Yes, it’s all true. I slipped and fell down the backsteps doing the laundry and broke my tailbone. In two places. I’ll try and get the x-ray and post it.
I am sitting on a little inflatable donut filled with ice.
It hurts, but I am a soldier. The Glass Bus will roll again. My tennis season may be over, but the Mardi Gras flag football game is coming up and you can bet I will be 100%.
I love Chad Johnson. He’s one of the best receivers in football today. But what exactly did he mean by this?
TO: I got you baby?
Maybe that’s not a question mark. Maybe it’s an exclamation point. Maybe he was too tired after burning the Indy defense on that TD catch.
Does he mean that he has TO’s back, and he just can’t express himself clearly because he was too excited?
Does he mean that he has TO’s number, that he owns him, because he is scoring touchdowns while TO is doing pushups in his driveway?
If you saw him write this live, you saw that it took him a real long time to write it down. You know he prepped himself to do it. Why is it unclear? C’mon Chad, tell us what you mean.
The aquarium opens up on the 23rd, and Atlanta’s pretty psyched.
Here’s a slideshow of some photographs from the recent Media Day:
http://flagrantdisregard.com/flickr/slideshow.php?id=891.
It’s upset week. I’m 17-9.
Arizona at St. Louis (-8) – Yeah, right. Rams.
Carolina at Chicago (+3) – Upset #1.
Detroit at Dallas (-8.5) – I believe in Dallas. They will take the NFC East straight up.
Jacksonville (-4) at Tennessee – Poor Titans.
Miami at Cleveland (-2.5) – When its crap vs crap, the crap wins. Brown is the color of crap.
New Orleans (+8.5) at New England – Upset #2. Aaron Brooks will have a big game against a hurting Patriots.
Oakland (+6) at Washington – Upset #3. The return of Randy Moss, and Collins throws 0 interceptions.
Philadelphia (+7) at N.Y. Giants – Upset #4. Mike McMahon is the hero.
Pittsburgh (-3.5) at Baltimore – Duh.
Tampa Bay at Atlanta (-6.5) – After being embarrassed by Green Bay, Atlanta’s not going to lose to a phony Bucs team.
Seattle (-12.5) at San Francisco – Poor San Fran.
Buffalo at San Diego (-12.5) – Tomlinson has another trifecta.
Indianapolis at Cincinnati (+5.5) – Upset #5. I just have a feeling.
N.Y. Jets at Denver (-14.5) – J-E-T-S SUCK SUCK SUCK.
Kansas City (-6.5) at Houston – Final score 42-3.
Minnesota (+5) at Green Bay – Upset #6. Brad Johnson is awesome (snicker).
Everybody’s all over the Colts this season. In the preseason, I even picked them as the SuperBowl winners (against the Falcons).
But I’m tired of hearing about how great they are. I read today that the teams that they have beaten have a combined winning percentage of .321. Wow. That’s real impressive. They’ve beat 9 teams that lose two-thirds of the time. Here’s the NFL’s conference standings: http://www.nfl.com/standings/conference. Notice how the #2 team in the AFC, the Broncos, have a .524 strength of victory.
To Dave (our resident Jacksonville fanboy)’s credit, Jacksonville’s strength of victory is .481.
Of course, all these stats are total crap, because the Saints’ strength of victory is the highest in the league at .611.
I forgot to pubically announce the addtion of Greg to the list of El Buzzard Enterprises’ authors. Greg brings us that international joie de vivre and je ne sais quoi that…. Wait. He’s English. He brings the bangers and mash.
Brent, aka Mr. Unstoppable, has also just been added as an author today, but he hasn’t posted an article yet. He has proved with his witty comments that he has more to say and better ways to say it than me, Dave, and Leslie combined. He probably doesn’t even know yet, though.
I discovered a very cool little webtool the other day: Backpack.
It’s a neat little website that lets you organize to-do lists, notes, and reminders online, and then (the really cool part) lets you share them with other people. Leslie and I use it to keep a to-do list of what needs to get done around the house. We both can edit the list, check things off as done, and leave notes. I use it at work with other people who are working on the same projects as me. It’s also got an RSS feed option.
It’s like having a dry-erase board that you can access anywhere. I don’t know how many of you are surrounded by computers all day, every day, but for those of us that are, Backpack is incredibly useful.
So far, I am 8-4 for picks.
Chiefs at Bills (-2.5) – Kansas City is over-rated.
Redskins at Bucs (-1) – Tampa Bay is even more over-rated than Kansas City.
Patriots (-3) at Dolphins – The Pats don’t lose two weeks in a row. Especially not to a team that embarrassed them last year.
49ers at Bears (-13) – Oh boy what a game. The Bears are the best team in the NFC North, but that’s not really saying much. It’s enough to beat the 49ers, though.
Vikings at Giants (-9.5) – Eli at home.
Cardinals at Lions (-3.5) – I still believe in Detroit. Joey Harrington is #1!
Ravens at Jaguars (-6.5) – Boller’s back! Baltimore rejoices. Losers.
Texans at Colts (-18) – Holy crap, look at the line.
Jets at Panthers (-9) – Are the Panthers the best team in the NFC? We’ll see when they go up against the Falcons.
Broncos (-3) at Raiders – Tough one to call. I’ll take the home team.
Rams at Seahawks (-6.5) – Bulger and Holt are back. This is about the time the Seahawks start showing that they can’t win consistently, too.
Packers at Falcons (-9) – Dave likes the Packers. He “just has a feeling” about this game. So do I.
Browns at Steelers (-7.5) – Please.
Cowboys at Eagles (-3) – Another week of TO at home gloating.
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