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Moss, Lewis, Urlacher headline Hall of Fame semifinalist candidates

by Andy | Nov 21, 2017 | Hall of Fame

WR Randy Moss and LBs Ray Lewis and Brian Urlacher are three of the six first-year eligible candidates among 27 semifinalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s class of 2018.

DB Ronde Barber, G Steve Hutchinson and DL Richard Seymour also made the semifinalist list in their first tries. S LeRoy Butler, DEs Leslie O’Neal and Simeon Rice, and CB Everson Walls also are first-time semifinalists, though they have been eligible candidates in the past.

The 2018 semifinalist list includes 12 offensive players, 13 defensive players and two coaches. The coaches, Don Coryell and Jimmy Johnson, have a combined 15 appearances on the semifinalist list. Johnson won two Super Bowls in five years with Dallas and closed his career with four years in Miami, a relatively short career compared with most Hall of Fame coaches.

Coryell coached for 14 years, making his mark especially with San Diego in the late 1970s and early 1980s, leading teams to great regular seasons but faltering in the playoffs.

The other 15 semifinalists include: (more…)

Bet the Mortgage: Week 10, 2017

by Andy | Nov 9, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Gambling

Even in a week in which Andy wins his first Alternative Picks week and gets more games correct straight up than Tony, his bets remain a dumpster fire. No, a tire fire. No, a forest fire. No, probably, more accurately, a fire set in a dumpster full of tires out in the middle of a dry forest.

Andy failed to get a single bet correct, putting him in sniffing distance of the bottom of his budget. Tony’s not exactly lighting Vegas on fire, but he’s mostly putting up 2-2 weeks and he’s profiting a few hundred bucks at a time.

Here are the standings:

	Last week	Last week $	Overall	Overall $	Bankroll
Tony	2-2	+ $538	19-16-1	+$3,827	$13,827
Andy	0-4	– $3,400	13-23	– $7,232	$2,768

And here are our bets for week nine: (more…)

Alternative Picks – Week 8, 2017

by Andy | Oct 26, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Picks

This is turning into some Harlem Globetrotters/Washington Generals exhibition side show.

It was another hideous week for Andy, who is currently checking with his accountant to see if it’s legally allowable to pay off debts with funds from his daughter’s college account.

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We’re kidding. … We hope.

At any rate, Tony’s commanding lead got bigger. Andy’s left pondering, once again, whether the game has passed him by. … Or whether there was ever really a time in which it was sitting in front of him and he actually knew what was going on.

With that little bit of positivity, here are the standings:

Week 7	Tony 10-5
Total	65-37

Andy, again, gets to choose. He goes first. And here are Tony’s winners, err, we mean the picks for this week. (more…)

Alternative Picks – Week 7, 2017

by Andy | Oct 20, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Picks

This is turning into a bad joke. Andy got killed again. Not that Tony’s picks have been great, but … Andy’s continue to be godawful. What we anticipated would be a fun contest where one of us might owe the equivalent of a Subway sandwich is turning into a Manny’s Steakhouse dinner.

Andy’s going to need to turn things around fast or he’s going to have to start digging into college funds to pay the debt. Here are the standings:

Week 6	Tony 10-4
Total	Tony 55-32

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Bet the Mortgage: Week 7, 2017

by Andy | Oct 20, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Gambling

Easy come easy go.

The one week stretch of strong bets dissipated fast. Andy and Tony both took it in the shorts in week six.