the one in which Dawn does a celebration dance!!!

well last week, sports, in a word, BOMBED. i have never not enjoyed a week's worth of sports like i did that one...

*this* week has started off much better though. sort of. i am in the process of getting my butt beaten down BADLY in fantasy football by my bloggin' buddy Stacy & i am an impressive 6-6 in the football pool...BUT!!!


to start, the Astros (my favorite National League team) finally won in the 18th inning to eliminate the Braves who were up 5-0 in the 5th. and as i type, the Yankees face elimination themselves by the Angels. GO ANAHEIM!! or Los Angeles or wherever the heck you're from...i don't care if you want to have 37 cities in your name as long as you knock off the million dollar boys in navy blue pinstripes.


some way...some how...by some miracle & the beauty known as Adam Vinatieri's foot, the Patriots have managed to go 3-2 & avoid embarrassing back-to-back losses. i don't care if they won by a field goal in the final seconds of the game. i'm not interested in the fact that Michael Vick didn't play because it's not like they faced Atlanta without an injury or 12 of their own. what i care about is they WON! *long slow exhale of relief* now can they go into Denver next week & play them too? the defense is still staggering along but Jake Plummer has habit of forgetting which team he plays for so maybe...


imagine my fists pumped in victory with Brett's cause every time i saw that number change as the scores flicked by, i rejoiced. i knew it. i *knew* he was going to win & win big. 52-3!! GO PACK!! maybe now a little confidence has been restored, a little frustration put to rest...now i just hope that the bye week doesn't cause them to lose their new-found momentum going into Minnesota for Week 7. i know that the Vikings are anything but intimidating this year but being a huge rival game, ALL bets are off on both sides of the ball...


and the icing on my (almost) birthday cake...the laughably 4-0 Bucs that i have had to swallow like a tablespoon of the vilest medicine imaginable from several co-workers since opening kick-off...LOST...to the JETS. the Jets with their #1 & #2 quarterbacks out. the Jets who replaced their 3rd string, greener than the shirt he was wearing, quarterback from Week 4 with the 42 year old retired QB Vinny Testaverde. all week i kept saying "if Testaverde could just come back & have a solid game, how much would i love him??" well Vinny YOU ROCK! the almighty *snort* Bucs couldn't even score a single touchdown. excuse me while i step away from the computer to wipe the tears of hysterical laughter from my face because the unstoppable *cough* Bucs got their butts handed to them by someone who was watching Week 3 from his La-Z-Boy!! oh the sweet justice of it. i can't wait to hear the excuses the Tampa Bay fans come up with *this* week. at least if Ronde Barber had gotten ejected from the game like he should have for illegal contact after hitting a referee, they might have been able to cry about having their defense taking a hit but really now...what's that they said last week?? a win is a win? just like that, a loss is also a loss. =P

and for those of you who are wondering...IF i had had the *ahem* to go with my GUT for the picks that i struggled to make--Lions, Bills, Browns, Seahawks--i would have been 10-2 going into the final 2 games of the week, not 6-6. when will i learn...? something told me that the Ravens defense was a fluke last week up against that inexperienced Jets QB & that the Lions were better than that crap call earned them last week against the Bucs. and i said something here about the Bills leaving me uneasy after so many of the experts picked them over the Dolphins who i suspected were not really as good as their record tried to claim. i wavered with the Browns & foolishly went with the visiting team when i had no clue which way to lean--when in doubt *always* choose the home team. and i stated just this morning that i was too chicken to go with the Seahawks since everyone else in the pool went with the Rams...i was a lemming & like the rest of them, tumbled over the cliff into the sea.

but most importantly the Patriots & Packers won & when it all comes down to it, that's what it takes for me to have a great week in football. Dawn is happy. =)