Wonderful debut for The Crew yesterday, going 2-1, including an easy winner on The Super Play with the LSU-Alabama under. That continues a nice run for The Playhouse, as we have gone 6-3 over our last nine plays, including 2-1 on The Super Play. That, of course, could not have been done without the help of Gregory L Enholm, who went 4-2 as the guest picker. He also once told a woman he never met, 'Hey, you're hot, where do you work?' while standing in her kitchen cooking eggs and wearing only boxers.
Couple thoughts before we get to the winning Super Play...
The Crew loved last night's LSU-Alabama game, though we seem to be in the minority. Low scoring doesn't equal bad football. Bad football is sloppy, undisciplined and ripe with penalties. That's not what went down last night. Those are two positively dynamic defensive teams, both of which are loaded with NFL players.
Additionally, virtually every rule change over the years has favored the offense -- whether it's phantom roughing the quarterback and unnecessary roughness penalties or DBs not being put their hands on receivers past five yards -- so it was actually refreshing not seeing teams go up and down the field on each other unimpeded.
Craig James having a job and Oklahoma losing to Texas Tech at home two weeks ago are two equally remarkable and utterly unexplainable phenomenons. The Red Raiders have since been totally uncompetitive against powerhouse Iowa St at home and blown out by improving but still average Texas. The Sooners, on the other hand, have looked awesome in destroying both Kansas St and Texas A&M. We'll go on record right now: Oklahoma St has no chance to beat them at the end of this month...
Arizona State fans will no doubt put yesterday's embarrassing, 29-28 loss to UCLA on freshman kicker Alex Garoutte, who missed three field goals. Garoutte, however, didn't give up 220 yards rushing or allow UCLA to convert third and 32 late in the fourth quarter. The ASU defense did. The Sun Devils cannot be taken seriously until they win a game that actually means something...
The Rams are the sixth team since '08 to win straight up as a 13.5-point or more underdog. The previous five have lost the next game by an average of 18 points. We're not suggesting a play on the horrid Cardinals, but consider that before you get to a window to lay down on St Louis...
We'd comment on the scandal that is about to engulf Penn St, but we couldn't do it as well as Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel, who nails it in this column...
Super Play of the Day
Tim Tebow is starting for the Broncos.
Oakland 7.5
Other picks
Bills -2.5
Cowboys -11
Super Plays: 9-9-1
Overall: 28-29-1
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