Bet Your Haus Winners: Super Bowl Edition

Well we are 15-20 on our picks this year. I guess that is what you get for taking both underdogs in the championship games. Ahh me. Anyway now is not the time to get down. You try betting ATS and we will see what happens. Stop yelling at me!!!!! Whatever. The Super Bowl is this week and in my opinion, picking this game right will put me back at .500. I was hoping the line would move from 2½ and force my pick, but alas it has not. And if you anything about lines, 2½ is really bunk.  I know I said that I hate the Super Bowl because it means football is over but it is the biggest game of the year and I really believe that this year the best two teams in the NFL are playing in the game. Confidence is low but here it is.

Green Bay (-2½) over Pittsburgh. Like I said I was hoping the line would move. Anything over three and I would have taken the Steelers but it is stuck at 2½. And given how the last 10 Super Bowls have gone, I am not surprised. I expect a very close game with more offense than you might think. I do want want to get all football geek on you...oh wait...yes I do. Everyone is looking at what happened the last time the Packers and Steelers played which was a 37-36 shootout that the Steelers won in the final play. In that game, Aaron Rodgers threw the ball almost the whole game. (48-12 passing attempts to rushing attempts) The Steelers run defense is so stout that the Packers decided to not even try it. And it worked. The Pack effectively took Troy Polamalu out of the game by spreading the field with several wide receivers forcing him into coverage as opposed to doing whatever he wants and causing havoc all over the field. And I believe this same thing is going to happen again in this game. The difference is going to be the Packers defense. The way I see it going is like this: the Steelers are going to get the ball back down late and the Packers defense is going to win this game, just like they have all throughout the playoffs with late picks against the Eagles and the Bears and a defensive score against the Falcons. I respect Big Ben greatly, but this is Aaron Rodgers' coming out party.

Take the Packers and lay the points, Green Bay 29-26. Count it. Bet it. Out.

 

Why the Super Bowl is the Best and Worst Thing About the NFL.

Hey people who think the Super Bowl is awesome, shut your freaking mouths or I will find you and I will destroy you. Yes it is the biggest game of the year. And yes it is going to complete yet another great year of professional football. All the lights and the glamor and the commercials and the celebrities and the Hall of Famers and legends of the game are there on top of the two best teams in a game to decide who is champion based on 17 regular season games and two or three playoff games, depending on their regular season record. And at the end of the game either the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Green Bay will be the Super Bowl champions, leaving no questions on who the best team in the NFL is....except for the 2007 Super Bowl in which I am still convinced the entire country saw the game wrong and the Patriots actually completed their perfect season.....it happened, trust me.....I am sure our universe skewed into a different universe and back, changing our view of the actual outcome. I digress, sorry. Whether it be the Packers or the Steelers, I am sure the game is going to be very close and very competitive, which has been the trend over the last decade or so. And yet with all this being said, the Super Bowl makes me more sad and depressed than anything does all year. Do you want to know why??? Keep chirping little birdies because here it comes.

I want you people to ask yourselves what happens once the Super Bowl is over. Where you might feel glad that a champion has been crowned or happy that you saw a great game, I realize that there is seven months until I get to see football again. Seven excruciating months of 162 baseball games, March Madness and the NBA Championship which are all good, but let us be honest people, none of that can take the place of the NFL. The Super Bowl marks the end of the season and even saying that makes me get a little nauseated. What am I going to do with myself? Get a job? Child please. Just look what happened to my number of entries during the Bye week between the Championship games and Super Bowl. My site turned into a ghost town. (BTW, the Bye week before the Super Bowl is one of the stupidest things ever, but that is an argument for a different time.)

So is it wrong for me to want football year 'round? Maybe some of the players would be seriously injured. Does that make me a bad person? Maybe, but I am alright with that because I LOVE FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So no one try to contact me the week after the Super Bowl because I will be under a rock in some corner of the world in the deepest, darkest depression. Given what actually happens in the Super Bowl, it might be simultaneously the best and worst thing to happen to me each and every year. And yet I always come back....damn you football...

Tom Brady is Hawt!!! (but not like that...)

Yeah, maybe I have a man-crush on Tom Brady. Big whoop, wanna fight about it? Deep down all men do. If you say you do not, you are lying. And if you say you are not lying...you are lying. After this beatdown the Patriots are currently putting on the Bears, Brady is going to be the clear cut MVP frontrunner and there is no argument for anyone else. What he has done this year is currently unmatched and it is uncanny how he continues to win despite the turnover in the Patriots organization. 

 

Sorry, I digress. I wanted to talk about how good the Patriots are as a whole but I just got lost in Tom's eyes, as snow flurries in Chicago outline the defined curves of his firm, yet gentle and precise body. Powerful but understanding mind and....whoa I just lost consciousness and kept typing. I am very sorry. It will not happen again...

OK. Here we go. I am going to try to explain to you why the Patriots are going to win the Super Bowl, without mentioning his name, even though that might be a futile effort. I always try to look at who a team has beat, where they beat them and in what conditions. And the Patriots are going to end up with the best record in the AFC while playing one of the toughest schedules. That is a recipe for playoff success. Their young defense, which was thought to be their weakness this year has been looking like the 1985 Bears. Bill Belichick's defense schemes and ideas are second to none. Belichick is arguably one of the greatest head coaches ever and he gets even better in the playoffs (15-4). He continues to make average players look elite year in and year out, with his methodical and aggressive game plans. He is the biggest reason why the Patriots are who they are. 

 

And I did not even mention the fact that the Pats are going to have homefield advantage throughout the playoffs, and that Tom Brady has not lost a home start since like 1873 or something (well I tried not to mention him but alas, I could not help myself). 

 

All I am saying is this: pay attention to what is going on in New England right now. I am saddened that I did not get to experience what it was like during the Steelers dynasty in the 1970s or the 49ers' dominance in the 1980s. And whether I liked it or not, the Cowboys in the 1990s were one of the greatest teams in the history of the NFL and they were must see TV. What the Patriots have done the last ten years and are continuing to do now is something you are going to want to remember because this kind of greatness does not happen often. This current Patriots team is a dynasty if you were having trouble figuring it out and you need to pay attention because this is what every team in the NFL is striving to be.

P.S. Te amo, Tom...