McManus Picks

Here are my picks.  My goal is to have all of you post your picks in this fashion.  I predict failure.

Leaderboard

Mom has been our leader for the last five weeks, but the gap has been narrowed. Tim is nipping at her heels and the rest of us are kinda watching her heels from a slightly larger distance. Strangely enough, we’re going into Week 13 and we’re not even sure who the best teams in the league are. With that kind of parody…be careful, Mom.

As an aside: Erin, you’ve used up all of your “Just the home teams” tokens. Select like the rest of us: randomly and uncertainly.

Here is the spreadsheet, let me know if you guys can get in and enter your picks.

With Google Spreadsheets, you can make, edit, and post spreadsheets that we can all use. Here’s the most recent full leaderboard.

Baltimore

Carolina

Pittsburgh

New England

Buffalo

Kansas City

Miami

Cincinnati

NY Jets

Philadelphia

Tampa Bay

Arizona

Seattle

Dallas

San Deigo

NY Giants

1. Mom: 93

2. Dad: 88
3. Tim: 86
4. Pat: 83
4. Ciara: 83
4. Cait: 83
7. Erin: 82

Waaaaay too many upsets today. This stupid league is too unpredictable (as evidence, Mom is winning). Buffalo almost beat “Quarterback-Playing-at-a-Higher-Level-Than-Anyone-In-the-History-of-the-League” (a direct quote from Ron Jaworksi earlier today, apparently he forgot about Dan Marino, Joe Montana, Brett Favre, and even Daunte Culpepper circa two years ago) and the Colts today, save for a terrible miss on a straight-away field goal in the fourth. That’s the one game I wanted to get wrong.

I also didn’t appreciate the jinx-fest that every football show on TV was administering this week, talking about the Pats not losing consecutive games in four years. Thanks, guys. The only time you manage to give the Patriots press , you jinx them. Here are a couple gems: “Tom Brady never has two straight bad games, he’ll be unstoppable!” and “The last time they lost two in a row, it was against the Jets.” Also, Phil Simms was having a tough speaking day this afternoon, if anyone else noticed. And Jim Nantz called Gostkowski’s first field goal “chippy.” I guess the kick and the air were roughhousing or something. Those two made that horrible loss horribly unbearable.

At least Jay Heaps doesn’t telegraph his PKs. Oh, wait.

Mom is leading somehow, but I don’t have the actual results.