Ha, Ha. It's Back! The A2K NFL "Pick-Um" Game!

Hey! We are talking about football.

Ha! we're also talking about a nearly newlywed

His birthday was actually yesterday - The Mystery Woman must put on a heck of a celebration.

OK, I'm here.
Yes beth, my birthday was on the tenth.

Anyway, here are my picks...

San Francisco
Minnesota
Pittsburgh
NY Jets
New Orleans
Tennessee
Miami
Atlanta
Denver
Oakland
Green Bay
Arizona
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
Baltimore 28-10

San Francisco 49ers over Chicago Bears.

Here's tonight (Thurs 11/12) team stats breakdown:

Chicago 4-4, 1-3 away {F 139 " A 159} @ San Francisco 3-5, 2-2 home {F 126 " A 144}

I'll post the entire breakdown after my dental app't in 2.5 hrs

Some thoughts about tonight's game.
SF coach(and former Bears star) Mike Singletary is welcoming the Bears to his new den.He's gonna be pumped.


Bears defense is decimated by injuries. Key one is Urlacher


SF's running back Frank Gore should have some big numbers.

Time to try it again, I guess----

San Francisco
Minnesota
Pittsburgh
New York Jets
New Orleans
Tennessee
Miami
Atlanta
Denver
Oakland
Dallas
Arizona
San Diego
Indianapolis
Baltimore 24, Cleveland 6

How is your kind of football played in schools where few of the skills and arrangements we see in the NFL are to be expected?

here is a high school game played in the Cowboys ugly stadium...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHkABO0VwCg

A few quick notes whilst I cook dinner.

The main skills lacking in HS football are passing and special teams. Every field goal attempt is full of drama.

There is a larger percentage of running plays than in the NFL.
I enjoy watching the Florida state championship when it is televised in my area.

amazing, RH.

Put the lie to my post...but to be fair ...they had to make a BIG come back so a lot of passing.,

here's another aspect of hot rivalries...

It has been a miserable 3 days in Virginia and other mid-atlantic states as the remnants of Ida wander through. How miserable?
-45 degrees was the high today.
-At my house there has been drizzle to hard rain, totaling 6" of rain so far.
-Flooding, even record flooding in some areas.
-30,000 households without power in Virginia and North Carolina alone.
-Steady breezes of 10 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. A lot of umbrellas died today, turned inside out.
It should get better tomorrow as we send the storm further north.

I am missing only Miz Cowdoc in the picking for the game tonight betwixt Chicago and San Francisco...2 hours from now. 4 folks picked only that game while 22 filled out the whole week. Please remember that yall can change your picks before kick-off time on Sunday if you are so inclined.

We favor the 49's by 20-6. Rhyss, JPinMilw, Liontamerx, George, Wandeljw (from Chicago) and Edgar pick the Bears. JPB has no loyalty to her hometown team.
I note that the two teams' QBs have a propensity for committing turnovers.

query. Is the game televised?

Snarl. Johnboy starts to foam at the mouth. The game is on tv on the greedy NFL network.

San Fran
Minn
Pit
Jets
New Orleans
Tenn
Miami
Atlanta
Washington
Oakland
Green BAy
Arizona
San Diego
Indy

Balt. 27 -21

I'm guessing that it's not available.

Well Rockie- if that's high school there is a big equipment sales drive involved I should think. 8 year olds play our football. And in many other countries also. How do 8 year olds play American football?

What size of population would those teams be drawn from?

The game was advertised to be on Sky Sports 3 at 11.00 pm GMT. It is not on.

What's going on?

The teams operate under an umbrella organization called the NFL. There is a boss (commissioner) and a board.
The TV networks (CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, ESPN) bid for the rights to broadcast packages of games. The NFL gets a shitload of money from the networks which could, in turn, sell advertising during the games.
The NFL decided that they could set up their own network, the NFL network. They could start out by broadcasting just one live game or so a week, starting with the Thursday night game, filling the rest of the week with replays of old games and talking heads who would probably appear for free in order to be on television. Fans, if they wanted to see that one live game (like tonight's), would have to subscribe to the network.
The plan, I think, is that the NFL network intends to cut the traditional networks out of the picture totally over time.
That's what I think, but I don't even have a tv. So what do I know?