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I love college football. It's fantastic, & this year there's even a playoff! With that said the highlight of my fall weekends is the Christian, not the Jewish*, Sabbath. In the NFL you actually know who all of the players are. Unless you're a Raiders fan, every season you can talk yourself into believing your team is going to make the playoffs &, after the recent playoff runs of the Giants, Cardinals, & Ravens, that means they've got a chance to win it all! Does it help that my team, the Giants, have won 2 of the last 7 Super Bowls while the Arizona Wildcats have never made a Rose Bowl? Absolutely! But that's exactly my point: The NFL is what people want to believe America is like –– a place where if you plan right & work hard you can lift yourself from the bottom to the top of society –– while college football is what America really is –– a place with a giant divide of haves & have nots where the occasional surprise success story provides the illusion of hope. That's why I prefer the NFL, even with
moral questionability of the entire enterprise, so I'm super excited for another season of madness that will surely make many of my following picks look shockingly foolish.**
*If we're being totally honest Judaism has it right. Christianity sold out the Sabbath, & a bunch of other things, for converts.
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But not all of them! Unlike any of ESPN's 36 experts last
season I correctly predicted the Panthers to get the 2 seed in the NFC,
in addition to predicting the Chiefs to make the playoffs, the Falcons
to fall off (though not that drastically), & the Seahawks to win the
Super Bowl. Does it matter than I also had the Giants & Bucs in the
playoffs? Yeah... I know it does.
