Hopefully we’ll have a better week here. There are a couple of games that promise to be close or toss ups. The Prince is somewhat sticking to his animal vs; but he did make a few alternate choices. This weeks upset I think will be in Pittsburgh. And I think New Orleans v St. Louis might be a better game this week only because of the excitement and energy permeating the city from the Cardinals World Series win. But I still think New Orleans will take the day. We’ll see.

Last week really did suck! It was Football in the twilight zone! Nuff said about that.

Last week sucked, although it probably sucked more for the teams who let me down. For instance, in Smokedland, Kansas City really came though. They scored an extra TD over my prediction. Apparently Smokedland’s offense missed the plane. Or, in this case, maybe they fell out of the plane.

Indianapolis had a major relapse, despite the seemingly successful operation earlier in the season to remove the team’s heads from their asses. In an embarrassing and extremely painful reverse operation, reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition, The Saints put Indianapolis’ heads right back, helmet and all. Payton didn’t sit in the booth cause his leg hurt, he just didn’t want to get any blood on his suit. They say no one ever expects the Spanish Inquisition, but I bet St. Louis does…

Here’s my take this week:

And Vegas;

There are no good bets this week.

E.W.

I was sure glad I didn’t live in Smokedland. I was expecting riots. Maybe there were but all of them failed to score…

Good week in predictions last week.  I’m finally back in the black on good bets.  I’ve been in the black for overall bets, which is still weird.  Sadly there are no good bets this week.

Here’s Vegas’ plan:

E.W.

I wish that one day the Panther’s get out of the mindset that they must lose to Atlanta.

I forgot to post our results from last week. It wasn’t a bad week, but not as good at the previous 2. Even the Prince didn’t do so badly this time with his ‘the animal always wins’ strategy.

The Prince and I made our picks for week 7. I’m not feeling very confident about some of these picks and there are a few that are definitely toss ups. But here’s our choices.

I’m well in positive territory in terms of overall gambling, which is weird.  There is only one good bet today, Dallas is NOT going to score 24 points in cold cold Foxboro, take the under bet.

San Diego has replaced New England in the Superbowl and will lose to Green Bay.

Here’s Vegas’ take:

E.W.

The computer says Baltimore will face Houston in the playoffs, we get a preview today.

Most of the favorites are playing at home, but we do have a few potential upsets this week. Either because of emotion or sheer frustration from losing. The first upset from the Prince and I comes from Atlanta. There’s no doubt that the Panthers are getting better each week. And although Atlanta has the better record so far, they’re beat up and honestly I don’t think their that much better than Carolina. There’s also a few toss ups this week. Houston & Baltimore, Buffalo & the Giants, New Orleans & Tampa. Generally I’d pick who has home field advantage, but I’m not so sure that’s going to make enough of a difference in some of these games. So we’ll see how that turns out. And I still have to go with my Skins to beat the Eagles. Loyal fan to the end there.

Not a bad week at 9-4 for me. The Prince is still relying on his animal vs animal method and it’s still failing. He’s 8, so trying to convince him to change his method is proving difficult. We simply don’t tell him his results during the games and he doesn’t get upset. Ah the things parents do to keep their kids happy.

Anyway, results..my Titans lost miserably to the Steelers, but I knew that game was a toss up anyway. Bruised egos aside, that home field advantage worked for Pittsburgh. Minnesota pulled out their win, but Indy still couldn’t their act together without Manning, which is honestly kind of pathetic. I am surprised the Giants couldn’t hold their own, at home no less, against the Seahawks. And kudos to Oakland. Right before the games started I had thought about changing that pick seeing as how Oakland would be playing with a great deal of emotion and huge desire to win after the death of owner Al Davis. But sometimes that emotion can go the other way too; so I stuck with Houston, at home. I’m sort of glad I lost that pick.

So here are the results for the Prince and I for week 5.

Here’s the picks:

Vegas:

There’s no good bets today.

E.W.

I need an extra 4 hours added to the day.