Week 11: What You'll Be Watching

No More Bye Weeks. Thank. Fucking. God.

For the next seven weeks we will have a full schedule including the always entertaining Thursday night affairs. No more blowing fantasy weeks because you forgot Clinton Portis had a bye (although he currently has a sandy vagina so don't forget to pull him this week either) and no more fretting over who to drop so you can pick up a second defense to spell you during Chicago's bye.

Football almost becomes a seven night a week ordeal from now through Christmas. There is always some shitty college action on Tuesday and Wednesday, you get NFL Thursday, Sunday and Monday plus the big time college games Friday and Saturday. It couldn't come at a better time either. The weather starts to suck, baseball is month's away and basketball doesn't get exciting until January. Not to mention the 10 months worth of gambling debts that have piled up. Now you get two full months of nightly football to win it all back.

One O'Clock Games:

CBS will take us from the early game right through Football Night in America. Fox has the solo coverage but there is really no marquee game. Buck and Aikman will be calling the Bears @ Green Bay but no more than 25% of the country will be picking up. The other notable thing about Fox' coverage is that every other game is GOD AWFUL. Anybody @ Cincy, Minny/Tampa Bay, NO/KC, Arizona/Seatle, St Louis/San Fran, Cancer/Aids, etc etc... The only interests anyone could possibly have here is gambling or fantasy and even then you sure as shit don't want to be stuck actually watching the game. So thank you Fox for giving us the least shitty game possible. Job well done.

CBS early gives us the Ravens/Giants. I love how New England always picks up the Giants games because they used to be the local team. The logic makes no sense to anybody under the age of 65. Still not a bad game to be stuck with. The other half of the country will get Denver/Atlanta. Over/Under on that one? 120.

Four O'Clock Games:

CBS sends it A-Team to Pittsburgh where they will host the struggling Chargers. You think LT can get more than 30 all purpose yards today? Questionable. Pittsburgh is so boring to watch. I could not be less excited about this game. The dirty South wins out in this slot with Tennessee and Jacksonville. How many Titan games will the average NFL fan watch prior to week 17 when they attempt to go undefeated? 1? 2? The best kept secret in the NFL.