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NFL Game Picks – Week 5
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Posted:Oct 8, 2017 7:28 am
Last Updated:Oct 15, 2017 5:14 pm
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9 out of 14
Thursday
New England Patsies at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Patsies
A lot of potentially close games this week.
Sunday, Oct. 8:
New York Jets at Cleveland Browns, Jets
Los Angeles Chargers at New York Giants, Giants at home
Buffalo Bills at Cincinnati Bengals, Bills
Carolina Panthers at Detroit Lions, Lions at dome
San Francisco 49ers at Indianapolis Colts, Colts at dome
Tennessee Titans at Miami Dolphins, Dolphins
Arizona Cardinals at Philadelphia Eagles, Eagles at home
Jacksonville Jaguars at Pittsburgh Steelers, Steelers at home
Baltimore Ravens at Oakland Raiders, Raiders Baby at the Black Hole
Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Rams, Seahawks
Green Bay Packers at Dallas Cowboys, Packers
Kansas City Chiefs at Houston Texans, Chiefs for Ms. T
Monday, Oct. 9:
Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears, Vikings
Update: Based in injury reports changed Titans at Dolphins from no pick to Dolphins
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Wanting To Be Elsewhere
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Posted:Oct 1, 2017 5:40 pm
Last Updated:Apr 3, 2020 7:12 pm
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As some of you may recall my sport of choice (addiction really) is auto racing. It is above even football. So much so that I really wasn’t paying much attention to the NFL games this last week. That is because I was paying attention to a race that I have participated in twice and was invited to 4 times. A friend of mine and several other guys I know were running in this race. It is a weeklong event it is the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) National Championships a.k.a. “The Runoffs”. About 1000 cars and drivers were there this year. These are the drivers/teams that have won, or placed in the top 5, in their class within their division.
For 3 years running, in the early 90s, I won my division (the Southern Pacific Division) title in the class I raced in (H Production). For many, many years the Runoffs were held at a track named Road Atlanta. That is where I took my shots at the National Championship.
First Race in the Fiat
There has often been a bit of an issue over where the Runoffs were held due to distance – usually at the expense of drivers from the western US. Luckily there was a fund of “towing money” available based on how far you traveled. This year however the Runoffs were somewhat closer and at another famous track – the road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the Indy 500 is held.
My car is far from ready for another run at race wins or a division title and a trip to the Runoffs. It’s a long technical story and a financial one on top of that. But a guy I met back in the 90’s (I’ll call him “J” here) has continued to race and was at Indy this week. He and I raced each other a lot since he is close by in Colorado and would come to AZ when we had a couple tracks here. I would also travel up to CO for races back then. The technical stuff kept me from beating him straight up.
J took this pic at Second Creek Raceway
The H Production race was Sunday, I watched it online, and didn’t watch any football. Not only was J there but there were at least 15 other guys I had raced against from back in the 90s. So they gotta be kinda old guys now like me – I was pretty jazzed by that. Also, an SCCA champion y’all may be familiar with raced until he was 83 – a personal hero of mine . . . Paul Newman. It kinda means I could give it another shot.
“J” didn’t qualify well, 29th – possibly because it was his first time running there. By the 4th lap of the race he made it up to 18th place then . . . his throttle cable broke. Given how the rest of the race went, if he had a clean race he could have ended up around 10th – damn good for another driver on a non-budget like me. Given how the technical things I mentioned have changed I could have been right up there with him.
Runoffs at Road Atlanta
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NFL Game Picks – Week 4
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Posted:Oct 1, 2017 6:51 am
Last Updated:Oct 6, 2017 7:24 am
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9 out of 16
Thursday
Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers, Packers on the tundra
Sunday
New Orleans Saints at Miami Dolphins, Dolphins at home
L.A. Rams at Dallas Cowturds, Cowturds at home
Tennessee Titans at Houston Texans, Titans
Detroit Lions at Minnesota Vikings, Lions
Buffalo Bills at Atlanta Falcons, Falcons at dome
Pittsburgh Steelers at Baltimore Ravens, Steelers
Cincinnati Bengals at Cleveland Browns, Bengals
Carolina Panthers at New England Patsies, Patsies at home
Jacksonville Jaguars at N.Y. Jets, Jaguars
San Francisco 49ers at Arizona Cardinals, Cardinals at dome
Philadelphia Eagles at L.A. Chargers, Eagles
N.Y. Giants at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buccaneers at home . . . Lala?
Oakland RAIDERS at Denver Donkeys, RAIDERS Baby
Indianapolis Colts at Seattle Seahawks, Seahawks at home
Monday
Washington at KC Chiefs, Chiefs at home Tempt this pick is on you
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Thoughts On Hugh Hefner & This “Lifestyle”
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Posted:Sep 29, 2017 2:47 pm
Last Updated:Oct 6, 2017 4:07 pm
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As a I, like many other guys, looked at Playboy magazines. It was probably the first time I saw a naked woman. I also checked out the cartoons and bits of humor. As I got older, I started reading product reviews and the articles – by Hunter Thomson among others.
I would also watch from time to time the late night TV show Playboy had. There were musical and cultural guests on. Along with the “Rat Pack”, Steve McQueen, Johnny Carson and others Playboy was the definition of ‘cool’.
I lived in West Los Angeles at that time. My grandfather lived down the street from the mansion. I got my first speeding ticket (of many), within an hour of my grandfather giving me his car (’64 Impala SS), that was on Beverly Glenn just south of Sunset Blvd – essentially behind the mansion. I never actually saw the mansion, or Mr. Hefner, in person. A few times I latched on to (maybe borrowed) a Playboy key card and took a few dates to dinner at the club when I had the coin to do so. The food and drinks there were excellent.
Some scorn the Playboy magazine and “lifestyle” as sexist etc. – that may be true. However, it was also a vehicle that got us to where we (men AND women) can be on the inter/web/nets on dating/sex sites, naked, talking about sex in detail and getting together in non-traditional relationships that were once scorned. If it weren't for Hef and Playboy we may not be here. He opened the door to things that had been kept hidden and in a way that was acceptable for the times, which led to it becoming “normal”.
For that he deserves many, many 
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NFL Game Picks – Week 3
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Posted:Sep 23, 2017 6:33 pm
Last Updated:Oct 2, 2017 7:58 pm
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8 out of 16
Thursday
Los Angeles Rams at San Francisco 49ers Rams
Sunday
Baltimore Ravens at Jacksonville Jaguars Ravens in London
New Orleans Saints at Carolina Panthers Panthers at home
Miami Dolphins at New York Jets Dolphins
New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles Eagles at home
Denver Donkeys at Buffalo Bills Damn Donkeys
Pittsburgh Steelers at Chicago Bears Steelers
Atlanta Falcons at Detroit Lions Falcons
Cleveland Browns at Indianapolis Colts Browns only because I had to pick one
Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Minnesota Vikings Buccaneers Lala get us some Viking boucanier.
Houston Texans at New England Patsies Patsies at home
Seattle Seahawks at Tennessee Titans Titans at home
Cincinnati Bengals at Green Bay Packers Packers at home
Kansas City Chiefs at Los Angeles Chargers Chiefs see Ms. T
Oakland Raiders at Washington Raiders Baby
Monday
Dallas Cowturds at Arizona Cardinals Cowturds
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NFL Game Picks – Week 2
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Posted:Sep 17, 2017 7:05 am
Last Updated:Sep 23, 2017 7:40 pm
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10 out of 16
Thursday
Houston Texans at Cincinnati Bengals – Bengals
Sunday
Cleveland Browns at Baltimore Ravens – Ravens at home
Buffalo Bills at Carolina Panthers – Panthers at home
Arizona Cardinals at Indianapolis Colts – Cardinals
Tennessee Titans at Jacksonville Jaguars – Jaguars at home
Philadelphia Eagles at Kansas City Chiefs – Chiefs at home for Temptrzz
New England Patriots at New Orleans Saints – Patsies
Minnesota Vikings at Pittsburgh Steelers – Steelers at home
Chicago Bears at Tampa Bay Buccaneers – Buccaneers at home Lala have you spoken to them?
Miami Dolphins at Los Angeles Chargers – Chargers at home
New York Jets at Oakland Raiders – RAIDERS Baby at The Black Hole
Dallas Cowturds at Denver Donkeys – Cowturds
Washington at Los Angeles Rams – Rams at home
San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks – Seahawks at home
Green Bay Packers at Atlanta Falcons – very close game Falcons at home
Monday
Detroit Lions at New York Giants – Giants at home
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Reporting From The Scene
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Posted:Sep 11, 2017 11:01 am
Last Updated:Sep 20, 2017 2:31 pm
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In the immortal words of the great Strother Martin: "What . . we've . . got . . here . . is failure to communicate"
This is your intrepid reporter RedRock Rascal reporting from the scene of an epic communications disaster. The scene is quiet now, I think it is safe for everyone to come (or cum) out now. But, in the late hours yesterday judgment was passed by a speeding misunderstanding and an epic session of verbal intercourse was foist upon the goofy lil place named “The Lalaverse”. 
The battlefield was here [post 4023902] as a casual lil conversation became an epic bout of verbal diarrhea. Nouns conjugated verbs, pronouns slept with past participles, thing were plural everywhere – chaos ruled the Blogosphere. Oh, the humanity. 
In the aftermath, as the ink dust settles, I see hundreds of adjectives and verbs are scattered about with no rhyme or reason. The punctuation paramedics are MiA . . . period. I think the Though Police may be on their way so I have to be careful with what I say . . . as if. 
In other words . . . eh, it was just another day. We return you now to our regularly scheduled mayhem. 
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