to hitch your wagon to someone like Eli Manning...

Ugh.  Brutal.  Even the lowly Chicago Bears, who I freely ridicule, had enough sense to have a capable backup waiting in the wings, just off stage right, to step in when Cutler went on IR, or crapped the bed, or whatever.....  Tip of the cap to the Bears.  That's how you do it. 

Now they have a full blown QB controversy... McCown is playing at least as good as Cutler was, if the numbers are to be believed.... but that's another discussion for another day.

Anyways, congrats go out to DJS26!!!  Yeah, he won week 12.  I realized Sunday afternoon, I was right there, but I had no possibility to win.  So that took the pressure off....  Another young Buck from Florida...  What is it with these Florida dudes???  Hmmm.

Since the Packer's Season is over (Yes, I'm calling it.  Okay, maybe the fat lady hasn't started singing just yet, but she's in her dressing room humming a few bars, to be sure, warming up the pipes...), let's review some of my futures and props, just for a laugh, eh???

(Editors Note: these are fake bets.  If gambling were legal, there might be some money on these...)

Under 14.5 - total Starts 2013 Robert Griffin III.
I can't believe this one isn't in the jar yet.  But it's not.  Looks like he's started every game.  I could still cash this ticket though.... I still kind of like it.  I mean really, at the beginning of the season, the bet was basically "Will RG3 miss more than one start."  Felt like a yes, with some of the shots he takes, plus his new nickname, RGKnee....

Under 4500 - total Passing Yards, Peyton Manning.
Hmm.  He's sitting on 3700 yards right now.  So, 200 in his remaining games, he makes it no problem.  I was basically betting that he couldn't stay healthy all year....  Feels like he gets there, unless there's a disaster of some sort....

Under 11.5 - total wins 2013 Denver Broncos regular season
I don't know about this one either.  Another way to bet "No way Peyton Manning and his 4 surgery neck survives the season".  I don't see how he's doing it.  A friend of mine had a neck surgery a year ago....  He's hoping to someday walk without a cane and drive his own car again......  Yeah, "bummer" doesn't quite cover it.   This guy basically had the world by the ass, and now those are his life goals.  So during this Thanksgiving Season, give thanks for the things you have, like your health....  As TS Elliot so famously said, "...Remember Phloebas, who was once handsome, and tall as you..."

Under 1.0 - total people reading this blog who "got" the TS Elliot reference....
Yeah, no way anybody has any idea about THAT one....  I'm tempted to offer a gift card at Buffalo Wild Wings to anyone who can name the title of the work, and the chapter.... but I see I just Googled it, and it spit out the answer in .0000128 seconds....

Under 10.5 - Total wins 2013 Green Bay Packers Regular Season
This feels like a win.  I just looked it up, and I quote, "A Tie Game is considered a Loss".  I'm sitting here thinking, I think mathematically, I'm in.  We have 4 to go, we have 5 wins..... Uhhh,  I was told there would be no math, uhhh...  This is another lesson to the young gamblers out there: A bet like this is almost a no-lose situation, as long as you don't bet too much on it.  Look, if the Packers win 11 or more games, I'm thrilled.  If they stink, it sucks, but at least I win money to ease my pain....

Over 5.5 - total wins 2013 Arizona Cardinals regular season.
This is already in the jar, they've won 7, I think.  What can I say, I love Bruce Ariens, I liked their chances.  I probably should have put my whole 410k on this one....  way too easy....

(Editors note: No you should NOT.  At NO TIME should you put your whole 401k on anything!  Don't do it!)

Anyways, that's all I have for today.....

Burning in the Skies...

"... I'm swimming in the smoke
Of the Pick sheets I have burned
So don't apologize
I'm losing what I don't deserve.....

The pain is mine alone....
Of the Pick Sheets I have burned...."
- sung to the tune of "Burning In The Skies" by Linkin Park

Yeah.  That about sums it up.  I used the pick sheets to make the fire rise.....

Moving on to the Congratulations:

Week 6  Bulldogs Rule!  They really do rule, apparently.  2nd win.  Nice job man!

Week 7 Studmonkey!  Hey, a new player breaks through.  Nice job!

Week 8 Florida Boys!  All that Florida sun must be good for picks....  this guy, all he does is play golf & eat Lays potato chips.... When does he analyze games???  Maybe he sits on the couch & eats the chips in front of his Big Screen....

Week 9 Bulldogs Rule Again!!!  Crazy. 

Week 10 Phanatic Philly Phan.  Hey, nice job man.  Phanatic Philly Fan is off the Jack Daniels, and has switched back to Coors Lights.... things are looking up for the Eagles....

Week 11 Ardita, with his second win of the year.   Week 1 and week 11.  He only wins if there's all "1"'s in the number of the week.....  Hey, nice job man!   I feel the need to point out that I would have won week 10 if the Bears beat the Lions....  never count on the Bears.  Never.  They'll kill you....

Anyways...  did you see the Patriots were 3 point underdogs last Monday???  Yeah, me too... when's the last time they were dogs, anywhere???  And then they lost by 4.....  If gambling were legal, that might have cost me money....

Mike McCarthy has been pretty testy these last few weeks, and he keeps insisting this team is about more than Aaron Rodgers.....  Uhh, Mike?  You might be wrong.  This team might in fact BE all about Aaron Rodgers....

Hall of Fame list came out, did you see this??? 

If not, here it is:

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap2000000285347/article/semifinalists-for-pro-football-hall-of-fames-2014-class

Of those 25, for what it's worth, here's my 5 inductees:

Jimmy Johnson - If John Madden is in (and he is), Jimmy Johnson must go in.

Tony Dungy - only 1 Super Bowl, but he won everywhere he went, even as D Coordinator in his younger days....

Morten Andersen - it's long past time for a kicker to go in the hall.  And if you're going to have a kicker, how about a guy who won the scoring title several times in his long decorated career???

Tim Brown - If it wasn't for a guy name "Jerry Rice", he'd have a lot of records.  When he played, it was Jerry Rice, Tim Brown, and everyone else.....

Charles Haley - 5 Super bowl Rings, 2 with the 49ers, 3 with the Cowboys.  Inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor November of 2011.  Very deserving.  If Jonathon Ogden is in, how can Charles Haley not be in???

Those are my thoughts.....  that and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbucks....

Enjoy the games!

Coming out of the foxhole....

Hey, good evening!

I've fallen waaaay behind here obviously, so let's try to catch up a little....

First off, welcome to BRADY01....  another new player.   IN the interest of fairness and full disclosure, the full fee was paid, just like everyone else paid...  Good luck!

Moving along.

Week #2: BULLDOGS RULE won the week.  Very nice!  Congrats!  Younger people who live in Florida apparently have plenty of time to analyze their football picks.....

Week #3: SHARPCHEDDAR wins the week!  Nice job man!  Sharpcheddar is well known to pick a lot of upsets, but when they come in, they come in.....

Week #4: BIG HEADED HOLY ROLLERS wins the week.  Hey, congrats!  Another Florida resident with too much time on his hands.... troubling, to be sure.  He's supposed to be studying something at that college he goes to......  sigh....

Week #5: KCAMOSY!  A new guy, breaking through for his first win....  Congrats!  I did mention that new people can't win their first year, right???  Yeah, so, I get to keep that.....

(Joking.....)

Actually, he stole it from me.  How do the Jets beat Atlanta??  In the Georgia Dome???  With their rookie Quarterback??  Stolen.... I'm telling you.... I was robbed.  He committed the robbery....

Am I to assume that Atlanta and Houston are no longer good???  Am I giving too much credit to last year???  I mean, look, you want to run away during the Playoffs, but they've been very reliable during the regular season......  Until now.....

The Fraud That Is Eli Manning continues to impress.  Some performances for the ages, he's putting in here.  Even Tom Coughlin turned on him in his presser this week.....

Manning has thrown 12 picks in the 5 losses, and also lost 2 fumbles.  His QB rating is sitting on 65.... Even below his pathetic career average....  Statistically, he is still better than Blaine Gabbert, but not by much.....

Not to let the cat out of the bag, but I had to take the Bears tonight.  I can't tell you how much that pained me....  and sitting here knowing Ardita will have the Bears for 16....  Game Theory would dictate that I must also take the Bears for 16....  But I can't do it.  I can't.  But I can't root for the Giants either.....  talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place.  Cliffs in front of me, and wolves behind....

Now, before someone gets offended, I applaud the NFL's efforts to increase awareness of Breast Cancer.    Certainly a worthy cause.  Myself and The Doc just did a Harley ride, to support the Lady Rider's Breast Cancer Research Foundation.....

That being said, when you see Tom Coughlin's face turning red on the sideline, is that part of the breast cancer thing???  Or does that happen either way???  Just wondering....

News Item: Matt Flynn released by the Raiders.  Whoops!  Wow.  Brought in by 2 different teams, to be the future of their franchise....   And he supposedly will not be back with the Packers, either, or so says Coach McCarthy.....

These Officials are so brutal.... so brutal.  During the Packer game, we got a touchdown called back, that was clearly a touchdown.   Then, to really make it absurd, goofball Mike Pierera comes on, and DEFENDS THE CALL?!?!?  My cell phone almost exploded!  Everyone I know text bombed me to vent their displeasure at the obviously botched call.....  Totally absurd.  Seriously, when do the real referee's come back???  I'm still waiting....  That entire Packer game, horribly officiated throughout.  those guys clearly were fired from the Lingerie Football League....

Anyways, another reminder, set your Autopick Options up on the website!!!  Somebody who shall remain nameless didn't get their picks in on time last weekend....  If you put your own picks in, the autopick does nothing....  If you have no picks in, the autopick goes in, and at least you have SOMETHING.....

Josh Freeman to the Vikings.   Where are they sending Greg Schiano???  Home???  And now that Josh is gone, who will Schiano blame all his problems on????  Questions....

The biggest Point Spread in History... On an NFL Game.  Or, a tie, for the biggest, depending on who you believe....  Denver is a 28 point favorite over Jacksonville.....  An crazy huge point spread in a professional football game. 

Am I tempted to take Jacksonville??   No.  If gambling were legal, I would stay away from that....  Stay away, kids.    Why take Jacksonville when the Arizona Cardinals have been printing money for you all year???  They've been home dogs in several games....

Matt Schaub of the Texans, the first time ever apparently that a QB has thrown a Pick-6 in 4 straight games.  Brutal.  (A pick 6, for those who don't know, is an interception returned for a touchdown by the intercepting player)  Probably just a luck fluky thing, but still, it's troubling.  This guy is supposed to be leading you to the promised land.....

Alright.... In a few minutes, another Football game starts.... the pressure!  I'm telling you.....

Enjoy!

We have met the enemy....

Hey, greetings!!!

Recovered from opening weekend yet???

Nah, me neither.... 14 straight hours in front of the Epic 60 inch LED will wear you out....

Ahhh, but the Football is back!

Congrats to ARDITA! A nice win...

Why does this feel like that scene in the Star Wars movie where the Emperor reveals that the Battle Station is FULLY OPERATIONAL?!??!?! Maybe it's just me.... Ardita, coming strong out of the gate....

Han Solo: "I've got a bad feeling about this...."

Yeah, no kidding....

We have some new players, as you may have noticed. Welcome to DJS26, STUDMONKEY, KCAMOSY, and SPARKY1987. I'm told they know NOTHING about Football, so, everyone just relax....

(They wouldn't lie to me, would they????)

DJS26 was making a play for it there.... I dunno....

Yeah, my picks were not great. I spent a little too much time imagining what *might* happen, instead of thinking about what might PROBABLY happen....

Anquan Boldin had a nice game against the Packers....

Now, can the Ravens go ahead and give back that sixth round pick, and have Boldin back??? NO?? Oh well....

What a beast.  And now he has a real Quarterback again..... Look out.

Cowboys Cheerleaders had plenty to cheer about... 6 turnovers against the hated Giants.  The Fraud That Is Eli Manning, already in midseason form, nice to see.....  Actually, that game should have been a blowout....  and now Tony Romo is hurt..... ouch....

News Item: Matt Flynn sold his house!

 

Not bad, not bad.... $1.4 million dollars, apparently...  this was his house in Seattle.  Maybe he should try a 1 year lease, and see how that goes.....  I mean, that would be a nice summer house... I'm not sure I'd want to be stuck there all year, though.....

(Yeah, right...)

That is Jacksonville, home of the Jacksonville Jaguars.  That's not 4 hours before kickoff people, that's the END OF THE 3RD QUARTER!!!

That's pretty empty.  Yeeesh.   Keep in mind, they adamantly do not want Tebow.  They do NOT.  They are apparently fundamentally opposed to anything that might draw people into their building....  Plus, they already have a guy who cannot play Quarterback, the immortal Blaine Gabbert....  who is now injured, and they need a QB.....  but no Tebow, please!    No no..... smh....

How about those Eagles???  Phanatic Philly Phan probably needed a defibrillator midway through the second quarter.....  that was a fun game to watch.... Chip Kelly, quite a debut....

Question: If a player straddling the ten yard line throws a pass, and a player at the 8&1/2  yard line bats it down, was the ball going forward, for a forward pass???  If you said no, congrats!  Not only are you bad at geometry, but you have a bright future as an official in the NFL!!!!

I promised myself I was going to stop b*tching about officiating, but holy crap.....  that's a promise made to be broken....

Alright people, we literally have less than 49 hours before the next football game.  I know, right??  Get your picks in, come correct, come strong with it.....

Rather than send 19 emails, everyone is paid up, okay, so relax.... Nobody is getting booted.   Fresh point spreads have landed on websites, like new fallen snow....

Congrats to the Cardinals!  I thought they would win, but they DID COVER.  Now, if there was a worldwide network of computers, and you could place bets in the British Virgin Isles, I may have had money on that.....

Until next week!