In Which Something Pleases Me

[lawnrrd]

It may surprise a few of you to know that I love to watch professional (U.S.) football. Considering my feelings about Philadelphia, it may also surprise some of you to know that I am a big fan of the Philadelphia Eagles.

Well, last night, the Eagles upset the Miami Dolphins in Miami. This improves their record to 11-3, with two comparatively easy games remaining. They thus have a good chance to play all of their playoff games at home, which would be a nice advantage. All this makes me happy.

What makes this even more personal to me is that I participate in a football pool. (Showing once again how my life is based on odd connections, the pool is run by people in the office building where Lauren used to work.) The Eagles' upset victory means that I picked 15 of last week's 16 games correctly, which may be enough to win this week's prize and probably puts me in third place overall. It's an expensive pool, which means that the prizes are fairly large.

Comments

[tacologic.livejournal.com]

Sweet. I watched the game last night, and was happy to see the Eagles win. That guy's leaping, twisting touchdown ruled. When I heard that Miami was favored, I couldn't believe it. Yeah they're at home, and yeah Ricky Williams is good against the Eagles poor run defense, but Dave Wandstat is still their coach and Jay Fiedler is still their QB.

P.S. Was the one you got wrong the Bears? ;^)

[lawnrrd]

That was an amazing touchdown. Besides the reasons you mentioned, I think that the Dolphins were favored because people were expecting the Eagles to have a letdown after beating the Cowboys last week. Fools.

And I did pick the Bears over the Vikings. The Vikings have been struggling in the second half of the season, losing on the road against both the Chargers and the Raiders. I thought the Bears, playing at home, had a good chance to beat them.

But who knew that the Raiders would beat the Ravens?

[tacologic.livejournal.com]

Hmmm yeah. The Ravens did mess that one up. And just when I thought that they could be spoilers in the AFC playoff picture. They better get their act together.