Madtowntripper said:

Just finished filling out my picks for the Illegal Football Pool at work. Its simple, a straight pick-'em, with the tie-breaker being the combined score of the monday night game. 5 bucks to get in, usually 20-25 people play, so if you win once a season you come out even, or a little ahead. Last year, a 17 year old GIRL won twice. Her grand strategy? She picked the team with the better looking quarterback. I spent hours watching NFL live and didnt win once. I got second twice. (No Prize, Fuckers)

Anyway...My picks. Winners are in bold, obviously.

Miami @ Pittsburgh - Miami will pull this out. No Big Ben, and Duante will want to come out hot. Time for Ronnie Brown to show what he can do.

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Banez said:

wow i think we all kinda thought the steelers would lose. charlie batch played better than big ben does, and the steelers defense stepped it up big time.

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capliberty said:

No all the steelers need is few calls from the zebras, like they always been getting, didn't miami get robbed on one, typical

but anyways, you'll see the seahawks continue the dominance of last year,as far as I'm concerned no team has proven to hang with the
Hawks,

Yeah I like the bucs over the ravens,

out all those picks what team are you most for sure on? because I almost won a 5 game parley at sports interact, putting down 60 would of netted me over 900 dollars, and barely lost one game out of the 5.

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capliberty said:

it was the most horribly and lopsided officiated game there ever was,

I'm not crying, I'm just telling the facts, all the officials were AFC and one actually lived in the area, plus it was a home game, no way was that a fair game

I mean come on they were penalizing our quarterback for hitting u guys too hard, OUR QUARTERBACK

also I can site many examples throughout the course of the game in which it was badly officiated, don't generalize the details of how the steelers won their bought super bowl. They ripped us 3 scores and spotted the steelers 2 scores, and cheated us on field position and gave the steelers excellent field position. It was rigged from the start

and I guarantee they were a fluke, they felt they need vindication because they felt cheated against Indy and also because they made a good wild card run, but hey that don't justify the Hawks getting ripped from a fair called game. I also guarantee Pittsburgh will tank it this year, it will be Cinni in their devision this year hands down, and they'll dominate Pittsburgh,

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Geordi_La_Forge said:

Everyone goes with what the media says and its pathetic....Ben does more then manage a game

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capliberty said:

alright Jordy Laforge, go back to kiddy land, reading rainbow, because thats where your head is in, in a dream world

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capliberty said:

you haven't back shit up

Darrel Jackson, clear touchdown, called back due to a pushoff that wasn't really anything,

Ben Rothlesburger, did not penatrate the goal line, our defense is engineered to stop teams in the red zone which exactly what happened

also in the first half, a hold pentalite was called on us with no varifable evidence, negated a good return back, actually this happened 3 times throughout the course of the game

3rd quarter we marched down, had a TD ripped from us, a blantly stupid hold call on Locklear, Locklear clearly did not hold, but the result was erasing another TD,

the dirty hit call on our quarterback, straight garbage, our quarterback made a great stop

there were others, but that was just on the top of my head,

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Banez said:

i dont think it would have been more lopsided.. pittsburgh has a completely different philosophy than most other teams.. they rely on their defense to shut down opponents.. then they just play smart football.. pound the ball with the running game, and then just hope the QB's make smart throws and dont turn over the ball

Big ben is good.. but not as good as he is made to look. we are talkin about a team who wins games with tommy maddox (they made him look incredible).. charle batch is 3-0 as a steeler.

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capliberty said:

Yeah those gifs where good in supporting my argument, so yeah thx for them

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capliberty said:

Yeah those gifs where good in supporting my argument, so yeah thx for them

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Banez said:

werent there some rumors of the packers trading farve?.. they were talkin about it on espn a couple days ago.. thatd really be interesting.

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capliberty said:

OK let me attempt to give a more politically correct response to the result of super bowl XL

If the shoe was on the other foot, the majority of our fans would be yelling the same crap as these Pittsburgh morons, we would be doing everything the Pittsburgh fans are doing right now, trying to justify our win and say all these calls were correct and the breaks just went our way, but that still doesn't justify anything, the fact as it stands Seattle got an extremely biased called game, I don't know if it was fixed, but I know it was extremely biased for some reason or another, and anyways also the fact of the matter we wouldn't never get calls like that, Pittsburgh has been notorious in getting breaks in the past by refs even before super bowl XL, my uncle used to hate Pittsburgh for that fact,

Now Geordi thinks hes making a case here, but if you clearly see in both accounts that he presented that their was no infractions made, also the angles are doctored up as someone mentioned, if you look at another angle the guy jumped offsides which allowed him to turn the corner on our tackle but even at that, the tackle did not impede the rushers course at all, it was a complete phantom hold as all the others, hold calls are good because you can call them anytime and they can kill drives and erase points, just watch when it happens to your team and you'll see Seattle fans point, I think everyone does really see the truth but their not being sympathetic or don't care enough to pay enough attention, but just watch cause I'm not going to be sympathetic either when comes your teams time and you'll see how much of a joke the NFL can be.

also you listed examples of how your RB made a breakaway, and your team made some great plays, so what, our team made more by far, if you look at the stats of game, you can clearly see that we dominated in every facet as accept scores, why is that, because Bill Levy and company took it upon themselves to make critical fluke calls at critical junctures of our drives, he basically wouldn't allow our team to score, we weren't dominating and then shooting ourselves in the foot, we were getting worked by the refs., simple as that

even if you are going to actually be that stupid to say that hold against Locklear was a good call, then you still haven't answered my question about the blatantly obvious horse collar no call on Alexander on the ensuing play, so whatever way you look at it, their is no way that the Hawks should've got ripped on a TD on that drive, simply no way, but Bill Leavy found a way which clearly reflected how biased he was calling the game,

also Ben Rothliesburgher did not cross plane of the goal line, thats why when he went down, he picked the ball back up and tried to cross, because he knew he was short, also the guys upstairs called him short, but for some odd reason the refs overruled the upstairs ruling, go figure

also on another drive Ben was allowed to call a Timeout when the clock clearly ran out keeping the drive alive,

also these critical holds at critical times that were getting called on us, but Pittsburgh were holding more than Seattle, but not one hold call was called against them, why was that

its going to be sad for the NFL because alot of fans were disappointed by that superbowl, not just from the Seattle area, but from all areas of the country, many neutral fans were even saying that was the worst super bowl that was ever played, and things like this will continue because no one in media has the ballz to speak the truth, Paul Taglibeau is a fucking moron

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capliberty said:

Redstorm, no wonder you were hating, your team is the worst in the NFL, thx for the quarterback and your coaches, they were the cornerstones of our success, so we're very abliged by the generousity, thx

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OneMoreRobot3021 said:

I agree with every single pick except one - Bucs are gonna slam the Ravens.

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  Goddamn I was wrong...you also forgot to predict Carolina vs. Atlanta in your original post, madtowntripper, I thought carolina would take it so I was wrong there..

I ended up 10-6 pickwise.