Ha! It's Back! RealJohnBoy's A2K NFL "Pick-Um" Game!

Indy wins.
And Edgar will win the week!

@realjohnboy,

Congratulations, Edgar!

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I have put in a notch what I have learned in RJB's A2K NFL Pick-Um Game, as I had an epiphany this night. A revelation.

I think it's a very interesting piece of knowledge I'm glad to share with you:
In the NFL, any given Sunday any given team can beat any other given team.

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First place can be such a fleeting plateau (does that work?). As the season progresses, I have traditionally fallen to the lower echelons. Mainly because I don't do any real homework. But it's nice. Thanks folks.

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@spendius,

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I've just seen three Jet's touchdowns, the second for the extra point, where the Pats defence just stood aside. That's what it looked like to me. We are not used to defenders allowing that sort of space. When the ball can be seen coming for 4 or 5 seconds. Namanda Vidic would have stopped the lot with his bare head.

Ah, the first of what is sure to be many "our-football-is-better-than-your-football" posts from Spendi.

Although he's a very good defender, had Vidic gone for the ball he more than likely would have been promptly buried in the ground like a shrub.

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@fbaezer,

fbaezer wrote:

In the NFL, any given Sunday any given team can beat any other given team.

Yes indeed.

Yet another reason the NFL is better than the Premiere League.

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@edgarblythe,

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First place can be such a fleeting plateau (does that work?)

I prefer "greasy pole" or "sitting duck position".

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I think I am firing Prof. BillyBob as my football score advisor. I'll have better luck letting my dog pick the winners. One bark for the visitor, two barks for the home team.

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I can't believe how many here were dead convinced that the Giants were going to win last night.

Cycloptichorn

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@Ticomaya,

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Ah, the first of what is sure to be many "our-football-is-better-than-your-football" posts from Spendi.

Not at all Tico. I don't think our football is better than your's. The world might do but I don't. I was making another point. I think your football is a brilliant adaptation to American states of mind. Just as our's is to our's.

And as one might expect given the experience of the management of the two versions. To say one is better than the other is to say something about the relative merits of the authorities who run these businesses.

I don't know the reason for you having so short a season that the teams cannot play each other home and away. With 32 teams it would require 62 games to do that. How many home games does the average NFL team play in a season on full throttle? Why are rich Americans invested in our football so heavily? And others.

Maybe the social life that goes with your football is not as exotic as it is in our's. Too clean-cut. More provincial. Noveau Rich. You know? Like a lottery winner in the owner's bar at Ascot.

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@spendius,

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I don't know the reason for you having so short a season that the teams cannot play each other home and away.

Injury. It's a tough sport and as the season goes on the injuries really pile up.

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How many home games does the average NFL team play in a season on full throttle?

16 not counting the playoffs - and that's every team in the league, they all play an equal number of games every year.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Injuries pile up in every sport where men put their bodies under as much stress as they dare.

Your answer suggests you know little about sport and then there's only vicarious machismo involved.

I could offer an explanation involving geographical distances and the expense of travelling with a large entourage.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

Injuries pile up in every sport where men put their bodies under as much stress as they dare.

the idea that Soccer leads to as many injuries as Football is a joke. In one sport collisions are avoided if unnecessary, in the other, collisions are the entire point. There really is no comparison.

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Your answer suggests you know little about sport and then there's only vicarious machismo involved.

I could offer an explanation involving geographical distances and the expense of travelling with a large entourage.

Sure, but you would be wrong.

Cycloptichorn

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@Cycloptichorn,

Stay with that rubbish then Cyclo.

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@Cycloptichorn,

Cycloptichorn wrote:

I can't believe how many here were dead convinced that the Giants were going to win last night.

Cycloptichorn

Me too neither.

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@spendius,

spendius wrote:

Not at all Tico. I don't think our football is better than your's. The world might do but I don't. ...

You might not think you think it (and I doubt it), but you do.

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I don't know the reason for you having so short a season that the teams cannot play each other home and away. With 32 teams it would require 62 games to do that. How many home games does the average NFL team play in a season on full throttle?

The NFL is a blood sport, much more so than soccer. They play 16 games in the regular season. Too many injuries to play any more games. (I'll remind you, as I did last year about this time, that you and I have previously compared the number of injuries in the Premiere League with the NFL, and the NFL has MUCH more injuries.)

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Why are rich Americans invested in our football so heavily? And others.

I dunno ... why'd the rich Russian dude buy the Nets ... who's to say.

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Congrats to Edgar.

GEAUX SAINTS!!!

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@Cycloptichorn,

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I can't believe how many here were dead convinced that the Giants were going to win last night.

I said they would win @ home. The reason was apparent. Lucas field is a loud stadium which makes it hard for offensive linemen to hear the count and def ends have a field day(Freeney and Mathis).

If you noticed, Indy has a guard looking through his legs at Manning for the kick that signals hike. He then taps the center to convey the message. All the while Saturday, the center who calls out instructions can keep his head up and his eye on the defensive alignments.

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@Ticomaya,

Look Tico--I don't think our football is better than your's and I explained why. All sport is at a similar level when there's enough money in it to attract the best players and to get them to exert themselves. I enjoy your game on Sunday night just as much as I enjoy any other game. Men at work with no words to spin with. And chance playing a part.

You have a big lead in relation to conspicuous consumption. And I still think that having fatties as youth icons is a flaw.

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@panzade,

panzade wrote:

If you noticed, Indy has a guard looking through his legs at Manning for the kick that signals hike. He then taps the center to convey the message. All the while Saturday, the center who calls out instructions can keep his head up and his eye on the defensive alignments.

Wow, I didn't know that. But why wouldn't the guard be responsible for barking out instructions while the center watches for Manning's signal?

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