Inside Info/roQQ gossip

An interesting thing happened on the way to this week's playoff picks.

No, I'm not talking about embarrassing myself and going 1-3 last week, with Ohio State's humiliation thrown in for good measure. Not that that wasn't interesting, mind you.

I was playing on Full Tilt, since

a.) Most of my $$ online is there and

b.) My bodog account is more or less crippled from this year's football season.

Today I won my way from $1900-something, up to the mid $2300's, but that wasn't what was interesting. In fact, right now, having gone about 10 hours, and through seasons 1 and 2 of Seinfeld, I'm fairly bored with it.

No, what was interesting was the conversation at the last table. Here it is:

A: what channel prsent the 1st NFL game 2morro?
B: not sure
A: just hope its not ESPN
B: i goota decide my parlay for it
C: why are you using parlay in the same sentence as football?
B: i smell em better than a bot
B: im a machine
A: AFC i go with Baltimore, NFC I'm with bears
C: Bears will go down fast
A: not against Seattle,
A: maybe NFC championship
C: grossman throws 3 picks, 2 fumbles
C: true
A:i dont think either way, NFC can win the superbowl
B: i started w/ 250 in my sb acc
B: got 4.5k
A: cantXXX
B: from football this year
B: ive been great
B: ive been on
C: the NFC would need an absolute miracle
B: bet on osu mich almost ev week
A: yeah
B: they were machines
B: laid off em in the bowls
B: so glad
B: i went to uofm
B: and i h8 lsing money on them
A: grossman can make the team lose, but will not make them win for sure
B: he's on blow
B: no joke
B: from high school on
A: the best thing he can do, is not make any mistake
B: he loves
B: it
B: my boy in frat went to high school w/ em
B: he loved the blow
B: sexy rexy
B: cant you tell from his new yrs quote
B: he like "thinking about partying"...sniff
D: should have put griese in 7-8 games ago
B: hes ok if he's not slangin
B: hope he had pure during off wk
B: he got bad &%%!
B: u guys need hest to get it done
B: seattles sec is toast
B: missing 3 starters
D: i thing grossman has given up more points that the defense
B: some dude wrk at bowling alley is playing saftey
B: no joke
B: so tough to bet against pats
B: they made me bank over the yrs in playoffs
B: as long as phillip doesnt f uc up
C: u know belichek will confuse the @!@# out of rivers
C: but It is amazing
roQQ BoTTom: B
Q: where rex go to high school

He didn't answer. I wik'ed it, and Rex went to high school in Indiana. If I cared to get more specific than that I could check it again, but I didn't expect a more specific answer than Indiana, so what the heck.

At the moment I am watching an episode in Seinfeld Season 5 where Jerry's accountant may or may not be speanding Jerry's $$ on blow (Episode 4--I jsut checked). He sniffs alot, and goes to the bathroom alot, but apparantly he may merely be allergic to a Moahir sweater. I won't ruin the ending here....

I love Seinfeld. So true to life.

So is a bye week enough to get Rex clean? Will be binge out even harder? Are the Bears' warmups made of Mohair?

"B" clearly is a liar. He is claiming that he increased his sports betting account nearly 2000% in a season. Please. On the other hand, the frat boy stories still ring true to life. As for making money taking the Pats in the playoffs, on one hand it's certainly possible, on the other, anyone could claim it. Hmmmmmmmm.

Could the statements Rex made about not focusing because Green Bay was a meaningless day be a message that while he had been dreaming of a "White Christmas," he is now focused on bringing the Bears to the Super Bowl? If he is a cokehead, you can be sure that a good chunk of the team knows it. Are a good chunk of them coked up as well? Has the Chicago defense slowed in recent weeks because half of them are mesmerised by the sidelines? Do they continually have to remind themselves that all that white stuff on the field is just paint?

You may think that I am leading up to picking the Seahawks+9. And perhaps I should be. On the other hand, it isn't hard to imagine a team with at least a few cokeheads filling key positions. Maybe the '96 Cowboys. Okay, '94. Pick your year, whichever one had the 'boys at their most strong out, and they would have kicked the tar out of these Seahawks.

Look what the Steelers did in the Super Bowl with a quarterback that had just been shredded to pieces by a wicked combination of motorcyle, pavement, and a helmet he left on a shelf at the store.

What? The accident happened after the Super Bowl? Well, they were still led by a guy who may be an idiot, arguably has issues with risk assesment, and who definitely achieved a ridiculously low quarterback rating while beating Seattle by...11. That was indoors at a theoretically neutral site, not in the cold at Soldier Field.

Meanwhile, Saturday has two other games before the Bears ever take the field. When I originally got the lines over the phone, I thought Baltimore was favored by 1.5. What a steal! Indeed. The Ravens are actually favored by four, and I'm still taking them. I like the outdoors, the Ravens' defense, and the bye week in this one. (If I was only giving 1.5 I would love them.)
BALTIMORE(-4)overindianapolis.

When the lines came out I was leaning towards Phily because the number seemed too big. New Orleans beat them earlier in the year, but only by 3, 27-24. Now the line is up to 6 on bodog, but I think I have to take the Saints anyway. The Saints should be a much more confident team now, and their homefield advantage should be huge. Throw in their bye week and I think a Phily team that could barely beat the Giants will be ripe to fold against a team with this much good karma. SAINTS(-6)overeagles. I can't go against the Saints at this point. I just can't do it.