HOW DID YOU DO? Hope you had fun. I did SPECIAL NOTE: SAN DIEGO @ OAKLAND GAME TIME HAS BEEN CHANGED TO 23:30 SUNDAY NIGHT. This is due to the Oakland A’s Vs Detroit Tigers 21:00 start. They say it takes the ground crew about 24 hours to convert the field from a BASEBALL configuration, to a FOOTBALL configuration. [table]GAME, CONFIDENCE, RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 10/03/2013 20:25 Buffalo 24 @ CLEVELAND 37, 8, 8 SUNDAY 10/06/2013 13:00 KANSAS CITY 26 @ Tennessee 17, 6, 14 Baltimore 26 @ MIAMI 23 7, 14 Jacksonville 20 @ St. LOUIS 34, 14 , 28 New England 6 @ CINCINNATI 13, 2 , 30 SEATTLE 28 @ Indianapolis 5 , 30 Detroit 9 @ GREEN BAY 22 , 11 , 41 New Orleans 26 @ CHICAGO 31 , 1 , 41 Philadelphia 36 @ N.Y. GIANTS 4 , 41 SUNDAY 10/06/2013 16:05 CAROLINA 22 @ Arizona 6, 3 , 44 SUNDAY 10/06/2013 16:25 DENVER 51 @ Dallas 48, 12, 56 SUNDAY 10/06/2013 20:30 Houston 3 @ SAN FRANCISCO 34, 10, 66 SUNDAY 10/06/2013 23:30 SAN DIEGO 17 @ Oakland 27, 9, 66 MONDAY 10/06/2013 20:40 N.Y. Jets 30 @ ATLANTA 28 , 13 66 TIE BREAKER (Total score Monday game) 43 pts ACTUAL POINTS (For Tie Breaker 58 pts Confidence pts available 105 pts Good Luck! [/table] What a week. A lot injuries close games, surprise plays. and what appeared to be, not just blown calls by the Zebras, but also some seemed made up. I know i watched a couple of them over and over and could not find yhe violation. Maybe next week the Refs will be better prepared; knowing we have recorders and can do our own reviews. Check back tomorrow for week 6 schedule and Thursday to check my picks. ‘Til then relax and enjoy life. At 8:25 Thursday it is back to do battle Af SOLDIER FIELD. Views: 107
Author: Wayne Lawrence
NFL Confidence Rating Week 4 SEPT. 26,2013
Last week I hit 10 correct picks for an underwhelming 58.8%. However I did reach the century mark in points.. Did ANYONE do better? Surely someone beat me. The upset of San Francisco pulled off by the Indianapolis Colts really hurt my score. Who else besides Colt fans thought they could pull that off? OH well that was last week this is this week. I hope to do better this week. By the way….Note The game between PITTSBURGH AND MINNESOTA: (according to my notes will be special) This is going to be a tough week. Fifteen games, and I only had a seven ranking difference from lowest to highest with most only having a difference of 2 in ranking (my system). SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29TH Note: Game is being played in London, England [table]GAME , CONFIDENCE, RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 9/26/2013 20:25 SAN FRANCISCO 35 @ St. Louis 11 ,9, 9 SUNDAY 9/29/2013 13:00 PITTSBURGH 27 @ Minnesota 34 ,3 ,9 BALTIMORE 20 @ Buffalo 23 ,8, 9 CINCINNATI 6 @ Cleveland 17 ,11 ,9 INDIANAPOLIS 37 @ Jacksonville 3 14 ,23 SEATTLE 23 @ Houston 20 (OT) ,5 ,28 Arizona 131 @ TAMPA BAY 10, 4 ,28 Chicago 32 @ DETROIT 40, 6 ,34 N.Y. Giants 7 @ KANSAS 31, 12, 46 SUNDAY 9/29/2013 16:05 N.Y.Jets 13 @ TENNESSEE 38, 10 ,56 SUNDAY 9/29/2013 16:25 DALLAS 21 @ San Diego 30 , 2, 56 WASHINGTON 24 @ Oakland 14 ,7, 63 Philadelphia 20 @ DENVER 52 ,15, 78 SUNDAY 9/29/2013 20:30 New England 30 @ ATLANTA 23 ,1, 78 MONDAY 9/30/2013 20:40 Miami 17 @ NEW ORLEANS 38, 13, 91 TOTAL POINTS (TIE BREAKER) 47 pts Tie Breaking Points 57 pts This week perfect score would be 120 pts See if you can beat m Good Luck (you’ll need it) 91 out 120 pts. Not all that bad, 10 pts off total score Hey that is only 5 pts a team However a disappointing 62.5%. Did you do it? Did you Beat me? Probably not. Try again next week. Views: 107
Welcome Back! Week 3 NFL 2013 Confidence Picks
SORRY for the delay. Been Busy Riding My Motorcycle and the season snuck up on me. But now that I am back. I am raring to find out if I can improve on Last Years disappointing, account. SO Join me and play along. See if you can beat me. For those of you who do not know how confidence ranking goes, let me explain. If we were playing an office pool,(which we ARE NOT). The object is to score the most points. To obtain the score YOU rank the teams by how confident you are a team will win its game. EXAMPLE: Say this week we have 17 games. The team you are most confident will win you would assign the number 17 and follow down to the team you are least confident in and assign that number 1. We use the Monday night game as a TIE BREAKER. The tie is broke by the closest to the total (that is the COMBINED score of the two participating tams) final score, without going over. If we were playing this is how my sheet would look; My pick will be in bold Capital letters. you can use circling, underlining, or highlighting. I will show my correct points in Bold [table]GAME, CONFIDENCE,RUNNING SCORE THURSDAY 09/19/2013 ; 08:25 KANSAS 26 @ Philadelphia 16, 8 pts,8 SUNDAY 09/22/2013 : 13:00 San Diego 17 @ TENNESEE 20, 9 pts,17 Cleveland 31 @ MINNESOTA 27, 11 pts,17 Tampa Bay 3 @ NEW ENGLAND 23 , 13 pts,30 HOUSTON 9 @ Baltimore 30, 5 pts,30 St. Louis 7 @ DALLAS 31,10 pts,40 Arizona 7 @ NEW ORLEANS 31 ,14 pts,54 Detroit 27 @ WASHINGTON 20,2 pts,54 GREEN BAY 30 @ Cincinnat 34i,7 pts,54 N.Y. Giants 0 @ CAROLINA 38,1 pts,54 SUNDAY 09/19/2013 16:05 Atlanta 23 @ MIAMI 27 ,3 pts,57 Indianapolis 27 @ SAN FRANCISCO 7,15 pts,57 Jacksonville 17 @ SEATTLE45 ,17 pts,74 Buffalo 20 @ N.Y. JETS 27 ,4 pts,78 SUNDAY 09/19/2013 20:30 CHICAGO 40 @ Pittsburgh 23 ,6 pts, 84 MONDAY 09/20/2013 20:40 Oakland 21 @ DENVER 37,16 pts,100 TOTAL POINTS (TIE BREAKER) 49 pts Tie Breaking Points 58 pts [/table] This week perfect score would be 153 pts Bet you can’t beat me. Good Luck Views: 98
The Final Four
APRIL 9, 2013 We have come to the conclusion of this year’s installment of MARCH MADNESS. The new Champion is LOUISVILLE! From what I could tell from the bits and pieces i was able wake up and catch it seemed to be a truly good competition. Michigan started out strong. Then Louisville made their charge. Nip and tuck til the end. The game could have gone anyway. But it was Michigan which found itself on the short end in the closing minutes. Which meant they were forced to foul to extend the game. As happens in this situation, more often than not, The team trying to catch up gets beat, and that is what happened here. Per my definition of being beat or losing. I see no loser here. I see a strong team that got BEAT. NO LOSERS. We should have also learned a valuable lesson. Kevin Ware, who proved during the season to be a star player for the Cardinals was unfortunately injured during tournament play, could only supply moral support to his team most of the tournament games. The players rallyed around his injury. But as good as Kevin Ware is, the team from Louisville proved they were not a one man team. Many teams would have been lost without a player of his caliber. But they showed that they could all, every player, be a key member to the team. When I was coaching I always told the boys ‘Be ready. We have no set starting team. It depends on the team we are playing, what skills are needed. Each player has a different set of skills”. As a player I preferred not to start. As this took pressure off me. (Everyone expects more out of starters than subs). I usually sat for the first minute. Then finished the game. Great tournament, many upsets, and the overalll number one seed emerges the victor. Although not as bad as many the celebrating fans tarnished the schools win with their irresponsible after game behavior. That is all I have to say about this. See your newspapers for details. If they dare to put the story in without whitewashing it. PROGRAM NOTE: APRIL 8,2013 As Much as we would love to see the game tonight. We will be unable to BECAUSE of the lateness of the start time. You see we live in the Central Time Zone. However our illustrious state leadership has decided in its INFINITE wisdom we must observe ATLANTIC TIME, They call it Daylight Saving Time. But there is just so much daylight in a 24 hour day. So no one has been able to save any. Putting us TWO hours ahead of the sun. So The game should be on at 7 pm instead of 10 pm. So to all of you lucky people who get to see the game ENJOY. 4 am comes pretty early when you are two hours ahead of the sun. UPDATE APRIL 7, 2013 And then there were TWO. LOUISVILLE, and MICHIGAN. The stage is set..I am looking for a close game. One that will keep all fans on the edge of their seats. As you know I have said Michigan will be the new NCAA Basketball Champion. Good Luck to both teams. I must hope that the end of this game and season is not marred by in inappropriate action by the ones who consider themselves fan, yet take away from the the pride of their teams by rioting and tearing things up. Both teams deserve better. These outlaw demonstrations SUBTRACT. from the dignity of the respected teams. REJOICE IN THEIR FEATS. UPDATE: We nearly had another upset. A well played game by both Witchita St. and Louisville. Now we must see if Michigan can overcome the Syracuse Press. Usually I give a lot of trivia here but this year I won’t. Suffice it to say this has been one heck of a tournament. So many upsets. Made a tournament season worthy of watching. I Still stand by my original conviction that all four final teams should have come from the Big Ten. Regardless of what my old NEMESIS Sir Charles thinks. (which was always a little far out). The Big Ten had its best shot at an ALL FINAL FOUR shootout. Only team that really let me down was WISCONSIN. They truly had the best shot bur as noted they also have the spells of non-concentration, of which they fell victim. Did they get beat by a better team? NO! They LOST because they did not give their all. As I have said before and will say again. You only get BEAT if you give it all you have and and still end up on the short end of the score. But you LOSE if you don’t leave it all on the court. Granted somedays you may not have as much to give as other days. But Wisconsin just completely melted down. I really don’t feel they respected their opponent. ENOUGH. Locally I find we have one person who had 4 of the final 8. And believe it or not has 2 of the final four. Some of you may have done better. I don’t see how. As much as I would like to see another upset. Odds are really against it so as it stands I see Louisville Vs Michigan in the final game with MICHIGAN the Champions. Both teams are really good. But it will come to MENTAL and PHYSICAL Toughness. I think both team are pretty equal in the MENTAL toughness…. But Physical toughness? Again you have to go back to their conferences. Big Ten definitely the most physical Conference in the country. Michigan has proved they have this PHYSICAL toughness throughout the Big Ten season. Scale tips to Michigan. RESULTS FAVORITES MY PICKS WHY? Because…. I really don’t know. Just a glutton for punishment, I guess Views: 119
NCAA MARCH MADNESS BEGINS
Will Duke upset Louisville? Will there be no number one seeds in the final four? Although I am not a Duke fan. and I don’t have a favorite in this game, I kind of would like to see the UPSET. Well I said I look forward to UPSETS (except in my bracketss). But how about this 16 UPSETS 3 number 1’s and 3 number 2’s. This has to be one heck of a bracket busting season. I wonder, if any of you have a perfect bracket now. The least Busted brasket appears to be the Midewest. Let the games begin: Yes folks it is here, and again this year I will be posting a RESULTS BRACKET , IF FAVORED TEAMS WIN, and MY PICKS. Check here to see how the the teams advance, If the favored teams win, and if you can out pick me. GOOD LUCK ! MAY YOUR TEAM WIN ! I am looking forward to many upsets. (I love seeing brackets turned upside down). RESULTS BRACKET FAVORED BRACKET I think we now have 16 upsets. Including 3 number 1 seeds and 3 number 2 seeds. How is your bracket looking. MY PICKS YES !! I know I have an improbable FINAL FOUR. But remember I said earlier I thought these teams would have won ANY CONFERENCE they may have been in. Thus I have this FINAL FOUR. However let me say this ALL have had Multi-minute scoring lapses. So anything can happen. Any of these teams could be CHAMPION. WISCONSIN should have had enough of these through out the season they will not fall into that slump again. (Although they may fall asleep during the game just as they did during the Purdue LOSS. I am hoping they have matured since that game, and that will not happen again). WISCONSIN Looked like the same team that showed up that played Purdue earlier. Very DOWN. What can I say..YOU HAVE TO BRING YOUR GAME. Everytime you set foot on the floor. PRACTICE included. Views: 118
It Is MARCH MADNESS TIME
Finally it is MARCH MADNESS!!!!!. Who will be the Number One team this year? Who will be the CINDERELLA team? Could this be the year a 16 seed upsets a number 1 seed? Who will be the most upset minded team? Could we see a one Conference final game. Maybe even a one Conference FINAL FOUR. Will SOMEONE Come Up with a PERFECT PICK SHEET. WOW! Lots of possibilities waiting for us. Maybe your favorite School Will WIN First we have to have our 68 teams. So Knowing you can’t account for the NCAA’s Comittee, THEY have an altogether sometimes strange reasoning for their picks. One thing I really don’t like is this. The committee has decided to add 4 teams they would not have included in the original 64. They may take one of these teams to play into a 12 seed spot. They may have 2 of these teams play into the same SET OF 16. The way I see it they should have these teams play in by having them play the 16 seeds. That way you have one play in, in each block of 16. But; Going out on a limb. I have selected these 68 teams to play in the NCAA Tournament of 2013. In Alphabetical Order. [table]1st 16, 2nd 16,3rd 16,4th 16 1. Akron, 18. Hampton, 35. Memphis,52. St. Mary’s 2. Arizona, 19. Harvard, 36. Miami,53. San Diego St. 3. Belmont, 20. Illinois, 37. Michigan. ,54. S. Dakota 4. Boise St, 21. Indiana, 38. Michigan St. ,55. Southern 5. Bucknell, 22 Iona, 39. Minnesota. ,56. Stephen F. Austen 6 Butler, 23. Iowa St. , 40. Missouri. .,57. Syracuse 7. California, 24. James Madison.,41.Montana ,58. Temple 8. Cincinnati, 25 Kansas, 42. New Mexico ,59. Tennessee 9. Colorado, 26. Kansas St, 43. N.Carolina,60. UCLA 10. Colorado St., 27. Kentucky, 44. N. Carolina St.,61. UNLV 11. Creighton, 28 LaSalle, 45. Notre Dame,62. Valparaiso 12. Davidson, 29. Liberty, 46. Ohio St.,63. Va. Commonwealth 13. Duke, 30. Long Beach St., 47. Oklahoma, 64. Vermont 14. Florida, 31LIU Brooklyn., 48. Oklahoma St., 65. Villanova 15. Florida Gulf Coast, 32. Louisiana Tech., 49. Oregon,66. W. Kentucky 16. Georgetown, 33. Louisville, 50.Pittbursgh , 67. Witchita St. 17.Gonzaga,34. Marquette,51. St. Louis,68. Wisconsin [/table] Now my Picks for Number one seeds. (which will not happen due to the NCAA’s need to spread the wealth). The most deserving (as I see it) Indiana, Michigan St., Michigan, and Gonzaga. I Know a lot of you will wonder why I have 3 teams from the Big Ten. Simply because, The strength of the Big 10 this year. I think if any of these teams were in ANY other conference they would have been the number one team. That is the way I see it. Join me for our annual Picks un-contest SEE if you can beat me. I once again will have my picks using the upper ranked team, my personal picks, and the actual finishes. Views: 124
2013 Academy Awards Winners: My Reaction
As a rule I see the ACADEMY AWARDS as merely a way to promote the worst pictures. That has been the way it has been since the 1970’s. Occasionally they slip up and give a legitimate award. I tend to agree with Woody Allen, when he said something like, and here I paraphrase,(only because I can’t remember the direct quote). You can not judge art. No one really can. The things I might consider art another may consider junk. One would have to be able to completely divorce himself from all preconceived ideas. Open mindedness is a hard state to find. I have none of the preconceptions. I know what I like. I know what I don’t like. But I am able to put aside my feelings and make a pure judgement. Granted I may sometimes judge things by the cover. By that in regard to movies. I will some times read the plot and make a decision on whether or not it interests me. Some really interest me, and I may see them and be truly disappointed. Others I will say, “Okay I won’t pay to see this. I will wait for the TV or DVD release and see if any of my friends bought it.” Sometimes the plot just reads so thin. I don’t even think of seeing them. So here are my reactions to this years awards. I will rank them as I feel they should have been. Exception if I think another Picture, or Person more deserving that is where I will Place them. Actual winners will be in green.with a note if I did not see them and/or did not care to see them. BEST PICTURE: ARGO: Linxoln: Saw this one. Gave Argo a close run. Amour. Saw this in the French version. Loved the story line. Django Unchained: Saw this. Lots of action. Just was pretty much unbelievable. The rest were tied. Life of Pi: Considered this but decided would wait for DVD. Silver Linings: Same as above. Beasts of The Southern Wild, Zero Dark Thirty. Did not see. Can’t imagine how they got on list. Should not even make it to DVD. Les Miserables. Did not see. Cannot even imagine this great work as a musical. BEST ACTOR: bradley cooper silver linings. hugh jackman les miserables, joaquin phoenix the master. denzel washington,flight. None of these truly deserved Best Actor. I saw much better portrayals in other movies. However of the list they gave us I would have to vote for Daniel-Day=Lewis. Of the listed he probably was most deserving. BEST ACTRESS: Nominees were jessica chastain, zero dark thirty: JENNIFER LAWRENCE, silver linings: EMMANUEL RIVA, Amour. naomi watts, the impossible: quvenzhane wallis, beasts of the southern wild. It was my feeling the only true deserving winner for this category would have been EMMANUEL RIVA for AMOUR. BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: NOMINEES WERE: alan arkin, argo: robert de niro, silver linings playbook, philip seymour hoffman, the master: tommy lee jones. lincoln: and CHRISOPH WALTZ, django unchained. Of these I found none deserving. There were many better performances too many other movies to mention here. BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: This category I find my choice for BEST ACTRESS, as I did not see her as a supporting actress but as the STAR. So I suppose because I see her as BEST ACTRESS she had to be the outstanding BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS. That person being HELEN HUNT. Of THE SESSIONS, However the other nominees, why they got the nod Is way beyond any thinking I may be capable of seeing. them here. Nominees were. amy adams, the master; Sally Field (who would have been my second choice), Lincoln; ANNE HATHAWAY., (who had to have a lot of nerve, just to take the role on). and jacki weaver, silver linings playbook.’ BEST DIRECTOR; This one is a tough call. You may have an excellent movie but poor direction, or great direction with a poor movie. That being said Nominees are: Michael Haneke, Amour ANG LEE, Life Of Pi David O. Russel , Silver Linings Playbook Steven Spielberg , Lincoln Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild Like I said I have no input on this category. BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY. Again I have seen screeplays I liked better so I must yield to the nominated ones. Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom, (did not see, never even heard of this one). Mark Boat, Zero Dark Thirty John Gstins, Flight (again I never even heard of this movie ). Michael Heneke, Amour, (I felt it was not directed to it’s potential). QUENTIN TARATINO, Django Unchained. (which in my humble opinion the direction left a lot to be desired). BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: This is another category, I do not have the knowledge to call. as I have not read the books (i assume the adaption came from). so Nominees are: Lucy Alibar and Beth Zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild. Tony Kushner, Lincoln David Magee, Life of Pi. David O Russell, Silver Linings Playbook CHRIS TERRIO, Argo Probably a good choice, BEST ANIMATED FEATURE BRAVE: Again I have no seen only one of these, BRAVE, The only one I am waiting for DVD is Wreck-It-Ralph. Nominees were: BRAVE: Which I have to agree with this choice. Frankenweenie ParaNorman The Pirates! Band of Misfits (which I will see on DVD) Wreck-It-Ralph The technical categories I will not go into. because I am unaware of what goes into these categories. I understand the success of many movies can rely on these services, so I will only list the winners. BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY LIFE OF PI, Claudio Miranda BEST COSTUME DESIGN: ANNA KARENINA, jacqueline Durran BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE: Nominees were, 5 Broken Cameras, The Gatekeepers, How to Survive a Plague, The Invisible War, and SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN, (although I did not see this I at least heard of it. BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT SUBJECT: INNOCENTE, Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine. Other nominees were Kings Point, San gilman and Jedd Wider: Mondays at Racine, Cynthia wade and Robert… Continue reading 2013 Academy Awards Winners: My Reaction
Baltimore Ravens Win !!!
Perhaps the L-O-N-G-E-S-T Super Bowl game in History. BALTIMORE’S RAVENS bested the SAN FRANCISCO FORTY-NINER’S by a score of 34-31. Last night Championship was extended by a power outage. I have read some say it was an external feed, and another report that it was snafu inside the arena; an equipment failure. Either way the side line announcers had the burden of filling in unexpected time. Another thing that made it seem longer to me was the half baked,…er time show. I know many of you are Beyonce fans. But I would like to have more entertainment than a bunch of women in their swimsuits jumping around and making noise. I actually switched over to watch bits of a COLUMBO re-run. Now to the game. Yes my Math and my Scientific methods both failed. Therefore I could claim the Ravens win to be a fluke. But that was not the case. In fact it came down to, (as I said), D-E-F-E-N-S-E. Baltimore brought their defense and San Francisco’s was running way late on it’s arrival. I believe both QB’s did an excellent job. I also believe had San Francisco got their defense together before the power failure. They would have won the game. But they didn’t, and they didn’t. The game hinged on the 108 yard return by Ravens’ Jacoby Jones. There is no way that return should have happened. The 49’ers defense left the whole field unprotected. No one stayed back. Just as in a high school game I watched this past season. The kicker rushed down and tackled the receiver 5 yards after the catch. But that was a mistake. Even though he was able to do that. His coach wasted no time in letting him know it was a mistake. The rest of the season he stayed back and saved many potential scores. Flacco was GIFTED the MVP. Yeah, he did a good job. WAS it a better job than Kaepernick. Not in my eyes. The true MVP was the Ravens DEFENSE. But how do you give MVP, (the “P” is singular) to a group. Thus you give it to a single person. Jacoby Jones would be a fair choice, it was his run back that won the game. But that was only one play. The DEFENSE on the other hand was on thier game most all night. So I suppose as the QB is often considered the leader an Spokesman for the team, Flacco would be give MVP, on behalf of the team. After all , as in any T-E-A-M SPORT, one person can not win the game by himself. Congratulations to the BALTIMORE RAVENS. And I want to compliment fans on both sides. I have not seen any reports of rioting or anything. This shows me their fans are (both Baltimore, and San Francisco), are CHAMPIONS too. Hope to see you NFL fans back here again next year. I have time to try to figure what I did wrong this year. I suppose the next big event is NASCAR SEASON. and for some the NBA All-Star game. I don’t care for the All-Star game. Because they don’t really have any BASKETBALL stars. Merely Media Darlings. I will go into my feelings about the NBA at a later time. I may have opinions to share about NASCAR later. Looking forward to NCAA Basketball tournament. will give my picks, updates and OPINION; just like i did last year. For now We close the book on: 2012 FOOTBALL,and the 2013 SUPER BOWL XLVII. One final note some of the commercials were good. Some not. But at least some got more exposure due to the 34 minute delay. My favorite was, again Budweiser, with the CLYDESDALE COLT. Thank you for indulging me. Views: 107
SUPER BOWL XLVII..MATH vs SCIENCE PICKS
It is finally here. SUPER BOWL WEEKEND !!!!!! So here we are. Two Teams, Two Cities, Two States. And for all purposes EAST COAST Vs WEST COAST. Being played on the SOUTH COAST. One Team being around since 1946. (SAN FRANCISCO 49’ers). And a relative newcomer, A teenager if you will. Being 50 years the junior of SF. The Baltimore Ravens; established in 1996. (Baltimore Ravens, Baltimore Orioles), Could this tell us BALTIMORE is for the birds. (Sorry could not resist). But I am sure Baltimore is all out for their two teams. My personal belief is the game will be decided not so much by the offense, but by the DEFENSE. Baltimore will have to come up with a way to stop SF’s Offensive machine. Primarily QB Kaepernick. I have come up with two different modes of predicting the winner of this confrontation. One is my usual MATHEMATICAL system, taking into account the stats, and other variables. (This has not worked really well for me this year, as you, who have followed my picks can attest). The other is a tried and proven SCIENTIFIC method. My MATHEMATICAL pick is……..(drum roll please)……. SAN FRANCISCO by 4 SCIENTIFICALLY speaking The Winner will be ( if conditions are right) BALTIMORE. however if the conditions are different we again must give the nod to SAN FRANCISCO. seeing as Baltimore is in a colder climate. San Francisco is in somewhat warmer area. Tomorrow we will have an answer. If the GROUNDHOG sees his SHADOW. Baltimore will be the new SUPER BOWL CHAMPS. (By however many points they can manage) HOWEVER!!! If he does not see his shadow it will no doubt be San Francisco. UPDATE: Phil has made his prediction. PHIL picks ……San Francisco Baltimore or San Francisco. You now have my picks, WHO DO YOU THINK. Will my SCIENTIFIC METHOD PROVE to be better than my MATHEMATIC method. Or will there be a coincidence between the two selecting the same team. Final Score 31 Enjoy your parties, the game, the COMMERCIALS. BY the way a side not here. I have been informed the average cost for a commercial is approximately $133 333.33 a SECOND. There will be about 48 minutes of commercials. (12 minutes less the game). So we have, again do your own math; mine hasn’t been so good. 60 seconds in a minute times 48 = 2,880 seconds. Times $133,333.33 = 3.8 something my calculator ran into an error. GOOD LUCK TO ALL AND MAY YOU ROOT FOR THE WINNER. P.S. I truly hope we have no one wreaking havoc because their team won or lost. This I don’t understand. It may be an important game to all football fans. BUT, IT IS STILL JUST A GAME and a Views: 97
NFL Play Offs Week Three
I know there will be those of you who disagree with me. That is ok. This blog is for my opinion. So you are allowed to have your opinions, too. Feel free to comment. If you agree or disagree with me. It just is my opinion there is only one team which earned there way to the “FINAL FOUR’ That team is San Francisco. I am not nor have I ever been a San Francisco fan. (Even though I and they share something in common). And no it is not California. The other teams seem to have “lucked” their way in. The only near competitor I see to San Francisco is New England. No I am not a New England fan. I don’t even know anyone who is. So I guess I am saying WHAT THE HECK are Baltimore, and Atlanta doing there. A little SKILL and a lot of LUCK. So we now are looking at will LUCK, a MIRACLE cohesion of Baltimore or Atlanta. Or will a complete break down of San Francisco, and/or New England Put Atlanta and/or Baltimore into the Super Bowl. One thing I think would be GREAT is an all HARBAUGH “SUPER BOWL”. That being said let’s get to my picks. [table]GAME, CONFIDENCE,RUNNING SCORE SUNDAY 01-20-2013 3:00 pm (Your Local Fox Network Station) SAN FRANCISCO 28 @ Atlanta 24 2 (HIT 2),2,2 SUNDAY 01-20-2013 6:30 (Your Local CBS Network Station) Baltimore 28 @ NEW ENGLAND 13 1(miss 1),0,2 [/table] Final Score; 44 FINAL SCORE: 41 Only off by a field goal. not bad. Good Luck Everyone. Regardless (If you are like me and your favorite team has been eliminated), Let’s hope for two well played games, and no run-aways. Let’s enjoy the day. I UNDERSTAND THE SAN FRANCISCO COMEBACK WAS THE LARGEST COMEBACK IN PLAYOFF HISTORY. I believe it was said previous biggest comeback was from 13 down. And San Francisco’s comeback was 17. Good job. San Francisco @ Atlanta. Surprised me. It was a good game from start to finish. Probably the best officiated game of the season. Atlanta started strong. I must give the FANS credit for being behind their home team, They helped the players a lot. I could not believe this was the same team that had appeared to luck their way into the play offs. But In retrospect I suppose if you luck your way as consistently as the Falcons did, They had to have something else going for them too. And it just seemed they finally came together today and had they had the previous show of luck they probably would have won. Good Job Atlanta. GOOD LUCK TO SAN FRANCISCO IN THE SUPER BOWL! Ravens got their act together tonight. They out played the Patriots.thus setting up the hoped for face of brothers JOHN and JIM HARBAUGH. Big Brother (by what 15 months) JOHN and little brother JIM. Could prove to be interesting. Side note JOHN and JIM’s brother-in-law Tom Crean is having a very successful year coaching INDIANA UNIVERSITY’S Basketball team. We know a Harbaugh will have a Super Bowl win. Can brother-in-law Crean come in with a NCAA championship. What a family meeting that would be One brother showing off his Super Bowl Ring, Brother-in-law Crean showing off his NCAA Trophy, and one Harbaugh saying I TRIED. Beat of Luck to both San Francisco, and Baltimore. Next week I believe is the Pro-Bowl. I never watch that game. Have no interest in it so you won’t see anything here about it. But I will be back for the Super Bowl Views: 94
