Sundays are for Football: Week Fifteen

I'm watching the halftime report. The Packers are up by 7 points, and apparently, things are not good in Chicago, to which I say, "you shoulda picked a better team to root for, Chicago! Psshht."

But people are sensitive about football, as I learned years ago. They really shouldn't be, but then again, I am a Packer fan.

--Time Passes--

Yay! The football is back. But it is kind of boring. So far, the score is the same. (Na uh, Packers totally scored!)And how was I to know that the Saints would shut out the Buccaneers? Or that the Falcons would do the same to the Giants? Well, I guess I did know that, so my picks might do better this week than they did last week.

--Time Passes, Crosby misses another feild goal--

So, the score could have been 27 to 10 already, but our kicker is apparently really, really bad. This is especially depressing, for him, but the Packers defense kept Chicago to 3 points after that recovered fumble, so it could be worse. And then the special teams makes it worse, for some reason. Instead of starting a drive on their own 25 yard-line, they make a trick play, get a fumble, and the Bears get three more points. But once again, it could be even worse than that.

--Early Games End--

Well, the Packers pulled that one out, as did other teams that won their games today. This was not the week to predict upsets for the early games, and my CUHLA picks are 8 for 9 already played. The Giants were shut out by Hotlanta, which increases my hope that the Giants won't ruin the NFC playoffs this year again. If the best teams end up in the Super Bowl, then it will be a southern battle, with the Texans and the Falcons. It will also be entirely too red. Now, the next game on network TV is the Battle of the Worst. Kansas City could defeat the Raiders, leaving them both with 3&11 records, or Oakland could climb up to 4&10 on the season. I might just take a nap.

Oh, and I just heard that Carson Palmer is sick, and making all of the other Raiders sick. It looks like he got the cold that has been floating around the bay area around this time. I think I had it in November, and it wasn't pretty. Meanwhile, Seattle, in a game that I am not allowed to watch, is up 14-0 over some other team that must be really bad. Palmer threw a ball to no one, and two Chiefs ran into each other. This really is the Battle of the Worst - and I am sorry for everyone involved, especially me.

--Time Passes, Nap Taken--

So, this week, my picks were all terrible, and I might just barely break 50% this week, but it will be ok. See, I bet against the SF 49ers for this game, which is two minutes before the half, but the 49ers are kicking some Patriot ass, and I can't really be upset about that. I do so dislike the Patriots. There was that weird return kick, with the illegal touching. That football touched that guy's leg, and it touched it so much that the guy might as well have picked it up and rubbed it all over his face, but the officials said otherwise in a comically incoherent explanation, thanks to technical difficulties. That episode also inspired the best thing I've ever heard a commentator say, which was, "we don't have anything to say, we're just going to cut to commercial." Honesty FTW.

--Time Passes--

So, I passed the half time by watching Gangnam Style parodies, and I was on a piano version when the most epic play of the game happened. There were fumbles, and missed catches, and then a recovery. Then a play looked like it failed in a spectacularly epic fashion, but as my roommate said, "it doesn't even matter!" because SF got ANOTHER TOUCHDOWN! Hooray for defeating the New England Patriots!

--Time Passes--

What the hell, San Francisco? You're only up by 7 now, and there are like ten and a half minutes left in the game. You seriously cannot lose this game. Do you understand that losing this game means that you will fail in the playoffs? Stop failing! Intercept the ball, recover a fumble, do something and don't let the Patriots win, again. Ugh.

--Game Ends--

They won, yay!