Day: November 24, 2019

NFL round-up, week 12

UncleScoopy

Scoreboard

In battles among elite teams, the only major development this week was that the 49ers made mincemeat out of the Pack. They scored 37 themselves while holding Green Bay to 81 net passing yards and sacking Aaron Rodgers five times! The Packers did manage one second-half TD, but apart from that were unable to get within field goal distance.

It was an embarrassing week for the Steelers, who barely managed to hold off the 0-11 Bengals.

This month marks the 24th Anniversary of the Fun House

UncleScoopy

The Fun House site was born in November of 1995. The first edition contained only one naked celebrity – the iconic picture of Madonna hitchhiking naked. When the site hit ten years of age I thought it was unbelievable enough, but 24 is an entire lifetime – long enough for a newborn who came into the world when I began the site to have finished grad school, perhaps to have married and sired children of his own. The Fun House is three years older than Google, nine years older than Facebook and YouTube, eleven years older than Twitter.

Uncle Scoopy’s Fun House has been updated every day since it began. To my knowledge, it is the longest-running blog on the internet to be updated every day. That is not to say the longest running in my category, but in ANY category. Those very primitive early editions are lost like tears in the rain, but the back issues that are still available date back to April of 1998 (when they were still primitive) – and even that goes back to before the dawn of Google!

Other Crap is a mere child compared to the Fun House. (Well, it is literally a child of the Fun House. Before it became an independent site, Other Crap used to be a part of the daily Fun House blog, as were the Ballpark and the Movie House.) It appears to me that the oldest Other Crap posts date back to June, 2003, so it is a mere 16 years old, younger than Google, but still older than Facebook, YouTube or Twitter!

Tempus fucking fugit, man.

College pigskin round-up

UncleScoopy

Scoreboard

The only major development this week was a loss by #6 Oregon.

In the battle for the all-important #4 spot, there was nothing conclusive. Alabama slaughtered a weak team while Georgia eked out a win over a tough A&M squad.

Sagarin calls the top four like this:

Ohio State
Clemson
Alabama
LSU

Those four teams are running away from the pack, with Georgia quite a bit behind. Sagarin’s computer likes Oklahoma more than the voters do. His method scores the Sooners about even with Georgia in the fight for #5.

  • Clemson seems to be in the playoff for sure. They face no significant challenge in the remainder of the year. They seem like a lock for the #3 seed. (Or better, if LSU or THE OSU falters.)
  • Ohio State still has a tough row to hoe. They still have to face Michigan, then either Minnesota or Wisconsin. THE OSU does, however, seem to be much better than any of those teams, so they will go into the playoff as the #1 or #2 seed if they run the table.

So at this point it looks like Clemson, Ohio State and two SEC teams. But which two? Remember that either Georgia or LSU will lose in the season’s final week, since they’ll go head-to-head in the SEC championship. A Georgia loss will definitely knock them out of the playoff and assure LSU a #1 or #2 seed, but a Georgia win will create chaos and controversy by leaving three SEC teams with approximately an equal claim to a playoff spot.