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Wizard of Vegas Super Bowl Challenge 2012
| February 6th, 2012 at 10:06:27 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 310 Posts: 6735 | Yup, nobody wins. Start thinking about your picks for next year. It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
| February 7th, 2012 at 6:24:51 AM permalink | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5691 | The Wiz posted all of the picks in this post. Here's the picks that listed the Giants or Patriots:
Honorable mention to all who at least picked one team to be in it. And congrats to ck1313 for correctly picking the Patriots to lose. In case you're wondering, I never got in on this. I'm such a non-fan that the only way I can be sure of picking one from each conference is to pick my home teams: Giants and Jets. Damn! I could have been on the honerable mention list! Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
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| February 7th, 2012 at 6:54:08 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 215 Posts: 7241 | I'm beginning to develop a deep dislike of NFL playoff rules. Sure, it makes sense that the divisional champs go to the post season. But then you get aberrations like the Giants at 9-7 hosting a wild card team with a better record. Of course they onw. And of course they then won two more games on the road, and then the Super Bowl. Didn't they know a 9-7 team isn't supposed to do that? Oh, well. I'll play a long shot against next year. We'll see how things shake out during the off season. I'm hopeful the Steelers will hire an offensive coordinator who will mind the O line. Too bad Wisenhunt is unavailable... In the meantime here's an interesting question: what are the odds that at least one team will play a Super Bowl in its home stadium in the next 10 years? Considering two hosts already scheduled are New Orleans and New York, I'm tempted to say they're good. This space is closed for remodeling |
| February 7th, 2012 at 7:33:02 AM permalink | |
| thecesspit Member since: Apr 19, 2010 Threads: 38 Posts: 3105 | Steelers just hired Todd Haley as their new Offensive co-ordinator. "Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept through nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire, for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829 |
| February 7th, 2012 at 7:35:15 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 215 Posts: 7241 |
For once I'm not asking this ironically: Who? Never mind. I'll read about it on the web. This space is closed for remodeling |
| February 7th, 2012 at 8:41:33 AM permalink | |
| duckmankilla Member since: Nov 25, 2011 Threads: 9 Posts: 132 |
I've been saying this about the NFL Playoff rules for awhile now. I think the format of who is allowed into the playoffs can stay the same, but I firmly believe that seeds should be based on record only and not on winning your division. Winning your division should automatically guarantee that you make the playoffs, but it should NOT guarantee that you get the 1-4 seed. If you are a team with a crappy record (8-8 or 9-7), you should be subjected to one of those wild card spots and a team with a better record (say the 12-4 Ravens this year) should be placed higher up on the list. I understand people who say "yeah but the tougher divisions are going to struggle to win more games because they have to play tougher opponents", and to that, I say bull. Look at those Ravens from this year, they had to play the Steelers and the Bengals twice (who were surprisingly good with Dalton this year) and still came away with a 12-4 record. This would make the League so much more interesting and would prevent situations like what happened with the Texans at the end of this past season where they were 10-5 going into week 17 and had the #3 seed locked up so they just decided to rest everyone. If the format was changed, with the Patriots being 12-3 and the Ravens being 11-4 at the time, the Texans would have had to play to try and secure the 2 seed and nothing would have been set in stone. In regards to whether a team will play in their home stadium in the next 10 years, I'm going to say yes, just because in 2 years the New York Jets will be playing at home in the Meadowlands. Ok, that's a lofty goal, but one can dream :) |
| February 7th, 2012 at 9:24:00 AM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 215 Posts: 7241 |
I've been thinking that, too. But then the 9-7 Giants win the Super Bowl. and before then a 7-9 team won its first playoff game. So... Overall I think any changes would make things far too confusing. More than they are already. I think the day is coming when temas will need a lawyer on the sidelines, and then in the huddle. Of course the officials will have lawyers of their own. Then we'll have a blue "lawsuit" flag, except all lawsuits within the last 2 minutes of the 2nd and 4th quarters will be done from the booth. and if you lose the lawsuit, you give a time out to the other team as damages :P
I wouldn't mind that. I like the Jets (I liked them more with their old new uniform than with the new old new one, though), but they remain the League's most promising team. That is, they always promise this year they'll make it <sigh> This space is closed for remodeling |
| February 7th, 2012 at 10:42:49 AM permalink | |
| duckmankilla Member since: Nov 25, 2011 Threads: 9 Posts: 132 | haha this is true. We are the most disheartening team in football year after year. Drew Brees to New York? |
| February 7th, 2012 at 11:34:47 AM permalink | |
| bigfoot66 Member since: Feb 5, 2010 Threads: 10 Posts: 248 |
I'm sorry, Have you never heard of the San Diego Chargers? Jets have been to 2 AFC Championship games in 3 years. San Diego always screws it up early in the playoffs. Ron Paul 2012! |
| February 7th, 2012 at 2:54:29 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 215 Posts: 7241 |
All that kind of puts the awful performance by the Steelers last year in perspective. This space is closed for remodeling |
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