Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2006-12-23 Thread Alberto Vieira Ferreira Monteiro
JDG wrote: > > After a disastrous 6-10 week last week, my hopes for prognostication > glory this season are just about shot. > Stick to what you are best. Make only prognostics about big disasters. When will the the next killer earthquake? Alberto Monteiro ___

Week 16 NFL Picks

2006-12-23 Thread John D. Giorgis
After a disastrous 6-10 week last week, my hopes for prognostication glory this season are just about shot.So, like a team out of the playoffs, I'm going to play out the string here.. Minnesota at Green Bay - You'll have to take my word for it that I thought a team starting a rookie QB from A

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2004-12-28 Thread Erik Reuter
For week 16, JDG trailed the benchmark by 2. The benchmark posted a +8 (11-3--2) while JDG scored +6 (11-5). This brings the cumulative 4-week score to benchmark +28 (41-13--10) with JDG trailing by 8 at only +20 (42-22) Week 16 Results: +8 benchmark 11-3--2 +6 JDG 11-5 cumulative week 13-16: +2

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2004-12-24 Thread Erik Reuter
It looks like Week 16 will be an interesting test of JDG versus the benchmark. They differ on 7 games this week, so there could be a big difference in results. But JDG trails the benchmark by 6 points after 3 weeks, so he'll need a big difference to beat catch the benchmark. cumulative week 13,14,

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2004-12-24 Thread Erik Reuter
According to my count, JDG trailed the benchmark by 4 points in week 15, with JDG getting a 0 (8-8) and the benchmark getting a +4 (8-4--4). That brings the cumulative score for the last 3 weeks to benchmark +20 (30-10--8) and JDG behind by 6 points at +14 (31-17). week 15: +4 benchmark 8-4--4 0

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2004-12-24 Thread Erik Reuter
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 10:29:28PM -0500, John D. Giorgis wrote: > I went a disappointing 9-7 last week to go 132-92 on the year. The JDG probably won't read this, but I think there is an error in his count. I count that there were really 8 misses for JDG last week: Carolina Panthers lost 31-

Week 16 NFL Picks

2004-12-23 Thread John D. Giorgis
I went a disappointing 9-7 last week to go 132-92 on the year. The Upset Special dropped to 6-9 on the year, after Detroit's snapper blew an extra point attempt, and I was a gutless wimp and didn't go with my sneaking suspicion that the suddenly playing-better-than-you-think Dolphins could pull

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-22 Thread Robert Seeberger
Did anyone see this? http://www.local6.com/sports/2719807/detail.html It was a football sideline interview -- complete with a pass. ESPN cut short an interview with Joe Namath during Saturday's Jets-Patriots game -- after some curious answers from the Hall of Fame quarterback. When reporter

Re: [GoBills] Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-22 Thread Bill Walsh
John D. Giorgis wrote: Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over. Here is one of my last gasp attempts to try and pick a perfect slate for a single week in the year: You deserve kudos for putting your thoughts on record week in and week out in such a public manne

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-21 Thread Doug Pensinger
John wrote: That and the fact that I can't stand the thought of the super-lucky New England Patriots winning it all again. They may have been lucky in other games, and they were the benificiarries of a truely awfull call by the officials, even after replay (which almost never gets it right IMO),

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-21 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 07:10 PM 12/21/2003 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: >John is 7-7 for games already played so far this weekend, 6-5 for games >played so far today, which *is* better than the 1-2 of yesterday, but >not as good as I'd hoped for him. > >I have mixed feelings about the 49ers beating the Eagles. That's

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-21 Thread Julia Thompson
John is 7-7 for games already played so far this weekend, 6-5 for games played so far today, which *is* better than the 1-2 of yesterday, but not as good as I'd hoped for him. I have mixed feelings about the 49ers beating the Eagles. That's about all I'm going to say about the games that have bee

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-21 Thread Julia Thompson
"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over. > Here is one of my last gasp attempts to try and pick a perfect slate for > a single week in the year: > > In Florida, I like TAMPA BAY to continue their domination of Atlanta. > > Up in Mi

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
On the bright side, did you know that it can be a lot of fun doing play-by-play for an infant? 1) Hold infant in front of you, facing you. 2) Peer over infant's shoulder to see the TV. 3) As the play is made, describe it in a high-pitched voice with all the enthusiasm you can muster. Between

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-20 Thread Julia Thompson
"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over. > Here is one of my last gasp attempts to try and pick a perfect slate for > a single week in the year: > > In Florida, I like TAMPA BAY to continue their domination of Atlanta. At the half,

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 06:08 AM 12/20/2003 EST [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In a message dated 12/20/2003 12:34:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over. > >You did much better picking Christmas music. Apparently you're n

Re: Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-20 Thread Medievalbk
In a message dated 12/20/2003 12:34:52 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over. You did much better picking Christmas music. I can't get any of them--and I was raised Baptist. William Taylor --

Week 16 NFL Picks

2003-12-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
Thank goodness my horrible season of picking the NFL games is almost over. Here is one of my last gasp attempts to try and pick a perfect slate for a single week in the year: In Florida, I like TAMPA BAY to continue their domination of Atlanta. Up in Minnesota, everyone said that this would be