Let's face it gang... Danny Andren is running this league this year, and we are all just wallowing in his wake. In the worst week we've had as a group so far this season, Danny kept chugging along, posting a league best 11-3 record in Week 4. Nevermind all those 12-2 records you see in the standings. ALL of them were Home Team Default pickers. As of 7pm ET on Sunday, Danny was the ONLY person to have 10 wins or more. And after the dust cleared this past weekend, Danny's got a 6 game lead on Leontine, Tommy Schwade, and Emma The Cat, all tied for 2nd place.
We've always contended that you don't need to know anything about football to do well in this league. Picking NFL games is really a big crap-shoot, and sometimes the less you know, the better off you are. This year we may be watching an interesting experiment based on this theory. On the one end, we've got a Cat, who obviously doesn't know the first thing about football or what team is doing what. And we also have Dave Schwade, self-admitted NFL ignoramus. Says Dave, "It seems that my picking methodology of not watching a single down thus far and not knowing which teams have won thus far and not keeping my eyes open as I pick has worked perfectly. Good thing I also don't know the FBH standings."
After 4 weeks, Emma (the Cat) is in 2nd place while Dave (not a cat) is in last place.
Last week's picking trends: We got 36 sets of picks. 34 people correctly took the Giants -8.5 over Kansas City, while only 8 people correctly took New Orleans -7.5 over the Jets. One of the Home Team Defaults 2 losses was Kansas City +8.5.
Good luck to everyone next week!
PPP
Wait, Wasn't The Other Question The More Controversial One?
You would think that the subject of health care in America would have been a more controversial PPP question than the one we asked last week, but you'd be wrong. As you'll see in some of the comments that follow, people questioned my sanity and my motives. I'm sure it was all in good fun, just as the question posed was done so in good fun. To refresh your memory, we asked...
Which would you rather do... Attend an average sporting event with a very attractive person? -- OR -- Attend a huge sporting event with an average looking person?
As I was putting together the Picks Page for the week, always struggling to come up with another PPP question, I was watching the Dan Patrick Show on DirecTV's 101 network as they debated what their poll question for the day should be. This was one of the ideas they had that they passed on. I thought it was a funny concept, wondered which one I would choose, and decided to use it. It was not an attempt to "trap us married guys" (I'm included in that group), since no gender was mentioned in the question. Our wives might choose to attend an average event with someone better looking than us! As if there was anyone more attractive than any of us. Puleeze.
18 people opted to see a Huge Event with an Average looking person
6 people opted to see an Average Event with a Very Attractive person
Keep in mind that I grew up as Jets/Mets fan, and I went to a lot of Below Average games with Below Average looking people (Bob and Steve Shupp, John Kardel). How much would I have liked to go to a game with, let's say, Halle Berry? Oh, to dream the impossible dream! (No offense, boys.)
Comments:
Wouter van Zutphen: Were you on drugs while making up this weeks PPP? [Editor: While making up the question? No.]
Leontine Honcoop: What is it about this question ?! I'd rather have a huge sporting event with an attractive person, which I have now that we are in FL ;-)
Jeff Vanek: Is this a setup, for all us married folk?
Ken Davis: I would rather attend any sporting event with my wife... [Editor: That would be the politically correct answer.]
Doug Manuel: I choose stay home, watch the game on tv, drink beer with expensive prostitutes, and do lines of cocaine off of their a**es. [Editor: That would be the politically INcorrect answer.]
Eric Honcoop: How about seeing the Jets win the superbowl, sitting on a couch with a beer and some hot women? ;-)
Roy Bunting: I don't know where this question came from...Obviously these aren't the only factors that would go into such a decision; I think I know what you're driving at, though. For me, it's the gravity of the event, the history, and the spectacle going on around me, not the attention I'd be getting (presumably from having an attractive date) in "making the scene". Then again, perhaps I'm so used to such attention thanks to Miss Kimba, that I am immune to the would-be allure of such a factor.
Mike Hogg: This isn't a real question! I've done it all! As I recall I attended a huge sporting event in New York (10 years ago, unbelieveable!) - Ellen was there...as was Bob!! I thank you. [Editor: One attractive person out of two isn't bad.]
John Kardel: Where is the attend an attractive sporting event with a huge person option? [Editor: Did I mention I've been to Jets games and sat next to Steve Shupp in a winter coat?]
Jack Akin: Why take sand to the beach? [Editor: That makes sense. I think.]
Mellenhead Shupp: I hope my husband stays on point this time! [Editor: He did, see below...]
Bob Shupp: Logic dictates I'll be attending the Jets Super Bowl with Joan Rivers. Not to say that she's ugly, she's just hard to look at. My own face hurts.
After watching just the first few minutes of Vikings-Packers on Monday Night, it occured to me that anyone who DIDN'T take Minnesota, with Brett Vafre facing the Packers for the first time, inside arguably the loudest (and ugliest) stadium in sports, doesn't deserve the right to pick any more games this season.
[ Hard to find more annoying commercials on TV than those for The Olive Garden. Anyone who watched the Sunday Night game on NBC last weekend saw the pompus guy who sits down with friends at The Olive Garden taking great pride in not needing to see a menu because he presumably knows everything that's on it. Congratulations, dude. But to his friends delight, he's dumbfounded when the waitress mentions the "Never-Ending Pasta Bowl".
Now, I've never eaten at The Olive Garden, but even =I= know about the stupid never-ending pasta bowl! C'mon Mr. Olive Garden Guy, don't tell me that you have never seen an Olive Garden commercial before! Maybe because he spends all his time eating there?
[ When it comes to "Performance Enhancing Drugs", it continues to amaze me the huge difference between Major League Baseball and the NFL. In Baseball, get caught and you're vilified forever (Rafael Palmerio, Mark McGuire). In the NFL, get caught, and we can't wait for your suspension to end so you can get back on the field (Calvin Pace), or you become an MVP candidate (Shawn Merriman). We must be taking hypocracy lessons from the GOP.
