Week Three Results

Hello All-

Props to Phil for taking a 3-1 dog in the "Dean of Mean" Keith Jardine and emerging victorious over Chuck Lidell.
Props to Ian and Flip for nailing the three game college football special exactly.
Props to Dav for hitting his three game teaser on Sunday from Bailey's Sports Pub.
Props to our waitresses, Jeremiah Trotter and Terrell Owens. Zero props to the Direct TV reception.

This week's big fat winner was Dav who was 9-5 with two pushes. That brough him to 4.5 games below .500.

Here are the standing above/below .500:

Frank 4.5
Tyler 3.5
Hanley 2.5
Chris M 1.5
Chris A 0.5
Landes -1.5
Matt H -4.5
Dav -4.5

The attached worksheet is bursting with game info, results and cool charts that measure each person's progress week to week and relation to .500. I encourage everyone to download it onto their machine at least once per week.

Thought of the week:

Over a conference call, Mike, Chris and I discussed the potential that in an final move by the outgoing lame duck commisioner Tagliabue, he perhaps had an 'invisible hand' in play in the Saints resurgence last season. Sleeping on it, we present a few points for discussion:

1) Selling the Dome -- Was this not an NFL backed plan of reduced/free tickets
2) Acquiring Sean Payton -- Was he guaranteed more money from 201 Park Ave in exchange for coaching the Saints
3) Drew Brees -- Did the NFL know something more about the recovery than the Doplhins and Nick Saban?
4) Bush/Williams -- Did the NFL ask the Texans to not draft the popular Bush to leave him for the Saints?
5) Marquis Coleston -- Did the NFL have inside skinny on this unheralded wideout?

Or... as some have countered, is it just a result of playing in the talent poor NFC, and NFC South in particular.

Discuss amongst yourselves.


Here is the jumpstart on next week's lines:

Props to Dave on the same call for NAILING the exact 7.5 point spread of the Bengals/Pats game.