As I recover from my Turkey Day gorging (as well as possibly the worst offering of Thanksgiving Day football games in history, with all 3 NFL games and the Texas-Texas A&M tilt being blowouts), I’m feeling strangely good about the Bears this week. Adrian Peterson will break a tackle or three, but I think the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Post-Turkey Day Thoughts and Frank the Tank’s Football Parlay – 11/28/2008
Posted: November 28, 2008 in Big East, Big Ten, Chicago Bears, Chicago Bulls, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, SportsTags: ACC, Adrian Peterson, Big 12, Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns, Derrick Rose, Florida Gators, Florida State Seminoles, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Miami Hurricanes, Minnesota Vikings, North Carolina State Wolfpack, Pittsburgh Panthers, SEC, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns, West Virginia Mountaineers
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Frank the Tank’s Football Parlay – 11/21/2008
Posted: November 21, 2008 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, College Basketball, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NFL Football, SportsTags: Alex Legion, Arizona Cardinals, Brandon Lloyd, Bruce Weber, Frank the Tank's Football Parlay, Iowa Hawkeyes, LSU Tigers, Miami Dolphins, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Mississippi Rebels, New England Patriots, New York Giants, Northwestern Wildcats, SEC, St. Louis Rams, Sweet Sioux Tomahawk, Vanderbilt Commodores, Yogi Berra
Back in 2002, Illinois followed up a BCS bowl berth in the previous season with a medicore and underachieving year where they needed to beat Northwestern in the Sweet Sioux Tomahawk game just to have a chance to get a lovely post-Christmas trip to Detroit for the Motor City Bowl. The Illini looked they were [...]
Frank the Tank’s Football Parlay – 11/15/2008
Posted: November 15, 2008 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, Illinois Fighting Illini, NFL Football, SportsTags: Arizona Cardinals, Chicago Bears, Green Bay Packers, Illibuck, Iowa Hawkeyes, Michigan Wolverines, Minnesota Vikings, Northwestern Wildcats, Ohio State Buckeyes, Purdue Boilermakers, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Here are this week’s parlay picks for Ohio State Week for the Illini (the mighty battle for the Illibuck) and Packer Week for the Bears (home teams in CAPS): COLLEGE FOOTBALL PARLAY (1) Purdue Boilermakers (+18.5) over IOWA HAWKEYES (2) MICHIGAN WOLVERINES (-3.5) over Northwestern Wildcats (3) ILLINOIS FIGHTING ILLINI (+9.5) over Ohio State Buckeyes [...]
Cut That Mullet and Frank the Tank’s Football Parlay – 11/7/2008
Posted: November 6, 2008 in Big Ten, Chicago Bears, College Football, Illinois Fighting Illini, NFL Football, SportsTags: Alabama Crimson Tide, Bill Cowher, ESPN, Green Bay Packers, Jeff Fisher, LSU Tigers, Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Rex Grossman, St. Louis Rams, Tennessee Titans, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, Western Michigan Broncos
Here are this week’s parlay picks (home teams in CAPS): COLLEGE FOOTBALL PARLAY (1) Oklahoma State Cowboys (+3.5) over TEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS – Last week’s Texas-Texas Tech game was definitely the best college football game so far this season (and the last half of the 4th quarter was simply spectacular). That game was such [...]
