The Crew continues to cash Super Plays at an embarrassing good clip, winning yet again last Sunday night on San Francisco, which won outright as a 4.5-point dog in New England. The Super Play is now 19-9-2 (68 percent) for the year. There's no way we will replicate this performance in this or any other lifetime.
This year has been really good to The Playhouse. Not only have we experienced success via the Super Play mentioned above, we have beefed up our readership dramatically, with at least six people a week worldwide now visiting this space -- a 300 percent increase over 2011. Given the increasing number of information sources out there, driven in part by the explosion of social media and various other platforms, only a select few have been able to achieve such growth. To all those who made it possible, we extend a heartfelt thank you -- all five of you literally know who you are.
What follows is our best and worst of 2012:
The Best Job of Being Terrible at Something But Somehow Still Being Seen As Indispensable: NFL officials. Though these dudes are only marginally better than the replacements that worked the first three weeks of the season, somehow the narrative became that they are at all times in control and supremely competent. However, anyone who saw referee Pete Morelli's replay transgression a couple weeks ago (when he failed to overturn an Andrew Luck interception even after video evidence made it clear to anyone not saddled with a debilitating PCP addiction that he was down when he released the pass) knows better. Honorable mention: Cris Collinsworth, who proves that if you say something with authority people will think you actually are saying something worth listening to.
The Worst Opinion of the Year: The Playhouse. Despite ample evidence to the contrary, we told anyone who would listen that Russell Wilson is terrible and shouldn't be starting. Two fifty bombs in a row by the Seahawks and we have been exposed as frauds. Honorable Mention: The Playhouse. We sent the following text to a friend in September: "The Tennessee Volunteers are a top five team"
The Best Media Member of the Year: Dan Wetzel, Yahoo Sports. Highlighted by his coverage of the Jerry Sandusky trial and his continued emphasis on NCAA hypocrisy, Wetzel is simply the best sportswriter in America. Honorable mention: Dodgers announcer Vin Scully, who at 84-years old remains the best in his field.
The Worst Media Member of the Year: Chris Broussard, ESPN. Broussard memorably 'broke' the story of Deron Williams re-signing with the Nets by attempting to pass off quotes from a team press release and information gleaned from Williams' own twitter account as original reporting. Honorable mention: Darren Rovell, also of ESPN, who reported Alex Karros' death a day before it actually happened and then rationalized it by saying that 'Webster' was big part of his childhood.
The Best Betting Information Provided by Someone Who is Otherwise Completely Intolerable: Colin Cowherd, ESPN radio. Cowherd, who spends most of his time conjecturing irresponsibly about fatherless black athletes and self-indulgently patting himself on the back, consistently gives out winners in his "Blazing Five" segment each Friday. To his credit, he knows the industry well after living in Vegas in the 90s, when he did sports for the local NBC affiliate. Honorable mention: The Playhouse. We are the worst.
The Worst Use of a Twitter Feed: Deion Sanders, who this summer live tweeted a domestic dispute between he and his former wife: "Pray for me and my kids right now! They just witnessed their mother and friend jump me in my room. She's going to jail."
The Best Use of Twitter Feed: Wagerminds.com. The feed, backed up with actionable betting information, is, at times, very, very funny. Honorable mention: Shea in Irving. A regular caller on The Dan Patrick Show that some have theorized to be Will Ferrell masquerading as a gambling obsessed Dallas sports fan. Others have said, Will Ferrell or someone else, there's no way he's real. We're here to tell you that he is all too real.
Super Play of the Day
Seahawks +1 (Seattle is playing good football and should not be an underdog at home to anyone -- at least not this year. And considering it's a night game and no one is going to work tomorrow, the C-Link should be extra drunk, which translates into an even more boisterous atmosphere than usual)
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