Fans of the National Football League.

The Titans started their win streak when I was in attendance.

I have been a failure as far as posting this season. So sorry. Job, life, and V-O-L-S have all contributed to it.

But I'm always watchin'. Believe that.

I leave you with this that I think sums up the Titans current win streak.

Colts? Child, please. Kiss the baby. Undefeated season fixin' to be over this Sunday.

(I was channeling Ochocinco for those not in the know)

I leave you with what I believe best describes the Titans win streak so far:

Apparently they have their panties in a knot down in Dallas over Eli Manning signing a star on the wall in the visitor's locker room at Cowboys Stadium.

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=4711044

Really? It's the visitor's locker room, not midfield. They are trumping this as motivation for the Cowboys' next game with the Giants. If you really need motivation for an NFC East divisional rival matchup because that in itself is not enough to get up for the game, maybe there are bigger problems beyond the butt hurt of such trivial shennagens. Then again, this is all coming from a team and an organization that's done nothing but talk the talk and roll over when it counts so it can hardly be surprising.

Obligatory Pick 'Em Reminder

ETA to sweet looking throwbacks @ 5:20 PM/8:20 PM. Game viewable at NFL Network, the local sports bar, or at the stream nearest you.

Does NFL.com/live actually stream the game, or just bits and pieces of it?

http://blogs.nfl.com/2009/12/03/seahawks-gm-to-resign-thursday/

Most of the comments so far refer to Mike Holmgren, Jon Gruden or both. And IIRC Gruden's contract with ESPN allows him to leave if an opportunity he likes pops up.

Here they be!

( Banners! )

Congrats everyone!

Here you are! No one got a perfect score.


( Sorry, though, 14ers. There were four who got 15 )

I have banners for Week 10 and 11 done and I'll be posting them shortly! I'll work on getting the cumulative up here soon too!

Congrats!

Sorry, chrisondra, for stepping on your toes, but since there is a Thursday game, we need to get the ball rolling on this...

Thursday
NY Jets vs. Buffalo (@ Toronto)

Sunday
St. Louis @ Chicago
New England @ Miami
Philadelphia @ Atlanta
New Orleans @ Washington
Tennessee @ Indianapolis
Oakland @ Pittsburgh
Denver @ Kansas City
Tampa Bay @ Carolina
Detroit @ Cincinnati
Houston @ Jacksonville
San Diego @ Cleveland
Dallas @ NY Giants
San Francisco @ Seattle
Minnesota @ Arizona

Monday
Baltimore @ Green Bay

Favre has 488 TD passes as I write this. Five games to go. It's do-able.

Somehow, I think that December 20 Sunday nighter (Vikings at Carolina) stays where it is.

Strength-of-schedule comparisons:

Right hurr.

Easiest NFC schedule: Minnesota (followed CLOSELY by New Orleans)
Easiest AFC schedule: Cincinnati
Hardest NFC schedule: St. Louis
Hardest AFC schedule: Baltimore, Houston (tie)
Bad teams with easy schedules: Buffalo, Washington
Good teams with hard schedules: NY Giants, New England, Baltimore, Denver

It smells like victory.

There is very little that can improve a terrible season more than thoroughly squishing the fish, and Sunday was no exception. Obviously T.O. doing Joey Porter's little gay dance after scoring a 51 yard TD was utterly classless, and I loved every second of it.

So, onwards and upwards. At least for the Browns, as the fact that they lost by 9 to the Bengals while St Louis lost by 10 to the Seahawks was enough to ease the Brownies off the bottom rung of the ladder. With that in mind, it's on to this week's totally scientific power rankings.

1. New Orleans
2. Indianapolis
3. Minnesota
4. New England
5. San Diego
6. Cincinnati
7. Dallas
8. Baltimore
9. Pittsburgh
10. Denver
11. Arizona
12. Green Bay
13. Philadelphia
14. Atlanta
15. New York G
16. Miami
17. New York J
18. Houston
19. San Francisco
20. Tennessee
21. Chicago
22. Seattle
23. Jacksonville
24. Carolina
25. Buffalo
26. Kansas City
27. Washington
28. Oakland
29. Detroit
30. Tampa Bay
31. Cleveland
32. St Louis

There are no (other) reasons. Just the facts.

Welcome to the Week In Review, where we sold our marriage to Mephisto for a case of Bud Dry.

( Why ask 'Why?' )

(File under Miscellaneous)

He passed three bad checks totalling $26,000 to the Palms. That's a lot of losses if you're playing $1-2 NL...

Linky

I thought I'd find amusement in this article when I saw the title since I don't like Big Ben at all, but all it does is make me like "classy" Hines less.

Hines cares not for Big Ben's brains, implies he should have "lied" to doctors

What's this nonsense? Amongst all of the controversy involving concussions, all of the players having problems (especially repeat problems) as well as all of the overwhelming evidence of the damage that they do long term, how is he going to come out and make comments like this, especially about a teammate?