Predictions: I see dead people (also Dogs and Falcons)
Halloween’s roots can be traced back 2,000 years ago, when the Celts commemorated the end of their harvest, and it was cold and dark and the skies were filled with evil spirits and the tattered remains of a Willie Martinez game plan following another Georgia-Florida game.
Later, of course, came the pumpkins, the parties, the costumes — especially Naughty Nurses, Naughty Teachers and Naughty ESPN Intern — the debate over which candy rules (Snickers or Reese’s), dentists, sugar rushes, psychotic teenage pranks, scotch, especially scotch, and the Seven Deadly Sins: Lust, Gluttony, Sloth, Greed, Wrath, Ray Goff and the Deluded Bulldogs Fan who believe they actually have a shot Saturday.
Willie Martinez goes over the Florida game plan.
The Dogs are in Jacksonville. Fortunately, none of the players drove. There was another arrest this week, this time an offensive linemen, Vince Vance, who ran a red light, was driving without a license and of course missed a block.
Georgia believes it has a chance. Why? Because it’s coming off a win over Vanderbilt? Even Army didn’t get cocky after beating Vandy, and in fact lost its next two games to Temple and Rutgers.
Florida hasn’t been great. But it has won 17 straight since last season. Also, there’s that No. 1 thing. Great’s kinda relative, don’t you think? The line is 15 1/2. Big number. I’m not spooked. Gators cover.
Is This Going To Be On The Test?
Tech at Vandy: The Jackets’ next three games come against Vanderbilt (2-6), Wake Forest (4-4) and Duke (4-3). This would be a good time for everybody to go make a sandwich and come back when they’re 10-1 Georgia week. The Commodores went through a respectable period. It passed. Jackets cover 12.
South Carolina at Tennessee: Steve Spurrier used to save his best jabs for the Tennessee game (”You can’t spell Citrus [Bowl] without the U-T.”) But when the media tried to get him to bite (again) about Lane Kiffin, he responded, “That’s for all you media people to comment on.” Sad. I feel like the Chief when he found Randall P. McMurphy after the lobotomy. Take the Roosters and 5 1/2. And in an upset.
Steve Spurrier was more fun when he wore orange.
States of Confusion: Tom O’Brien is 7-12 in ACC games at N.C. State. He left Boston College why again? Oh that’s right. Matt Ryan was running out of eligibility. Florida State wins but take the Wolfpack and 9.
Mississippi at Auburn: The Tigers got off to a 5-0 start and suddenly everybody ran out Gene Chizik jokes. Three losses later and 96 opponent points later, Bobby Lowder is plotting another overthrow. Rebs cover 3 1/2.
Pros And Ex-Cons
Falcons at Saints: The problem isn’t just that Matt Ryan has looked ordinary the last two weeks, or that Michael Turner has looked ordinary all season. The problem is that what the Saints do best (pass) exposes what the Falcons can’t do at all (stop the pass). The Birds will be fine — until Drew Brees gets out of his car. Saints cover 10.
Favre Meets the Exes: The Green Bay mayor solicited some fine ideas for Brett Favre’s return, including declaring “Flip-Flip Friday” and hosting a pep rally where fans will be served waffle fries. If Favre’s performance last week in Pittsburgh is the start of a trend, the city also can schedule Meltdown Monday. The Steelers turned two Favre turnovers into TDs. Cheese covers 3.
Raiders at Chargers: The most popular costumes this Halloween are both corpses: Al Davis and JaMarcus Russell. Chargers win but take Oakland and 16 1/2.
Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers in phony warm embrace.
Seahawks at Cowboys: Big meeting between Wade Phillips, the son of a coach, and Jim Mora, the son of a coach (you thought I wasn’t going to write, “coach,” didn’t you?). Bum Phillips vs. Jim Mora Sr. would’ve been better theater. And better football. Still not convinced Dallas is great. But not even sure Seattle is among the living. ‘Boys win but don’t cover 9 1/2.
Giants at Eagles: In the last two weeks, the Giants’ defense saw the Saints and Cardinals combine for 72 points, and Drew Brees and Kurt Warner throw for 600 yards and five touchdowns. Wonder if the Eagles are confident enough to let Michael Vick throw a pass? Sorry. Can’t see New York losing three straight. Take the gift point and a Giants win.
Browns at Bears: The Browns are so bad that Cleveland fans are trying to organize a protest, asking everybody to walk in late for a Nov. 16 game against Baltimore. They’ve considered not walking in at all. But they’re afraid the hand of Art Modell will punch through the dirt on the 50-yard line and and move the team again, this time to his current residence in Netherland. Chicago wins, but won’t cover the 13.
Financial Ledger
Last week: 8-3 straight up, 5-6 against the line.
Totals: 58-28 straight up, 41-45 against the line.
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stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:05 pm
I hear this year Richt has encouraged his players to dance and celebrate when (and if) they get a first down.
Jeff Schultz
October 29th, 2009
11:05 pm
Bob Horner — I know Spooky well. … and sound financial advice planning your economic future around a TV commercial. I do it all the time.
Ed
October 29th, 2009
11:05 pm
This blog was shockingly devoid of political rants. Surely somewhere in the universe a conservative (anyone to the right of Al Gore) committed an offense worthy of your attention. Didn’t someone with an “R” by their name utter something that was politically incorrect?
I’m beginning to think that is a sports blog.
Vince's Dooley and Wally's big ole Butt
October 29th, 2009
11:07 pm
well Beamer lost another battle this week losing to North Carolina…he looked like he still hasn’t gotten over losing to GT, Hokienation crumbling…
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:08 pm
Hey, Ed. Maybe Jeff will want to advocate the redistribution of points to even things out in J’ville.
Merk Richt
October 29th, 2009
11:11 pm
If we win the game I will shake Timmys hand and wish him the best. If I can get him to stop long enough yelling at our fans and waveing his flag. I will also kiss Urbans ass like I normally do while he just nods and says, you’re a good ole boy. Of course they both think I’m a weak spineless so and so. But, but, maybe I am!
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:12 pm
Hey, dawgies. At least you can play Munson’s “Lindsey Scott-Lindsey Scott” CD on the way back. Ever notice how many fewer red and black flags flop around out those pickup truck windows on the way BACK from J’ville, compared to what goes down. Do they throw them into the Saint John’s River?
WTH
October 29th, 2009
11:13 pm
What excuse will Beamer and Chancellor come up with this time. Maybe in two weeks, they will claim that UNC ran illegal plays. What a buch of whiners.
Dr. Samuel Loomis
October 29th, 2009
11:14 pm
Has anyone else noticed that Schultz looks EXACTLY LIKE the “gay” neighbor on that Sarah Silverman show?
The only distinguishing characteristic between the two is the fact that the TV guy is funny.
Goal Posts Down
October 29th, 2009
11:15 pm
So much for the “signature” win for the NATS. Early turkey for Thanksgiving! Losing to the basketball Carolina at home. Man, gotta love that ACC football. Word has it that ESPN is moving to Leave It To Beaver re-runs on the Thursday night spot. It beats watching ACC football.
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:16 pm
I see Papa John’s pizzas falling out of the sky.
Merk Richt
October 29th, 2009
11:19 pm
I told our players to play hard nosed football sat. To line up and hit the in the mouth. Well err, not the mouth, that wouldn’t be nice. Hit them on the head, err then again not their they might hurt their hand. How bout just give them a dirty look and tell them we are disappointed in their mean nasty ways. Yeah, that’s the ticket! Merk Richt
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:20 pm
Use your head, “Goal Posts Down.” Ga. Tech beat North Carolina. They beat them BOTH!! Only a mutt-brain would think that a win by a team tonight that Tech crushed would detract from Tech. Concentrate on Tennessee Tech and maybe you can keep your team from sliding into Baylor-ville.
I'm Bill Kurtis and me and my Internet are on the go
October 29th, 2009
11:21 pm
Florida State is awful. Miami lost again. Virginia Tech lost again, at home to North Carolina.
The good news is,
The announcer for the game said “you can pooh-pooh this ACC Conference all you want to but the fact is that the winner will go to a BCS Bowl Game”.
No-Show Moreno
October 29th, 2009
11:22 pm
You guys miss me?
Pit bull
October 29th, 2009
11:23 pm
Tech is going to kill the dawgs when we play them. I can hear it now, huh o , huh ooo, huh ooo. All night long!
JIMBO & MUSCHAMP@coaches in waiting.com
October 29th, 2009
11:24 pm
Hey gators, it was Ole Miss last year,……………………This year you over-rated wimps lose to GEORGIA and SOUTH CAROLINA . The suspended refs can’t help the gators this week.
I'm Bill Kurtis and me and my Internet are on the go
October 29th, 2009
11:25 pm
I think that was you after eating Varsity chili dogs and onion rings.
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:26 pm
I got it. If Miami and Va. Tech and Ga. Tech and North Carolina all give one or the other a loss, it’s because the ACC sucks. But if LSU, Florida and Alabama (sorry, I couldn’t think of a fourth good SEC teams) do the same to one another, it’s because the SEC is sooooo strong and they “beat up on each other.”
You SEC shills are pathetic.
Brandon Spikes
October 29th, 2009
11:28 pm
I can’t wait to hold down some bitch and bitch talk them while their team mates walk by and say “glad that’s not me”!
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:29 pm
SEC: Self-proclaimed Elite Conference
Goal Posts Down
October 29th, 2009
11:33 pm
First of all wiggle stick, I’m not a mutt. Second, I am questioning the “fall of the Berlin Wall” celebration that ensued after you band wagon jumpers crawled out from underneath the rocks you’ve been hiding under to celebrate the “biggest win in decades”. Face the facts. Only the robber-baron monoply position of your conference in the BCS hides the fact that mostly the teams in the ACC are very average. If Tech wants respect, get back to scheduling the way you did before Dodd decided he had become too big for the SEC only to come crawling back. And spare me the ND home and home in years when they could not beat Syracuse and Navy.
You know what I mean and you know its true. You are the best an also ran has to offer and will be exposed in your bowl game. Have some dignity and reserve your exuberance for when you actually accomplish something.
Your vitriol and UGA bashing only reveal the truth……organ envy. Act like you expect it and demonstrate the professionalism your graduates do every day in the real world.
Tim Tebow
October 29th, 2009
11:33 pm
Hey, dawgies. You guys even gonna try putting up a fight this year? I saw diseased pigmys in my missionary work with more strength than your linebackers and DTs gave me last year. Renny Curran doesn’t have ebola does he?
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:38 pm
Sorry, Goal Posts Down. The only bandwagon I’ve ever been involved with is the one I jumped off carrying a hunkering mass of woofing rednecks who think that one lousy national championship decades ago, after playing football for over a century, qualifies their fan base to be some sort of “nation.” Outside of Clarke County, the dawgs are considered about as significant as a directional Lousiana team.
I'm Bill Kurtis and me and my Internet are on the go
October 29th, 2009
11:39 pm
3 SEC teams in the top 10.
5 SEC teams in the top 25.
After tonight there are 2 ACC teams in the top 25.
None in the top 10.
I guess all of those unbiased people are biased?
Larry Munson
October 29th, 2009
11:41 pm
I see weedeaters falling from the sky. Thay do still have that Shreveport thing, don’t they?
alligator stew
October 29th, 2009
11:42 pm
Coach them boys up, …….Mr. Richt
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:43 pm
C’mon. Bill Kurtis. Why arbitrarily stop with the Top 25? Why not the Top 87? Then you could include the dawgs.
Frankie Sinkwich
October 29th, 2009
11:45 pm
I used to beat Florida. Course that was about seventy years ago.
Preston Ridelhuber
October 29th, 2009
11:46 pm
I think I did too.
Goal Posts Down
October 29th, 2009
11:46 pm
Mr Wiggy-
I’m not defending the dawgies and didnt mean to unjustly paint you with a critical brush. However, a point of order is relevant. The population of Clarke County didnt make UGA the second highest grossing football program in the country (over $125mm per year). There are probably lots of rednecks in Clarke County, but they arent all rich.
And yes…the dollars do make their underperformance all the more glaring and amazing. You can look the stats up…..only program more financially successful is Ohio State. Saw the numbers in a prresentation by their AD last year.
SEC "dooley rule" enforcement
October 29th, 2009
11:46 pm
Timmy Teboe better watch his sissy celebration antics.
I'm Bill Kurtis and me and my Internet are on the go
October 29th, 2009
11:46 pm
You need to see better players and coaches falling from the sky if the ACC is ever going to compete.
Ray Goff
October 29th, 2009
11:47 pm
I thunk I did two, a time or too.
Ray Goff
October 29th, 2009
11:49 pm
So Goal Posts Down, you’re braggin’ about all the big bucks you dawgies have. I guess money doesn’t translate into success, eh? But then maybe T. Boone Pickens bought a victory over your dawgies the first game of the year.
tt
October 29th, 2009
11:50 pm
I’ve been saying for years that something is wrong w Richt! This team has lacked fire for a long long time. Every now and then, Auburn Blackout, Florida two years ago, they play w some spunk. But why just then and when they have to manufacture it. I just don’t think CMR is a motivator. We have had a few players show some aggression and make some great plays, here and there this season…but never the whole squad.
Remember the first game of the season? Remember that first drive for a TD? Remember on Oklahoma’s fist drive when Dez Bryant got rocked after a catch by one of our DB’s and dropped the ball? ….that was the highlight of the season to me. I remember thinking, ” Okay, here we go! Some REAL Georgia football! This season MIGHT be something special!!!”
But them what? They fell flat…couldn’t finish the drill.
And then the shoot out with Arkansas!!!! Wow…We won ugly. And again I thought, “Maybe, just MAYBE! Sic em Dawgs!!!” …..but then a heart breaker to LSU,…then the brutal and humiliating beatdown issued by Tennessee……TENNESSEE!!!!! REALLY!!!! WTF????!
Okay okay! So Cox throws like a noodle armed choir boy in the middle of fire fight. So our coordinators are so freaking predictable, sometimes running the same play that didn’t work, back to back( I think that is the definition of insanity) !!! So our team is undisciplined, thanks to the coaches. So we cant hang on to the ball and spot teams points and yardage like there is no tomorrow.
But PLEASE DAWGS….Please beat Florida!!!! I can’t stand that hypocrite Urban Myer and his general douchebaggery! Someone please hit Tebow! Knock that halo right off his head!!!! Ruin their season! Play Hard Dawgs! BATTLE…BATTLE …..BATTLE!!!!!! If there is anything you could take from this season…how about a victory over No. 1 Florida!!!!! Make em cry…hit em hard. WIN THIS GAME!!!!!
Ray Goff
October 29th, 2009
11:50 pm
Kurtis: How did the ACC team “compete” with your team last game of the season last year?
$aban
October 29th, 2009
11:51 pm
Florida SQUEEZED by Arkansas and Missy State with the help of those “spineless” refs.
Eric Zier
October 29th, 2009
11:52 pm
Anybody heard how Paul Johnson’s high school ofense is doing this year?
Heshall wAlkerR
October 29th, 2009
11:53 pm
Kud y’all use my FBI scills to find the dawg’s runing game?
Goal Posts Down
October 29th, 2009
11:54 pm
Not braggin about money Ray……now shut up and get me some chickin fingers and a coke. Barbeque and honey mustard please.
Oh yea…..Ray’s doin just fine so you “employees” just keep the cracks coming. Just keep your pig faced kids coming to the drive through!
I'm Bill Kurtis and me and my Internet are on the go
October 29th, 2009
11:54 pm
The Tech strength of schedule that plays so big in the computer polls just went right down the toilet after that powerhouse Virginia Tech lost at home to a ACC winless North Carolina.
AMF
Kirk Herbiestrreet
October 29th, 2009
11:55 pm
I know everything.
Quincy Carter
October 29th, 2009
11:56 pm
snnnnnnffff. “Scuse me. Something in my nose. Did I ever beat Florida? I can’t remember.
$aby and Zaxby
October 29th, 2009
11:57 pm
Them Moultrie boys are lame.
Matt
October 29th, 2009
11:58 pm
Why does Schultz keep making picks. Seriously, 8/10 of the people in my pickem are beating him. The two who aren’t quit playing weeks ago. Some of them know little to nothing about football.
stiggywiggy
October 29th, 2009
11:58 pm
Don’t worry. Kurtis. Maybe you can climb from 87th to 83rd with a win over Tennessee Tech. I hear they have a strong strength of schedule, though weakened a bit by scheduling you dawgies.
big nose
October 30th, 2009
12:00 am
Florida is all smoke and mirrors
Jan Kemp
October 30th, 2009
12:00 am
Quincy, finish your homework.
big nose
October 30th, 2009
12:01 am
Urban needs a nose job.