I tell you, life sometimes just ain’t fair. I finally join the 21st century this week and upgrade to HD, and I probably won’t catch any of the football games this weekend. Today I have the NARN broadcast and church, and tomorrow the First Mate and I will go see the Vatican Splendors exhibit in St. Paul. (Tomorrow was supposed to be the last day to see it, but after I bought the tickets, they extended it another week.) We’ll also be busy visiting the Mathemagician, the DIL, and the two granddaughters, and the NFL is a pretty low priority stacked up to those.
Nevertheless, we have four great games this weekend — two today and two tomorrow. We’ll do the open thread for tomorrow’s games tomorrow, so for now, let’s concentrate on the Ravens at the Titans and the Cardinals at the Panthers.
- Ravens at Titans — This should be the best game today. The Ravens have a decent offense, and the Titans have a good defense. The Titans have an excellent offense, and the Ravens have an excellent defense. I’m going to predict a low-scoring affair, which will give the Ravens a chance to win — but they won’t. The Titans are going to win at home, 13-10, which will be too bad for the Steelers if they can get by the Chargers, as they will have to go on the road against Tennessee.
- Cardinals at Panthers — The Arizona Cardinals, like the Miami Dolphins, had a Cinderella season this year, but were fortunate enough to play in a weak division. They have an unchampionship-like road record at 3-5, and the Panthers are just too good to lose at home to the Cardinals on the road. Expect this to be a higher-scoring game today, with a final looking like 31-21 Panthers.
On the plus side, I can always record the games on HD and run through them in about an hour — and I think I’l work on doing just that. HD would have even made the Detroit Lions look good, I think. It made Demolition Man look almost mediocre last night ….
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