Count Down to Summer

For most Stay-at-Home-Dads in the North East the shortest day of the year is actually the longest. From dressing your kids in endless layers of clothing to coming up with various indoor activities cabin fever can set in during winter’s dark dolldrums. At some point dragging them Christmas shopping loses its luster and twenty minutes of peace is what you crave. In winter keeping kids healthy is one thing but keeping them interested and curious is another.

To avoid cabin fever with the kids (and when it is just too cold to go outside and you don’t want to plant them in front of the television) try engaging your children (4 and younger) by building a tunnel between your couch and coffee table with one of their favorite blankets, a few cars and their imagination. You’ll find a simple throw blanket can provide you an at home thirty-minute escape right in your own living room. 

So reheat the day-old coffee that has been sitting in your mug since 7 a.m. untouched and grab your laptop and give yourself some “me” time.

Las Vegas Bowl – Another Beaver Hunt

With only three shopping days left until christmas we look to continue to wrap boxes full of units and put them under the tree along with the various sex toys, drug paraphenalia, scratch tickets and kiddie toys. Meanwhile, as the crow flies it looks like we’re heading out to Vegas (with the newly vandalized Fabulous Sign) for the MAACO Bowl.

…last time the Cougars beat the Beavers was back when leisure suits and cocaine spoon necklaces were the rage (still think you only missed the funny hair and clothes?) in 1978…

Are you as disappointed as Oregon State that the Beavers aren’t going to the Rose Bowl? Perhaps the only thing more exciting will be the “Outback Buffet Bowl” and Pie Eating Contest on Freemont St. when both teams come together in a show of good will. Nothing says solidarity like a gluttonous evening before the “Big Game.” Oh, wait I don’t think this qualifies as the big game for either team.

Also, how excited can you get if you are a Mormon and are sent to a post-modern Sodom/Gemorah? Talk about a prosthelitizer’s wet dream. Suffice it to say the foot soldiers of the Christ of Latter Day Saints won’t be visiting “Little Darlings” under the 15 on Western. It is no surprse that BYU has won 3 bowls in five years, or lost two bowls in two years if you are a pessimist. The Cougars take this shit seriously. Sin City may as well be Mayberry for all the shit that they’ll stir up the night before.

However, last time the Cougars beat the Beavers was back when leisure suits and cocaine spoon necklaces were the rage (still think you only missed the funny hair and clothes?) in 1978. Beavers have won five of eight against the Cougars and have a major threat in RB Jacquizz Rodgers. Can the 23rd ranked Cougar D stop them? The simple answer is how much does Rogers drink at the Outback Buffet Bowl..that is yet to be seen. Keep in mind that this OSU team is much different that the 2005 one that made frequent appearances in the police blotter.

OSU is very loosey-goosey supping on In-Out Burgers and enjoying dead bird practical jokes. This game will feature two top-15 QBs in the draft and should be a fun aerial game to watch. Hall and Canfield are both explosive and can deliver the ball with pin-point precision. While many expect this I wouldn’t count out a very heavy dose of Rodgers. He should be able to run down hill behind his beefy front line.

I wouldn’t make too much about the Krebs Brothers leaving OSU just before the LV Bowl as both players were red shirt freshman and had never played a down so there loss is minimal.

They say that if you repeat an action hoping for a different result you have the defiintion of insanity-which is exactly what I see backing BYU is. BYU giving three points in this spot is an early christmas gift if you ask me. Sure OSU is disappointed about not going to the Rose Bowl, but how much so when you are in a Conference with USC? You can hope but you don’t really expect to go so while it is a disappointment it isn’t heartbreaking.

What really gets me about this BYU team is the shellacking they took at home against FSU. And as always book it tonight as this pick is……

SOLID GOLD!

Pick! Oregon State +3 for five dimes.

NOLA Bowl – Upset City

12/20/09 – Good thing I only leaned on the under because that would have obscured the fact that we evaded the pendulum’s pernicious blade and return to post with my life intact-in fact with a life to spare and another 10 Dimes in my pocket. Class is back in session today in the New Orleans bowl where the Golden Eagles of Southerm Miss will attempt their fourth consecutive bowl win.

It will be hard for SM to top the exciting 30-28 finish over Troy in last year’s New Orleans Bowl. And if you listen to the experts even their grandmothers have a little stash on the Golden Eagles -4. no brainer. MTSU got anhilated by Troy last time out. Golden Eagles pretty much have to show up and it is a win right? Not such a long drive from Hattiesberg to New Orleans; I once spent some time drinking Old Corn Dog (down home corn whiskey) on my drive from NOLA to Hattiesberg. Mississippi was something else.

Both offenses are evenly matched but I am looking at the fact that the Blue Raider defense is very effective at tackles for loss. Conversely, the Eagles while good on the line their secondary is circumspect at best. Will they be able to stop the potent offense of the Blue Raiders?

I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see an upset with a last second FG. SMiss had to rally last year to win the NOLA bowl and if they do win I can see it happening the same way. In fact this is an easy trip for the G. Eagles they’ll even bring some fans but will they be pumped to return to the Nola Bowl? The harsh reality is the Golden Eagles would rather be playing in the Liberty Bowl. Pick: MTSU +4 for 3 Dimes.

Scarlet Knights -2.5 is the play

BET YOUR LIVES ON RUTGERS -2.5 (you all know what to do with the hook!)

10 fucking dimes boys……(of course unless EP comes out with Rutgers then you gotta go ten the other way, right?)
LEAN on UNDER 44 and the hook

three reasons but I’ll give you one

– 77% pubic hairs love UCF.

The other two games wouldn’t bet with EL Pres. declined credit card.

BOOK IT MEN.

SOLID GOLD