Sundays are for Football: Week Five

Week five is the week when I get to dye my hair again, and thank goodness, because it is getting less and less brown all the time. I have no idea how I will know when I can dye it when my weeks are not conveniently numbered like they are September-December. I guess that is why I typically have 2 and 3 inch blond roots coming out of my head during the rest of the year, but I digress. FOOTBALL.

The Packer game is not being played out here in the Bay, just the Battle of Pennsylvania and Baltimore against Kansas City. Each game features a team that I'd rather not watch, but I like the Eagles more than I like the Ravens, so I'm watching their game. The game is really really messy, with the Steelers constantly messing up the long snap, and Vick just keeps dropping the ball. My roommate just asked me if these are NFL teams, which is how bad things are getting.

--Time Passes--

So, after some crap with the audio on the TV Network that is playing this game, the Steelers scored, which made me sad. See, I've decided to use my useless, high-level analysis to make predictions. I use three metrics, actually; my useless, high-level analysis, my "gut", and the final is my ideal winner, based on my irrational loyalties. After Thursday, my gut is 100%, while my analysis and ideal are failing. I picked the Eagles for all three of my metrics now, so they better win. However, it is now raining, and Pittsburgh is at home. This may mean that I should look at more information when making these predictions, but I probably won't.

--Time Passes--

So Philly lost, but Hotlanta won, and the Packers still had a lot of time left. They were down for a little, then went up again, and then the TV had to stop showing the game, so I started watching the 49ers on the TV, and monitored the Packers on the computer. Things were ok, so I went down to do laundry, and when I came back up and refreshed my computer, well, it was kind of like this. ---> HOW DID WE LOSE TO THE COLTS?!?! OMG, whatever

So, coping with the loss... just remembering that 13-3 is a good record, and the 49ers are doing pretty well so far. The nice thing about this game is that people seem to be able to hold onto the ball. The game is in SF, and I'm hoping that the Blue Angels fly above a couple of times. The commentators showed a shot of Fisherman's Wharf, including some sailors walking by, but they failed to mention that it is Fleet Week. It is a beautiful day too, so there probably won't be any weather shenanigans for this game. Of course, everything can change after the half, well, if the 49ers were the Packers, which they are not. They just play like I wish the Packers would play. [trying to put the loss out of my mind]

--Time Passes--

So, just after I posted the above paragraph, SF fumbled, but then Buffalo fumbled as soon as they started playing, and SF got a touchdown. My roommie and I then headed out to the local flea market to pick up a few things. When we got back, my roommate saw the score first and started to laugh. Unlike when we leave during the Packer game, the 49ers were not losing, and instead were leading the Bills by 27 points, and had yet to score the extra point on their recent touchdown. And amusingly, the 49ers DID score 40 points this week, and against an AFC team to boot. On to week 6....