These 'dog picks are for the birds
We don't know offhand who the backup quarterback is for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he isn't getting much respect from the players in our pro football underdog game. Here are this week's picks by our 'dognosticators:
16 JACKSONVILLE at Houston - Gary, Lucas, Cinderella Story, Ted, MickeyMacNYC
10 ARIZONA at Atlanta - Bob, John Cr.
9.5 INDIANAPOLIS at New England - Jeremy, George, Rudie, PDXileinOmaha, Dr. D, Usual Kevin, Pdxmick, Drewbob
8.5 SAN DIEGO at Denver - Biggest Cubs Loser, genop's gal, Eric W.
8.5 CLEVELAND at Dallas - Gordon, Annie, Coastal Storm
5 CHICAGO at San Francisco (Monday) - John Ch., Paul
4.5 OAKLAND vs. New Orleans - genop
3.5 BALTIMORE at Pittsburgh - NoPoGuy, Dave A., Michael K., JMH, Will, Bayou Baby, Sola, Tinknocker, Juicen, Bad Brad, Grizfan, Broadway Joe, Carol, DB Cooper, Tung, Pete Rose
A big contingent is hoping that their Luck holds up in Boston, and making our Sunday morning complete, we hear five Hail Marys. Have a great day and enjoy the games, peeps.
UPDATE, 4:15 p.m.: Lots of thrills, but no points in the early games. The Jets win, when nobody's on them. Three 'dogs currently trailing in the afternoon contests.
UPDATE, 4:53 p.m.: It's official. No winners in the afternoon contests. On to the nightcap, on which so many of our players are relying.
UPDATE, 8:36 p.m.: The vote of no confidence was well deserved, as the Steelers blow it to the Ravens. DB Cooper does it again, and he has lots of company picking up 3.5 points each. The revised standings, with two players (marked with asterisks) going tomorrow night:
DB Cooper 34
Will 25
Michael K. 23.5
Ted 22.5
Broadway Joe 22
Pete Rose 21.5
Tinknocker 20.5
Pdxmick 19
Juicen 18.5
Tung 18.5
Annie 18
Grizfan 17.5
JMH 17.5
George 17
Paul 17*
Ricardo 16.5
Bad Brad 16
Jeremy 15
NoPoGuy 15
Usual Kevin 15
Drewbob 14
Bayou Baby 13.5
genop 13
John Ch. 13*
PDXileinOmaha 13
Gordon 11.5
Pete Rozelle 11.5
Carol 10.5
Dave A. 10.5
Eric W. 10
Biggest Cubs Loser 9.5
Bob 9
Cinderella Story 9
Sola 9
Coastal Storm 8
MickeyMacNYC 6
Dr. D 5
John Cr. 5
Lucas 5
Rudie 5
genop's gal 3.5
Gary 0
Comments (8)
Wow the Cardinals, Browns and the Jags with leads going into the 4th quarter.
Posted by Usual Kevin | November 18, 2012 12:34 PM
Oh, and of course the Jets win this week because nobody picked them...
Posted by Usual Kevin | November 18, 2012 12:37 PM
The Bow -wow Browns are top dog! Oops poor Jerry too much meddling. Good picks - those.
Posted by genop | November 18, 2012 1:12 PM
Well, Browns will be Browns, a valiant effort for an L.
Posted by genop | November 18, 2012 1:54 PM
None of the 4th quarter leads held although it took OT for them to prove it in two of the three.
Posted by Usual Kevin | November 18, 2012 1:57 PM
I took Stanford over Oregon last night...a 21-point dog!
Posted by Rich | November 18, 2012 2:26 PM
Usual exciting Ravens-Steelers slugfest, down to the wire. I couldn't help rooting for the underdog overdog Steelers tonight. Congrats to the Ravenuers, D.B. & all! I got bit this week. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kiXh8YOzk
Posted by Mojo | November 18, 2012 10:51 PM
Still feel lucky the dogs haven't bitten my hand yet. All the years I've played in football pools, I've never had a streak like this.
Posted by DB Cooper | November 19, 2012 7:03 AM