Sunday, October 24, 2004

On bye

The Steelers don't play today so I may take the chance to completely blow off football and do something fun like raking the beautiful leaves, cleaning the beautiful gutters, assembling beautiful cribs, or cleaning the beautiful cat boxes.

Looking at today's games, here's a wish-list of best-case scenarios for the Steelers. The general wish, for humiliation and exposure, holds in all games. It's not right to wish for maimage, but it's OK to hope for humiliation. And of course we'd like to see every team in the NFL exposing large weaknesses in every other team in the NFL.

More specifically, we'd like to see Jacksonville upset the Colts. We don't need competition for home-field throughout the playoffs. Philadelphia ruins Cleveland, Carolina upsets San Diego, who look poised to make a playoff run in the AFC, and Buffalo exposes and humiliates Baltimore. More: Detroit crushes the New York Giants, plunging them into a season-ending losing streak of incompetence and depression, thus softening them for our December 18 date. Minnesota crushes Tennessee, a team we don't want to see in the AFC playoffs. The Jets and Patriots can battle to a tie. Or no, the Patriots win in embarrassing fashion. The Steelers can snap their winning streak next week then. Oakland beats New Orleans. Since we beat Oakland on opening day, that would help the team in the BCS standings. And, why not root for Amos Zereoue? Dallas beats Green Bay, making the Steelers look even better for last week's game. Finally, we'd like to see the Bengals upset the Broncos, another candidate for home-field throughout the playoffs. In the other games - Chicago-Tampa Bay, St. Louis-Miami, Atlanta-Kansas City, Seattle-Arizona - it's hard to come up with a pro-Steelers angle. I guess we could hope for Atlanta to upset Kansas City. That would further reduce the chance that the Steelers would play at Kansas City on Monday Night Football next year (something that has happened way too often during Cowher's tenure).

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