Nate's Shoe-In of the Week

If Vinnie gets around to doing this, go ahead and ignore this post, but since we're running out of time, and there's nothing up yet, I'm grabbing my time in the spotlight.

Shoe-in of the week is the Cowboys over the New York Football Giants. Maybe the Giants are falling apart. Maybe it's being blown out of porportion. It really doesn't matter. They fucking stink. And Tony Romo is from Burlington, the home of Nestle chocolate. I know this because as a kid I went to "Chocolate Fest" every year and brought home garbage bags full of free candy bars.

But I've got time, so I'm gonna go ahead and make a few more picks:

First off, has anyone noticed that ESPN has pretty much given up on trying to promote Monday night's Eagles/Panthers matchup. The commercials go something like, "The Eagles are playing, and I guess the Panthers are too...we're banking on a lot of you having nothing better to do." I will never pick a team led by Jeff Garcia, so the Panthers are the pick.

In the other primetime game, the obvious pick is probably the Seahawks over the rookie-led Broncos. But I'm starting Jay Cutler on my fantasy team (benching Eli Manning purely out of spite) and don't want a conflict of interest in that game. So I'm going with the Broncos.

Now that the Packers are completely out of the playoff race, they're going to go ahead and beat the Jets. Just to piss me off.

Speaking of teams I cheer for putting themselves further down on the draft board, even the pitiful mess that is the Steelers can handle the more pitiful mess that is the Bucs.

Finally, I am officially resisting the sexy upset pick of the year, and taking the Colts to take care of business against the Titans.

Those are my picks, guaranteed to lose you money if you're dumb enough to bet on pro football.