Gobble, Gobble.... It's Week 12!!!

My buddy, Patrick's going down faster than a fat kid downs a lollipop!!! Have a safe, happy Thanksgiving!!! We have so much to be grateful for!!! Gobble, Gobble!!!

WEEK 12 TURKEY PICKS:

GNBAY at DET: GNBAY

OAK at DAL: DAL

NYG at DEN: NYG

TB at ATL: ATL

MIA at BUF: MIA

CLE at CIN: CLE

SEA at STL: SEA

CAR at NYJ: NYJ

WAS at PHI: PHI

IND at HOU: IND

KC at SD: SD

JAC at SF: SF

ARI at TEN : ARI

CHI at MIN: MIN

PIT at BAL: BAL

NE at NO: NO

NFL 2009 Week 12: Head To Head Power Picks

On my web page Fight for the Right, I wrote:

Liberals own the board now and as such we are stuck with their rules. But as we infiltrate pop culture and the New Media grows, the voice of conservatism won't be as drowned out by the mainstream media and Hollywood elites. It's our opportunity now to turn the tables on the left.

If this isn't a sweet moment of reverse marginalization using their rules, than I don't know what is. Katie Couric Drunk

Now, here's "my bad."

Sarah Palin went to Michigan and I didn't pick Detroit. It hurt my picks and set the stage for at best a tie with Rachelle. Had I read more deeply into Sarah Palin's sentiments during the 2008 campaign to not write Michigan off, Rachelle could be clucking like a chicken right now on the Eddie Burke show, or some variation of a running bet we have with each other. I defied the thinking of the great Sarah Palin and wrote Detroit off. For that, the universe punished me.

At every stop on this tour I see Americans coming together to say, “Enough. We love our country too much to just sit down and shut up while politicians take us for a ride. We shall be heard.”

We see a united team. - Sarah Palin

I should have remembered this before I picked Cleveland.



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Week 12 Power Picks

Week 11 Gobblin' Good Picks

Sarah Palin started her book tour this week, and we quickly approach another week of NFL action!!! I've been fighting a terrible cold, so I'll probably be hunkered down this Sunday, watching the NFL action. I gotta get better, so I can hit the road to join my family for our annual Thanksgiving vacation in the desert. I can't wait to hit the trails on my quad and fool around on our family's dune buggy. While Sarah and her family have snow machines, we have our sand toys!!! Have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!!! I better win because I have a feeling that should I lose, Patrick will be having my loss center around my having to do something in the desert!!! I better win, and I have a feeling my picks are gonna lead me to doing just that- so gobble, gobble everybody, and again, have a happy turkey day!!!

WEEK 11 ACTION:

MIA at CAR: MIA

WAS at DAL: DAL

CLE at DET: DET

SF at GNB: GNB

PIT at KC: PIT

SEA at MIN: MIN

ATL at NYG: ATL

NO at TB: NO

BUF at JAC: JAC

IND at BAL: BAL

ARI at STL: ARI

SD at DEN: SD (Chargers go for 5 in a row in a wild, wild AFC West showdown!!! I wanna see the FROG Formation again this weekend, boys. Sorry, Camille, you know I adore you, but your ponies are goin' down!!!)

CIN at OAK: CIN

NYJ at NE: NE

PHI at CHI: PHI

TEN at HOU: HOU

NFL 2009 Week 11: Head To Head Power Picks

Michigan-thx 4 Going Rogue! Perfect tour kickoff w/Kid Rock tune praising Northern MI humming in backgrnd @ Barnes/Noble. Above expectations - from @SarahPalinUSA via Twitter



Sarah Palin may like Michigan, but I have to go with Cleveland this week since some of the past few weeks have been decided by upsets. Call me "going rogue" on this one. It's just a shot.

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CLE
JAC
PIT
INDY
ATL
GB
MIN
DAL
NO
AZ
NE
CIN
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TEN * 45 PTS

Week 10 Pigskin Picks

What a week last week!!! My Chargers were 3 games out of first place, just a few weeks ago, but now they find themselves only 1 game out!!! They went into hostile New York, to the Meadowlands and BEAT the Giants. That's right- they beat the Giants!!! I'm so excited because my boys are back. I'm hoping this year's the year. Wouldn't it be fun to meet the Cowboys in the Superbowl? Hell yeah; that would be awesome and a great show!

This week, we find ourselves over halfway through the season, a season that has had a lot of ups and a lot of down for fans all over the country. Yet, just as Sarah is to inspire, many players in the NFL aim to inspire as well whether it be through kind acts of service or traveling to visit our military stationed abroad. LaDainian Tomlinson is one such individual. Although I love to watch LT on the field, it is what he does off the field that truly inspires me to want to do more. Every year, right before Thanksgiving, LT and his beautiful wife spend the day handing out hundreds of turkeys that they personally purchase themselves. These turkeys go to less fortunate San Diego families all over the county. This is what it's all about. This man and his wife don't do this to be praised; instead, they do it because they care and want to help out their fellow man and woman. They don't do this to get an award. They don't do this to get a pat on the back. They do this because they love America and those who live here. They want these families to have a great Thanksgiving and celebrate the holiday just like the rest of us. What a refreshing change of pace from the daily give-me's, handouts and bailouts that have become an all too common occurence. Thank you, LT, for showing all of us what it is REALLY all about. Now, on to week 10!


CHI at SF: SF

DEN at WAS: DEN

ATL at CAR: ATL

NO at STL: NO

TB at MIA: MIA

DET at MIN: MIN

JAC at NYJ: NYJ

CIN at PIT: CIN

BUF at TEN: TEN

KC at OAK: OAK

DAL at GNB: DAL

PHI at SD: SAN DIEGO-GO BOLTS!!!

SEA at ARI: ARI

NE at IND: NE

BAL at CLE: BAL


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RT @SarahPalinUSA RT @ReaganTMan Here Are My Week 10 Power Picks

Yeah, just dreaming here. The odds of Sarah Palin re-tweeting my football picks are as remote as the possibility of the Seahawks beating the Cardinals this week.

Let's get down to business. Metaphorically speaking, it may be Saturday, but Sunday's coming. That couldn't be more true this week as I will finally win my football pool, with the collateral damage being that Rachelle Friberg will lose to me again.

Let's hope this doesn't happen to me this Sunday.



Week 10 Power Picks

On a Roll!!!

This week is looking good!!! After coming off a tie with Grandpa Patrick (ha ha) last week and kicking his butt the weak before that, this cupcake is feeling real good; I'm definitely on a roll!!! Here's to week 9 my fellow football fanatics!!!

WAS at ATL: ATL

ARI at CHI: ARI

BAL at CIN: BAL

HOU at IND: IND

MIA at NE: NE

GNBAY at TB: GNBAY

KC at JAC: JAC

DET at SEA: SEA

CAR at NO: NO

SD at NYG: SD BOLTS!!!! GO CHARGERS!!!

TEN at SF: SF

DAL at PHI: PHI

PIT at DEN: PIT

NFL 2009 Week 9: Head To Head Power Picks

After taking it on the chin with 4 wrong last week, which followed a humiliating loss to Rachelle Friberg in Week 7, it's easy to get down and give up on the hopes and dreams of achieving that illustrious victory that will put you atop all of the people in Kirk's office football pool and give you a victory over the trash talking Rachelle.

Sarah Palin knows how I feel when you're down to that last game and you're on the verge of winning and then, boom, an upset. She was so close to winning her "election pool" this week. I thought Hoffman was a lock. I figured Christie could have went either way, but after Christie won, I thought for sure Sarah would have won that last race and banked her political winnings so maybe she could become president some day.

Last week, Newt told Sarah not to go with Hoffman and my friend Mike told me not to pick the Rams. I just hate when that happens!

After several beers and a few kicked chairs, I sat myself down and gave myself a real good talking to. I said: self, listen up. What would Sarah Palin or Ronald Reagan say? The cause goes on. Don't get cynical because look at yourself and what you were willing to do, and recognize that there are millions and millions of football fans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a perfect day in the football pool.


1976 Presidential Run ("Don't Get Cynical" speech is at 6:40 into the video)

All I ask for is a victory for common sense and football sanity. I'm not going to quit. I'm just going to advance in a different direction, that's all. I'm not picking the Giants this week and I'm not picking the Cardinals either. Those days are over. I'm going rogue!

If I'm going to beat a girl and talk the trash talk, then I have to be willing to walk the trash walk (okay that didn't come out right, but it's Palinesque in its own way). If I die, football speaking of course, I’ll know that I have spoken up and I will speak up to thank people like Knute Rockne who honored Ronald Reagan when he said "go out there and win one for the Gipper!"



I'm not going to just hang in there and go along to get along just to have a few wins. I'm going to stand up and speak up, and be bold and demand that football fans be prudent in what they say about the Cowboys or any team for that matter (unless they're trashing the Redskins of course). Forget the political correctness… We're so afraid to make bold picks and instead choose our teams so cautiously that our whole pool loses meaning, and we lose effectiveness, and then we lose hope because we start thinking that only dumb receptionists who pick their teams out of a hat are winning the pool and that people like my friend Richard who does 10 pools a week to hedge his bets is only worried about their pool numbers looking good and attracting cash for their next bid so that they can hold on to some title and some position in the sports gambling world.

I'll call the press even when my handlers tell me not to. I don't give a crap if they slaughter a turkey behind me while I give my picks on camera! I'm not going to let some late night comedy jerk bring my kid into this by saying something like, well Patrick's son made these picks during the 7th inning of the Yankee game last night. Keith Olbermann can go on every night, call me worst person in the world and make fun of my picks all he wants. The liberal media can accuse me of having Bill Kristol make my picks for me when I win.

I don't care.

I'll write a book about my football picks. I'll go on Oprah if I have to. I bet you Greta Van Susteren likes my picks, especially when I pick the Packers! I'm no pinhead, I'm a Patriot, damn it. And I will stand tall and let O'Reilly, Hannity, Rush, Beck all know that I will never compromise my principles just to win a football pool. I will do the honorable thing and pick the teams I know in my heart are going to win.

Am I going to be victorious this week? You betcha! Win, baby win!

Week 9 Power Picks