Picks Week 2

No real thinking went into these picks. I just went with my gut. We'll see how far that takes me!

*My picks are bolded:

Home Points Spread Away
Washington Redskins +1.5 New Orleans Saints
Jacksonville Jaguars -6.5 Buffalo Bills
Kansas City Chiefs -4.5 Oakland Raiders
Cincinnati Bengals -1.5 Tennessee Titans
Minnesota Vikings +2.5 Indianapolis Colts
St. Louis Rams +9.5 New York Giants
Carolina Panthers -3.5 Chicago Bears
Detroit Lions +3.5 Green Bay Packers
Seattle Seahawks -9.5 San Francisco 49ers
Tampa Bay Buccaneers -8.5 Atlanta Falcons
New York Jets -2.5 New England Patriots
Arizona Cardinals -7.5 Miami Dolphins
Denver Broncos +2.5 San Diego Chargers
Cleveland Browns +5.5 Pittsburgh Steelers
Dallas Cowboys -7.5 Philadelphia Eagles

Oops

So, I ended up with 7 games correct. I guess when I looked last night they were including one of the games that hadn't finished yet in my number. So, I guessed wrong for both games. Crappy. The guy who won has 13 games correct. Sigh. Maybe next week.

On another note, did you happen to see Aaron Rodgers play last night? He was pretty good. A little Favre-esque at times. In fact, the Packers looked pretty good. It would be interesting if the Jets and the Packers met each other in the playoffs.

What do you think about the whole Tom Brady situation? He doesn't play any games during the pre-season and in his 2nd play of the first game of the season he's taken out by a season ending knee-injury. It's going to be a steep hill for New England to climb without Brady. Although Cassells did a pretty good job replacing Brady in their win on Sunday. It will be an interesting story to follow.

8

That's the number of correct picks I have so far. After tonight's games, I could end up with 10 for the week. To put it in perspective, the person winning so far has 13 correct so far and after tonight s/he could get 15.

I am happy with my 8 (hopefully 10) because last year I didn't win any weeks, but I put up decent numbers every week and ended up in the money.

BTW, Aaron Rodgers is QB'ing the Packers tonight. He doesn't look very impressive so far. I am really torn about the Packers this year. I have been a huge fan in the past, particularly because of Brett Favre. I really don't want to cheer for them, but I do if you know what I mean. Not very eloquent I know. I guess I'll cheer for the team, but not the management. And, I'm cheering for Favre in NYJ so we'll see what the season holds.

Woohoo!

I got one right! The Giants beat the Redskins 16 to 7, which means they more than covered the 4.5 spread.

Now I just have to wait until Sunday for the majority of the games.

Football - Week #1

Football starts tonight! Woohoo. The hubby and I have digital cable with the sports pack so we can get our fill of all of the football games every week. As I said in an earlier post, I am in a weekly pick'em game. Last year I finished 5th overall (in the money) but didn't win any of the weeks. Each week I'm going to post my picks and then afterward I'm going to discuss what happened, how many correct I got.

So here we go. This week I did not employ any major strategy when doing my picks. I looked at the spreads and if it was a large spread e.g. the favoured team had to win by 9 points or more, I would think about whether or not I thought the team was capable of covering the spread.

Without further ado, here are my picks (the team with the blue circle beside it is the team I chose).

Home	Points Spread	Away
New York Giants 16	-4.5	Washington Redskins 7
New Orleans Saints 24	-3.5	Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20
Miami Dolphins 14	+3.5	New York Jets 20
Baltimore Ravens 17	+1.5	Cincinnati Bengals 10
Atlanta Falcons 34	+3.5	Detroit Lions 21
Philadelphia Eagles 38	-7.5	St. Louis Rams 3
Buffalo Bills 34	-0.5	Seattle Seahawks 10
Tennessee Titans 17	+3.5	Jacksonville Jaguars 10
New England Patriots 17	-16.5	Kansas City Chiefs 10
Pittsburgh Steelers 38	-7.5	Houston Texans 17
San Diego Chargers 24	-9.5	Carolina Panthers 26
Cleveland Browns 10	+5.5	Dallas Cowboys 28
San Francisco 49ers 13	+2.5	Arizona Cardinals 23
Indianapolis Colts 13	-9.5	Chicago Bears 29
Green Bay Packers 24	-3.5	Minnesota Vikings 19
Oakland Raiders 14	+3.5	Denver Broncos 41
MNF total: 49

They FINALLY Won

It was high drama, coming down to the last minute of play when the University of Toronto's Varsity Blues kicked a field goal to win the game 18-17 over the Waterloo Warriors to break a 49 game losing streak. You read that correctly, prior to September 1st's game, the Blues were 0 and 49.

While this is a long losing streak, it is not the worst losing streak of all time. According to Wikipedia the longest losing streak is held by the NCAA Basketball team from the California Institute of Technology who lost a record 207 games in a row between 1996 and January 2007.

Hats off to the Blues for ending their losing skid.

Decisions Decisions

I’m in a quandary. I don’t know who to cheer for this year. You see, usually I’m a Green Bay Packers fan, but they dissed my boy Brett so badly this year I don’t know if I can still cheer for them. I know what you’re thinking… a player shouldn’t be more important than the team. It’s the team that you cheer for. Ya ya, let me ask you one question… have you seen Brett Favre?! Yum. I mean, um, he’s an amazing quarterback, even if he is old.

Last year my dear hubby got me tickets to see Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers play the NY Giants in the NFC Conference Championship game. It was a 17 hour drive, we had 3rd row, end zone tickets and it was the 3rd coldest game in the history of the league. Lambeau Field was amazing and it was the single best sporting event I’ve ever been to; even if the Packers lost. I thought I had been at Brett Favre’s last game, turned out it was just his last game as a Packer.




So, here we are. Favre is playing for the New York Jets. I don’t know if I can be a fan of the Jets. They seem so boring. They’ve been around since 1960 but they don’t seem to have any real character like the Bears, Cowboys, Packers or Steelers. I guess I’ll just start by cheering for Favre and see where it goes from there.