It’s Thanksgiving In The U.S.
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours for a wonderful and happy Celebration!
On the fourth Thursday of November, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, a national holiday honoring the early settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving.
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Week 13 Picks
We hope everyone has a very happy, safe and drama free Thanksgiving Day! It’s a time to remember what’s really important in life and to have those people around you at this special time of the year.
It’s time for football too, so let’s get to it.
Last week I actually used stats to help me make my picks. I’m not going to do that again. Going back to gut feel. The game I’m looking forward to is New Orleans at Seattle, but that’s not until Monday night. For Turkey Day, I don’t see anything to be excited about today. But who knows maybe someone will be annoyed they have to work on Thanksgiving Day and play with a bit more heart. Of all the Thursday games, Pittsburgh at Baltimore might be the only one worth watching. Continue reading
Evil’s Analysis and Picks
Week 11 is one of my favorite weeks of football. Not only did I call 11 games, but Carolina beat the Pats. Now the computer predicts Carolina as the number six seed in the playoffs. They get to go to New Orleans and get stomped. Guess it’s not a perfect week…
I nailed the Buffalo, Miami and Denver games. I almost called the KC and Denver scores exactly.
On the true failures side, Tampa Bay’s D says Falcons taste just like chicken. Also I can live with being totally wrong about Carolina.
There is one good bet this week and that is Atlanta will cover the spread by beating New Orleans. Continue reading
Week 11 Results
Can you believe it’s almost Thanksgiving? Where has the season gone? Looking back at last week, it wasn’t bad at all in regard to my football picks at least. I was right about my pick for the Colts, but come on my Titans hung in there pretty well! It wasn’t a runaway game after all! I must admit I was surprised at how Buffalo so easily handled the Jets. I really thought NY was better than that. I appear to have been wrong about that.
Now someone explain to me how Tampa Bay beat Atlanta? Because I don’t get that one at all. I know we’re talking the best of two losers, but still. I thought Atlanta was better than that. Finally, I feel sorry for Green Bay. They seem to have a knack for putting their talent into their quarterback and when he’s down, the team can’t rally to live up to their potential. Of course they’re not the only team that has this problem. Continue reading
Truck Champion Matt Crafton, 6-Time Sprint Cup Champion Jimmie Johnson, Nationwide Champion Austin Dillon
Racing Comes To A Close – For This Year
The year comes to a close for Nascar’s 2013 racing season. Despite the grumbling and hysterics on Twitter, I think it was an interesting and exciting year. But then I’m a race fan, not a fair weather fan.
I’m not so quick to blame Nascar for the poor attendance and lower TV ratings. People who do this don’t understand how much the Great Recession has hit this country. Many of us are still struggling to recover and we can’t afford our season race tickets. And for many of the races, require cable/dish to view. That too costs money many don’t have. But that’s a different story.
You can’t write about the end of the season without first saying a big Congratulations to the champions of the season. Continue reading
Week 11 Overview
I am now 1-six hunnit and fiddy on bets that Denver games will go under. Got one. I also gained 520% on gambling overall. Hard to believe because I got most of the fricken winners wrong.
I nailed the Giants game. Not too hard, I’m sure Eli and the boys were looking for little kids and kittens to beat up. Nice of Oakland to satisfy that. Not that it was a beating really. Speaking of teams needing to bully somebody, I nailed the Pittsburgh game, no real surprise there. 2 for 2 on the B team games. That’s exactly the same as flipping heads twice. Continue reading
Week 10 Results
Not a bad week of picks; at least I broke even. My Skins lost, that was disappointing. How Tennessee lost to Jacksonville is beyond me. Cincinnati came down to overtime. But truth be told, I don’t mind losing that pick. I love Baltimore!
The BIG shocker for me was Evil’s Panthers beating San Francisco. What in the world happened there? Are the Panther’s that good? Or did San Francisco assume that game would be a walk in the park and took it for granted? Part of me hopes they’re that good. But my gut tells me the 49’ers took it for granted on top of traveling cross country to an earlier time zone.
I’m glad Arizona squeaked out their win. I don’t think they played up to their potential against Houston. That or Houston has finally got their act together again. Continue reading
Week 9 Results
Time for football! And I’m late posting my picks.
So last week I didn’t so badly. Not as well as Week 8, but still I finished Week with a 76% win ratio for the week and a 62% win ratio for the season.
My surprise was that Miami was able to defeat Cincinnati. That was a good game to watch. New Orleans losing, that wasn’t a good game to watch and my heart hurt for Drew Brees. My personal opinion, which isn’t worth much, his receivers let him down in that game.
So here’s how my week 9 went: Continue reading
Evil’s Analysis & Picks
Good thing there were no good bets last week, cause I think I might have called all of them wrong. Got 8 picks.
Of those 8 picks I nailed half of them: Miami, Dallas, Seattle and Oakland.
Of course, I had true failures this time. Buffalo. Never bet on the B teams, the only way to analyze them is to flip a fricken coin. Then there was Washington, that one could have gone either way. And then there was Baltimore. Note the B team… Continue reading
Spring Thursday Night Pick.
Tonight the Skins take on the Vikings. While the numbers say the Vikings should handle the Skins, I can’t pick against my home team. So I’m backing Washington for the Thursday night game.
This is my first blog post from my phone. It’s not all that easy. So I’ll be back with the rest of this weekend’s games once I can wrestle my laptop from the man child.
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