Who's ready for week 1? I am starting to get excited...I know this year will be a long one for the Browns, but I'm ready to watch RG3 and Josh Gordon (with Corey Coleman) put on some offensive fireworks.
(Oh, we have to play defense too?)
Before we get started on the picks, let's do some housekeeping to see our record for our world-renown NFL weekly picks.....
For the last 3 years, here are the results:
2013: 127-122-6
2014: 109-127-4 (may have been slightly distracted with a move across the world)
2015: 123-100-8
Overall 9 year record: 1234-1143-69, a record of 51.9%...just shy of the magical 52.3% needed.
For the supercontest:
2013: 43-38-4
2014: 43-41-1
2015: 44-40-1
Overall 5 year record: 211-202-12, 51.1% . Not great....
Even though we are sharing a supercontest entry this year, I will post my 5 picks for comparison. Would love to set a small goal and break 45 points this year.
Now - to the fun! Our annual look back on network opening segments for NFL games. Let's go back to recent history, for one of the first years that FOX covered the NFL...here's an open from 1996 with the immortal Dick Stockton. Please remember: Dick looks old in 1996 - and he is doing a play by play game this weekend in 2016!!! Got to love the intern that thought the jigsaw puzzle symbolism would work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4SVNR7PFDk
Shifting to CBS...I loved this theme. I still think the late-90s CBS theme is the best. These opens were so cheesy.....a 1999 open from a Ravens game satirizing the Blair Witch project. How do you explain this to kids? I'll let you be surpirsed on the play by play announcer. Yes, we miss him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4SVNR7PFDk
And now for one of the worst NFL open themes in my life...the early 90s music for NBC. How vanilla and boring. This was the last playoff game I truly thought we could win. What a quarterback battle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX9GLtpYyWk
(Oh, we have to play defense too?)
Before we get started on the picks, let's do some housekeeping to see our record for our world-renown NFL weekly picks.....
For the last 3 years, here are the results:
2013: 127-122-6
2014: 109-127-4 (may have been slightly distracted with a move across the world)
2015: 123-100-8
Overall 9 year record: 1234-1143-69, a record of 51.9%...just shy of the magical 52.3% needed.
For the supercontest:
2013: 43-38-4
2014: 43-41-1
2015: 44-40-1
Overall 5 year record: 211-202-12, 51.1% . Not great....
Even though we are sharing a supercontest entry this year, I will post my 5 picks for comparison. Would love to set a small goal and break 45 points this year.
Now - to the fun! Our annual look back on network opening segments for NFL games. Let's go back to recent history, for one of the first years that FOX covered the NFL...here's an open from 1996 with the immortal Dick Stockton. Please remember: Dick looks old in 1996 - and he is doing a play by play game this weekend in 2016!!! Got to love the intern that thought the jigsaw puzzle symbolism would work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4SVNR7PFDk
Shifting to CBS...I loved this theme. I still think the late-90s CBS theme is the best. These opens were so cheesy.....a 1999 open from a Ravens game satirizing the Blair Witch project. How do you explain this to kids? I'll let you be surpirsed on the play by play announcer. Yes, we miss him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4SVNR7PFDk
And now for one of the worst NFL open themes in my life...the early 90s music for NBC. How vanilla and boring. This was the last playoff game I truly thought we could win. What a quarterback battle!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX9GLtpYyWk
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