This is the first football season at our church that Father Harry hasn’t been present to preside over mass. During the season you could usually count on Father Harry to have something to say about the Packers, doing his best to spin a yarn that started with the Green and Gold and ended with a tie-in to the morning’s lesson in the missalette. During the time that Mike McKenzie was fuming over his contract, claiming debilitating injuries that kept him on the bench, Father Harry didn’t have many good things to say about McKenzie.
Check that.
He didn’t have anything good to say about Mike McKenzie. And we always though it was a little odd to work so hard to fit the Packers into Sunday mass, but we always got a kick out of how involved Father Harry seemed to be about the message.
But over a short stretch of time Father Harry had lost a closs family member, and was getting up there in years (and years of service), so he retired from priesthood. With him retired our Sunday Packer masses.
I miss Father Harry.
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But you do need an L. And there’s no INT in Favre, either. At least this week there isn’t.
Ok, ok. Call me a fair-weather fan. I can take it.
Brett Favre’s record on Minnesota Viking turf is just 5-10 (even after yesterday’s win), and it’s always harder to extrapolate the trends into the future than it is to analyze them in the rearview. But it was looking like the Vikings could have been ripe for a comeback, and the Packers might have still been wallowing in the frustration of last week’s loss to the Buffalo Bills.
But hindsight can be 20/10 with the right lenses, and I have some thick ones on this morning. I had babysitting duties yesterday, so for the portions of the game I wasn’t pushing a small child in a wagon or building castles out of cardboard bricks, the Green Bay Packers looked a lot like they did the previous week, only without those 4-5 plays they gave up last week that handed the game to the Bills.
Quite the opposite.
Instead, it was the Minnesota Vikings who had four or five instances of undisciplined play, all but gift-wrapping a W for the Packers. Driver cutting loose for an 80+ yard pass play, a returned kickoff called back for an illegal block. A play here and play there, pretty soon it’s the ballgame.
That we’re doing double-takes at a Brett Favre outing that included ZERO interceptions says a couple things to me. It’s great that he threw no interceptions, but a little sad it’s such a rare occurrence that we notice it like we just found a shiny new quarter on the ground.
And that Hawk kid seems to be coming along nicely, eh?
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On paper this appears to be one of the easier weeks of picks, with three games having double-digit spreads, and another six games with spreads of 6 to 9 points. But that’s why they play the games. It’s also why they have guys named Tony One-Eye with jobs in the receivables department.
My picks this week are in bold letters:
Baltimore at Tennessee
Buffalo at Indianapolis
Cleveland at Atlanta
Green Bay at Minnesota
Houston at Jacksonville
Kansas City at Miami
N.Y. Jets at New England
San Diego at Cincinnati
San Francisco at Detroit
Washington at Philadelphia
Denver at Oakland
Dallas at Arizona
New Orleans at Pittsburgh
St. Louis at Seattle
Chicago at N.Y. Giants
Tampa Bay at Carolina
My previous record:
Week 9: 10-4
Week 8: 8-6
Week 7: 5-8
Week 6: 8-5
Week 5: 10-4
Week 4: 11-3
Week 3: 10-4
Week 2: 12-4
Total for the season: 74-38
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