1. Ed picked the Ravens. He picked the Tebows. He picked the Dolphins. He picked the Bills. He picked the Chargers. He picked the Eagles. He picked the Chiefs. He picked the Jets. What does Ed not know that the rest of us do know? Everything!
2. Except for Ed, the real battle this weekend was on the second game. 7 members picked the Giants, and 4 picked the 49ers. Because the Giants were the underdog, that winning pick was a plus 5.
3. Watching the game with JoJo was a treat. No play was too insignificant for loud whoops of joy or mortification, no strategy too obscure for her to miss noticing it. Kevin, on the other hand, seemed reduced to one emotion: “Keep them out of the end zone.” Of course, by the end of it all, he was correct. Sterling Moore, he of great play in the last four games, broke up a pass in the end zone and a first down pass that resulted in the botched field goal. JoJo, Kevin and I sat silently as the ball hooked to the left, then jumped and screamed in unison. We danced around for a while, then my son Marc called to celebrate. After that my son Luke, visiting his girlfriend at URI called and we celebrated again. It was so exciting because it was so unexpected. It was a routine, short field goal. It hardly had the distance to curl before getting to the goal posts. I thought it was good anyway until I looked down at the ref’s and saw them waving it away. When Brady leads a charge down the field at the end of a game and gets a touchdown, it is exciting and all, but you kind of expect it to happen. This one was so unexpected. The stunned look on Terrell Suggs face tells it all. By the way, where was he during the game. I didn’t hear his name called at all.
4. On more week. Next week’s game is worth 7 points. Some members have petitioned for added points for various stats from the game, but the the SAC hasn’t met yet to decide on that.
5. The Pats can settle all scores. The Patriots owe the Jets, the Ravens and the Giants some revenge for past upsets, and this year they have the chance to settle them all. They beat the Jets badly twice, this keeping them out of the playoffs and setting off a stink bomb in their clubhouse, they beat the Ravens in a horrible, spirit-crushing way, and now they can get revenge on the Giants for beating them in the Superbowl in 2007.
