With the weather being rather iffy this night it was good to be so close to home. It was also a welcome relief to awaken to weather that was about to get warmer again come Sunday! Today my mind was on how much money we could raise for the Genesis Women's Shelter. A charity that has special meaning for people like Jim Line, Barbie Dombro, and Rick Stanley.
Ah, what to do for an encore? How can I exceed 12-3-1 in correctly playing the point spread in Week 2. I doubt that I can. I will however do my best and see what I can correctly predict for this weekend. Some of these games I absolutely would not go near if a betting man. That said, I am pretty safe when stating that my lock of the week for this Sunday will occur in Pittsburgh when the Steelers exert some ugly payback of the Ravens to a bird of a different plumage, the Seahawks. If the special teams decide to awaken Sunday, it could be a 45-0 kind of day in Steeltown.
College football shall kick off this night in Misissippi state as the Tigers of LSU shall make a trip there. Call me crazy but even though the 'Geaux Tigers' brigade travels incredibly well I expect the boys from MSU to put a scare into LSU before the boys in Purple find a way to pull away albeit barely.
Normally when you hear about a 99 yard play from scrimmage, the first thing I recall was the run by Tony Dorsett on my Vikings 1/3/83. A game Minnesota won 31-27 but to hear that darn Don Meredith say, '99 yards... and a half!' stung deeply. It still does.
Dallas had that game. Dallas won that game...until Tony Romo reverted to the Tony of old in that game at Pittsburgh in 2009, the playoff game with the Giants in 2008, and the fumbled snap in Seattle in 2007. Frustrating as all hell. Now it's on to San Francisco.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 9:33AM