I do go to a site where I don't even have to watch the news to know the exciting plays. They give me play by play and even do recaps at the end of the games if I care to sit and watch it refresh. No one talks and gives their opinion. And none of the team members can make excuses or brag on themselves! :rofl:

:x: :hug: :x: :hug: :x: :hug:

I'm sure she didn't mean you fred! Thinkin she meant the MCP's in her office!

Come on, now. MCP or not, feminism or not, football is still enjoyed more by the male populace. For a woman to go 14-0 in an office football pool, it's time for us to do a li'l victory dance a la battle of the sexes.

Lixer, all I know is she asks her boyfriend for help & she's a competitive soul. I'll let you know anything I learn!

Unlike Tennessee, who can always be counted on to shoot themselves in the foot by the 4th quarter....

Another country heard from!!!!

Hey scotz? Where ya been? We're in week 8...ya know? Not that I don't appreciate every input (<---I said input...lol!)...but, um...well...WHERE THE FUCK YA BEEN?

Stick around babe! And did you check out the reason for the thread from the beginning?

*pacing the floor because I know he's right about Tennessee...eek!*

Can't hurt to hear opposing views Steph. I'm open to all reasons why a certain team "might" win over a team I initially picked. Can't say as I'll be swayed...but I love to hear the reasoning!

Yeh, I've been keeping abreast (uhuh uhuh I said a breast) of your football challenge, but I've held back 'cuz I don't really have any useful input that would help you...at my house, it's Mrs Zoid who really keeps up with the sports action, & I just go along as long as I see an entertaining game...but the Titans haven't been nearly as much fun since your Eagles got the Freak away from us (now tell me you don't know who I'm talking about)...

Well...as I said on numerous occasions, I don't watch the games or know any of the player's, persay. If a name is continually repeated I'll get to know it...but as to matching it up to a team, that's debatable as to if I can do it. I am of the science that if I hear talk of a player missing for an injury (for example)...I'll investigate his value to the team then, and usually only then.

I know people who spend football season living vicariously through certain players...usually only the cream of the crop. Much like reincarnation and "coming back" as a well known past figure, these people never choose to "sit on the bench". Instead, they take on the role of...say...the quarterback, and their emotions and moods swing on how well "they" did in any particular game.

I just can't get into the games this much or I'd be an emotional wreck! So...I choose not to keep names and stats in my head all season. I'm emotional enough for other reasons...I don't need to add fuel to my fire! :rofl:

So...enlighten me scotz baby!

Man alive...I'm sucking pond scum this week! It's almost 7:45pm and I only have 4 wins. Just waiting for one more game tonight and then tomorrow's game.

This was a freaky week in football! Surprised as hell that I got the Philly/Denver game!

I can't believe Houston and SF won. What the hell?
Uck.

I'm 5/13 so far...

Can't wait to put this week behind us!

C'mon Pitts!

ok, let's chalk this one up to a full moon and move on....

WTF?

Is it just me, or is this year getting screwy? With a couple of expections, good (Indy) and bad (I'm so sorry any of you Vikings fans), most of the teams are just too close to call week to week.

I know guys...I know! Things are so unpredictable.

I've got to say...I felt soooooooooooo good about last weeks picks. I don't know how to trust my feelings anymore!

*shake, shake, skake*

OK...OK...We'll do what LAW said and shake it off, pull ourselves up by the boot straps, chalk it up to the moon phase...then we'll DROP BACK FIVE YARDS...AND PUNT! Lmfao!

Total wins for me this week - 6/14

I think MCP went 9/14 this week, and if so I am down 2 games for the season.

I'm just gonna tell him the story of the Tortoise and False Security. Oh...wait...I mean the Tortoise and the Hare. :jester:

OK guys...get your thinking caps on and I'll be back with this weeks match-ups either tonight or tomorrow evening!

LET'S KICK ASS FOR REAL THIS WEEK!

:x:

all i can say is free agency... players are moving around frequently and most don't stay long enough to form a "team" - thus they all don't consistently gel, but rather from week to week you end up with a differing star player who was "on" that game.

Indy @ New England = Pats by 3

Here are the match-ups and my picks so far...

Carolina@Tampa Bay - Carolina
Houston@Jacksonville - Jacksonville
Cincinnatti@Baltimore - Cincinnatti
Atlanta@Miami - Atlanta
Detroit@Minnesota - Detroit
Chicago@New Orleans - New Orleans
San Diego@NY Jets - San Diego
Tennessee@Cleveland - Tennessee
Oakland@Kansas City - Kansas City
Seattle@Arizona - Seattle
NY Giants@San Francisco - NY Giants
Pittsburg@Green Bay - Pittsburg
Philadelphia@Washington - Philadelphia

MONDAY NIGHT
Indianapolis@New England - Indianapolis (with a nod to Winston that this could change) Total combined points = 49

These are my initial instincts...and you know what I am feeling about my instincts at the moment! What say you?

UPDATE!

MCP went 10/14 this past week. I am down by 3 games!!! EEEEEKKKKKKK!

C'mon peeps...what do ya thinking for this week's games? I LOVE your feedback!

I know I picked Indianapolis...but Winston says it'll be close and New England will conquer. I noticed that MCP picked New England today too. For some reason he kept filling out his pool while I was talking to the girl who works next to him, and was saying his picks out loud. He's all full of himself, and I didn't show it, but it's getting under my skin like maggots in a pile of 4 day old discarded chicken necks (<---OMGGGGG...did that sound Pa. Dutch or redneck?...roflmfao!) I noticed he picked mostly "away" teams too...but I didn't memorize what his picks were...exactly.

Please don't lose interest now! No matter what happens...this thread has been fun all the way!

There's only two games that I'd have you look at (Besides the PATS)
The Bears are coming into their own lately and the Saints are making way to many mistakes and Philly going into DC after the embaressment the Gaints handed the "Skins" I really don't think Joe Gibbs is going to let that happen.
yahoo head line today "Owens doubtful with sprained ankle; McNabb has sore rib"

I hear ya Winston! I can't agree more about Philly! They surprised me last week cause I'm usually damned no matter what I do with them. And the Skins being home and all...I am iffy with that game for sure!

I'm keeping an open mind to all of your observations/suggestions. It's not that I go "eeny, meeny, miney, moe"...so I love all the feedback I get here in addition to my own sources on some sites I frequent. I'll total up the dashes I have beside each team and I'll be back tomorrow morning with my final picks!

Thanks for your thoughts hun...and Happy Birthday!

I agree with Winston on those games. I'm nervous about them, but I think the Bears and Skins will win.
I'm also much more nervous about the Green Bay/Pitt game now that I know Roethlisberger is going to be out. But I think they can still win that.
And there's something about the Cincinnati/Baltimore game that I don't like. I chose Baltimore, even though Cincinnati should be the better team. I can't explain why, and I'm not going to recommend it. When I'm wrong y'all can laugh at me.

There's a long time to go in the season. You'll get him

Lix, i'm not sold on the Philly/Washington game either. I think Philly is the Murphey's Law of football teams. You bet against them, they win. You bet with them, they lose.

Stick with Pitt over Green Bay. Even though R-burger is out, Brett Farve is no better than Tommy maddox (Pitt's backup) this season. With that being equal it will come down to their running game and their defense, and Pitt's is better. They will be able to force more interceptions and turnovers (Farve had 5 last game, remember) and hopefully get some points off of those.

just my opinions.

Thanks once again...for all the great feedback guys!

Here's my final picks...

Carolina
Jacksonville
Cincinnatti (I was on the fence with this one too...so I did flip a coin...lmfao!)
Atlanta
Detroit
Chicago (you both swayed me...it was so close you could barely fit a wedge between the two)
San Diego
Tennessee
Kansas City
Seattle
NY Giants
Pittsburg
Washington (again, so close to call till I heard more about T.O. and McNabb's injuries...not to mention a couple of other players)

MONDAY NIGHT

New England (I feel good about this change...my computer sources play the game with no feeling and I trust real people's reasoning. Now let's see if the player's agree!)

Final Combined Total of Monday Night's Game...49

OK...here we go again! *crosses all philanges* (<---can't hurt...lol!)

Good Luck everyone!

P.S. I agree LAW! Philly is my Achilles Heel!

Philly has no chance this week so your all set

With the Washington & Philly game still going on she only has one loss so far. Good going

Actually 2 losses Winston. The Detroit/Minnesota game and the Tennessee/Cleveland game are loses. But I still have 11 wins so far!

Now let's hope New England comes through for me tonight!

Been a good week for us, Lixy! Hope this helps to make up for the shitbomb last week. how did MCP do this week?

Holy S**t! New England choked big time, eh?

Oh well...I'm still 11/14. All in all it was a pretty good week. Good to know you faired well too LAW! How'd everyone else do?

Dunno about MCP yet. I do know we had 2 different picks this week and one of them was the Eagles. He had Philly...lmfao! I am thinking the other may have been Indianapolis (not sure though). We may have tied but I won't know till this afternoon.

I'll get back to ya when I know! I'll be getting the new pool today as well so...here we go again!

Stay tuned!

P.S. What are your feelings about T.O. getting the boot from the Eagles?

I feel like he got what he wanted all along and he had it coming fore all his antics this year. It's a shame to lose such a good player. He is full of himself and so I hope he can find a team that only needs one player...Terrel Owens!

Does anyone know where he would prefer to play? And...this doesn't make him a free agent, does it? Are there teams interested in him knowing how he is?

I tell ya...he'd not make a good Musketeer! LOL!

TO is a superdouche that deserved what he had coming. If you or I acted like that at our jobs, we'd have been fired way before. Philly will not pick him up again next year, so it's my understanding that he now become a free agent at the end of the season. I can't say if anyone else will pick him up or not. He got canned from San Fransisco for doing the same shit and Baltimore passed because of it as well. This is the third team he's managed to piss off - that says something and people are noticing. Any team that picks him up deseres what they get. But some teams are going to be desperate at the end of the season.

*EDIT - it just occured to me that Green Bay will be one of those desperate teams, and maybe they will pick him up. If that happens, we'll have to see how much TO really DOES like playing with Brett Farve as QB.

DOUBLEDIT - that is, if Green Bay doesn't can Farve at the end of this season...

I don't think Green Bay will "can" Brett Favre. He's likely to retire, been talking about it publicly for a good 2-3 years already. He's proving what we all should know already, the QB can't make a team - only make it stronger or weaker. Look at who he has on the other end of the ball on the offense - and how helpful the defense has been... the team has a lot of weaknesses and Brett isn't one of them. I'm not familar with the salary TO makes, but I'm willing to bet it's outside of what Green Bay would pay.

I forget, Lixy, what is the consequence of losing this bet? Does it involve you stripping completely, and running through the field of view of all the security cameras in your workplace?

MCP and I went 11/14 this week! I'm still down (by 3) but not out!

He was pretty smug today about the Indianapolis game. He picked Indy and had the total points for the game right on (61). Had to keep rubbing it in whenever I passed him too...but he wasn't the weekly winner so I made a point of saying, "The outcome of a game DOES NOT make a winner in the whole scheme of things"! Hey! It was off the cuff and the only thing I could come up with...lmfao!

Heard more from T.O. today too! Suddenly he wants to appoligize to all who he was asked to appoligize to before they let him go. BUT...this was his appology today...(paraphrasing)...I feel as though I need to appologize to the fans, my teammates, and to Donovan McNabb.

I ask you...If you feel as though you need to appologize, don't ya just say it..."I APPOLIGIZE!" He never said "sorry"...he never said "I appoligize to these people"...he just said he feels as though he should! SEMANTICS! He's full of SHIT! He isn't sorry for his past antics...he's just sorry the team let him go!

As far as money...they are witholding $800.000.00 for the four games he was suspended on for fighting in the locker room and they are trying to get his $1.5 million dollar signing bonus back. After that, they have to pay him till the end of the season.

It's been said that he was a cancer for the team since his manager (Drew...somethingorother) picked him up this season. Anyone besides me think Drew has steered him wrong so early in his career?



OK...nuff about that! On to this week's match-up's!

New England @ Miami
Minnesota @ NY Giants
Washington @Tampa Bay
Baltimore @ Jacksonville
Houston @ Indianapolis
Arizona @ Detroit
Kansas City @ Buffalo
San Francisco @ Chicago
Denver @ Oakland
NY Jets @ Carolina
ST Louis @ Seattle
Green Bay @ Atlanta
Cleveland @ Pittsburg

MONDAY NIGHT

Dallas @ Philadelphia



OK...I have my thoughts...I'll collect my info...and I'll be back tomorrow night to make my predictions! Keep your thinking caps on!

Luv you guys!

And gecko? We don't have security cams in my workplace...but if you want hun...I'll set some up! Oh...and gecko baby? If I do that...what will you do for me??????????????????? And HEY! What makes you think I'm gonna lose??????

Gecko? You watching the games this year? If so...are you crossing your digits for me to win or lose?

*smart ass gecko's...blah*

*giggle, giggle*

You know, I really thought they were going to play better than that. They just don't have the people right now. Sorry.





The thing that I don't think is getting enough attention is that this is a pattern, he did it in San Francisco, he did it last year, and in the preseason. He's a good player, but he doesn't seem to realize that it's a team sport. And pissing off the guy getting the ball to you, isn't going to help you get the ball.
I hope nobody is desperate enough to pick him up, but of course, someone will think that they'll be able to work with him. Enjoy sitting out this year TO.

New England @ Miami - New England
Minnesota @ NY Giants - NYG
Washington @Tampa Bay - Washington
Baltimore @ Jacksonville - JAX
Houston @ Indianapolis - Indy
Arizona @ Detroit - Detriot
Kansas City @ Buffalo - KC
San Francisco @ Chicago - neither? is that an option? no? hmm....I think Chigaco.
Denver @ Oakland - Oakland
NY Jets @ Carolina - Carolina
ST Louis @ Seattle - Seattle
Green Bay @ Atlanta - Atlanta
Cleveland @ Pittsburg - Pitt

MONDAY NIGHT

Dallas @ Philadelphia - Dallas
Ok, I know Philly fucks us every week. This might just give them another opportunity to do it, but Dallas has (unfortunately) been playing really well this year. Philly is not at all focused, and I think that Dallas can pull it off. Somebody convicne her that i"m wrong - i really really want to be wrong!

No need to be sorry fred! I get good feedback from you guys, but I make the final choices. Please don't ever feel bad for the banter here. It's fun and no matter what happens I'll still have had a good time. I hope you all will too!

*hugs*

As to T.O. It's been duely noted (over and over again...here, in my area at least) of his behavior over the years. He's gotten worse since this Drew dude took over his management. And it seems to me he might have a lot of YES men/women hanging out in his posse'. Much like Michael Jackson, no one cares about him enough to tell him to stop making an ass of himself and ruining what could be a brilliant career.

One of the worst things I heard him say to the press was something like (paraphrasing again)...I'm the best player this team has and I deserve more money. I'm like anyone else...I'm just trying to feed my family!

This ^^^ from a man who makes millions for playing a game! Granted...it's a tough game...but ALL the players are in it the same as him.

Also, I wonder if he knows the plight of the homeless people in the town he makes so much money in? If he could walk a mile in their shoes I think he'd consider his salary satisfactory for the time being!

And whatever happened to holding yourself responsible for signing a contract? In these times a contract doesn't seem to mean didley squat. What's the purpose? A signature and/or a handshake used to mean something. People used to stand behind what they signed. Now they just disregard it on a whim. The more the disregard is tolerated, the less a signature means! So...why have anyone sign anything?

OMG! *looks down at the soapbox under my feet*

How'd that get there? LOL!

Are you sure about the Denver - Oakland game, LAW? I don't know if Oakland is good enough to stop them and they had the week off to prep.
I think you're right about Dallas. I just don't think Philly has the weapons right now.

Nope not sure about that one. Going with oakland becuase they've been on a streak (momentum) and have a solid defense. They don't turn over the ball much, and i think that's what's going to pull them through, regardless of the fact that Denver had a bye last week.
But I could always be wrong.

EDIT - Went back and reevaluated. I'm wrong - take Denver. I don't know WTF I was thinking.

Hiya Guys!

I've gotta say...I am right there with you LAW! And I am so glad you made your reevaluation (Denver/Oakland) cause I feel squirmy when I have to go against anyone who knows so much more about football than me. So...WHEW!

TY fred...for making her take a second look (if that IS indeed what happened)! :x:

Herein lies my dilemma. I am bouncing, like a superball, back and forth from Dallas to Philly...

BECAUSE...(and ya'll [<---testing my Texas accent in print] can tell me if I'm nuttier than a fruitcake)

I keep feeling like the Eagles are feeling a major need to PROVE to their fans and to T.O. and Andrew (fuckyhead) and to the owners and coaches and especially to the naysayers who all felt T.O. shouldn't have been treated this way...and to anyone of any concern around the country, that they CAN DO IT without T.O.... regardless of the rookies and the injuries. And I'll reiterate what Philly feels about Dallas...THEY ARE OUR BIGGEST RIVAL IN THE NFL (for some reason that I am not privvy to).

With that said...Dallas has the potential to KILL PHILLY! Both teams have something to prove in this game! FUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKK...I can't bring myself to make a choice!

Here's my final choices thus far...(take note I am right there with you guys till Monday Night)

New England
NY Giants
Washington
Jacksonville
Indianapolis
Detroit
Kansas City
Chicago
Denver
Carolina
Seattle
Atlanta
Pittsburg

MONDAY NIGHT

Dallas...NO! Philadelphia...NO! Dallas...NO! Philadelphia...I swear peeps I am damned no matter what I do!

Know what's gonna happen? A coin toss for sure!

Curses to the friggin Philly/Dallas rivalry!

You guys HAVE to help me with the total score (combined score of both teams for the Monday night game...it's the tie breaker when pool players have the same amount of winning teams)...C'mon...gimme something!

Be back tomorrow morning (with my final Monday Night choice) as I suffer through tonight and make my choice via coin toss upon coin toss! LMFAO!

XXXOOO

BTW...can anyone think of why an Eagle would dislike a Cowboy?

And...if we were playing "rock, paper, scissors" in a sense...would the Coyboy win or would the Eagle win?

I'm thinking the Eagle could shit on the Cowboy's head...therefore, pissing him off enough to rope that eagle neck and pull him to the ground! Eh?

OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! Make me stop thinking!

Well, if that Cowboy has a gun, the Eagle is fucked.

This is cracking me up. Have you consulted the magic 8 ball yet? :jump: