First Round Results - Week Two Lines

WINNERS:
ARIZONA O
SAN DIEGO U
baltimore U
philly U

Standings:
2-2 : Dav, Eric, Mike, Flip, ChrisM
1-3 : Ian
0-4 : Phil, Matt

TENNESSEE (-3) baltimore 34.5
CAROLINA (-9.5) arizona 48.5

NY GIANTS (-4.5) philadelphia 40.5
PITTSBURGH (-6) san diego 38.5

Playoffs Week One

Time for the second season to begin.

Let's seen if Een can pull a Yaz and win the Triple Crown - Regular Season Pickem, Fantasy and Playoff Pickem. Such a feat would be quite remarkable.

Let's dive into this week's lines:

atlanta (-2) ARIZONA 51
indianapolis (-1) SAN DIEGO 51

baltimore (-3) MIAMI 37
philadelphia (-3) MINNESOTA 42

All the roadies are favored.


Remeber the trend lines from this season:

Favorites 120-128-8
Underdogs 128-120-8

Home Chalk 77-89-6
Road Chalk 42-39-2
Home Dogs 39-42-2
Road Dogs 89-77-6

Homes 116-131-8
Roads 131-116-8

In case you were wondering...

Gentlemen,

Where's my trophy? I mean come on...a DOMINATING victory in Pick 'Em and a Fantasy Football Championship with Payton Manning and a bunch of bottom-of-the-barrel scrubs.

Clearly I'm the most "now" when it comes to the NFL.

Feel free to use the comment box to shower praise upon me.

Here we go again...

Special raise of the (empty) glass to yet another in the long, proud line of University of Cincinnati players and coaches...young, successful Andy Kennedy following in the footsteps of mentor Bob Huggins and former player Art Long by having a "run in" with Cincinnati police...at least he didn't punch the cabbie in the nose (oh wait he did!)

Thata boy Andy...next round's on me...and I'll drive you home too...wouldn't want you to take a cab.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/basketball/ncaa/12/18/kennedy.ap/index.html

XMAS

I guess it's that time again...

What's up with Christmas?
Who's home?
When?

Will Winston be there?

Tee It Up!!

Q: If a punt is in the air while the game clock expires and the receiver signals and makes a fair catch, is the game over?

• Danny Clark, LB, Giants: "Yes."
• Madison: "Yes."
• Damon Huard, QB, Chiefs: "If the punter touched it, then the game is over."
• Ray Rice, RB, Ravens: "Yes."
• Pace: "Yes. It's an untimed play, isn't it?
• Correct answer: No, the receiving team can try a fair-catch kick.

Q: What is a fair-catch kick?

• Brendon Ayanbadejo, LB, Ravens: "The ball is put on the tee, or maybe there's a holder holding it, but there's nobody covering."
• Jarret Johnson, LB, Ravens: "You kick from the 50, off the tee. You can cover it. We've gone over it in meetings, but you don't practice it because it's the kicker kicking off a tee."
• Correct answer: A fair-catch kick is a field goal attempt following a fair catch. It can be a placekick or dropkick, but no tee may be used. It cannot be defensed.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?section=magazine&id=3737653

Mano-e-Mano

Imagine this:

A hot, dusty high noon on the deserted main street of a wild-west, one horse town somewhere south of the last exit off the Information Super Highway. Folks can find it on the map next to a tiny dot labeled "Yahoo League #273750", but the locals know it by another name: Fantasy City, USA.

As the sun scorches the barren, cracked earth a solitary tumbleweed rolls drunkely down the road, bisecting two stark and dangerous looking men locked in a death stare across the twenty yards and the Week 14 that divides them.

One is tall and lanky, his black leather holster embossed with the name of the deadly weapon it lovingly cradles: "The Romosexuals".

The other, shorter with peircing blue eyes and a reddish beard like steel wool squints as the sun catches the silver star emblazoned on his chest. It reads "WALL*E-on".

A doughy shopkeeper pokes his head, turtle-like, through a crack in the front door of a general store bearing the sign "NatsRedskinsWiz4Life". In a nerve-strangled voice he squeaks, "M'good sirs. Y'all are locked in a tie atop our fair city's standin's. It don't matter a tinker's dam what happens this week. Why can't y'all just agree to a stalemate and let us peaceful folk abide here in the cellar?"

"Man's got point." Says the shorter of the two gunfighters, and he spits in a high arc frightening the shopkeeper back into the doorway.

"I reckon he does" answers the taller. "How you figure we oughtta settle this?"

A long, tense moment passes. You can hear the buzzards ripping the flesh from the "Absentee Ballots" off beyond the edge of town. After years of starvation, it's amazing there's anything but sun-bleached bone left.

"How bout a duel?" The shorter and more handsome of the two offers. "You choose one player and bench the rest. I'll do the same. Mano-e-mano. May the best man win. Makes no difference who comes out on top this week. We're both locked inta a first round bye. Whatcha say?"

Another long mintue passes. You can hear the rusty gears grinding the thought into grist in the tall man's head. He squints against the blazing sun.

"Well? Whataya say, Phil?"