# NFL Predictions - Week 12 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 16, 2000, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480 "2000-11-16T16:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/41 "2000-11-21T13:38:19Z")
_WOOOOHOOOOOO!!!_ Redskins 33, Rams 20!!! Gazoo, thank you thank you thank you for picking the Rams! Now you understand what this means, of course? You’d best not be picking the Redskins again this season. If you do, us 'Skins fans will have to hire a guy named Luigi to pay you a short social call. (In the words of Al Yankovic, “Luigi, Luigi, capisce, paisan, capisce, paisan, capisce, paisan.”) And we really don’t want to do that. 😉 Yes, it means you’d likely be forfeiting one game each week. But you are _already_, so what’s it matter? Just keep picking the 'Skins to lose, and you’ll have our undying gratitude. ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/42 "2000-11-21T14:04:03Z")
damn you Gazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Gazoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@Gazoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazoo)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/43 "2000-11-21T14:10:53Z")
Okay, 8-7 for the week, and after re-examining, 9-6 against the spread. I don’t think it’s supposed to work that way, getting a better record against the spread, but what can I say? And to all you Ram aand Redskin fans - honest, I really have no control over the outcome of these games!! (Oh, and apparently I owe an apology to Eddie Murray who did an admirable job of kicking last night.) ---
**Author:** ![poohpah\_chalupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@poohpah\_chalupa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/poohpah_chalupa)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/44 "2000-11-21T14:40:10Z")
The Bears won _again!_ BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! They’re going alllll the way this year! To the SuperBowl!! World domination!!! …well, until next week anyway… ---
**Author:** ![Modian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Modian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Modian)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/45 "2000-11-21T14:56:09Z")
Oh man, I feel an I told you so coming on to Crunchy… Thanks Gazoo 😉 WOOOOHOOOO SKINS! ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/46 "2000-11-21T15:43:20Z")
Ooooohhhhhh Crrrrunchhhyyyyy? How about that game, hmmmm? Even WITH Faulk back in the lineup!!! Even if it meant me losing by a lousy point and a half in fantasy football… GO SKINS!!! And now, on to beat the Eagles. Oh Chief? Montfort? Wanna bet? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crunchy\_Frog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Crunchy\_Frog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crunchy_Frog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/47 "2000-11-21T15:57:40Z")
So NOW Falcon shows up to trash talk. Yeah, before the win, you have no faith in your team, not even willing to make a silly sig-line bet or anything. I, on the other hand, show my blind devotion to the Male Sheep by offering up a bet even before I knew Faulk was in the lineup. So you see my point don’t you? By having so little faith in your team, you are overly excited by last night’s win, whereas I, with my blind devotion, am devastated. So that just goes to show - - well, I don’t know what it shows, but there has to be a lesson in there somewhere about standing by your team. Or not. I don’t know. I blame Gazoo. And who the HELL does an onside kick in that situation?!?!?! If you ask me, I think the kicker flat out booted it and then they made it look like they meant to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/48 "2000-11-21T16:34:19Z")
Okay, **Gazoo** , you have to do this. They beat the Rams. In St. Louis. On Monday Night Football. From what I read of the game, they dominated. They won after having a bye week, which seems to be the curse of death this season so far. You have to pick them to win this weekend. So, I want to see you say this: > [@](#): > > **Eagles 7 at Redskins 50: Donovan _who_?!?! Washington is a team of destiny. They will crush the Eagles and begin their march to the Super Bowl.** See, it’s not that hard. 🙂 **Go Eagles!!!** [sub]And **Falcon**? No fuckin’ way. After what the refs did to the Eagles in the first game, I have no faith in them getting a fair shake this time around.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/49 "2000-11-21T16:42:00Z")
**Crunchy** - No, I’m a realistic Washington fan. I went in EXPECTING to lose this one…hell, I don’t think the Redskins have scored above 30 points all fricking YEAR! And after my cosmic run of good luck on sig line bets, I didn’t want to jinx it. Or something. But trust me, I was screaming PLENTY for the Redskins last night. (And honestly, I was scared of what you’d come up with!) **Gazoo** - do NOT listen to that long-haired wanna-be Swede. Pick the EAGLES. They’re first place in the NFC East! They only lost last time because of a blown call by the ref! They HAVE to win, right??? So pick the Eagles. Or I’ll come out there and beat you silly. **Montfort** - Awwwww…c’mon. Scared they’ll LOSE again? (Okay, okay…I admit they got a few blown calls in the last game.) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/50 "2000-11-21T22:42:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Falcon \* > \*\ ***Montfort** - Awwwww…c’mon. Scared they’ll LOSE again? (Okay, okay…I admit they got a few blown calls in the last game.) \*\* Hmm… I seem to have a good streak running while I’m in Sweden: Eagles won, Flyers won, Sixers are still undefeated, Ravens won, Dallas lost (both in the same game!), so maybe I should take this bet. But, I won’t be in Sweden when the game is played, I’ll be in the air flying home then. So… now that former Redskin coach Allen’s scion is a Senator, he probably called up G. Gordon Liddy to do another heist on the forces of all that is good: the **Eagles**. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2000, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480/51 "2000-11-21T22:46:40Z")
C’mon, **Monty** …sig line for one week. You KNOW you want to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-predictions-week-12/41480.md?page=2)