NFL Week 1 Results: Awesome For Baseball

Okay, with Week 1 under our belts (and more importantly behind our backs) Marco and I started our first season as public gamblers with an 8-8 overall record. Although this was not enough to win our football pool this week - the magic number this week was 10 - according to CBSSports final tally last year, it is more than enough to continue calling ourselves experts.

Full disclosure, however, Marco and I are not proud of this beginning. It might be good enough for the professionals, but we're trying earn a rep in the degenerate gambling industry. The only place you can bat five hundred and really call yourself an expert is a dugout...in the minors...I'm talkin' Single A ball. We're not happy, and neither should you be. Like we said, if you didn't win and win big with out picks last week, next week is on the house. Including our brand new Sure-Fire-Bet-the-Farm-Buy-a-New-Car-And-Leave-That-Saggy-Old-Wife/Husband-Lock-Of-The-Week.

We didn't imagine beginning our football pool season 0-1, but it did give us pause to remember some of the other eventual champions that started slow out of the gates. Here are our: 

Top Three Losers Turned Champion

3. Rocky Balboa: Who could forget his devastating loss to Apollo Creed at the end of Rocky? He knew he won, the fans knew he won, even the judges knew he won. The problem for white boxers is that they're just uglier - before and after fights - and that influences the outcome. A year later, he avenged his loss to Creed and proceeded to make five sequels to the original film, which was about three too many.

2. The New York Giants: They get the nod here for doing it twice - once last year and once in 2007 when they actually started 0-2 including an opening day loss at the old, cheap, home to the tiny jumbo tron Texas Stadium. A stat we overlooked this year was the fact that the NY Giants are now 0-6 when they open the season against the Cowboys. Oops. But seriously, when you win the Super Bowl nobody gives a shit who you lost to on the way.

1. Harry Potter: Am I right? Loser orphan muggle living in a closet in the first movie. Awesome, powerful wizard defeating the pants off a dude so bad people don't even say his name by the last one. This is only slightly more impressive than beating Belichick. 

               

              I know, that last one was pretty dumb. Pretty Dumbledore,that is. 

1A. Vinny and Marco: Bounce back with an improbable 16-0 Week 2 ATS.

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Vinny and Marco