HALL OF CHAMPIONS: 2006: I Can Throw a Touchdown 2005: Jersey Girl 2004: Lone Star Lizzie 2003: The Mighty Mighty Pats Fan 2002: WildStyle 75 2001: Jersey Girl POOLER LINKS: Go Li--Oh Who Am I Kidding? Grogan's Heroes & Lone Star Lizzie Hail to the Redskins Immaculate Perception Mighty Mighty Pats Fan Br. Chrysostom SLP1313 Big(ger) Sankas CLICK HERE TO UPDATE YOUR PICKS ARCHIVE 09/21/2003 - 09/27/2003 09/28/2003 - 10/04/2003 10/05/2003 - 10/11/2003 10/26/2003 - 11/01/2003 11/02/2003 - 11/08/2003 11/09/2003 - 11/15/2003 11/16/2003 - 11/22/2003 11/23/2003 - 11/29/2003 11/30/2003 - 12/06/2003 12/07/2003 - 12/13/2003 12/14/2003 - 12/20/2003 12/28/2003 - 01/03/2004 08/29/2004 - 09/04/2004 09/05/2004 - 09/11/2004 09/12/2004 - 09/18/2004 09/19/2004 - 09/25/2004 09/26/2004 - 10/02/2004 10/03/2004 - 10/09/2004 10/10/2004 - 10/16/2004 10/17/2004 - 10/23/2004 11/21/2004 - 11/27/2004 12/05/2004 - 12/11/2004 12/26/2004 - 01/01/2005 08/28/2005 - 09/03/2005 09/04/2005 - 09/10/2005 09/11/2005 - 09/17/2005 09/18/2005 - 09/24/2005 10/02/2005 - 10/08/2005 09/03/2006 - 09/09/2006 09/10/2006 - 09/16/2006 09/17/2006 - 09/23/2006 09/24/2006 - 09/30/2006 10/01/2006 - 10/07/2006 10/08/2006 - 10/14/2006	CBS IS EVIL So here we are in the L.A. market, with no local pro football team -- a blessing that ought to guarantee us the best game on TV each week, right? Wrong. At 1 pm this Sunday, evil CBS has decided NOT to air New England v. Cincinnati, a clash of two first-place teams and division champions with but one loss between them. Oh no, instead, it's decided to inflict upon the poor people of Southern California the Browns v. the Raiders. That's right, the clash of the bottom-dwellers, two miserable franchises with not a single victory between them. Egad. Why in the world would anyone prefer to watch this? So we can know who will get the #1 pick in next year's draft? Yes, I understand that there are some truly pitiful, benighted souls in the Southland who still pine for the Oakland Raiders. To which I say, get a life, guys. Al Davis dropped you like a bad habit. You've been dumped. Move on. This hanging on to love lost is pathetic. Especially because your team is AWFUL. Horrendous. Atrocious. Abominable. There aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe such consummate badness. If you want to put on your Darth Vader costumes and watch the game in your parents' garage, then for crying out loud, buy the dish. The rest of us shouldn't have to put up with games this bad polluting the airwaves. (Surely this is an FCC violation of some sort, no?) Come on, CBS. Relent. Stop catering to the Raider dorks. Let the rest of SoCal watch some real football. Or be known forever as The Evil Eye.   posted by Chris Weinkopf @ 11:53 AM 9/27/2006     THE WEEK THREE CURSE Week 3 is, in my experience, always brutal. Through weeks 1 and 2, we are lulled into forming certain impressions of teams that, invariably come week 3, get shattered. The result is a dismal performance all around, where 63 points can carry the week, and yours truly racks up a pathetic 19. (Less pathetic, though, than Beacb Bums' 12 -- both of us only picked 3 games correctly.) So we shouldn't be surprised that the week's top performer, I Can Throw a Touchdown, comes from the kiddie pool -- that makes two of three weeks so far! Congrats, ICTAT! Second-place also came from the ranks of the very young, namely my own Mo-J and K-Ro. We have to go all the way to the #3 spot to find the top-performing grown-up in week 3, and that's Big(ger) Sankas! Congrats are in order for Sankas -- but not for his ho-hum 58 points. No, the real happy news in Sankas' life is ... the birth of his fourth son! Congrats to the whole family -- your D-line is now complete! (Assuming you're using the 4-3.) Click here for a pic of (not so) little David.   posted by Chris Weinkopf @ 12:27 PM 9/26/2006