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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #330 on: January 11, 2009, 09:55:22 PM »
I went 3-1, missed the AZ/Car game.  Fitzgerald is an amazing WR.  And is Kurt Warner still that good, or does his receiving corps make him appear that way?  or is it b/c jeebus is on his side?

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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #331 on: January 11, 2009, 10:41:57 PM »
I went 3-1, missed the AZ/Car game.  Fitzgerald is an amazing WR.  And is Kurt Warner still that good, or does his receiving corps make him appear that way?  or is it b/c jeebus is on his side?

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amazing...not one single person in the whole shebang guessed all 4 right!  Congrats Tinka!  You tied for top spot!
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #332 on: January 12, 2009, 12:54:15 PM »
AFC/NFC Championship Week:

PHI  BAL  51

No offense to Gaz, but an All-Pennsylvania Super Bowl is not a good idea.  As boring (to most of America) as a Subway (or Bay Bridge) Series. 
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #333 on: January 12, 2009, 01:23:09 PM »
I went 3-1, missed the AZ/Car game.  Fitzgerald is an amazing WR.  And is Kurt Warner still that good, or does his receiving corps make him appear that way?  or is it b/c jeebus is on his side?

Go Keystone State~!
amazing...not one single person in the whole shebang guessed all 4 right!  Congrats Tinka!  You tied for top spot!

pure flukey dumb luck  :)
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #334 on: January 12, 2009, 01:39:41 PM »
is Kurt Warner still that good, or does his receiving corps make him appear that way?  or is it b/c jeebus is on his side?


Praise jeebus!

http://outsports.com/jocktalkblog/2009/01/09/kurt-warner-god-looks-like-jerry-garcia/

It is, of course, an endless source of amusement to gay sports fans that the devout Mr Warner is married to one of the most lesbian-looking women on the planet:



(she's even -- I kid you not -- an ex-Marine!)
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #335 on: January 12, 2009, 02:39:31 PM »
pure flukey dumb luck  :)


Au contraire!  In the history of all sports (I saw this on ESPN a few yrs back), the single greatest example of homefield advantage occurs in Rd 2 of the NFL playoffs (since the institution of the wild-card weekend).  Given a playoff bye week, Rd 2 home teams have won greater than 75% of their games.  No other home field advantage anywhere in any sport has construed greater than 62% advantage (might be even lower, if memory serves). 

So picking a nice round number like 75%, you have less than a 1% chance of correctly picking 3 road wins and one road loss*.

Not at all surprising, especially considering the Panthers were this yr's only team to go 8-0 at home.

*in any 4-game parlay where the road team is at 25%, the odds = 0.25 x 0.25 x 0.25 x 0.75.  Correctly picking the one team in these four with the 75% chance of winning introduces a further 25% odds.  Hence the final result is a 0.00879 chance of getting it exactly right. 

So stand tall Tinka-Cat!
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week 20
« Reply #336 on: January 17, 2009, 12:01:24 AM »
AZ PIT  45
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #337 on: January 17, 2009, 12:23:33 AM »
PHI PIT 31
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #338 on: January 17, 2009, 01:14:48 AM »
PHI PIT 54
Let's get right to it.

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Re: week 20
« Reply #339 on: January 18, 2009, 08:34:28 PM »
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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Re: week 20
« Reply #340 on: January 18, 2009, 09:12:09 PM »
AZ PIT  45

Congrats Geoff!

indeed!

I went 0-for-2 again but I'm glad to have a team to root for in 2 weeks (namely Pittsburgh). I can't root for the Cardinals due to the Kurt Warner "God Squad" factor, and I dislike the Ravens even more due to the Ray Lewis Gangsta Thug factor. So GO STEELERS!
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Re: week 20
« Reply #341 on: January 18, 2009, 11:11:25 PM »
AZ PIT  45
Congrats Geoff!
indeed!
I went 0-for-2 again but I'm glad to have a team to root for in 2 weeks (namely Pittsburgh). I can't root for the Cardinals due to the Kurt Warner "God Squad" factor, and I dislike the Ravens even more due to the Ray Lewis Gangsta Thug factor. So GO STEELERS!
Yeah, I know what you mean about Warner, but Fitzgerald is one of the most exciting players I've seen.
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #342 on: January 19, 2009, 09:15:53 AM »
PHI PIT 31

Congrats to you and your Still'urz, Gaz! 

are you going to wear a Troy Polomalu (sp) wig for the game?  please take pics!
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Superbowl
« Reply #343 on: January 31, 2009, 03:36:42 PM »
everyone knows that the Steelers will crush the Cardinals, but I have this vision of Larry Fitzgerald flying through the air...

AZ  45
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Re: 2008 KFOG Football Pool
« Reply #344 on: February 01, 2009, 02:19:48 AM »
Steelers 31-17.

Polamalu gets MVP with 2 picks, one returned for a TD.

Big Ben throws fewer than 20 passes.

Kurt's wife loses it, hurts people.  All she wants is life beyond Thunderdome.
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