Ultimately, meatballs are just about impossible to screw up. If you have meat, and if you have the other stuff, and you cook them thoroughly, the worst possible result will still taste pretty darn good.
The lesson, as always, is that sports prognostication is a tightrope walk over the endless yawning void, and that any and all confidence pool and spread betting opinions exist for entertainment purposes only, and none of you should even presume to dream of thinking about doing any of this at home.
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like! Welcome to the 2024-25 Gross Football Lunch NFL Playoffs MegaColumn! As is MegaColumn tradition, there's no Recipe of the Week this week, because there's entirely too much FOOBAW to discuss! There's both the excitement of the football to come and the polite … Continue reading Gross Football Lunch Presents: The 2024-25 NFL Playoffs MegaColumn
"Roast chicken: the perfect meal to keep you going when you're brawling with wave after wave of colorfully dressed street toughs"
This week got away from me, which means that I am compiling this column at the last minute with what little time I can spare for it, which means I must keep things brief. Suffice to say, I am in agreement with everyone that the Divisional Round was the best damn weekend of football I … Continue reading NFL Conference Championship PseudoColumn
Over the course of Wild Card Weekend, I failed. I did not fail because my picks did poorly; my playoff pool looks pretty alright, indeed, and while going 0.500 against the spread isn't exactly a success it's about as positive an outcome as I could've hoped for. Rather, I failed because I defied my own … Continue reading NFL Divisional Round Normal Column
Welcome to the NFL Playoffs MegaColumn! With the regular season having finally reached its terminus, it's time for me to take one last look back at the entirely too long season that was before I turn my attention to the upcoming playoffs. Now that the Mike Zimmer/Rick Spielman era of Vikings football has also been … Continue reading 2021 NFL Playoffs MegaColumn
The Super Bowl has come and gone, and while I can't speak for anyone, I'm nonetheless sure we can all agree that it sucked. If you're like me, you gained almost no pleasure from watching the game itself, and if Sunday could be said to have been a good day, it was because the food … Continue reading Tom Brady Super Bowl Wins, Ranked From Least to Most Dispiriting
Part 1: Regular Season Confidence Pool Wrap-Up I have a saying: “All's well that ends.” From a results-oriented perspective, this is just about the nicest thing I can say about my Confidence Pool performance this season. What started off so promisingly in Week 2, with 14 out of 16 correct picks and 120 out of … Continue reading NFL Playoffs MegaColumn
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