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Week 5 Mega Bets

9/27/2012

The Intercompletion

Oh Man, those NFL replacement refs suck! They have been missing calls but in week 3 they took it to another level. They finally cost a team a game. And not just any team but the Packers on Monday night football.

I’ve seen estimates that as much as $150 million to $1 billion changed hands (mainly from bettors to the casinos) as a result of the last play of the Packers Seahawks game. To recap, Green Bay led Seattle 12-7 (the Pack was covering the 3.5 spread) when Seattle throws up a Hail Mary pass. The ball makes it to the end zone and then the chaos ensued.

A pile of Packers and Seahawks jump for the ball but Green Bay DB Jennings appeared to have intercepted the ball – grabbing it as Seattle WR Golden Tate (a Domer no less) gets a hand on it. One ref ruled that Tate had joint possession and a TD while another ruled it incomplete. The play went to the replay ref. A full 10 minutes! goes by while the refs review it. And then they still blow the call – ruling it a Seattle TD. Totally blown call

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Week 4 Mega Bets

9/20/2012

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The Irish fans were dancing last week

Ooooof – that hurt. Notre Dame went all Archie Bunker on MSU as they stifled Sparty 20-3. And just like that the Big Ten is out of the National Championship hunt.

Southern Cal also stepped on their organ of regeneration with a loss to Stanford leaving only a handful of teams have a realistic shot at the MNC. The winner of Clemson / Florida State could go from the ACC, Oklahoma has a shot but needs a statement win (Texas – maybe) and perhaps Notre Dame if they clear the table. Oregon also has a chance but we seen what the Quack attack does against the SEC in back to back losses to Auburn and LSU.

In reality, if LSU and Bama stay unbeaten – other than the loss in their head to head – it looks like we are headed to a rematch. That would make for the two teams playing each other 4 times in two years. Not sure if that has ever happened before.

And John L “Slappy” Smith added another classic goofy moment with the "SMILE"

The Big Book of Guesses had another lousy week going 30-41-3. But the Doofus was smiling as he continued his winning ways - going 2-1 with the Mega Bets as:

The Wildcat strut

Northwestern 22 Boston College 13 – The Wildcats were moving the ball but only getting field goals. With 3 minutes left in the game, Northwestern led 15 to 13 when they downed a punt at the BC 1 yard line. BC went 3 and out punting the ball back to NU at the BC 44. Four plays later the Cats were in the end zone for the clinching score and the 3.5 point cover. Whew, a little too close for comfort but I’ll take the WIN

Best part is I get to see Bruce do his awkward old bald guy Wildcat strut for another week. Go Cats! 3-0 baby!

Utah 24 BYU 21 – This was a wild game. After three quarters Utah led 24-7 and I figured taking BYU and giving 4 was down the porcelain throne. But BYU rallied with two fourth quarter TDs to get within three. Then the fun really kicked in.

BYU drove to the Utah 34 yard line with seconds remaining in the game. A third down pass was incomplete and it looked like time had run out. Nuts. But the refs ruled there was one second left. All right baby! Kick a 51 yd FG and maybe we can get the cover in OT. Damn - the FG was blocked. Wait a minute – what’s this? - penalty on Utah!! The fans had run on the field too early and the Utes were assessed a 15 yd unsportsmanlike. Holy crap Batman! Now it’s only a 36 yarder to go into OT. So what does the BYU kicker do? – doinks it off the left upright. Game over LOSS

Philadelphia 24 Baltimore 23 – Philly continues to win despite Michael Vick. He threw two more INTs on Sunday making it six so far this year. Midway through the 4th quarter, Baltimore went on a nice 5 minute drive kicking a FG to go up 23-17 with 4:43 left.

I was feeling pretty good since even if Philly got a TD they would still only lead by one with little time left. Baltimore would either then get the ball back, score win and cover or Philly would get the ball back and go into a victory formation still leaving me with a Baltimore +2.5 cover. Sure enough Vick leads the Eagle on a nice drive and gets the go ahead TD. Baltimore stalled at their 46 and Philly sits on it to win.

As bad as Vick was Flacco was worse. Chowderhead Joe couldn’t hit an open receiver and kept throwing into tight coverage. Only difference was Philly didn’t pick him off. If Flacco was even half way accurate this would have been a blow out WIN

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Week 3 Mega Bets

9/12/2012

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The Big Ten exposed their BVDs last week

The Big Ten embarrassed themselves last weekend. If week 1 was going around with your fly unzipped at your wife’s euchre party – then week two – while short of a full pantsing – people could sure tell what brand of underwear you had on. Some of the not so great moments included:

Penn State’s kicker missed not one, nor two field goals but 4 including the potential game winner with one second left. His missed extra point proved to be the margin of victory in a 17-16 loss to Virginia.

Iowa QB James Vandenberg threw his second pick of the game with 1:11 left to seal the defeat against Iowa State in an ugly 9-6 loss.

Notre Dame kicked a FG with 7 seconds left to beat Purdue.

Nebraska was run over – letting up 653 yards in a 36-30 loss to UCLA. Andy was high on UCLA – figuring that they would easily cover the 6.5 season win total. His prediction is looking pretty good right now.

A bigger embarrassment was Wisconsin. After a way too close win over Northern Iowa in week 1, Bucky was expected to come out fired up and run the ball down a struggling Oregon State team. But for some unknown reason, Wisky HC Bret Beilema decided that the best way to beat the Beavers was through the air rather than with star running back Monte Ball. Wisconsin ran for on 35 yards and didn’t score until 1:31 left in the game in a pathetic 10-7 loss to Oregon State. After the game Bielema decided that the fault lay – not with the game plan - but with new OL coach Mark Markuson. “We decided to move on,” Bielema said “It was really something that wasn’t a knee-jerk thing by me.” 2 weeks into the season and it’s not a knee-jerk thing? Take out the knee and you have Bielema.

But the biggest embarrassment was not in the Big Ten but by a former Big Ten head coach down in the SEC. Arkansas HC John L "Slappy" Smith The Slap officially filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on Thurday and then led his 8th ranked Hog squad to a 34-31 loss to UL Monroe. With the loss, Arkansas dropped out of the rankings. It was the biggest drop in the polls since scUM lost to App State. That game just keeps on giving!

With Michigan State putting a workman like 41-7 beat down on Central Michigan - it’s starting to look like the Big 10 is Big 1 Little 11. MSU’s defense held Central scoreless (their lone TD was a pick 6 with 1:39 left in the game). MSU’s defense has not let up a TD all year. That will be tested with Notre Dame coming to East Lansing Saturday night.

And the Big Book of Guesses was showing their Fruit of the Loom tag too going 28-38 in week 2 including a dismal 5-11 in the NFL. But it’s not how you pick ‘em – it’s how you bet ‘em that really matters. And the BBofG did much better there going 2-1 on the Mega Bets as:

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Week 2 Mega Bets

9/5/2012

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The Doofus Deck was rocking

The Doofus Deck was partying all weekend!!

The festivities started out Friday as we had a preparty for the cool guys (plus Dobby) to watch MSU break the Broncos of Boise State 17-13. MSU’s defense was outstanding holding Boise to its lowest offensive output ever under HC Chris Petersen (37 yds rushing and 206 yards total) and keeping the Bronco offense out of the end zone for the first time since 1997. Meanwhile, Le’veon Bell moved up the Heisman watch standings by rushing for 210 yards with 265 total yards against a solid BSU defense. Let’s hope they don’t overuse Le’veon like they did Javon Ringer back in 2009. Le'Veon is leaping up the Heisman charts.

On Saturday the place really got rocking as we gathered for an all day football watching, whiskey swilling, cigar chomping extravaganza. So many deviants showed up that we had to set up auxiliary seating and extra TVs just so everyone could see the games. Rock called that the ”seat back” rules would not be in affect causing everyone to hold on until their bladders were about to burst.

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