Week 14

John Madden over Jason Krausz – I really hate this kid. how come I didn’t get to be on Sunday NFL countdown when I was in 5th grade.

Bills over Dolphins

Bengals over Rams (sorry Brock)

Cowboys over Lions

Green Bay over Raiders

Titans  over Chargers

Giants over Eagles

Jaguars over Panthers

Bucs over Texans

Vikings over Niners

Seahawks over Cardinals

Broncos over  Chiefs

Steelers over Pats

Browns over Jets

Colts overs Ravens

Saints over Falcons

Pick My Sac: NFL Week 13

ok here are my picks.

St Louis, Washington, Minnesota, Houston, Indy, Miami, KC, San Fran, Philly, Cleveland, Denver, Gmen, Tampa, Pitt, New England.

It’s funny I used to spend a lot of time on these and not just rush them out before going to bed after coming home from the bar.

Pick My Sac. Thursday Edition

I’ll take Dallas tonight.

Greetings from Lima

So I{m taking some vacation time and I{m in Peru.  I promise this is the last that you]ll hear from me until I get back but right now I{m sitting in the Lima airport waiting on a 3 hour layover and I figured I{d hammer a little something out.  Anyway the airport is way busier at almost 2 am than any other airport Ive been to recently.  I dont have too much else to report beyond getting a new Casio calculator watch from target for the trip.  Ill put up some pictures when I get back.

 later

~palestinperu.

Picks for week the next two weeks;

Week 11~ Cleveland. Jacksonville, Philadelphia. Minnesota. Indy. Green Bay. GMEN. Atlanta. New Orleans. Cincinnati. Pittsburgh. Seattle. St. Louis. Dallas.  New England. Tennessee.

Week 12.  Detroit.  Dallas.  Indy. Seattle. GMEN. Jacksonville.  New Orleans.  Washington. Cleveland. Cincinnati. KC. Arizona. San Diego. Denver. Mew England.  Pittsburgh.

I want to see Jiri dong.

A Toronto Maple Leafs call up has made a mistake done something stupid.  Naked pictures of Leafs part time forward player Jiri Tlusty have surfaced on the Internet today.  Apparently the kid pulled a Jeff Reed and showed a little hog in the mirror.  This news is devastating for the Leafs who were really hoping that his 13  regular season OHL goals would end the Leafs 40 year Stanley Cup drought.  Not only have I not seen the pictures, but before today I didn’t even know who Jiri was.  Here’s to hoping the Leafs will be able to put this mess behind them and continue their season slide away from playoff contention.

Update:  At least he’s sorry.

Shit

Well I’m really late… so these probably don’t count.  I can’t move I’m so hungover.

probably don’t count.  New Orleans, Green Bay, Denver, Philly, Jacksonville, Buffalo, Carolina, Pittsburg.

Count

Baltimore, Dallas, Indy, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle.

Memories of my college gambling days.

First of all I should apologize for not posting note that I haven’t posted in a while. I’ve had a couple of busy weeks, deal with it.

Anyway I was recently thinking about one of my favorite college diversions, gambling. I don’t really gamble anymore, at least not in the way that I did when I was in school. It’s probably because I’m not surrounded by dozens of degenerates at all times like I was in school and has something to do with the fact that now that I have a full-time job and some disposable income of my own so the thrill of winning $50 has lost some of its luster.

Regardless of the reasons I just don’t gamble like I did while I was a student. At school I didn’t just gamble on sports I used to find excuses to gamble on everything. I remember once betting my friend $10 that it would snow the next day, or betting him 2 pitchers that he couldn’t get 10 girls phone numbers in one night. For me the trill of this gambling wasn’t in winning and money, it was more about proving that I was right or that I was somehow smarter than whoever I was betting against. Coincidentally I used this same logic to justify that it wasn’t a problem, I didn’t go through the highs and lows of an addict, rather I went through the ups and downs of a smart ass. Of all of the gambling that I did though my favorite were the bets that didn’t involve cash.

We used to bet on different things all the time and the stakes often would involve challenges of manhood and superiority. Let me explain this, the stakes for our bets would often involve things that neither of us wanted to do, thus the loser would essentially be punished more than the winner would be rewarded. For example the stakes to a game of FIFA Soccer in my dorm one time involved the loser not being allowed to wear a coat for a the rest of the day. While this may not seem to bad in my current location of sunny South Beach, in the -25 degree weather of Montreal it could probably be considered torture. The stakes would always change but like any Japanese game show worth its salt the loser would always be punished. My favorite stake of all time was to bet someone a “bar dare.” A bar dare was exactly as it sound, it was a dare that could be cashed in at any time but only while both competitors were at the bar, and as long as it was reasonable the loser could not turn it down. Bar dares were amazing. I specifically remember cashing in one that forced my friend to take 5 shots of Vodka on a night when one of my roommates was “planning on taking it easy, because his girlfriend was coming into town the next day” (didn’t end well) and another forcing a friend to come to a French Canadian bar with me that was 10 miles away so that I could meet up with a girl. While I may make it sound in the post like I always won, frankly that wasn’t the case at all.

I certainly did my share of losing. I specifically remember two of my most humiliating defeats. The first forbid to read about, watch on television or talk about my favorite sports team, the Toronto Maple Leafs for an entire week just before the playoffs started. The next forced me to eat a stick of Beef Jerky which wouldn’t normally have been much of an issue but I was at the time (and still am now) a vegetarian. I suppose that you always remember the defeats more than the victories but I think that my ultra-competitiveness hasn’t allowed me to forget that last loss, it has indeed stuck with me far longer than the salty nitrates possibly could have. Worst of all looking back on it the bet was so stupid. It was based on the short lived Fox reality show Man vs. Beast… I can’t believe I choose man.

Gahh Almost forgot.

Here are my picks: Washington, Ten, Tampa, Jacksonville, San Diego, Green Bay, Det, Buffalo, Atlanta, Cleveland, Indy, Oakland, Dallas, Pit

Pick My Sac Week 8

I’m running out the door for the weekend right now… here are my picks super quick:

GMEN @ MIA – Giants not even close

OAK @ TEN – Ten

PHI @ MIN – Min

CLE @ STL – Cleveland. If the Browns lose this game I think Romeo should be fired at the end of the year these are the games that a team trying to be good must win.

DET @ CHI -Chi

INDY @ CAR – INDY

PIT @ CIN – PIT

JAC @ TB – JAC

BUF @ NYJ -BUF

HOU @ SD – SD

NO @ SF- NO

WAS @ NE – NE

GB @ DEN- GB

Yearly total.

fruffy – 43 -34
palestinmiami – 43-34

That’s officer Shaquille to you.

On the ground floor of my office is an Italian restaurant that’s pretty good.  It’s not great and it really isn’t anything too special but it’s pretty good.  Perhaps the best thing about it is that it has a patio where you can sit outside and enjoy an obstructed view of the ocean.

 Less than an hour ago I was walking by it on my way to park where I was going to eat my lunch and none other than Shaquille O’Neal was sitting outside, eating a Fettuccine Alfredo.  Shaq is a big man, he’s hard not to notice, but what I saw today leads me to believe that he wanted to be seen at least a little.  He had a black t-shirt with the giant superman logo and the word “Police” across the back… and he was carrying a gun in a holster on his hip.  I know it would have been a better story if he had the gun tucked in the back of his sweat pants, but he didn’t.

 As soon as I got back to my office I called Fruffy at work and decided that Shaq should retire at the end of the year for two reasons.  1. By that time the league will have Greg Oden who has enough personality to fill the void and 2. because at Sacs in the City we can’t wait for Shaq to start his own bounty hunter enterprise which will obviously be turned into a intriguing (though probably disappointing) reality show. Essentially what I guess I’m trying to say is that I’m ready for the next phase of Shaq’s life regardless of whether or not he is.  I’m tired of the new Tiki and Keyshawn I want the new Diesel I’m pretty sure that it’s going to be a fun trip to watch.