Welcome back, football fans, to our quasi-professional football picks!
It’s Super Bowl time! And what better place to have it than in the frozen tundra of Dallas, Texas.
Sunday, February 6th, 2011
VS
Pittsburgh Steelers @ Green Bay Packers
LINE: Packers(GNB) by 3
Oh, yeah. The game. Umm… everybody like the Packers, so I’m picking the Steelers. Defense, unscripted play at the QB position, blah blah whatever. Pick: Steelers-LOSS
Oh yeah, the game. Hell if I know. I expected Rodgers to be in a hospital bed, and Big Ben to be in jail, so I’ve already lost my forecast. So, he who has the most hair, wins. Pick:Packers-WIN
Steve Elle: there’s so much tradition bound up in this match-up, you’d think the players might break out in song ala Fiddler on the Roof (‘tradition!’). Too bad sexy Rexy isn’t in the SB; he’d be the perfect Tevye. Anyway, tradition aside this, is a good matchup. Both teams are fairly evenly matched. It’ll be interesting to see how the Steelers’ battered o-line holds up against the Packers defensive front 7. The speed of the artificial surface would seem to favor the Packers, but the Steelers have some speed too. More interesting though are the sights and rhetoric, as usual. Who couldn’t crack a queasy smile at the sight of the perpetually smiling Hines Ward, dressed up as a black cowboy villain and looking like a stand in for Blazing Saddles. Speaking of smiles, how creepy was the ever present plastic smile that Ben Rottenburger was displaying, all while sidestepping questions about his (allegedly) criminal behavior. All three occurrences. Nah, must just be a huge coincidence. Go Pack! Pick: Packers-WIN
Rob Wheatley: Bowel Soup
Restless & Kcraper
Well, suffice to say I’ve done a ton of research for this game, and I’ve found a sustainable free energy supply for the world for ever..however, none of THAT research is relevant to the game in hand, so I binned it.. Keep cutting down them trees my Brazilian lumberjack pals, I’ll be back soon ….
Black Eyed peas are being served at half-time, a sort of shit-hot-groove-funk alternative to the endless hours of men in tight pants and shiny helmets who are going to be ruining the spectacle of the whole day by chucking an organic haggis at each other, or trying to get it between two sticks , or something..I’ve never really been one for ‘rules’..anyway, somebody gonna get really upset while the other team’s fans go home in jubilation and celebration. That’s sport, that’s football, that’s another year of this…where do I claim for expenses and has anybody seen my pen ?? Packers WIN -after all that trouble, I coulda told you that on week 1 !Pick:Packers-WIN
RECORDS
This Week
Darby Shaw: 0-1
Rick Bernardo: 1-0
Steve Elle: 1-0
Rob Wheatley: 1-0
Total
Steve Elle: 155-113
Rob Wheatley: 150-118
Rick Bernardo: 145-123
Darby Shaw: 144-124