Draft Day Suit

Here are this week’s picks (home teams in CAPS, Bill’s picks in red):

Titans (-10.5) over LIONS
Seahawks (+13) over COWBOYS
Cardinals (+3) over EAGLES
JETS (-9) over Broncos
BILLS (-6.5) over Niners
BUCS (-4) over Saints
Panthers (+3) over PACKERS
Giants (-3.5) over REDSKINS
Ravens (-7) over BENGALS
Dolphins (-8.5) over RAMS
Colts (-5) over BROWNS
Falcons (+4.5) over CHARGERS
Steelers (+1) over PATRIOTS
RAIDERS (-3) over Chiefs
Bears (+3.5) over VIKINGS
Jaguars (+3.5) over TEXANS

Last Week
Me: 6-9
Simmons: 9-7

Season
Me: 86-84-5
Simmons: 95-76-5

DISCLAIMER: This is provided for entertainment purposes only. If you follow my advice, you are a fool.

Seriously, if you ever spend money based on something I say, have your head examined./span>

Have a great Thanksgiving Draft Day Suiters.

This year I hope to be thankful that Calvin Johnson catches many touchdowns helping me beat the crap out of Matthew in fantasy football this week ensuring my place in the Blog Pound playoffs.

And this year I am thankful for Michael Turner who came out of nowhere to keep me in the running for the playoffs in the first place.

In addition, I am glad that I have tickets to the Bucs/Saints game on Sunday where I hope to be thankful that the Saints don’t play as well as they did on Monday night. Because damn! 51 points! That is like a college score.

Love,

Sarah

Bump and I were both happily stunned yesterday afternoon when Sportscenter told us one of the 32 Rhodes Scholarships had been awarded to a Florida State football player.

A defensive back.

You’d expect this kind of thing from an offensive lineman at an Ivy. But a third-season starter at a real football school?

You might also expect it from a pre-med student who’s graduating in two-and-a-half years. A guy who “won an award for his research on the metabolic profile of stem and cancer cells and studied last summer in London” or who “developed a program on diet and exercise for children at a Seminole Tribe reservation in Florida.” Not sure how he found time for all of this while serving on “many university committees” and playing Division I football.

I’m guessing that if any of the other candidates had to miss the first half of the game against Maryland for the final interview, it just meant they had to tune in late or arrive in the stands during the third quarter. I assume those other candidates are not weighing studying medical anthropology at Oxford against signing with the NFL.

According to the Seminoles’ website, this starting defensive back/pre-med major also played the lead role in his high school’s production of “Fiddler on the Roof.”

Dear Myron Rolle,
For the sake of balance in the universe, I hope you are at least an assshole. Or maybe not much fun at a party. A bad driver, perhaps? Please give the rest of us something so we can feel better about ourselves.
-Love Lumpyheadsmom

P.S. How many of your teammates thought you were going to be a “Road” scholar and would only be able to play home games from now on?

Here are my picks for week 12 (home teams in CAPS, Bill’s picks in red):

TITANS (-5.5) over Jets
Bucs (-8.5) over LIONS
Niners (+10) over COWBOYS
BROWNS (-3) over Texans
DOLPHINS (-1.5) over Patriots
Bills (-3.5) over CHIEFS
Bears (-9) over RAMS
RAVENS (-1) over Eagles
Vikings (+2.5) over JAGS
Panthers (+1) over FALCONS
BRONCOS (-9.5) over Raiders
Redskins (-3.5) over SEAHAWKS
CARDS (+3.5) over Giants
Colts (+2.5) over CHARGERS
Packers (+2.5) over SAINTS

Last Week
Me: 8-8
Simmons: 8-8

Season
Me: 80-75-5
Simmons: 86-69-5

DISCLAIMER: This is provided for entertainment purposes only. If you follow my advice, you are a fool.

Seriously, if you ever spend money based on something I say, have your head examined.