Double Coverage: Week 10 (A Guide to NFL Games and NYC Sports Bars)
We're going to do three games this week -- one at the 1 p.m. slot, one at the 4 p.m. slot, and then the Sunday night NBC game. Please do not follow all three games in this order. You'll get wasted, blame us, and we don't have the fiscal resources to defend ourselves legally. So lay off, OK?
Another note: the team names are linked. If you want a list of bars for each team, click on said link. Cool? Cool.
Minnesota Vikings at Chicago Bears:
Ted: After last weekend, this is what I know about the NFC North: the Vikings aren't cooked (although the Cardinals are terrible), the Bears aren't cooked (although the Bills are terrible), no one wants to see the Packers have a bye right now and get healthy, and the Lions are scrappers (they should have taken the Jets). What do I know about this game, as a result? Whoever loses -- read: Bears, at home, in bad fashion -- is in the second group, with the Lions, and the other two teams -- read: Vikings, Packers -- will contend for one or two playoff spots out of here.
Cameron: It is very true that the Vikings aren't cooked -- although it is going to take a a lot for them to come back. Brett Favre, though, is one sack away from retirement and if he tries to cross the line of scrimmage Brian Urlacher is going to literally piledrive him into the nether-realm.
St. Louis Rams at San Francisco 49ers:
Ted: I was going to pick Cowboys-Giants as my 4:15 game, an hell, if the game was in Dallas, I may have. In New York, that's a rout. The spread is 13.5 and I still wouldn't (expletive) touch it (mutters to self). Rams-49ers is a decent game because, well, a seven-win team is going to make the playoffs and it might be the winner here. Thank you, realignment failures! (Mutters to self some more.)
Cameron: The only reason this is a game is because this division is piss poor as usual, so this playoff spot is up in the air to anyone who wants to get eliminated in the first round. Regarding that Dallas game, though, whoa -- the G-Men having 13.5 points in Vegas on the Boys is absolutely terrifying.
New England Patriots at Pittsburgh Steelers:
Ted: This is all about AFC supremacy right here. If you're the Pats, and you drop to the Browns (in bad fashion), then go and drop to Pittsburgh, people will start worrying. "DID YOU LOSE FIREPOWER WITHOUT MOSS?" That would be a headline you might see. (I can predict these things.) Pats are almost in a "must-win" here, because two-game losing streaks in the same season as the Sox missed the playoffs shall not be tolerated.
Cameron: Both of these powerhouses came out with lame performances last week. Does this make this game less exciting? NO! Moreso, I say! Sidenote: last weekend was Ted's birthday. The party up at 1:30 pm in Manhattan and I when I became available at 4 pm, I called to meet up. I didn't know what to expect but I figured there would be sirens at the least. Where were they? Williams Sonoma. Looking at flatware or something. FOR SHAME. Also, we got laid to waste later. Happy birthday, brother.
Ted: Unfortunately, that entire story is true.
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