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VCO brings the "Battle of the Sexes"
to the Friday Football Forecast

	"The Tout", "The Mouth of Motown" and Casey Smith will pit wits and predictions against "Mystic Mona" right here every week!

VS.

The Tout

Mouth of Motown

Casey Smith

Mystic Mona


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I cannot think of a better partner than the handsome Casey Smith to team up with on picks, and, it might make it look less like “a bunch of guys picking on a girl!” I DO agree that The Tout does occasionally have a good idea, but my widdle feelings are hurt because he didn’t pick me for HIS team. Since Motown only does a three picks each week, perhaps we’ll do the two-team partnerships just on the three picks.

This is the first season of refining my psychic ability to actually pick winning teams. Remember, those hunky football players have free will and the energy of that team spirit can make a great deal of difference as we saw with all the upsets last week! And one more thing, this is for entertainment, you might find that the opposite of my picks are your method of choosing the winning teams. So hey, any good psychic will tell you that it’s all up to you anyway.

So, quickly they forget that in week two my overall picks were higher than The Tout’s. Maybe I should go the easy way (like Motown Mouth) and just do three picks… I can learn to have a short attention span too!

The Packers will beat The Bears.

The Colts will win over The Buccaneers

And, The Texans will beat The Dolphins.

Sunday’s Games

Panthers over Saints

Chiefs over Jaguars

Lions over Redskins

Titans over the Falcons

Texans over Dolphins

Steelers over Seahawks

Patriots over Browns

Cardinals over Rams

Giants over Jets

Colts over Buccaneers

Broncos over Chargers

49ers over Ravens

Packers over Bears

Monday Night’s Games

Cowboys over Bills

Mystic Mona

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Last week was definitely upset Sunday, but we should see a return to normal this week. Hey, we all have a bad day, except for New England.. look out!

This week could be for all the Marbles. I see Mona and the Toutster are going all out for what's sure to be another week of surprises. Personally, I was a bit surprised (read: embarrassed) by my picks last week, but I'm ready to put my best (foot) forward and pick all these gems.

It's a pity, really. I was already to start talking smack and trash here, but I've been tripping over my tail that's between my legs. I will go out on a limb and say New England could run the table this year.. what do you think Mona?

Sunday’s Games

Saints over Panthers

Jaguars over Chiefs

Lions over Redskins

Titans over the Falcons

Texans over Dolphins

Steelers over Seahawks

Patriots over Browns

Rams over Cardinals

Giants over Jets

Colts over Buccaneers

Broncos over Chargers

Ravens over 49ers

Packers over Bears

Monday Night’s Games

Cowboys over Bills

Casey Smith

The Tout's PICKS

Morass this!

Boy, look who’s calling the “Ump” blind. The Mouth’s piece (no pun intended) last week had over 120 words, plus, one would have to unearth the 50 lb. Webster’s Unabridged to look up his 4-bit words….

I wonder if diminutive phrasing and lack of verbosity in the above, now falls into the realm of the Mouth’s attention span and his scope of comprehension….

I’m glad Mystic had so much fun at the Packer game a couple of weeks back, but perhaps the reason she was unhappy with her steak at Bret Farve’s dining establishment was because steaks come from steers not happy cows. (I only hope you vegetarians out there are not confused!)

Casey, permit me to pen the following, perhaps picking the problematic pigskin performances precisely is perilous and painful and left you perplexed, but panic not. One week is a parochial amount of time to prove the true predominance that you perceive…

All that said, let’s get to the business at hand.

Last week was not the best of times for any of the four VCO football pickers! Pickers?

I went 9-5, Mystic closely following at 8-6, Mouth came in with 2-1 and the new guy… well, he’s new (See Mystic’s 1^st week.)

This week’s fearless forecast is as follows:

Last week the Star picks went 3-3, for a – ½ Star. For the season, at the ¼ mark, I’m 10-4-2 plus 12 ½ Stars. Will try to regroup this week with....

Sunday’s Challenge Games

Saints over Panthers

Jaguars over Chiefs

Redskins over Lions

Falcons over the Titans

Dolphins over Texans

Seahawks over Steelers

Patriots over Browns

Rams over Cardinals

Giants over Jets

Colts over Buccaneers

Broncos over Chargers

Ravens over 49ers

Packers over Bears

Monday Night’s Games

Cowboys over Bills

These picks are rated from 1 to 5

's with a point spread


	Falcons +8½	@	Titans
½	Seahawks +6	@	Steelers
	Buccaneers +10	@	Colts
	Dolphins +5½	@	Texans
	Cowboys -10	@	Bills
½	Ravens -3	@	49ers
½	Patriots -15½	vs.	Browns

Bet cautionary... more money to be made next week.

The Tout


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Fortunately for my co-columnists I don't embarrass easily. If I did imagine the shame of sharing football selections with such desultory company. Enough said! I shall forge on and can only hope the VCO public now knows who the REAL footbally maven is.

Jags/Chiefs Huge payback game for knocking Jax out of the playoffs last year; add in the letdown following the Chiefs embarrassing upset of the Chargeless ones and this adds up to a solid play

Skins/Lions Lions on the road vs. NFC East opponent. See games of 9/23 (o.k. I'll save you the trouble ...Eagles 56 Lions (LOL)

Saints/Panthers In an effort to avoid giving you the obvious Dallas or Indy pick (I will at all times attempt to select games which are in theory ,according to the pointspread, competitive). I have landed on New Orleans who have a shot here to become the Saints again; as opposed to the "Aints. Carolina in serious trouble with David (ugh) Carr at QB and a locker room where the players are accusing each other of having no heart. I agree.

The Mouth of Motown

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