Crazy laughter in another room <\/em> –\tThe Eagles<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n My date told me she found me to be of questionable character<\/a> because of my Week 3 NFL picks.<\/p>\n We had just shared\u00a0 a romantic midnight picnic on the neighborhood satanic altar when I passed her a bloody bat’s neck sandwich and urged her to try it with Tabasco sauce because it was spicy, like her. We then shared tea and cake<\/a> and called it a party.<\/p>\n As we were summoning Beelzebub, I happened to mention that I think the Cleveland Browns are going to beat the Baltimore Ravens in Week 3 of the 2010 NFL season, and that’s when she accused me of having bad judgment.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> We caught a newt and gouged out its eyes in order to make eye of newt soup, but she just wouldn’t let it go \u2013 the newt, or the subject of my NFL picks. Christine said she would be happy to shrink heads with me or whatever else it is I do, as long as I respect Ray Lewis on defense.<\/p>\n I told her that Ray Lewis is evil.<\/p>\n I can still see vividly in my mind’s evil eye how she shook her big hair at me, sent me on my way and urged me, as brilliantly interpreted by Rachel Maddow<\/a>, not to congratulate myself. I admit that after spending time with such a temptress, I immediately went home and congratulated myself. Again and again.<\/p>\n Years later, I now reflect with a melancholy in my heart and garlic cloves around my neck on the young woman who didn’t steal my virginity or my sanity, but proved beyond any doubt that you really never know whatzgonnahappen. <\/p>\n 49ers at CHIEFS<\/strong> \u2013 Mike Singletary is either about to turn the team around or film a Coors Lite commercial. 49ers 24, Chiefs 12<\/p>\n BENGALS AT PANTHERS<\/strong> \u2013 Get ready for goofy props and tortuously bad \u201cchoreography.\u201d Bengals 39, Panthers 10<\/p>\n TITANS AT GIANTS<\/strong> \u2013 I may be the only one, but I’d rather have Vince Young than Eli Manning as my long-term quarterback. Titans 28, Giants 27<\/p>\n BILLS AT PATRIOTS<\/strong> \u2013 Pay attention to the Patriots new tight ends. Tom Brady does. Patriots 40, Bills 21<\/p>\n FALCONS AT SAINTS<\/strong> \u2013 Good teams sometimes lose games. I am a wealth of obvious knowledge. Falcons 30, Saints 20<\/p>\n BROWNS AT RAVENS \u2013<\/strong> Seneca Wallace throws four touchdown passes, Joe Flacco (can you say overrated?) throws four interceptions, and Ray Lewis gets sudden acute fatal scurvy. And don’t forget about Josh Cribbs. The Ravens won’t anytime soon. Browns 42, Ravens 3<\/p>\n
\nAnd she drove herself to madness with a silver spoon<\/p>\n