@JPB,
I'm struck with unusual lethargy on picking which teams will win.
Maybe I'll resort to the best hair scenario.
Ready to keep on losing:
Jacksonville
Baltimore
Kansas City
Green Bay
Detroit
Carolina
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Houston
New Orleans
Dallas
San Diego
Philadelphia
NY Jets (21-20)
Another week to work my way closer to to top. Prof. BillyBob's pet possum did the picking this week since he seems to be on a roll lately. He swears Carolina will beat Chicago. If he is wrong, we'll be having possum stew on Monday.
WEEK #5 -
Jacksonville
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Green Bay
Detroit
Carolina
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Houston
New Orleans
Dallas
San Diego
San Francisco
NY Jets 24-21
@CoastalRat,
Look at all the Detroit picks.
The Lions were one play away each game to win.
Four and 0 in my mind.
@alex240101,
not me, man. They're favored by three in St. Louis. I don't think it's going to happen.
Jacksonville
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Green Bay
St Louis
Carolina
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Houston
New Orleans
Dallas
San Diego
San Francisco
NY Jets 21-20
tuff matchups...good luck y'all
17 players in so far. Thank you.
Notes today from the wonderful world of sports.
Brett Favre, the QB forever for the Packers before retiring and unretiring a couple of times, may know football. But he doesn't quite realize how the internet works. Twitters or whatever can become public. He, a 40 year old grandfather, reportedly became smitten with a former Playboy centerfold bunny now, I am not making this up, a "reporter." His messages to her, now all over the internet, are evidently quite, um, revealing.
Meanwhile, the Manchester Utd football club (soccer, to us) reported large financial losses today, according to the BBC. Part of the reason, according to a spokesman, was reduced revenue from "the sale of players."
Do they breed them? Do they keep them in kennels somewhere near Sheffield until they can be sent to market?
@realjohnboy,
More or less. A pal of mine has a kid who has been with MU about three years. He's 16 now. He's been living there. Very strict. Proper schooling. Boys only. They talent spot them in games at schools. All over the world. It's quite a business.
@spendius,
I assume they talent spot linemen in pubs.
@spendius,
My post was a total throwaway to kill time before the weekend, Spendi. I am stunned by what you report. But, yes, that goes on here in the U.S. where promising young athletes are packed off to factories; I mean prep schools before becoming "students" in college.
I am a bit grumpy today, I concede.
@realjohnboy,
It never entered my head you were being grumpy Johnnie.
It's a tough business. Every kid they take on has had his own and his family's ambitions aroused by a lot of notches. Fame and fortune beckon. They have a normal school with the same curriculum as the school they left had. Obviously with an emphasis on football. They meet the stars regularly and act as ball boys and boot cleaners and stuff and get a couple of free tickets. And the mill grinds a small number out. The rest have to go back to their old school. Failures. Imagine what that's like for a 16 year old after a year or two. They are boarded out with approved "mothers" and are curfewed. Man U are said to be a Catholic club. Like Celtic in Scotland. Most top clubs have youth programmes but Man U have the best I gather.
Big engineering firms used to do the same thing. The Empire was won on the playing fields of Eton. And lost there too.
@realjohnboy,
Since so far, I'm almost precisely as accurate as a coin flip........
Jacksonville
Baltimore
Indianapolis
Green Bay
Detroit
Carolina
Cincinnati
Atlanta
Nouston
New Orleans
Dallas
San Diego
San Francisco
Minnesota 31, New York Jets 17
@realjohnboy,
realjohnboy wrote:Rhys just checked in with his picks for Week #5 -
. . .
And good riddance, he says, to the NE malcontent who was sent off to Minnesota
this week
Yeah, well, I don't see
him going long and drawing double coverage.
@George,
You don't? Why not? I think it will happen...but certainly not quite as often as it was last yr with Brady. He still has the ability to jump higher than most of those who might cover him. We'll find out perhaps on the Monday night match against the Jets coverage as to what's possible when he receives some passes his way.
@Ragman,
I think George was referring to Rhys.
@realjohnboy,
realjohnboy wrote:My post was a total throwaway to kill time before the weekend, Spendi. I am stunned by what you report. But, yes, that goes on here in the U.S. where promising young athletes are packed off to factories; I mean prep schools before becoming "students" in college.
I am a bit grumpy today, I concede.
For those of you who may be interested, I read a very interesting article (to me) this Summer about the Dutch club team Ajax's training program. They pick out the star players at age 8, evidently, then train them until they become star professional players, then sell them off to the highest bidder. Repeat.
LINK
@Ticomaya,
Ticomaya wrote:I think George was referring to Rhys.
Yeah. Clarity was never my long suit.
