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NFL General

Week 2 2007 NFL Picks and Podcast

After a very respectable week 1, we’re back with the 2007 NFL Week 2 Picks. Trevor, Ryan and RJ all went 10-6 last week. Vegas Vinny went 11-5 but lost his Lock of the Week because of the idiot Eagles special teams.

Here are your piping hot week 2 football picks below. Remember, you can join us on the radio show every Wednesday night at 8PM ET to thank us for helping you win your office pool or to yell at us for terrible picks.

You can download the podcast directly (running time 60 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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NFL General

Week 1 2007 NFL Picks and Podcast

Ahhh opening weekend… when even the Detroit Lions are at the top of the standings. There is no better time of the year (except maybe March Madness) than opening weekend of football. The Thursday night game is just an appetizer for a lot of intriguing matchups on Sunday. Damn it feels good to be back. Remember, you can join us on the radio show every Wednesday night at 8PM ET to thank us for helping you win your office pool or to yell at us for terrible picks.

The featured games this week are New Orleans @ Indy, Chicago @ San Diego, Baltimore @ Cincinnati, Arizona @ San Francisco. You can download the podcast directly (running time 60 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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NFL General

Wake Me Up When the Season Starts

   I am stuck 33,000 feet above ground on an extremely bumpy airplane in route to Orlando, Florida. My flight was delayed three hours due to who knows what back at the Philly airport. The food served on board tastes like a mixture between dog vomit and urine. (Not that I have ever tasted either.) I am squished between two dudes who really need to give Jenny Craig a call and the baby behind me won’t stop kicking my seat. The old granny in first class thinks of something new to complain about every other minute while a group of young ladies, unattractive at that, won’t stop reciting the lyrics to “Stacy’s Mom.” That song is like eight years old, find a new favorite tune. Just when I thought nothing else could possibly go wrong, I look up at the TV to see if anything worthwhile is on, only to find myself watching preseason NFL football. God, kill me now.

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General Sports

The Madden Curse

Some things just go together; peanut butter and jelly, spaghetti and meatballs, Pedro Gomez and the San Francisco Giants, Robin Williams and bad movies. That’s why, when people think football, they think of the Madden NFL video game franchise.

    Video gamers across the country are excited for the release of Madden 2008, which will be in stores on the 14th of August. Vince Young, 2006 rookie of the year, will be gracing the front cover following the foot steps of other NFL superstars.

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Green Bay Packers

The Holsterless Gunslinger

The NFL amazes me. Once again, they have found a way to not only enrage a superstar, but they may have found a way to phase him out, as well. Brett Favre, merely an average season away from three major records, recently expressed his displeasure for Ted Thompson and the Green Bay Packers organization when they failed to bring in Randy Moss.

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Is Mel Kiper’s Hair Ready?

by Trevor Freeman

Is it just me or is the time between the day March Madness ends and the day the NBA playoffs/NFL Draft begins just excruciating? Last weekend I actually did household chores. I did. I swear to God. I even figured out how to get the vacuum cleaner to work. It gets worse. I rolled up my sleeves and cleaned the bathroom. I think the advent of Spring Cleaning can be directly attributed to the lack of sports once March Madness ends.

With that being said, the NFL Draft is only a week away and its time to get the engine fired up again. There are not many events I like watching better than this one. Watching Mel Kiper get all hot and bothered talking about some guy from Sam Houston State brings an indescribable amount of enjoyment to my life. Plus, is there any event better to watch at a bar than the NFL Draft? You don’t have to keep your eyes on the television as long as the ears are tuned in. God bless this event.

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General Sports

All Star Game? What All Star Game?

In theory, the All Star game in any sport is designed to showcase the best of each league and at the same time, entertain the fans with the skills of each professional athlete. Really? If that is so, please let me know when that happens.

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Random Thoughts

Man on a Rant: Breakup in the Bronx- A Norv for All Seasons- and Pippen’s Pipe Dream

I never thought I’d find myself writing these words.  I thought they’d go the distance.  I thought they were stronger than this… stronger than Andre and Steffi, stronger then Mia and Nomar.  And yet, this President’s Day weekend, the earth-shattering news broke:  Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter are no longer best friends forever.  You read that correctly, folks – A-Rod and Jeter are BFFs no more.  How will we go on?  How will we cope?  Can the Yankees even bring themselves to compete in light of the biggest of big chills?

Right.

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Cincinnati Bengals

The Cincinnati Nine

Imagine working for a company that has a little more than 500 employees with the following statistics:

    · 29 have been accused of spousal abuse
    · 7 have been arrested for fraud
    · 19 have been accused of writing bad checks
    · 117 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses
    · 3 have done time for assault
    · 71 can not get a credit card due to bad credit
    · 14 have been arrested on drug·related charges
    · 8 have been arrested for shoplifting
    · 21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
    · 84 have been arrested for drunk driving in the last year

Yeah, it makes me wonder why anyone would want to be a member of the Cincinnati Bengals’ organization too…Seriously…I swear…Okay, fine, so those statistics actually pertain to the 535 members of the United States Congress, but the Bengals aren’t that far off.

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Oakland Raiders

The definitive Lane Kiffin Evaluation

A BRIEF HISTORY LESSON FIRST:

It has become very fashionable for people to turn down the Raiders coach since Jon Gruden and former GM Bruce Allen left. Since owner Al Davis usually doesn’t give good recommendations, so once Bruce Allen landed with friend Jon Gruden he promptly returned volley on Al Davis and slammed the Oakland Raiders whenever he got the chance.

Al Davis in his own Oakland Raiders dimension, thought that it didn’t matter what the current GM of the Tampa Bay Bucs said about him and didn’t return volley.

In the meantime, Bruce Allen went on slamming the organization every chance he gets. It doesn’t help that the Raiders continued to lose and Jon Gruden won the Super Bowl the next time. So all the GM brethren (led by Bruce Allen) aren’t afraid to tell their assistants, current coaches, and media that the Raiders job is the worst job in sports and TSN isn’t afraid to print a story in their magazine that the Raiders Job is the worst in sports.

It didn’t help that Al Davis turned to Art Shell or Tom Walsh (icons from before I was born which is sad).  That perpetuated the myth that Al Davis is an old stick in the mud.

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