I slowly adapt to Sattelite TV

I'm a bit late in posting, but today I've taken NYGIANTS(-11)over san francisco, and CHICAGO(-3)over minnesota. It's halftime right now, and I'm not feeling particularly good about either pick. The Bears are up, 27-24, and the Giants lead 17-10. The NFC North teams show no indication that they can play defense, supposedly their hallmark, and the Giants are only beating this supposedly inferior team because of turnovers.

On the other hand, I feel great about not drinking any of the Cowboy Kool-Aid, as they trail the mighty St Louis Rams, 24-7. When the Cowboys picked up the other Roy Williams from the Lions I spent some time berating Cowboy fans on the internet, and joking about Tony Romo being unable to administer a shocker to his pop-star--er...country star girlfriend. I like that Jessica Simpson is insecure enough to re-invent herself as a country singer to compete with Tony's ex, Carrie Underwood. ESPN actually deleted one of my "two in the pink, none in the stink" jokes. I could only find where it was by finding the response that "he could use his left hand." Well put. Better than putting in Brad Johnson, whose 'Boys now trail 31-7. On a related note, Jimmy Kimmel's Cousin Sal joked on two different podcasts that now Jessica Simpson can only count to 19, and avoided getting censored. On the other hand, he won an Emmy for writing "I'm Fucking Matt Damon," so maybe he doesn't have to worry about ESPN censoring him.

Meanwhile, the 'Niners continue to turn the ball over, and the Giants have now pulled in front of the spread, 24-10.

Yow! The Bears just scored on a LOOOOOONG run, after a short pass. 51 yards, and the Bears lead, 41-31.


The Bears just intercepted, and returned down to the 5 or so....

I'm back. Matt Forte scored from the half-yard line after a bogus pass interference call in the end zone on 4th and one. The Vikes have come back with a field goal, to make it 48-34. The Giants are up 27-17, and are 85 yards from beating the spread. Well, 50 yards and a strong right leg anyway.

J. T. O'Sullivan just extended his lead over the rest of the league...in fumbles. The ball squirted backwards until a 'Niner kicked the ball out the back of the end zone. Saftey! Giants lead,
29-17, and the spread by one.

I took the Giants this game because of all the attention to how badly west coast teams do when they travel east 3 time zones. Looks like the Bills over the Chargers was a better example. The Bills were favored by one, won by nine, 23-14.

The Giants have won, 29-17. The Bears held on to win, 48-41, and I'm 2-0 against the spread. I'm 3-0 for the weekend, since Miami Beat Duke yesterday, 49-31.

Not that I wanted to watch it, but the Cowboys-Rams game was blacked out here. This is my first Sunday with a dish, (and the NFL ticket) and I wasn't expecting ANY blackouts. I also thought Killeen was far enough from Dallas that this wouldn't be an issue. Lions games were never blacked out in Battle Creek.

I just Yahoo mapped it--Battle Creek is closer. WTF. Meanwhile, the Colts at Green Bay game is blacked out too....

Wait--that game is on CBS. The Cowboys were probably on a local station too. I've got to remember to check the local stations. I was stunned to think the Cowboys might not have sold out, even if their season is slowly going down the tubes.

I figure I ought to at least mention the scores of all the games I followed/mentioned yesterday. So....Texas 56 Missouri 31. Penn State 46 Michigan 17. (Actually I forgot to mention this one. According to bodog Michigan covered, but the spread was 24 or 25, so I'm not sure who is doing their math. I suppose it's a glitch, so I wonder how often glitches like this happen. This game went more or less like I expected, except that Michigan didn't cover. I wonder if the Wolverines have done enough to be favored next week....

Or if we've done little enough. Ohio State 45 Michigan State 7. I had a feeling the Bucks were going to finally cover, but...damn.

Texas Tech eventually pulled away from Texas A&M, 43-25. Iowa trounced Wisconsin, 38-16--I woulda lost that one.

Central Michigan beat Western Michigan, 38-28. Woulda got that.

Oklahoma State beat Baylor, 34-6, warming up for a showdown in Austin next week.

Pittsburgh beat Navy, 42-21.

Virginia Beat North Carolina, 16-13. This is the way I would have bet this, if I thought the Cavs were remotely reliable.

Boston College beat Virginia Tech, 28-23. BC is 5-1. Are they actually good this year? these ACC games are always so close, like NFC divisional games. Whatever.

What's with the Faux Simon & Garfunkel guys in the Burger King 'Shroom and Swiss ads? Anytime they resurrect musicians from the '60's and start calling mushrooms 'shrooms I start thinking somebody's trying to sell me psilocybin. Or cholesteral-laden-heart-attack burgers.

Congrats to Toyota, whose "Saved by Zero" ads make marginally more sense than the lame song they were adapted from. And much more sense than the Honda ad I just saw where the Honda lures giant mosquitos into a giant bug-zapper. Or maybe the Honda was just really small.

Washington leads Cleveland 7-3 at the beginning of the 4th quarter, and I think I'm going to finish off Season I of Dexter before Mad Men comes on. Or rub one out. Speaking of which, That Dexter kills almost as compulsively as I whack off. Or almost as frequently....


Tampa Bay is up 7-0 on Seattle in the Sunday Night game. Just saw CNN's ticker say that Texas crushed Missouri, 56-3. Missouri should sue. This is stuff from last night on CNN. It really magnifies mistakes when they show the same stuff over and over.