Sunday, October 31, 2010

Pickin' Pigskin: Week 8 (and rallying for sanity in D.C. and Tulsa)


Bob: Well, it's that time of the week again. Sorry we're sending the picks in late--we just got back from the Rally to Restore Sanity. Let me just say this: I haven't seen DC this crowded since the inauguration. Since this was a fake rally for no real issues, I don't really know how that makes me feel. Except to say that I'm pissed that I couldn't get on the Metro. We tried to get on at about 12:45 p.m., and we were told by people on the absolutely full train that they had all gotten on at the FIRST STOP on the Metro. So we took a cab.

The rally had lots of good signs and stuff, but we couldn't hear a thing from Stewart/Colbert. They clearly weren't ready for a crowd that size (and neither was the National Park Service, which had fenced off portions of the Mall that the crowd ended up knocking down. The amazing part was when we decided to split, and downtown D.C. was basically shut down because the crowd had overflowed. There were a bunch of people dancing on some kind of dragon float. We ended up having to walk about 15 blocks to find a place to eat (where we proceeded to wait about an hour to eat, because they weren't ready for a crowd at 3 p.m.).

On the way back, I smartly looked into the Metro station before we went through the turnstiles, and saw the platform was packed. So we walked from downtown D.C. back to our condo, which in itself was a trek because we had to go through Georgetown, which is the place to be on Halloween. Even as we walked across the bridge out of D.C. at 6 p.m., traffic was snarled getting out of the city. So today will be known as the day that Jon Stewart broke D.C. (with help from people going out for Halloween).

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Kristin: Hey,

I'm sleepy after our big day on the mall. If you're interested I'm gonna post some pics on Facebook. So this is all you get this week.

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Matt: I'd like just to take this moment to plug Tulsa's win over once-mighty Notre Dame (last mighty in the 1980s). Though our coach inanely and repeatedly called it the biggest win in the program's history, this isn't the case. Not to say that it isn't a big win, and I don't love that we beat the so-called elite.

But I don't think it's a bigger win than, say, beating Oklahoma on the road in 1996. Or of any of our bowl wins when they meant things, like beating Georgia Tech in the Orange Bowl in 1945. I mean we were the first school to be in five consecutive New Year's Day bowl games. We've won conference championships. We hold the record for largest margin of victory in a bowl game in history from 2008. It's degrading to the program's history to call a win over an exceedingly mediocre Notre Dame squad the biggest win in the program's history.

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Steve: As y'all can probably tell from my posting time on this, I'm exhausted, and this whole "launching a site" thing is pretty time consuming. I promise to not mail it in next week. And, I'm secretly very envious of you, Bob and Kristin, for attending the rally. And I'm sure all three of us are envious of Matt, since we all went to the University of Rhode Island, which hasn't had a good football team in years.

Anyway, everyone went 8-6 last week. This week's picks:






















































































Steve Bob Kristin Matt
DEN (+2) at SF SF DEN DEN DEN
JAC at DAL (-6.5) DAL DAL JAX JAX
MIA (+1.5) at CIN MIA MIA MIA MIA
BUF at KC (-7) KC KC KC BUF
WAS at DET (-2.5) WAS DET WAS WAS
CAR at STL (-3) CAR STL STL STL
GB at NYJ (-6) NYJ NYJ GB NYJ
TEN at SD (-3.5) TEN SD TEN TEN
MIN (+5.5) at NE NE MIN NE MIN
TB at ARI (-3) TB ARI ARI TB
SEA at OAK (-2.5) SEA OAK SEA OAK
PIT (+1) at NO PIT PIT PIT PIT
HOU at IND (-5.5) IND IND IND HOU

5 comments:

  1. I must have missed an old entry Steve, but what site are you launching? It better be a new Stand Up for WWE site, we know that is what Vince is asking for everyone in the WWE Universe to do. Also you got to stop picking the Niners, no matter how easy their schedule is, they are going to fail!!!

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  2. When I typed that last comment the Niners were down 10-3 in the 4th, then a firecrack went up all their asses and they lit up the scoreboard and are now up 24-10 in the 4th. I will never doubt you Steve and will always post when the Niners are down in the 4th here for the rest of the season. Best comeback ever!!

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  3. Ugh, you should just pick against Dallas every week from here on out. Hate to say that. Wonder if we'll go 1-15. Suppose it's possible. 2-15, maybe?

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  4. My favorite was "Having a sign makes me right." That's kind of what I think the mentality of many sign holders is. :)

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  5. "The day Jon Stewart broke D.C." Love it. Love the blog. Stalking you now.

    *salutes*

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