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Central Michigan tonight in the Motor City Bowl!

they bleed. but more importantly they pee.

Vacation time!

By Chris Pika, AF.com / December 18, 2006

If you are at your desk or standing around the water cooler today and wondering, “How do the Falcons make the playoffs?”, we are here to help with your discussion.

The NFC Wild Card landscape is crowded at the moment (click here for conference standings). Philadelphia (8-6), thanks to a convincing 36-22 victory at the New York Giants late Sunday afternoon, has the current hold on the #5 seed. The Giants and the Falcons, both 7-7 are in a tie for the #6 seed, but New York holds the edge in a two-team tiebreaker, thanks to their 27-14 victory in the Georgia Dome on Oct. 15.

There is a large group behind the Falcons and the Giants at 6-8 (Green Bay, San Francisco, Carolina, Minnesota and St. Louis). Two division races are still up for grabs as Dallas (who has clinched a playoff berth), leads the Eagles by one game and the Giants by two in the NFC East. Seattle leads San Francisco and St. Louis by two games in the NFC West.

Four teams are completely out of the playoff picture in the NFC - Washington, Tampa Bay, Arizona and Detroit.

Identifying who is still in and who is definitely out is the easy part.

So, again the question – How do the Falcons make the NFC Playoffs?

The easiest road for Atlanta is to win both games. Then, according to the Elias Sports Bureau in New York, who is in charge of tracking all of the possibilities – ONE of the following three things MUST happen:

1. Dallas beats Philadelphia on Christmas Day OR

3. New York loses once (to either New Orleans this Sunday or at Washington in Week 17).

In other words, two Falcons victories combined with one Cowboys victory OR one Giants loss in the next two weeks puts Atlanta into January with Miami on their minds.

Now, also know, according to Elias, a loss on Sunday does not eliminate the Falcons from the playoff chase. In that case, the Falcons would-be in a must-win situation at Philadelphia on New Year’s Eve. A victory in Philly, coupled with favorable outcomes in several other Week 17 games, would put the Falcons into the playoffs.

But, first things first for the Falcons. All focus is on the Georgia Dome this Sunday vs. the Panthers. The straightest road to the playoffs for Atlanta begins with a single step – a needed victory on Sunday.

(If you want to read how the tiebreakers are applied by the NFL —click here)

Here are the NFC Playoff scenarios going into Week 16:

NFC EAST
Dallas has clinched playoff berth
Dallas can clinch division with:
1) DAL win.

Philadelphia can clinch playoff berth with:
1) PHI win, OR
2) PHI tie + NYG loss or tie, OR 3) PHI tie + ATL loss.

New York can clinch playoff berth with:
1) NYG win + MIN loss or tie + ATL loss + PHI win or tie + SEA win or tie, OR
2) NYG win + MIN loss or tie + ATL loss + PHI win or tie + SF loss or tie.

NFC NORTH
Chicago has clinched homefield advantage.

NFC SOUTH
New Orleans has clinched division:
New Orleans can clinch first round bye with:
1) NO win + DAL loss.

NFC WEST
Seattle can clinch division with:
1) SEA win or tie, OR
2) SF loss or tie.

Arizona, Detroit, Tampa Bay and Washington have been eliminated from NFC playoff contention

15 Game Suspension for Carmelo.
10 Game Suspension for Nate Robinson.
10 Game Suspension for J.R. Smith.
4 Others Suspended.

Not only was this very stupid.. but my fantasy basketball team with Melo and JR is in big trouble now. Thanks.

so assuming for some reason the team I of course want to Go ALL the WAY and win everything for some reason doesn’t happen to fullfill their quest the matchup I want to see is…

AFC —Chargers
backup picks—Bengals, Colts… (Titans, Jags)

NFC —Bears/Saints
backup picks—Cowboys/49ers?

Chargers are the best team overall. Tomlinson is my early pick for Super Bowl MVP! If the Bengals or Colts make it look for a ton of points.. Especially vs a team like the Saints.. I don’t know if the Bears can survive the playoffs. Basically any team has a shot in the NFC .. well, any team has a shot in the AFC too.. the playoffs are going to be AWESOME this year..

NFL ACTION Heating Up

Almost 100%.

Looks like most of my teams won too. That’s good.

BIG Matchup Tonight as Larry Johnson faces Tomlinson

In my work league it makes a huge difference in this semi-final matchup.

This is approximately results currently up to halftime. Rivers and Johnson have had slow starts. They should bench Tomlinson.

Super Balls

-0.12 Rivers current 47yds 1int
37.08 Vick
Chad Johnson—Monday Night
21.00 Plax 6-120
16.70 DJHackett
2 +Larry Johnson current 21run
5.9 Willis 79run 1fumble
11.1 Kellen 5-61
8.25 Caldwell 6-25
10.2 MattJones 3-12-1
13.2 SammyMorris 71run 5-12
12. Cedric Houston 53run 1-2-1
10.0 Robbie Gould
15 Baltimore 100 6s 2i
9.8 Miami 72 3s 2f

172.23 current 9:53pm

Decimators

6.28 Drew Brees 8.28-2
5.48 Marc Bulger
19 Javon Walker 5-84-1
9.9 Torry Holt 4-59
10.6 Steve Smith 5-56
30.0 LT current 141run 1-5 2tds
13.8 Deuce 48run 1td 1-20
10.60 Witten
0.0 DJackson
17.40 JStevens
9.40 DeBranch
2.60 JuliusJones
Shayne Graham Monday Night
14.0 Denver 154 3s 2i
4.48 Seattle

153.53 current 9:53pm

It looks like I may skate through to the next round, but a lot can happen. Especially after adding this up and showing it prominently like this.

Sara started our wedding information site. Here it is for anyone that is interested. Click Here

Matsuzaka Deal Loaded With Perks

NAME: Daisuke Matsuzaka
POSITION: Right-handed pitcher
AGE: 26 (Sept. 13, 1980)
HEIGHT/WEIGHT: 6-foot/187 pounds

(CBS4) BOSTON The Red Sox shelled out $51 million just to negotiate with Japanese pitching star Daisuke Matsuzaka.

The team then coughed up another $52 million for the contract with incentive clauses that could increase the value to $60 million.

Apparently the money wasn’t enough. According to agent Scott Boras, Matsuzaka’s contract includes a “litany of personal comforts.”

-massage therapist
-physical therapist
-interpreter
-personal assistant.
8090 flights
-special housing and transportation arrangements and accommodations for his wife

Such perks aren’t uncommon. Included in the $136 million dollar deal given to Alfonso Soriano by the Chicago Cubs, is a guarantee that Soriano receive a hotel suite on road trips. Soriano also gets six premium tickets for every home game during spring training, regular season, postseason and All-Star Game.

Houston Astros pitcher Roger Clemens was paid $22 million last season but was allowed to skip trips to cities in which he wasn’t scheduled to start so he could spend more time with his family.

Ever since waking up Monday morning I have felt like crap. My throat kills. It has been getting progressively worse all week. Last night was the worst. I couldn’t sleep and repeated attempts of trying to clear my throat by coughing ended up to blowing my nose blindly in the bathroom to try to find some relief. At last Sara woke up and gave me cough medicine and that helped me sleep for sure. I took some more this morning and am starting to think I can feel better. Hey, at least I don’t have to work today or tomorrow. It’s kinda like my weekend. I hardly ever have two days in a row off. I never work Sundays though. Anyway, so that’s good. Just have to go out at some point today and finish finding everything I need for my travel package home for the holidays. There’s only a few more items on the list. Adios. I need to restart this piece of crap.

Here are some other galleries I uploaded to Picasa’s webgallery last week.

October

September

July

Wallpapers

Amazing.

If you haven’t seen it. You’re missing out. If you have seen it. U know.

I’m not going to sit here and try to convince you to watch a tv show. If you don’t like tv then that’s your thing. This series goes beyond a tv show for me. It’s more like an enfolding film. Just brilliant stuff.

Really old posts on the front page.

That’s really pathetic.

I should post some garbage up on here.

I look like a slob? and my handwriting sucks?  I honestly just read this on a comment card. (filled out by a couple assholes of course). I can’t explain the slob comment, but as far as the handwriting is concerned, I write my name differently on every single card to try and display some personality and spice up life a little bit. I guess those days are over. Just straight up “Brian” from now on. The same way, every single time.

If 212 degrees is the boiling point, I’m at about 300.  I’ve had it with being treated like shit by non-tipping patrons who seem fine with treating me this way and letting me skimp through life at 2.65 an hour. I’m trying to work out new strategies in my head to try and either wake these people up or at least display some dissatisfaction in this treatment. I’m so ready to move on with life. I’m so ready to just skip ahead about 6 months and be already moved and already starting my new exciting job that puts me in position to win.

Enjoy.

Turkey Day Weekend