YCS Super Bowl Accu-Pickin' is Back!!!

Yes, boys and girls, YCS Accu-Picking has returned. Our super-duper-top-secret-high-tech way to ensure that you get it right on Sunday. But if you use it for gambling and lose, tough shit, as it is well known that the YCS staff has been routed by fate on numerous occasions. Our world and financial fortunes now lie irretrievably broken.

Last year, YCS Accu-Pick proved to be roughly 50% effective. It was an amazing coincidence considering half the staff lived in Bear Country, and half lived in Bear-hating country and picked accordingly.

This year, to no one's surprise, the undefeated Patriots are the overwhelming favorite for the Head Pick (Who you'd put money on). Our panel was more split on the Heart Pick (Who one is rooting for/Gut Feeling). Even the Quarter, YCS's foolproof technology picked the Patriots twice. To see that it wasn't a fluke, it was tested again, and both times it came up Patriots. 4 times landing on heads? That's gotta be worth something there.

So the opinion is pretty universal. Except for Vinnie. Upon learning that no one had picked the Giants, his indie street-cred wouldn't let him follow the herd, even if it was to capitalistic glory to reap no doubt huge financial windfalls. After all, Vinnie already has us licked in every other category, so why follow this band of common street trash anywhere? So Vinnie's being different and picking the Giants. If the Giants win, I have a feeling Vinnie will never let us forget it.

In the interest of full disclosure. Paul has placed his Heart/Head picks with Eli Manning and Randy Moss (the players, not the teams) respectively. Patrick made a heart pick of Patriots, and a head pick for Patriots by 20. Zuch likewise picked "Patriots in a landslide."

At press time, Matt is "in denial," still trying to dig himself out of the pit of despair that Vinnie, Pat, Zuch and I were feeling last February as Rex Grossman flung one final hurrah into the Miami night. Matt is hoping that through some bizarre technicality, the Packers will be declared the NFC Champions, will storm onto the field to the surprise of everyone, leave the Patriots behind, and carry Brett Favre off the field into the sunset and football immortality. When informed of the extremely low likelihood of this coming to pass, Matt has instead opted to pick in the alternative "Terrorist Attack" as his heart pick; ending the 2007 NFL season with one last spectacular round of sour grapes.

So to close, happy Accu-Picking, and a special welcome to our readers from the Department of Homeland Security.

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YCS Super Bowl XXXXI Accu-Pickin' is here!

This past season, ESPN introduced their "Accu-score" simulation, which was proven such an effective virtual crystal ball by ESPN.com's...(chuckle) "talent," that all of them bet against it for last week's NFC Championship game. Accu-Score promptly made them all look stupid.

As effective a prognosticator as Accu-Score is, we think we've one-upped the big boys once again here at YCS with our cutting edge "Accu-Pickin'" technology. So if you have a crippling gambling problem, instead of getting help like you should, one of your other options is to see what this fine group of gentlemen thinks about the upcoming Super Bowl. (click for a larger view of the misshapen heads that house the most intelligent brains in sportsertainment.)

In fact, our minds are so in tune with this game, that you may notice that all the YCS staff members who presently live north of the Cheese Curtain in the State of Wisconsin, home to the Green Bay Packers, not only want the Colts to beat the Bears, but think they will as well.

Also, almost all of the residents of the greater Chicagoland area wanted the Bears to win, and picked them as well. Only Pat is hedging his bets.

This means that most of the YCS staff has absolutely no rooting interests clouding their judgment.

But just to be sure, as the great final arbiter, our Accu-Pick System (proven to be right 50% of the time, what are the odds???) has decided that it thinks the Bears will win, but its heart is with the Colts.

So happy pickin' with YCS Accu-Pickin!

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