Comments on: Saturday Football Open Thread

By: Harmony

Harmony — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:17:19 +0000

So I ended up picking the Patriots.

By: travellinbaen

travellinbaen — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:23:54 +0000

Harmo, the “pickin” is just predicting the results of football games Vegas style against the odds. Then, because its the weekend, when I first started doing this I would throw in a playlist off my ipod from what I was inspired by on my picks. It’s taken a life of its own from there. The scoring is more or less logical, but pretty convoluted. The good thing is it really doesn’t matter.

So, bottom line, pick your favorite team, or any team and you are exempt from worrying about the lines. I’ll just apply the appropriate line to whatever team you pick, and throw us some tasty tunes to chew on in the meantime and “voila!” you’re in the game. You could even choose some hapless loser, like say BR and go his opposite the way S&M does with Sweet and see how it turns out.

In the meantime, I’ll try and get some more non-football entertainment back on the blog soon.

By: Harmony

Harmony — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:32:32 +0000

Okay..I finally picked a professional football team. So now I can play along..once I figure out what it is your doing.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:58:07 +0000

They used to live around the corner from me until the storm – nice to know where they landed.

By: travellinbaen

travellinbaen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:11:29 +0000

PS, if you went to Eastlawn in the late 70′s-80′s you can appreciate that it blew my mind to run in to Mr. Grissom’s wife and granddaughter. Turns out they live around the corner here in Ridgeland.

By: travellinbaen

travellinbaen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 22:04:46 +0000

Wow. Took a two quarter break to go outside with Elle and come back to see GA score on LSU to go up 7-6. This ain’t what the experts said to expect. Should be a good 4th Quarter. A 7-6 final would work just fine for me. I’d be entertained.

By: travellinbaen

travellinbaen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:23:35 +0000

I just clicked over for a second to FSU-BC. FSU had 4th and goal from the one and tried to run the tried and true fake dive/rollout pass and got stuffed for a sack. Not only that but the TE was covered. I’m stunned. Don’t often see that play fail.

Well, not counting the State-LSU game last week, but that’s State, so it’s not quite the same.

By: Jessie Lou

Jessie Lou — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:10:23 +0000

From these comments I can see I haven’t missed much by not watching – I don’t need the extra anxiety!

By: travellinbaen

travellinbaen — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:26:11 +0000

The Big 10 is fun to watch because there is so much parity. They always seem to have at least one game go down to the wire. But that league needs to find some speed to compete against the southern and western teams.

By: face

face — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 19:24:05 +0000

I know its the Big Ten, but the Big Ten network is cool. I just watched the Mich game and the Purdue game both going down to the last seconds.