Quote of the day
"The reason that everybody is in the room, the reason that everybody is having a heart attack the last four or five days, is that a bunch of women are threatening to break a men’s record. And everybody’s all up in arms about it. All the women are happy as hell, and they can’t wait to come in here and ask questions. All the guys who love women’s basketball are all excited. And all the miserable bastards who follow men’s basketball and don’t want us to break the record are (ticked off)." -- UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma, as the team approaches its 89th consecutive winDaily blurb
If you were relying on Adrian Peterson for your fantasy football playoff game last night, here’s hoping you had Toby Gerhart or Matt Forte waiting in the wings. Neither had a great game, but both did better than AP’s zero. And at the last minute, you didn’t have many other viable options.
The RIFC championship game now comes down to a matchup of the #6 and #8 seeds. That’s reminiscent of the first RIFC season (in 2004), also contested between the #6 and #8 seeds. I remember that well, because I was the #8 seed that year, and I lost to #6 Mötley Crüe in the championship game. I didn’t even qualify for the playoffs this year, but it’s curious to note that the #6 seed this year is that same Mötley Crüe. Déjà vu all over again?
Football Pickoff results were fairly balanced this week, at least with regard to positive and negative scores. Congrats to ojdidit, with the top score of +430 (13 wins).
This week, we have both a Thursday and Saturday NFL game. For Pickoff, you need to pick each of the two early games by the kickoff time of that game. All other games will lock at 1pm Sunday, as usual.
Odd stat of the week in the NFL: Only two kickers missed a FG attempt this weekend. But one of those two – Dan Carpenter – missed four! This is not an indictment of Carpenter, as the shortest of his four misses was 48 yards. But in a typical week, nobody misses more than two, and at least a half-dozen kickers miss at least one. The only other kicker to miss one was David Buehler, and it was only a 35-yarder. But he also made four FGs this week.