I won by less then a point.  I believe all 3 teams tied for fourth place will remain tied headed into week 13.  How is a tie broke when it comes to playoffs?

APRTW wrote:

Max wrote:

APRTW wrote:

If Rivers doesnt have a good game I think I might have a chance.

I'm screwed, as apparaently even God is against me this week.

http://www.tmz.com/2010/11/28/steve-johnson-buffalo-bills-game-winning-touchdown-twitter-god/

It is really only fair.  If you thank God every time something good happens then isnt he to blame when things go to shit?

I loved the "Who's to blame? - A)Stevie; B) God" poll.
I voted A, BTW. God's involvement when the Stealers go to overtime extends only to the coin toss.

tkihshbt wrote:

Unbelievable. I put up 135 points last week and Fors beats with me with 147. Now I need Fors to beat AP and his team puts up 77 and loses. And even though I gained almost 50 points on AP, I'm still nowhere close to catching up with him.

Sorry.  Who knew the Bolts could put up 36 points in a game where Rivers threw for fewer than 200 yards and 0 TDs.  Despite that, if Reggie Wayne holds onto that meaningless pass with 3 minutes left in the game, I still would have won.

I'll take the Steve Johnson approach.  It's God's fault.

Max wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

APRTW wrote:

It is really only fair.  If you thank God every time something good happens then isnt he to blame when things go to shit?

I loved the "Who's to blame? - A)Stevie; B) God" poll.
I voted A, BTW. God's involvement when the Stealers go to overtime extends only to the coin toss.

That dropped pass, which would have been a touchdown and about 50 yards cost me 12 points.  I trail GopherBroke by 22 points with only my TE left.  If Vernon Davis has a good game, God might well have cost me this game. 

Once again, my opponent had someone go haywire.  Dwayne Bowe, 35 points . . . really?!?

I would like to see a stat of opponents projected PF (meaning points against me) and actual PF.  The Gophers exceeded theirs by about 30 points this week, which is a common pattern.

I need Gore to not break his leg coming out of the tunnel tonight to beat Alz.
My other league is a different story. I trail by ~25 points. My opponent is done. I have Gore and Larry Fitzgerald going. I'd like it to come down to that  meaningless 40-yard pass Jennings collected at the end of the Packers/Falcons game yesterday.

forsberg_us wrote:

If it makes you feel any better Max, Steve Johnson's dropped pass cost me a win in a league where there's actually money involved.  I lost the match by 4 points.

Assuming Stevie is correct and God lost the game, if you were Catholic you could always deduct what you lose from your contribution to the collection plate. Taking money from the collection plate to recoup your loss would probably be frowned upon, however.

I will never do seven teams again. Next year I'll cap it at five. I've found that it's impossible to go 7-0.

One of my teams is named after my dog, which was a lucky charm since I won a league championship with that name four years ago. Now, it's terrible luck. Despite huge games from Tom Brady, Miles Austin, Mike Goodson, Johnny Knox and a decent performance from the KC defense, I lost by three points. All because of Dez Effing Bryant's goose egg and Chris Johnson getting hurt.

On my bench I had Ricky Williams (15 points), Fred Jackson (22 points) and Davonne Bess (11 points).

artie_fufkin wrote:

APRTW wrote:

I won by less then a point.  I believe all 3 teams tied for fourth place will remain tied headed into week 13.  How is a tie broke when it comes to playoffs?

I think it's PF, but that's just a guess.

At least I got that going for me.  Windy's team will likely come alive next week since I play them.  My team is slipping more and more every week.

artie_fufkin wrote:

Assuming Stevie is correct and God lost the game, if you were Catholic you could always deduct what you lose from your contribution to the collection plate. Taking money from the collection plate to recoup your loss would probably be frowned upon, however.

Only the priest are allowed to do that.

Arizona will probably beat the Rams next Sunday, but they should be tanking for Andrew Luck.

"Lucky charms" reflect a pre-Christian, pagan belief in magical totems: "an object, species of animal or plant, or natural phenomenon symbolizing a clan, family, etc., often having ritual associations."  The problem with this belief system is that sometimes the magic works and sometimes it does not, thus making it difficult to know if the observed results were caused by the totem, or simply the result of random chance or other processes.

In contrast with this, Steve Johnson opted for a post-pagan, Christian era solution, and blamed his seeming bad luck on Divine Intervention, i.e. God made him do it.  This is a far more rationale system, in my opinion, because the result is explained by God's demeanor toward the actor at a given moment, e.g. "I made the game winning catch . . . Thank God" (interpretation, I am in God's favor), "I dropped the game winning catch . . . God made me do it." (Interpretation, I have sinned and must pay penance).  That's the kind of theology, and sports philosophy, I can get onboard with.