Week 9

So those that don't pick, and there are a lot of them, technically won the week, but Hyman, Jeff and I will get credit with Nine wins since we did the hard work ourselves. To add insult to injury, Jeff would have won the week outright if only his Pats could have won, or at least covered against the juggernaut that is the Colts.

Derek stays in the overall lead, since Adam and Chris aren't making their own picks. I'm still trying to catch Jeff before I think about moving further up.

The story of the week was the failure of the normally reliable Home Dogs to beat the spread. As New England, Green Bay, Baton Rouge, Tampa and Miami all failed this week.

With TO gone for the season, we will add the Eagles to our list of teams who should no longer be considered intimidating. The Pats were already on it.

And at least the Bills didn't lose again -- though with the Pats loss we will keep hearing about how they are a playoff team, only a game behind the Pats who still have to come to the Ralph.

Of course the story of the week was the two Panthers cheerleaders arrested for having sex in a Tampa bar bathroom. Their police mug shots don't do them justice. Unfortunately their Cheerleading pictures-- because they have been kicked off the team -- have already been removed from the Panthers website, which crashed because of all the traffic yesterday. Clearly the next NFL Cheerleading reality show needs to be in Carolina. I guess we can no longer consider Charlotte the "Beating Heart of the Bible Belt."

In other sports news, Manchester United ended Chelsea's 40 game unbeaten streak in the English Premier League with a 1-0 win. Yours truly has been watching more European football lately since it is often the only thing on TV in the afternoon when I am home with Andrew.

I would also like to say that it is ridiculous that Bartolo Colon, eighth in ERA and strikeouts and seventh in innings, won the AL Cy Young. Johan Santana had better numbers in all of those categories and one more complete game. But baseball writers are idiots and looked no further then wins, not even winning percentage in which Colon was also seventh.

Lock of the week got a win as well with the Panthers, winners of 5 straight and my NFC Super Bowl Pick, crushing Tampa. I took even more satisfaction because I saw one sports columnist who made Tampa hid own lock of the week.

My fantasy team took a beating because, well, both Kevin Jones and Cadillac Williams sucked. Meanwhile James and Jeff both emerged with victories.


LotW will be added later, as the week's games aren't posted on the Pigskin Pick'em site yet. See how early we are getting our update completed.

Make it a Good week.