Well last Friday I filled out my picks, hit the “Publish Post” button and headed out towards Pullman for what turned out to be the worst weekend I’ve had in a long time. I’m kind of glad my post didn’t post because I said some rediculous crap. Things like “Arizona is going to be on the business end of an ass-whoopin'” or “Arizona won’t be able to pass and will kill themselves with turnovers thanks to Mother Nature” or “Expect a shellacking”. Stuff like that. Bad things always happen to me when I try to talk trash. Lesson learned…. again.
The weekend started out okay. I got to Reardan in time to watch the last half of their game on Friday night. By the way in Reardan they call it Friday Night Light (no plural) and the smells of the neighboring dairy scream B-11. They improved themselves to a 9-0 record by beating the Springdale Chargers 26-6. The mighty Indians have now outscored their opponents by a combined 349-53. And for comic relief Springdale showed up to the game with 12 players. It is very weird to look across the field and see 1 guys standing on the sideline. Hopefully the Axtell boys read this thing.
On to Saturday that started out okay as well with a couple beers and a pre-game sideline pass provided by my man Todd Thrasher. I went and found my seat as soon as Arizona scored on their 3rd play of the game. I then sat in the cold rainy weather and watched possibly the poorest Cougar performance in a long time. Like I said after last years Oregon State game, it is amazing how much this team relies on Jason Hill. Whether he is catching passes or not.
As I was about to leave my mom’s house on Sunday morning, we got a call that my dad had a heart attack and was being flown to Sacred Heart. This was followed up by a quadruple bypass on Monday. Sweet… a 3-day weekend. He’s in good shape now, but he’ll be splitting time at my brother and I’s houses during the next month or so of recovery. Apparently Saturdays game didn’t have anything to do with his heart attack. I asked.
I picked 4 out of the 5 games last week if you guys are willing to believe me. I don’t think I’m in the running anymore though anyway.
Anyhoo, here are my picks for the week:
Sundildos 23 Cougs 17 (I’m going to try reverse psychology here)
UW 24 Stanford 10
USC 32 Oregon 21
Cal 32 Lucky Bastards 13
Beavs 24 Brew-ins 20
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