Welcome back, football fans, to our quasi-professional football picks! Each week we will pick game winners based on Vegas over/under lines, and add some the greatest preview commentary in the world! That’s right, ESPN, we said it.

Rob Wheatley is still taking the Americans to the wood-chipper, but it’s only week 2, and like Mark Sanchez’ completion percentage, anything can happen.

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

VS

Chicago Bears @ Green Bay Packers

LINE: Packers by 6

Steve Elle:

The Bears came back to win Sunday and the Packers never even led their game being dominated by the Niners. So this means? What it means is there’s a tough game to be had. The Bears match up fairly well against the Packers but it’s hard to imagine the Pack losing two in a row at home to begin the season. Therefore they will win this game, least of all because I will will them to win. See what I did there? I used “will” consecutively and correctly even though Word insisted that I delete the repeated word. Word is therefore a retard. But this time the Bears will not retard the progress of the Packers.

Pick: PACKERS-WIN

Rob Wheatley: PACKERS-WIN

Darby Shaw: PACKERS-WIN

Evil Peyton Manning: PACKERS-WIN

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Sunday, September 16th, 2012

VS

Kansas City Chiefs @ Buffalo Bills

LINE: Bills by 3

Rob Wheatley:

Fair enough, so I’m known as ‘The Token Brit’ around  The Inept Owl, and my complete lack of understanding or empathy with this game you call ‘Football’ is the very reason I was invited to add my commentary, because Americans find it funny that a man of my age could have lived his whole life without ever seeing a whole game or knowing even the first thing about the rules. I take that all on the chin, and yes with probably a bit of British stiff upper lip if you like to think of it that way. My often cantankerous humour, based on the English feeling of inadequacy which is drummed into us from an early age, is something I have accepted and roll with, and even though I don’t get most of the proper football comments from the other writers here which makes me feel somewhat left out, like that cake from MacArthur Park, again, I can accept it, it’s the way things are and have to be. But what I can’t stand is this insinuation that my game picks are somehow based on nothing more than randomness and unicorn piss. This is just so unfair..I’m picking Kansas to win in this game because I have friends that live there !

Pick: CHIEFS-LOSS

Darby Shaw: CHIEFS-LOSS

Steve Elle: BILLS-WIN

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