The Seahawks are now 4-5 and are looking like they have a pretty good chance of hitting my 8-8 prediction. That might even be a stretch. If they can beat the Packers after this short week then that will be a big help because you hope they can beat the 49ers twice and the Cardinals. They kept this last game interesting but the magic isn’t there. I loved seeing Russell running more. I wonder where that’s been all season?
Our league was kuh-razy. It was the most total points for our league this season and there were two huge upsets as Luke took down Tyler and Nick squeezed out a high-scoring win over Andy. Those games were crazy too as Luke’s Monday night player scored just enough to beat Tyler before leaving the game early and Nick was one fumble away from losing his game on Monday night too.
Everyone has over 1000 points for the season now but there’s a pretty big separation between positions 1-4 and 5-8. The playoffs are far from a lock though. Andy and Logan should be feeling pretty good about their chances but there are still 4 games left before we start our playoffs and crazier things have happened. Next week’s key matchup is Andy vs Tyler in a battle of #2 and #3.
After putting up 350 points in two weeks, Logan is obviously on top of the power rankings:
1. Logan (Goat Roapers) +2
2. Ben (Kool Aid Kid)
3. Andy (RAAAWWWRRRRR!!!) +1
4. Tyler (Krazy Kanuck) -3
On to the weekly records:
| This Week | This Season | All Time | |
| Highest Team Score | Logan had 177.67 | Tyler had 191.89 (Week 8) | Tim 200.51 (2015) |
| Lowest Team Score | Tim had 72.47 | Was: Luke had 81.52 (Week 9) | Andy had 41.29 (2015) |
| Biggest Blowout | Dad beat Tim by 57.92 | Tyler beat Dad by 90.22 (Week 8) | Luke beat Andy by 113.02 (2010) |
| Closest Win | Nick beat Andy by 2.21. | Tyler beat Ben by 1.55 (Week 6) | Jim beat Ben by 0.12 (2012) |
| Highest Scoring Player | Ben Roethlisberger had 45.82 on Ben’s bench | Mitchell Trubisky had 55.46 as a free agent (Week 4) | Drew Brees had 60.54 on Tim’s bench (2015) |
| Longest Active Winning Streak | Nick has a 3 game winning streak | Andy, Logan and Tyler had 5 game winning streaks. | Micah (2011) and Ben (2015) had 8 game winning streaks |
| Longest Active Losing Streak | Tim has a 3 game losing streak. | Dad has a 5 game losing streak. (Week 9) | Kyle had a 14 game losing streak (2011) |
Black Friday
I believe it was my junior year of college (Nov 2000) when I decided I wanted to buy a sound system, DVD player and TV for our dorm room. All of it was pretty entry level stuff but it was going to be a major upgrade! I went shopping at Best Buy and figured out what I wanted. The sales guy hinted that there were going to be some big sales on Black Friday so I decided I’d wait and save some money.
Dad kindly waited with me that morning. I don’t remember the specifics but I think we got there around 5am and it was below 20 degrees. We were about 10th or so in line and we waited for hours for the store to open. As the doors open, everyone mobbed the doors and pushed their way in so we probably weren’t the 10th people to get in. Dad and I had a plan so we went directly for the stuff we wanted, grabbed it and reconvened. That maybe took 60 seconds, but the store was already completely full. It took forever (half an hour?) to make it back to the cash registers.
As the cashier rang up my total, I happily said, “How much did I save?” … “Save? Nothing. None of this was on sale.”
Yep, we waited in the freezing cold for hours to save… nothing. The TV and DVD player are long gone, but that sound system has traveled all over the country with me and is currently in our theater room (complete with birdseed and a mouse carcass inside the subwoofer but that’s a story for another day.) I think about that Black Friday regularly when I flip on the sound system. Thank you, Dad, for suffering through that with me and not giving me grief.