Week 3 2012 NFL Football Picks

I WON. I BEAT RACHELLE LIKE A RENTED A MULE LAST WEEK.

With that said, and with me being WinnerTMan, king of the football picks war, allow me to present to you this week's winning picks:

9/19 1:00 ET	NY Giants	At Carolina
9/23 1:00 ET	St. Louis	At Chicago
9/23 1:00 ET	Tampa Bay	At Dallas
9/23 1:00 ET	San Francisco	At Minnesota
9/23 1:00 ET	Detroit	At Tennessee
9/23 1:00 ET	Cincinnati	At Washington
9/23 1:00 ET	NY Jets	At Miami
9/23 1:00 ET	Kansas City	At New Orleans
9/23 1:00 ET	Buffalo	At Cleveland
9/23 1:00 ET	Jacksonville	At Indianapolis
9/23 4:05 ET	Philadelphia	At Arizona
9/23 4:05 ET	Atlanta	At San Diego
9/23 4:25 ET	Houston	At Denver
9/23 4:25 ET	Pittsburgh	At Oakland
9/23 8:25 ET	New England	At Baltimore
9/24 8:35 ET	Green Bay	At Seattle

Okay, Rachelle. Game on.

If I win, you have to tweet:

I'm just a girl and lost to a smarter man. @ReaganTMan is superior to me in football picks. @CatholicLisa @KLSouth @TwitToNande @ginthegin

If you win, I have to tweet:

I lost to a girl. She's smarter than a man. @RachelleFriberg is superior to me in football picks. @CatholicLisa @KLSouth @TwitToNande @ginthegin


Romney for President. We can't afford four more years of Obama.

NFL: Week Three Picks

Okay, let's do this!!! Here are my Week Three NFL pickings: STL at Chicago: Chicago Buffalo at Cleveland: Cleveland TB at Dallas: Dallas Detroit at Tenn: Tenn Jacksonville at Indy: Indy NYJ at Miami: NYJ San Fran at Minn: San Fran KC at NO: NO Cincy at Washington: Washington Philly at Arizona: Arizona Atlanta at SD: SD Houston at Denver: Denver Pittsburgh at Oakland: Pittsburgh NE at Baltimore: Baltimore GB at Seattle: GB

1-0 Rachelle #EnoughSaid

Week One ended on a high note: I won, Patty Cakes lost, making it 1-0 in my favor going into Week 2.  And with that, here are my Week 2 picks:

Chicago at GB: GB
Tenn at SD: SD 
KC at Buffalo: KC
Cleveland at CINN: CINN
MIN at IND: MIN
Oakland at Miami: Oakland
Arizona at NE: NE
TB at NYG: NYG
Baltimore at Philly: Baltimore 
NO at Carolina: NO
Houston at Jacksonville: Houston
Washington at STL: Washington 
Dallas at Seattle: Dallas
NYJ at Pittsburgh: Pittsburgh
Detroit at SF: SF
Denver at Atlanta: Atlanta

Week 2 2012 NFL Football Picks

I know this isn't the video of Rachelle's performance on Wheel of Fortune. But I thought it would be a reminder. Also, Rachelle was prone to being picked on by boys at school when she was younger. There are snakes in her closet, so she has to check all her shoes before putting them on (and I mean ALL her shoes as in a large number of them).

Okay, let's get down to business. As we all know, Rachelle lucked out last week when the Carolina Panthers lost what should have been a gimme game and when Jacksonville had the game with 20 seconds left only to let Minnesota into field goal range to tie the game and send it into OT.

 I have hired a large contingent of replacement referees, a few liberal journalists and bunch of football experts on CBSSports.com to see to it that the games this week go right. Okay, well maybe I didn't do all that. But with my super human brain, I am the Larry Sabato of football. So here's what the crystal ball says:

9/13 8:20 ET	Chicago	At Green Bay
9/16 1:00 ET	Tampa Bay	At NY Giants
9/16 1:00 ET	Arizona	At New England
9/16 1:00 ET	Minnesota	At Indianapolis
9/16 1:00 ET	New Orleans	At Carolina
9/16 1:00 ET	Kansas City	At Buffalo
9/16 1:00 ET	Baltimore	At Philadelphia
9/16 1:00 ET	Oakland	At Miami
9/16 1:00 ET	Cleveland	At Cincinnati
9/16 1:00 ET	Houston	At Jacksonville
9/16 4:05 ET	Dallas	At Seattle
9/16 4:05 ET	Washington	At St. Louis
9/16 4:25 ET	NY Jets	At Pittsburgh
9/16 4:25 ET	Tennessee	At San Diego
9/16 8:20 ET	Detroit	At San Francisco
9/17 8:35 ET	Denver	At Atlanta

Week One Picks: Let's Do This

I cannot believe another football season is about to begin! Looks like it's time, once again, to show Patty Cakes (aka Patrick) who's boss. Let's do this. Here are my week one picks:

Dallas at NYG: NYG
IND at CHI: CHI
Philly at Cleveland: Philly
STL at Detroit: Detroit
NE at TEN: NE
ATL at KC: ATL
Jacksonville at MIN: MIN
Washington at NO: NO
Buffalo at NYJ: NYJ
Miami at Houston: Houston
SF at GB: GB
Seattle at Arizona: Arizona
Carolina at TB: TB
Pittsburgh at Denver: Pittsburgh
CIN at Baltimore: Baltimore
SD at Oakland: SD

Week 1 2012 NFL Football Picks

Okay, Rachelle. It's on.

Here are this week's winning picks. See you on Twitter.

9/5 8:30 ET	Dallas	At NY Giants
9/9 1:00 ET	Indianapolis	At Chicago
9/9 1:00 ET	Philadelphia	At Cleveland
9/9 1:00 ET	Buffalo	At NY Jets
9/9 1:00 ET	Washington	At New Orleans
9/9 1:00 ET	New England	At Tennessee
9/9 1:00 ET	Jacksonville	At Minnesota
9/9 1:00 ET	Miami	At Houston
9/9 1:00 ET	St. Louis	At Detroit
9/9 1:00 ET	Atlanta	At Kansas City
9/9 4:25 ET	San Francisco	At Green Bay
9/9 4:25 ET	Carolina	At Tampa Bay
9/9 4:25 ET	Seattle	At Arizona
9/9 8:25 ET	Pittsburgh	At Denver

Monday        Cincinnati         At Baltimore

                     San Diego      At Oakland

How a Fan Feels When The Celebrity Passes On

So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.

I'm not big into making people into larger than life figures. Most of them have worked hard to get their talent recognized. For that, they deserve credit. The music business is a difficult business. The passing of Whitney Houston is just another reminder of how fleeting life is. It doesn't matter who we are.

Her talent is universally recognized. I can truly say I relate to fans who are suddenly confronted with the loss of a talent they have followed for years. John Entwistle, bass player for the Who, died from cocaine. When I was a teenager, John Bonham, drummer for Led Zeppelin, died from alcohol. Watching great talents succumb to a sudden unnecessary end is hard to understand. But it happens. It also happens to the rest of us at some point even if the cause is more natural.

I was watching a video by Pink Floyd last night and it really reminded me of how fragile life is. Richard Wright, keyboarist for Pink Floyd died of cancer. He sings key philosophical lines of the song Time at the 2:45 mark.



We are truly fleas on an elephant's ass in the grand scheme of things. "Time" comes to all at some point. Let's hope that God is a more forgiving of our shortcomings than we are, for Whitney's sake.