At the bar, as the scores shook out, I started to see a shocking, pride inducing trend. The teams that I picked, from Detroit and Denver in the early, early games, to Miami, New England, and Buffalo* as more obvious choices, to the still obvious, but tentatively picked Seahawks, Kansas City, Houston, and Bengals, to the gamble on Minnesota, every single team that I picked was winning or had won. After a while, after the Texans won, marking a 100% improvement over last year's season with a total of 4 wins, it was down to Tampa Bay and Minnesota, the latter of which pulled the game into overtime. A Minnesota defender forced and/or capitalized on a Tampa Bay fumble around the 20 yard line and ran in for a touchdown within the first few minutes.
I sat back in glee, watching the replay over and over. The ball popping loose, the purple guy grabbing it and running, running running, and passing by the orange pylon on the inside. I'll watch it again, right now. You can too. I've never been happier for a Viking win in my life! Ten NFL games played and finished this week, ten games successfully picked by me. I picked Indianapolis, Philadelphia, and Oakland to win the afternoon games, Green Bay for Sunday Night, and Dallas for Monday. I don't even care if I'm wrong on all of them (unlikely, but not impossible - the Cowboys could flub it and lose at home, maybe) at this point.
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