NFL: 2009 Week 12 Predictions

Week 12: 10-6
Overall: 106-54

Predicted Winner in bold.

Green Bay Packers (6-4) @ Detroit Lions (2-8)

Oakland Raiders (2-8) @ Dallas Cowboys (7-3)

New York Giants (6-4) @ Denver Broncos (6-4)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-9) @ Atlanta Falcons (5-5)

Miami Dolphins (5-5) @ Buffalo Bills (3-7)

Cleveland Browns (1-9) @ Cincinnati Bengals (7-3)

Seattle Seahawks (3-7) @ St. Louis Rams (1-9)

Carolina Panthers (4-6) @ NY Jets (4-6)

Washington Redskins (3-7) @ Philadelphia Eagles (6-4)

Indianapolis Colts (10-0) @ Houston Texans (5-5)

Jacksonville Jaguars (6-4) @ San Francisco 49ers (4-6)

Arizona Cardinals (7-3) @ Tennessee Titans (4-6)

Pittsburgh Steelers (6-4) @ Baltimore Ravens (5-5)

New England Patriots (7-3) @ New Orleans Saints (10-0)

Kansas City Chiefs (3-7) @ San Diego Chargers (7-3)

Chicago Bears (4-6) @ Minnesota Vikings (9-1)

NFL: 2009 Week 11 Predictions

Week 10: 11-4
Overall: 96-47

Winning picks in bold

Pittsburgh Steelers (6-3) @ Kansas City Chiefs (2-7)

San Francisco 49ers (4-5) @ Green Bay Packers (5-4)

Cleveland Browns (1-8) @ Detroit Lions (1-8)

Indianapolis Colts (9-0) @ Baltimore Ravens (5-4)

Seattle Seahawks (3-6) @ Minnesota Vikings (8-1)

Washington Redskins (3-6) @ Dallas Cowboys (6-3)

Buffalo Bills (3-6)@ Jacksonville Jaguars (5-4)

Atlanta Falcons (5-4) @ New York Giants (5-4)

New Orleans Saints (9-0) @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1-8)

Arizona Cardinals (6-3) @ St. Louis Rams (1-8)

New York Jets (4-5) @ New England Patriots (6-3)

Cincinnati Bengals (7-2) @ Oakland Raiders (2-7)

San Diego Chargers (6-3) @ Denver Broncos (6-3)

Philadelphia Eagles (5-4) @ Chicago Bears (4-5)

Tennessee Titans (3-6) @ Houston Texans (5-4)

Miami Dolphins (4-5) @ Carolina Panthers (4-5)

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The condescension of ESPN towards their message boards posters

You ever wonder why Dan Patrick calls ESPN 'The Mother Ship?' Clearly, he is not affectionately talking about his former employee despite the fact that the said corporate entity propelled his career as a multimillionaire talking head. It might seem ungrateful of DP, but he is justifiably unapologetic in his portrayal of ESPN as monopolistic sports entity that will steam roll anyone that gets in the way of the ESPN/Disney sports networks brand.

Granted, it is a common expansive American business approach that quells individual expressions and ESPN employees that want their cut are savvy and tow the line. Being an adverse force on a money train is clearly not going to work in Disney's 'synergy' model. The synergy model applications states that the combination of small parts is meant to create a grand illusion or sense of happy euphoria.

But as someone that has frequented ESPN forums lately, I have been completely soured by their fascist policies that ESPN uses in their zest for synergistic greatness. I have had many postings and threads completely deleted simply because they contain adverse opinions which otherwise comply with ESPN terms of service. And when this happens, hundreds of postings get deleted, not just the postings being flagged!

ESPN has set up their boards so that they can corral the 'synergy' of the happy-go-lucky posters or haters who unwittingly act as thought police. Once a posting is reported a certain amount of times, the posting is automatically removed.

Furthermore, if ESPN is not satisfied a pattern of opinions 'disrupting' the brand they then suspend the users account without any explanation sent to the user (not even an irritating form letter). The user's guilt is presumed via the judgment of faceless ESPN moderators. If the user wants to continue to post, he then must apply for reinstatement and state a reason for it despite having received no accusation against him.

The system is essentially a shell game as ESPN wants no bad publicity for permanently banning any member for merely having an adverse opinion (even if they can mitigate the publicity or unfavorable word of mouth on technicalities such as 'masked profanity,' 'baiting,' etc).

Thus anybody can and will get reinstated but only at the leisure of ESPN. The mother ship has disclaimer claims 'up to 24 hours' for responses. But it it they reply to members when they want or even ignore the member. Often, they make a member apply for reinstatement multiple times to no avail.

If a member is repeatedly ignored , the member can call ESPN member services' 800 number. Customer service operators will cheerfully tell him about how technical issues prevented the account from being reactivated sooner. Posters can then have their contempt for the systematic abuse lulled by somebody that 'really' cares about him.

This umbrella system, takes a user from a sports connoisseur that wanted to talk about his team to a 'valued Disney customer.' The member unwittingly is forged into the framework of the brand. And the poster often feels better about unquestionably comply to Disney demands.

But if a poster is an individual and still expects to be treated as such he will quickly find that to be an impossibility. Any discussion of whether a violation of terms of services is prohibited. The following passage is from Mzinga Moderation Services who moderates on behalf of the ESPN message boards.

Discussions about issues with other members, as well as posts about the removal of threads and posts aren't allowed in the forum.

True to form, ESPN rigorously applies that suppressive standard. I kept wondering why ESPN was deleting my threads questioning their actions and then I went back and re-read that stipulation.

Another ironic point found in the above passage is that members are not allowed to discuss issues with each other. Clearly any interpersonal dispute is prohibited in the ESPN sports 'community.' ESPN is insistent that their posters be devoid of that type human characteristic. After all, how can a fairytale mood persist if any sort of human shortcoming or human dissent is on display?

At times, ESPN may even essentially harass their members. The member may be allowed to post on some teams boards, but not on a board for which that member had an adverse opinion. Worse yet, ESPN displays further condescension to the poster. Instead of showing team's threads for the poster to at least read, two links are listed. One link is a contact link to ESPN and the other link is a rules link.

ESPN is the biggest sports brand and they clearly control the sports industry. That fact is not changing anytime soon (if ever). But sports fans are wisely advised to go to other websites to talk about sports in a realistic manner with other sports fans.

OC-Ya later UCLA: College Baketball - The once proud Bruins fell to the true Titans of Southern California

ESPN's Midnight Madness commenced with UCLA hosting Cal Stat Fullerton on their aptly renamed Wooden Court (It is about time they honored the greatest coach in sporting history with all due respect to Red Auerbach).

But UCLA's dynasty status that they enjoyed under Wooden's tutelage is long vanished. Further evidence of that came as UCLA lost for the first to their adjacent county neighboor, Cal State Fullerton in double overtime, 68-65.

And CSUF fans came to represent the OC. Scores of students wearing OC/CSUF logo style shirts were in the rafters. Getting tickets for the game at Wooden Court was easy since the game was nowhere close to being sold out like Dukies' games at Coach K Court.

The OC fans jubilantly celebrated in their cheap seats, waiving goodbye to the once proud Bruins. It was the Titans first win against the Bruins in ten tries.
Picture 1: A fan wears an OC/CSUF shirt. Titan fans were wearing the same shirts at the UCLA/CSUF game.

Picture 2: The famous Huntington Beach Pier in Orange County.

NFL: 2009 Week 10 Predictions

Week 9: 7-6
Overall: 85-44

Cincinnati Bengals @ Pittsburgh Steelers

Denver Broncos @ Washington Redskins

Jacksonville Jaguars @ New York Jets

Kansas City Chiefs @ Oakland Raiders

Buffalo Bills @ Tennessee Titans

Atlanta Falcons @ Carolina Panthers

Detroit Lions @ Minnesota Vikings

Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Miami Dolphins

New Orleans Saints @ St. Louis Rams

Dallas Cowboys @ Green Bay Packers

Seattle Seahawks @ Arizona Cardinals

Philadelphia Eagles @ San Diego Chargers

New England Patriots @ Indianapolis Colts

Baltimore Ravens @ Cleveland Browns

Chicago Bears @ San Francisco 49ers

Predicted winners in bold

Brett Favre earns his North Star Six: More Fan Cam Angles

Shots Heard is showing further fan cam moments of Brett Favre's last second game winning frozen rope TD pass to Greg Lewis in Week 3 of the 2009 NFL season.

At the 11 second mark of the first video you can hear a 49er fan yell "pick it off." That makes the catch that much sweeter.

In the second video, you will see a 49er fan in a Jerry Rice jersey initially celebrate thinking the Vikings did not get the TD. It is priceless to see his knee jerk jubilation turn into disappointment.

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NFL: 2009 Week 9 Predictions

Week 8: 9-4
Season: 78-38

Baltimore Ravens (4-3) @ Cincinnati Bengals (5-2)

Miami Dolphins (3-4) @ New England Patriots (5-2)

Kansas City Chiefs (1-6) @ Jacksonville Jaguars (3-4)

Houston Texans (5-3) @ Indianapolis Colts (7-0)

Arizona Cardinals (4-3) @ Chicago Bears (4-3)

Washington Redskins (2-5) @ Atlanta Falcons (4-3)

Green Bay Packers (4-3) @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-7)

Carolina Panthers (3-4) @ New Orleans Saints (7-0)

Detroit Lions (1-6) @ Seattle Seahawks (2-5)

Tennessee Titans (1-6) @ San Francisco 49ers (3-4)

San Diego Chargers (4-3) @ New York Giants (5-3)

Dallas Cowboys (5-2) @ Philadelphia Eagles (5-2)

Pittsburgh Steelers (5-2) @ Denver Broncos (6-1)

Picture: Miami Dolphins cheerleaders

Favre gets his vengeance, Young Guns 2 style

Brett Favre returned to Lambeau and completed the season sweep of his former team, the Green Bay Packers. Thus he attained a measure of revenge against the general manager, Ted Thompson and coach, Mike McCarthy that left him out to dry (in New York). He did so as 29.8 million tv viewers looked on.

Favre made the Packers look so bad that Shots Heard is renaming Green Bay, Brett Bay. Lambeau Field will be known as Favre Field from here on out. We like the alliterations and find them quite aprepo to the ass kicking that he delivered to Thompson and the ungrateful fans that booed him at Favre Field.

Favre threw for four touchdowns and no interceptions. The performance earned him NFC Player Of The Week honors. This despite his poultry 128.6 QB rating. He had a 135.3 QB rating when the Vikings beat the Packers at the Metrodome.

How swift was Favre's vengeance? Imagine Pat Garrett (played by William Peterson) in the movie 'Young Guns 2' asking his victim, "Trevers" if he knew who he knew him. Sticking with the alliterations, Trevers? Thompson? Shrug. BLAST.

If Favre had one thing to say to Ted Thompson now it would be, "Yoo-hoo. I'll make you famous." Apparently he does not know the definition of the word 'pals.'

Picture 1: A jubilant Brett Favre celebrates his win on Favre Field (Lambeau Field)

Picture 2: Classless Packer fans attend a Brett Favre funeral on the Friday before the game. But it was Favre that buried the Packers in two games this season.