Back to Football: Week Thirteen Already?

I guess that's how goes when you forget to post for Week Twelve, but it was a good one for me with 80% correct. Thursday was good too, with 2 for 3 - only Dallas let me down.

Green Bay hosts New England this weekend, and it has me cautiously pumped. The Packers are playing more like their 2011 selves,  but the Pats are 9 and 2 for a reason. We'll see.

Back to Football: Week Eleven Pittsburgh Down at the Half

Oh yeah, I can get another solid-lock prediction wrong this week, no problem, cuz my ONE not-even-a-real-upset was right. [swear word] YOU, Pittsburgh. WTH, win this game!

You do realize that you're playing the TITANs, right? The team that no one can remember exists. UGH!

Back to Football: Week Eleven WHY DENVER WHY?

After a week of boasting and a confidence-restoring Miami win over the Bills, The NFL gods deigned that I must be smited, and did not allow me success. Kansas City was the only team that came though for me until the Packers in the late games, who seem to have decided to go back to their 2011 playbook and blow everyone out of the water again.

No, literally, it was only Kansas City and my old boyfriend, Alex Smith, that came to my rescue today. Even Denver lost to a not-good team, and Cincinnati, Houston, Chicago, and San Francisco decided to be good today. Really, I just can't even.

In other news, I nerded it up this morning by mapping out the NFL Divisions, then making a fun little PowerPoint of them for my own amusement. It's not completely done being converted to a Google Slide, but almost.

Back to Football: Week Ten Predatory Birds and Big Cats

 VS. 

WHO WILL WIN?

Philadelphia Eagles. The Philadelphia Eagles will peck and scratch the hell out of those poor Carolina Panthers, laughing all the way. 

Back to Football: Week Ten LOL I Was Worried

If the scores progress like they did in the first half, we will have a score of 210-0, Packers.

Quarter	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
Bears	0	0	0	0
Packers	14	28	56	112

I'm cool with that.

Back to Football: Week Ten In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb

I didn't really trust Cincinnati, but I went with them for Thursday anyway, incorrectly. In a way, though, I was still right, but it won't count, of course. I'm now 9&1 for TNF.

I had a similar feeling about my picks for the rest of the week, and after I started watching around the end of the first quarter for most games, things looked bleak. My risk on Miami didn't pan out, Pittsburgh decided to take the week off, and New Orleans could not defeat the 49ers - though they did go into overtime. At first, it looked like I made a mistake with Kansas City and Baltimore was going to screw up, but then they won, as did Dallas and, unsurprisingly, Atlanta, which put me at 50% for the early games - much better than expected.

I fared even better on the late games, as did the Cardinals, going 8&1 for the first time since over a decade before the current NFL even existed. Oakland did not achieve their first win against Denver, and Seattle finally played like themselves and defeated the Giants. I do hope that the Packers are well rested this week and can defeat Jay Cutler and his pack of Bears, but the fate of NFL teams are not decided by me. They're just picked, every week, with 65% accuracy.

Back to Football: Week Nine Packers Bye Whatever

Eli Manning looks like a ten year old in a football uniform, but apparently, he's playing with a bunch of rookies.

Earlier tonight, I heard a guy at the taco place that I go to say that Indianapolis was playing and would lose to the Giants. I laughed, inside, because I knew he was wrong, and boy was he.

77% this week, and had I known that the Vikings starting QB was back, I might have been 84%.