Good Sunday to all fine Slopers. Are we ready for what’s in store for week 3 of the NFL season? Some surprise teams, both good and bad. Let’s see what our resident experts have to say…
Dude’s Pick’em Chatter
Welcome lovers and haters to the Iggy and Dude weekly Sunday football show! We had some tough games to call last week with upsets like, Miami over Indy, Kansas City over Dallas and Arizona over Detroit. Those games roped most of us dopes in the Slope Rope a Dope NFL Pick’em Challenge.
Best pickers of the week was a three-way tie with 13 of 16 picks between Hokie’s picks, Chocolate Squirrel and JBmadera but in the end Hokie’s picks won it all through the tie breaker. In 2nd place with 12 of 16 picks correct we had a two-way tie between A_D_M and xcfmx Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid (interesting name), well done guys.
Maybe he wanted a challenge after his impressive performance week one. Maybe he never won anything and decided my award was a good award to take down. Whatever his rational, winning “The Dude Hangover Award” of the week and going from first week 1 to worst week 2 with 0 of 16 games correct was WEagle.
Don’t forget to get those picks in guys, right up until 5 minutes before ANY of the games begin you can make a pick or change it. However, to be inconsideration for the tie breaker you must choose tie breaker scores before Thursday night’s game.
Leading the pack after 2 weeks is Hokies picks with 25 wins, and a familiar name atop the leaderboard Nf6 in second place with 24 wins. Chocolate Squirrel, JBmadera, A_D_M, xcfmx Don’t Drink The Kool-Aid and Pipesticks in the third spot with 23 wins. Great start but don’t get cocky guys, it’s a long season.
Week 3 scouting report, long Denver short Oakland, this division rival game on Monday night is going to be a blowout. Some tough to call games this week, don’t get roped dopes, think long and hard about Titans vs Chargers, Redskins vs Lions, and DesertFox’s Fighters vs TnRevolution in the Iggy & Friends Fantasy Football league, all could be tight games to call.
Now on to something serious, Carrie Underwood Sunday Night Football opening video. Yea or Nay? If you didn’t know, Carrie took over the honor of singing the lead in to Sunday Night Football from Faith Hill. Dude votes Nay! She’s cute, but Faith was sexy, bring sexy back!
Iggy’s Fantasy Island
Week 2 has come and gone and there were some fireworks, some surprises and some duds, all depending on your perspective.
Taking a look at the “Iggy Bacon Award”, this week it’ll be awarded to Aaron Rodgers who sizzled with an impressive 480 yards and 4 TD’s and helped CSC Cycling (JBMadera) go 2-0 on the season.
After week 1, there were 5 undefeated teams and after week 2…. There are only 2 remaining. CSC Cycling and yours truly. The fact that I’m 2-0 has me tempted to quit now while I’m ahead, and retiring. As George Costanza learned, it’s always best to go out on a high note. But alas, I can’t abandon my team, they’ve grown to rely on my leadership and football knowledge.
WAIT JUST A DARN MINUTE! – Wasn’t I showing as 2-0 after beating TnRevolution last week???? But now it appears after some updates to stats, I LOST BY A POINT!!!! Holy cow!!!! I smell french fries. Is the Fed now controlling fantasy football data????? I’m in shock right now… pardon me while I go have a quick cry.
Well, I guess in fact, the two remaining undefeated teams are CSC and TnRevolution, Congrats on the delayed victory. We’ll see how TnR finds a way to cheat and get to 3-0. 😉
Here are this weeks match-ups with some points already earned from Thursday nights game.
The opposite of high note brings me to briefly chat about the Carolina Panthers, Iggy’s home team that had high hopes, once again coming into the season… 7 years since a playoff appearance always chanting “wait til next year”… and based on week 1 and week 2… well… I’ll start saying it now… “wait til next year…”. Glad I sold my season tickets again this season. It simply is not fun to drive 2 ½ hours to a game, watch a team play like they’re from the school of the blind, then drive home 2 ½ hours listening to the sports talk shows highlight every poor play and game plan. How do you take the lead by 6 with 1:23 left in the 4th quarter, kickoff to the other team, who has ZERO timeouts, and let them march up the field and score a touchdown with 2 seconds remaining… and I’m not talking about Peyton Manning or Aaron Rodgers… it was BUFFALO!!!! Anyway, I’m glad hockey season is less than 2 weeks away… although, based on the 3 pre-season games played so far by my Carolina Hurricanes, I may be in for more of the same…
This week’s “Bonehead Bench Award” is going to be awarded to Hokie for having Eddie Royal on the bench while having a do-nothing TE in the flex spot and that decision cost him the win against the mighty CSC’s
One question for the Lebowski Rollers what is a Giovani Bernard ???… wasn’t he one of the three tenors?
