Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Gambling With Sanity Week Who Gave You This Number?


It is a new week in these strange and interesting streets we live in, and while the White House might be looking for new lodgers and new loungers if everything goes the way it should, we are still tied to the invisible hand of Adam Smith forcing us to gamble against our very own sanity again.

Went 9-5 last week, which means we still have our thumbs and no graves are being dug in the Vegas desert just yet, so let’s just try to ride this wave of success to an Edenic overflowing of money money money, or at least let me keep you entranced by my sorceress of words, all of whom are my daughters and I love them dearly.


Indianapolis (+5.5) at Houston

I’m seeing a shootout here, which I told Davey over and over again as he sought my advice for nefarious activities, and I see no reason why I should back down from that now. Jacoby Brissett isn’t Andrew Luck, but he’s been good enough, maybe even a hair better, to bring his guns to this fight, but he might be on the docks this week, and then it’s up to Brian Hoyer, last seen by me being chased off his own field as my beloved Michigan Wolverines beat up his Sparty friends, which feels like eons ago, but is really like 12 years I guess, which is a long ass time to be a loser and a backup loser quarterback and if he’s the guy here then the Colts are already fucked. But what begat the Cousins isn’t the point here. The point is that the Houston Texans are gonna rain hell fire from above with Deshaun Watson hooking up with DeAndre Hopkins over and over and over again. The only chance the Colts have is a healthy Brissett, because you don’t want a Sparty leading your team when the rocket show starts.

Pick: Houston


Miami (+9) at Cleveland

Two of the AFC’s bitch boys this season (sorry, sweet Dan, but that’s just what the bitch cards said this time around) are gonna have to figure out which one of them is the shittiest of the shitty, and you can already see the Dolphins players nodding their heads in ruined agreeance waiting to just go back down to Miami and eat the ass out of a Cuban delight or many delights depending on if the Hurricanes win or not. It’s all about sex here at Armchair Linebacker even when it’s about football, which is the thing these two shitty teams are gonna pretend to do. It sucks that Myles Garrett won’t be there to twist off the heads of the Miami players and throw them into the Cuyahoga River which stinks of shit and someone set it on fire which just made the shit stink all the more noxious, but that’s what you get when you do your dirty work in Ohio. I still believe in Baker Mayfield, who just needs the ghost of Kenny Stabler to guide him to glory and I don’t believe in whatever wretched shit heap of a situation they’ve got going down there in Miami, so it’s all Browns this week, and Dan you better be ready to have your home invaded when I drunkenly disembark from an airplane one of these days to show you what a real American looks like as he flops onto your couch and begs you to get high with him and high on Neil which is all anyone could ever need.

Pick: Cleveland


Denver (+5.5) at Buffalo

The Broncos tried and failed to trip up the Vikings last week, which would have been a nice surprise for this Kirk Cousins hating dude, but they fucked it all up and now John Elway has to fight his way down that mile high city with only his horse face to slay the peasants along the way.  The Bills meanwhile got back to business by whipping on the Dolphins and should be able to handle the Broncos. But I’m still not sold on the Bills, my failed city cousins, and I could see Denver behind Branden Allen of all people sneaking up on them this week. It’s a tough call, but I think I’ll stick with the Bills and Josh Allen who is figuring this whole quarterback thing out as he goes and his defense protects him. John Elway can go to hell.

Pick: Buffalo

Pittsburgh (-7) at Cincinnati

The Steelers are still surviving sans rapist quarterback, and I refuse to give any of them credit except for my man Devin Bush, who has a chance to make this team his own on the field and in the locker room. And the Bengals? Well, the Bengals haven’t won one goddamn game yet this miserable NFL season. Can’t really see them making a stand here, you know? Their coach is Zac Taylor, who I think was the President back in the day, but whatever lessons he learned as the Big Dick in DC didn’t translate to this football coach version of him which means that my boy Devin Bush is gonna roll through and he will dirty your ass up along the way.

Pick: Pittsburgh


NY Giants (+7) at Chicago

Two disappointing teams who have let down their churlish fans yet again meet up here, and I don’t have to tell you that this will be ugly as all shit because you knew that already. What you might not know is that the Bears defense still is making a fight of it, which means it’s the only one of four sides in this debacle who have life left in them. Is that enough to sneak a touchdown and field goal and then go to sleep on the Giants? Maybe, maybe not, but there are different shades of shit out there and the Giants is stinkier and smellier than the Bears and it’s a harsh black kind of shit that won’t go down without the help of a plunger and if you’re throwing up right now, I don’t blame you because that shit is fucked, and how dare the New York Giants do that to us here today where we don’t destroy our toilets. I don’t like the Bears, and I certainly don’t trust them to do this right but a shittier shit is a shittier shit, so fuck the Giants and all their shit.

Pick: Chicago


Oakland (-3) at NY Jets

You could make a case that the Raiders and the Jets have always been the twin sons of the AFC landscape all these years, looking across the country at one another with suspicion and contempt, one wild and ferocious, bats out of hell, the other stupid and always getting fucked and broken by the monstrosity of its city. You could make that case, and you’d probably be right, but Kenny Stabler and Joe Namath, both Alabama quarterbacks by the way, aren’t shooting it out with each other and while Snake and Joe Willie get high on some crank they picked up from these girls they got with them on their houseboat which never officially pulls in anywhere, just goes where the wind and the weed takes them, two pathetic quarterbacks will spar for the right to shit on their fans heads first.  The Jets have won two in a row with wins over the other dregs of the league, and the Raiders are still fighting a running battle with their own fans as they prepare to flee to Las Vegas like methed out bikers who can’t pay their child support. But methed out bikers have some fun at least, which the Jets don’t have, being stuck in the shittiest city on this planet with no hope for escape because Joe Willie Namath can’t even get out alive in this MeToo world of ours and he doesn’t give a fuck about the Jets he just wants to kiss somebody. But they’ve all been kissed Joe and these new ones don’t want your kisses, and at least Kenny Stabler had the good sense to stay on the boat with those cranked out girls.


Carolina (+7) at New Orleans

The Panthers just aren’t cutting it without Cam Newton Ric Flairing everyone, and the Saints are about to pull away from the rest of the sorry ass NFC South, which means that this is a pretty easy call for me. I don’t have any colorful stories for you here, or any witticisms that you might enjoy, although I do need to get a Great Willie Young story going somewhere soon here and he likes the dirty south, but I am gonna keep those cards close to my chest, and I’ll just hit you with the boring football prediction.

Pick: New Orleans


Tampa Bay (+3) at Atlanta

Nobody gives a shit about this game, right? Right.

Pick: Atlanta


Jacksonville (+2.5) at Tennessee



Pick: Tennessee


Dallas (+7) at New England

The Cowboys are trash on the road (unless it’s in Detroit, these fucks) and the road is gonna make a stop in Boston or in the general vicinity anyway and the Rictus Grin of Jerry Jones will meet the cold American Psycho face of Tom Brady for control of the NFL, and King Brady usually wins these things and Jerry Jones can fuck off back to Arkansas after he eats a whooping, crying like a little prison bitch with a bruised tail bone from taking all those other bones. Everybody Dies. You just bet you make right with Bubba there as he looms over you in your cell before that day comes.

Pick: New England


Green Bay (+3.5) at San Francisco

The 49ers got back in the good graces of the lord after vanquishing the shitty Cardinals last week, but now the devil comes to town, all while the entire goddamn bay area is on fire and the power companies are cutting people’s power because they’re afraid any electric spark will turn the entire state into a cauldron of hell fire. Welcome to the future, baby, Planet Earth is pissed off at you. Sending winds and typhoons is tough for everybody especially when it’s all on fire anyway. Might as well hope for a typhoon to hit Cali and put out those wildfires. Fuck all the people and creatures there obviously.  And then it’s just up to the goddamn devil to sit down and say he’s home because who doesn’t like a nice hot fire like the devil himself? These are bad energies for the hippies in the Bay Area, who just want to lounge like Tommy Chong before Cheech shows up with the devil as his new sideman in this delirium we call life on planet Earth in the year 2019.  I don’t want to dismiss these new age 49er stars before cruel nature does it for them, but it’s hard to see them standing up to the devil while those very real hell fires burn all around California. I mean, they’re basically welcoming the devil home.

Pick: Green Bay

Seattle (+3) at Philadelphia

A genuine NFC heavyweight fight, which I love. But it seems like the Seahawks are getting looked over here. I know, I know, they do their best dirty work back home and now they have to fly all across the country to a city best known for its haters and its disgusting swarthy hooligans, no offense to my man Tosh who even coked out is still a Spirit Warrior who I’d ride with any day, but the Seahawks seem to be clearly the better team, poised to make another run deep into the heart of the NFL playoffs while the Eagles stop and start and scratch themselves outside Dennis and Mac’s apartment. So sorry boys, the sun isn’t gonna shine in Philly this time around.



Pick: Seattle


Baltimore (Pick em) at LA Rams

The Ravens are just thuggin’ and buggin’ on everyone these days, with the best offense in the NFL and a defense that can back it all up. The Rams are still in the picture, fighting for a Wild Card this time around, but they still have the nucleus of what was the hottest offense only last year. But last year is last year and this year is this year and in this year, the Baltimore Ravens are rolling like King Conan, bringing that Harbaugh steamroller with them. This seems like their year, at least until the Patriots can figure out a way to outshoot them once the playoffs come along. But you have to remember that it was only a couple of weeks ago that the Ravens rolled over even King Brady and Gisele and all her little dogs and Pinay and Pinoy boys and girls who she makes stay with the dogs, living in their shit. And if King Brady and his harem can’t handle the Ravens this year, then there’s really no hope for the Rams. Or for the rest of us.

Pick: Baltimore





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