Cuban Linx

Leading the Wildcard race, only 2 weeks to go, now watch me find a way to screw it up. Tennessee - 20 points Minnesota at Green Bay (3.5) (6.5) Kansas City at Oakland Baltimore at Pittsburgh (3.5) Carolina at Atlanta (6.5) (4.5) Chicago at Detroit (9.5) Indianapolis at Houston New England at Jacksonville (2.5) New Orleans at N.Y. Giants (3.5) Tampa Bay at Cleveland (3.5) Tennessee at Buffalo (4.5) Washington at St. Louis (2.5) Arizona at San Francisco (4.5) Cincinnati at Denver (3.5) (4.5) San Diego at Seattle Philadelphia at Dallas (7.5) N.Y. Jets at Miami (2.5)

Florida (+7.5) vs. Ohio State - BCS Championship Game - Jan. 8 (32 pts.) Michigan (+.5) vs. USC - Rose Bowl - Jan. 1 (31) Boise State (+7.5) vs. Oklahoma - Fiesta Bowl - Jan. 1 (30) Wake Forest (+9.5) vs. Louisville - Orange Bowl - Jan. 2 (29) Notre Dame (+8.5) vs. LSU - Sugar Bowl - Jan. 3 (28) Wisconsin (+1.5) vs. Arkansas - Capital One Bowl - Jan. 1 (27) Nebraska (+2.5) vs. Auburn - Cotton Bowl - Jan. 1 (26) Georgia Tech (+7.5) vs. West Virginia - Gator Bowl - Jan. 1 (25) Georgia (+2.5) vs. Virginia Tech - Peach Bowl - Dec. 30 (24) Kansas State (+7.5) vs. Rutgers - Texas Bowl - Dec. 28 (23) Penn State (+4.5) vs. Tennessee - Outback Bowl - Jan. 1 (22) Texas A&M (+5.5) vs. California - Holiday Bowl - Dec. 28 (21) Iowa (+10.5) vs. Texas - Alamo Bowl - Dec. 30 (20) Oregon (+3.5) vs. BYU - Las Vegas Bowl - Dec. 21 (19) Missouri (+3.5) vs. Oregon State - Sun Bowl - Dec. 29 (18) Navy (+6.5) vs. Boston College - Car Care Bowl - Dec. 30 (17) Florida State (+4.5) vs. UCLA - Emerald Bowl - Dec. 27 (16) Houston (+6.5) vs. South Carolina - Liberty Bowl - Dec. 29 (15) Northern Illinois (+12.5) vs. TCU - Poinsettia Bowl - Dec. 19 (14) Arizona State (+8.5) vs. Hawaii - Hawaii Extra Home Game - Dec. 24 (13) Kentucky (+10.5) vs. Clemson - Music City Bowl - Dec. 29 (12) Purdue (+1.5) vs. Maryland - Champs Sports Bowl - Dec. 29 (11) Middle Tennessee State (+10.5) vs. Central Michigan - Motor City Bowl - Dec. 26 (10) Ohio (+6.5) vs. Southern Miss - GMAC Bowl - Jan. 7 (9) Nevada (+3.5) vs. Miami (FL) - Blue Bowl - Dec. 31 (8) Minnesota (+6.5) vs. Texas Tech - Insight Bowl - Dec. 29 (7) East Carolina (+3.5) vs. South Florida - Pizza Bowl - Dec. 23 (6) Western Michigan (+7.5) vs. Cincinnati - Canadian Bowl - Jan. 6 (5) San Jose State (+3.5) vs. New Mexico - New Mexico Extra Home Game - Dec. 23 (4) Tulsa (+1.5) vs. Utah - Armed Forces Bowl - Dec. 23 (3) Alabama (+2.5) vs. Oklahoma State - Independence Bowl - Dec. 28 (2) Rice (+5.5) vs. Troy - New Orleans Bowl FOR AMERICA - Dec. 22 (1)

Tennessee - 17 points San Francisco at Seattle (9.5) (3.5) Dallas at Atlanta Cleveland at Baltimore (11.5) Detroit at Green Bay (5.5) Houston at New England (11.5) (3.5) Jacksonville at Tennessee Miami at Buffalo (1.5) N.Y. Jets at Minnesota (3.5) Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants (5.5) (3.5) Pittsburgh at Carolina Tampa Bay at Chicago (13.5) Washington at New Orleans (9.5) (2.5) Denver at Arizona Kansas City at San Diego (8.5) St. Louis at Oakland (2.5) Cincinnati at Indianapolis (3.5)

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$81 right now, never usually have more than about $20 or so.

Double post, i guess i'll use this to vote 'no', though i don't particularly care either way.

Tennessee - 21 points Cleveland at Pittsburgh (7.5) (3.5) Atlanta at Tampa Bay Baltimore at Kansas City (2.5) Buffalo at N.Y. Jets (4.5) (1.5) Indianapolis at Jacksonville Minnesota at Detroit (2.5) (3.5) New England at Miami New Orleans at Dallas (6.5) N.Y. Giants at Carolina (3.5) Oakland at Cincinnati (10.5) (1.5) Philadelphia at Washington Tennessee at Houston (1.5) Green Bay at San Francisco (5.5) (3.5) Seattle at Arizona Denver at San Diego (7.5) (6.5) Chicago at St. Louis

Amazing that the Titans could end up finishing at .500 despite starting the year 2-7. They always beat Houston, the Jags and Bills are winnable games, the Patriots might be in 'rest all the starters' mode in week 17, an 8-8 record is surprisingly possible. And that's with two 1 point losses, a 3 point loss and Kerry Collins ensuring their season was practically over by week 5.

With Houston's win i'm officially the SE7 Champ, up by 2 with GT/Wake the only differing game left.

Tennessee - 21 points Baltimore at Cincinnati (3.5) Arizona at St. Louis (6.5) Atlanta at Washington (1.5) (4.5) Dallas at N.Y. Giants Detroit at New England (13.5) (7.5) Indianapolis at Tennessee Jacksonville at Miami (2.5) (5.5) Kansas City at Cleveland Minnesota at Chicago (9.5) (1.5) N.Y. Jets at Green Bay (5.5) San Diego at Buffalo San Francisco at New Orleans (7.5) Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh (7.5) Houston at Oakland (3.5) Seattle at Denver (3.5) (3.5) Carolina at Philadelphia

I like Samoa Joe. I dislike TNA. Thus Joe wrestling matches I’d like to see in TNA presents a problem for me. But then "The Best of Samoa Joe: Unstoppable" comes along, allowing me to see all the highly praised Samoa Joe matches while avoiding all the horrid booking, crappy shows and Petey Williams matches. A win-win situation. Slammiversary - Samoa Joe vs Sonjay Dutt Not much of a match, more of a quick exhibition of Joe's signature stuff to introduce him to a new audience. Of course when those moves involve him dropping the crappy Dutt on his head, smacking the hell out of him and choking him out, a good time is had by all. Impact - Samoa Joe vs Delirious Pure squash match, but I still preferred it to the previous match since this didn't have Joe being forced to sell Sonjay's pathetic offence. Delirious doing his sprint around the ring act only to run straight into Joe's leg sweep was nice, and from there it's total Joe domination which is always fun, particularly since Delirious is more than willing to die on the receiving end. Entertaining beatdown. No Surrender - Samoa Joe vs Chris Sabin Hell of a match, by far the best I’ve ever seen Chris Sabin ever involved in. They do a good job establishing that Joe is tougher, stronger and hits harder early on, with Sabin having to use his quickness and go to the top rope to get any offense in at all. Sabin getting the advantage after the springboard dropkick/apron dropkick/dropkick to the floor was really well done, and he got some really good nearfalls off his flash moves like the tornado DDT and especially powerbombing Joe from the turnbuckles late. Sabin cutting out his more contrived offense is a definite plus. They also did a good job building to Sabin hitting the Cradle Shock, going from being unable to lift Joe at all, to barely getting him up and finally having Joe up on his shoulders before it was countered each time, the crowd was going nuts for it the third time and would have exploded had Sabin been able to hit it. I'm sure TNA never followed up on that though. Joe was typical Joe in this one, which is to say damn good, and with Sabin giving the best performance I’ve ever seen from him this match was quality. Best TNA match I can remember seeing, though I have a feeling it won't remain #1 for long with some of the other Joe matches I still have coming up. Sacrifice - Samoa Joe vs AJ Styles Maybe my expectations were too high, but to me this was... not that good. The ref bump that a blind man could see coming from a mile away and the run in by Daniels leading directly to the finish are of course the main negatives, but even before that I didn't get the 'MOTYC' vibe I’ve seen this match praised as. Worked too even for my liking, Joe's the unstoppable monster but you have Styles slamming Joe like it's nothing barely minutes into the match, compare that to the Sabin match where they made the crowd go nuts for Sabin just picking Joe up, let alone slamming him. It IS Joe vs Styles, so it goes without saying there is some very good stuff here. Joe countering AJ's fruity forearms with a great looking jab to the face, before just facewashing Styles right out of the ring onto his head and then murdering him with the Elbow Suicida was FUCKING AWESOME, for starters. I don't care for AJ's kip up rana, and Joe doesn't take it particularly well, but it did lead to the far more enjoyable sequence of Styles getting shoulderblocked down and trying it again, only for Joe to counter by killing AJ with the Powerbomb into the Boston Crab/STF. Styles' enziguri to nowhere after the rolling cradle was cute, Joe's lariat was nasty and Joe slapping the shit out of AJ before eating an enziguri right to the face from Styles was nice too, but at the same time there's too many poor strikes from Styles and moonsault DDT-type things for my liking (even if Joe does make them look better than usual). Joe has great offense and Styles bumps as well as or better than anyone, so to have the match as a 50/50 even contest is working away from those strengths. Having now watched the match a second time it is better than I originally gave it credit for up to this point, but the finish still kills it for me. Styles using the Torture Rack on Joe would bug me at the best of times, it leading to a terrible ref bump and a Daniels run-in is worse. Joe winning due to Styles being distracted by Daniels doesn't fill me with joy either. It was a good match, but not a great one, though from what I remember hearing their Turning Point match might be the great match I’m looking for between Styles and Joe. As it is I preferred Joe/Sabin to this one. Unbreakable - Samoa Joe vs AJ Styles vs Christopher Daniels 13 months after the fact, but I finally get around to watching the much-talked about three way. Would i go around calling this *****? No, but as far as three ways and total rapidfire spotfests go I liked this plenty. The opening with Joe and Styles taking turns kicking Daniels brought back fun memories of Low Ki and Bryan Danielson doing the same to Daniels way back in the original ROH three way. Styles really should kick more, his punches and forearms are shit but his kicks are always nice. From there onwards the match is a cavalcade of pretty much every big move and three way spot Joe, Styles and Daniels can think of, and they all certainly have the offence to pull that off. It’s hard to even recall my favourite parts because of the sheer amount of moves they throw out, though that can certainly be interpreted as a negative, it’s hard to digest much of anything they do since the second one spot is over they’re moving onto the next spot. I guess how you feel about that determines whether you’re in the “THIS IS AWESOME” or “overrated crap” crowd regarding the match. There’s the usual three way problem of repeated instances of one guy out of the ring so the other two can fight, only to conveniently pop up to break up a pinfall, and as usual I don’t care for the ease Daniels & Styles are able to throw Joe around like he’s random X Divisioner #546 rather than Samoa F’ing Joe. The closing run lags a bit and isn’t as good as the first ½ or ¾ or whatever of the match, with most of the nearfalls and ropebreaks being somewhat heatless compared to the rest of the match as the crowd seemed to be into 'only pop for the huge spots' mode. That aside I still like this a lot, and I usually dread watching triple threats so they’re definitely doing something right. I’ll probably have to watch this again to get a better idea of exactly where I stand on this. Bound For Glory - Samoa Joe vs Jushin Liger An exercise in frustration. Joe and Liger obviously have a great match in them, and there's some good exchanges here, but it's just far too short to really amount to anything. Good while it lasted for sure, it just didn't last even remotely long enough. Genesis - Samoa Joe, Alex Shelley, Roderick Strong & Christopher Daniels vs Matt Bentley, Austin Aries, Sonjay Dutt & Chris Sabin Long match, with a (mostly) very good lineup, but not as good as one would hope. I wasn’t exactly paying full attention to this though, so maybe I missed something great. Strong and Aries the first guys eliminated, too much Matt Bentley (i.e. any Matt Bentley at all), Sonjay still sucks, it's more a collection of spots from various guys and a backdrop to the Joe/Daniels feud than anything else. About the most notable thing is the Joe beatdown on Daniels post-match, where they attempt to turn Joe, a guy who's popular for beating the hell out of people, heel by... beating the hell out of Daniels. Somewhat amusing to hear Tenay & West using the serious voice to put over how horrible and disgusting this is after the Muscle Buster on the chair, meanwhile the fans chant "One More Time!". Impact - Samoa Joe vs Amazing Red Red sucks, Joe rules. Joe squashes Red, I am happy. Joe absolutely kills him on the snap powerslam in particular. Turning Point - Samoa Joe vs AJ Styles Alright, now THIS is the match I wanted between Joe and Styles. A huge improvement on their Sacrifice match, better than Joe/Sabin, better than Unbreakable, best match in TNA history (that I’ve seen) and it’s not particularly close either. While the first match was a 50/50 contest this one is all about Joe being a killing machine, and by god does he beat the crap out of Styles in this one. While Joe dominates the majority of the match AJ brings plenty of fire to the table as well, the hate is clear as both men just lay into each other as hard as they can, some of the kicks in particular are just ridiculously stiff-looking. Even some of the usual Joe/Styles spots have a little something extra on them, the AJ Dropkick as Joe is coming off the ropes spot they do in every match looks as good as it ever has, as does Joe’s chop to the back/kick to the face/kneedrop to the face spot, among other things. Joe controlling the match in brutal fashion and Styles bumping like a maniac for him even serves to make AJ’s offence more palatable than usual, the Moonsault DDT, Pele Kick and moves of that nature are far better as desperation out-of-nowhere type moves, rather than signature moves he has to get in while on offence. Throughout the match they do a good job of giving the crowd teases of Styles getting on top, before Joe cuts him off and kills him dead each time. About the only ‘negative’ I could mention would be the spot where AJ is on the apron with Joe waiting for him to springboard in, but Styles doesn’t move and Joe has to trade strikes with him for a little while before trying for it again. I only noticed it while watching the match a second time, so considering I didn’t even notice anything at all the first time I’d say that’s a sign they did a good job covering up any miscommunication between them. Plenty of nasty moments in the match with both men bleeding from the mouth by the end of it, not a perfect match but it’s the best match Samoa Joe and AJ Styles have had together so far, and as far as TNA goes this is as good as it gets. Impact - Samoa Joe vs Jay Lethal Joe and Lethal always work well together, and unsurprisingly this is the best of the ‘squash’ matches on the DVD. Joe in kill mode with Lethal getting just enough offence to look good before getting finished off, good short match between the two. Final Resolution - Samoa Joe vs Christopher Daniels Really not much of a fan of this match. I don’t care for watching Christopher Daniels wrestle though, someone who is a fan of his will probably like this a lot more. Daniels’ offence generally stinks, and this had FAR too much Daniels in control. Even when Joe was on offence Daniels doesn’t go out of his way to die for it like Styles does, so this really doesn’t hold a candle to the previous Joe/Styles match. Pretty slow and uninteresting, in the end I just didn’t particularly care about this. Likely underrating this a lot, but whatever. Really great DVD overall though, but then it’s a DVD of 11 matches featuring Samoa Joe killing people, it’s impossible for this to do anything but rule.

79. The Jerichoholic Ninja

A 2 game advantage with 7 games to go, that certainly works for me.

Nice, i've wanted a decent quality version of Liger/Muta 10/20/96 for a long time, my old version was only a tiny 14MB piece of crap. Getting Guerrero/Funk and Guerrero/Mysterio 6/23/05 as well is just the icing on the cake, I really need to remember to check out this thread more often.

Tennessee - 17 points (2.5) Miami at Detroit Tampa Bay at Dallas (11.5) Denver at Kansas City (1.5) Arizona at Minnesota (6.5) (4.5) Carolina at Washington Chicago at New England (3.5) (3.5) Cincinnati at Cleveland Houston at N.Y. Jets (5.5) (3.5) Jacksonville at Buffalo New Orleans at Atlanta (3.5) (3.5) N.Y. Giants at Tennessee Philadelphia at Indianapolis (9.5) Pittsburgh at Baltimore (2.5) San Francisco at St. Louis (5.5) Oakland at San Diego (13.5) Green Bay at Seattle (10.5)

The #47 poster on an internet wrestling message board, now there's something to stick on the ol' resume.

Atlanta at Baltimore (4.5) Buffalo at Houston (2.5) (6.5) Chicago at N.Y. Jets Cincinnati at New Orleans (3.5) (1.5) Indianapolis at Dallas Minnesota at Miami (3.5) (6.5) New England at Green Bay Oakland at Kansas City (9.5) (3.5) Pittsburgh at Cleveland St. Louis at Carolina (7.5) Tennessee at Philadelphia (13.5) Washington at Tampa Bay (3.5) Detroit at Arizona (2.5) (6.5) Seattle at San Francisco San Diego at Denver (2.5) N.Y. Giants at Jacksonville (3.5) Tennessee - 17 Points

THURSDAY West Virginia at Pittsburgh SATURDAY Miami at Virginia N.C. State at North Carolina Iowa at Minnesota Connecticut at Syracuse Maryland at Boston College Illinois at Northwestern Oklahoma State at Texas Tech Auburn at Alabama Michigan at Ohio State Kansas State at Kansas Virginia Tech at Wake Forest Utah at Air Force California at USC Tiebreak #1: How many total points will be scored in the Michigan/Ohio State game? 50 Tiebreak #2: How many rushing yards will Michigan's Mike Hart have against Ohio State? 85

No doubt Vince Russo is already preparing to have the Voodoo Kin Mafia blame HHH and HBK for shutting down the show.

Tennessee have the worst defense in the league, they can't run at ball, can barely pass the ball, they always struggled with Baltimore even when they were good, add in a motivated McNair and the Ravens should win easy.

I should totally come back and stuff, with all these no-shows i'd fit right in.

Finally got around to seeing Judgment Day from this year, and that was a really good show. The womens match and Khali/Undertaker were crap, but they're easy to ignore when the rest of the show ranges from watchable (Angle/Henry) to solid (Lashley/Booker, Helms/Crazy) to very good (MNM/London & Kendrick) to excellent (JBL/Rey, Benoit/Finlay). In spite of the mountains of crap they produce the WWE can still put on a good show when they want to, if every WWE pay per view was this level of quality I'd actually spend money on them more than just the rare occasions i do now.

Lucky as hell to win, but i'll take it. Won't do me any favors trying to catch the rest of the top 5 though.

Tennessee - 14 Points (7.5) Baltimore at Tennessee Buffalo at Indianapolis (12.5) Chicago at N.Y. Giants (2.5) Cleveland at Atlanta (7.5) Green Bay at Minnesota (5.5) Houston at Jacksonville (10.5) (1.5) Kansas City at Miami New Orleans at Pittsburgh (4.5) N.Y. Jets at New England (10.5) (1.5) San Diego at Cincinnati San Francisco at Detroit (6.5) Washington at Philadelphia (7.5) (9.5) Denver at Oakland (7.5) Dallas at Arizona St. Louis at Seattle (3.5) Tampa Bay at Carolina (9.5)

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