-Until this year, no one had ever won more than once in a row to start the season. Joe has won four-straight out of the gate, a streak that ties Dad’s all-time record for consecutive wins. All these records, of course, are essentially made up until Uncle T contributes his highly controversial, pre-2008 Excel sheets to the MP archives.
-An astute commenter called out a few participants on their bland use of real names, as opposed to “nick”names. The commissioner agrees; we promote nickname creativity here at McManus Picks. In fact, nicknames represent half of the entire purpose of McManus Picks (see graph). However, as astute as the comment was, the commissioner would’ve preferred that the commenter take the slightly-ambiguous-nickname log out of his own eye before trying to remove the plainly informative specks from his neighbors’.
-I did a little Quasimodo dance around my apartment when the Bengals won. But it didn’t last long, thanks to Tony Romo’s incredible comeback win against the Cowboys and the Eagles’ destruction of my Lock of the Week (which, remember, it was never officially deemed!). But watching some classic Sanchez Noodle Arm on Sunday night made up for it.
-Speaking of which, the BOLD Pick of the Week went to Erin (boring nickname and all), who was the only one to take the Noodler against the Ravens. While we don’t much care for her disloyalty and certainly ridicule her selection, you have to admire her boldness, misguided thought it was. That being said, Uncle T would’ve run away with this award if he stuck with his Curtis Painter pick.
-Glad to see Richard Seymour has fully immersed himself in the Raiders’ culture out in Oakland. That would be the Complete Disregard for Rules and Professionalism culture. There’s no denying it, though, we’ll always have a place in our hearts for Big Sey, the enforcer on three Super Bowl-winning defenses. But seeing him in silver and black is a little easier to digest when you realize that, if we kept him, we could’ve been missing out on stuff like this.
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