2009 NFL Season Prediction

The NFL season is underway.  I thought that this year I would attempt to look into the crystal ball and make some predictions.  Without further ado here are my uninformed predictions on the NFL season:

NFC North

While the Vikings won the division last year, the Packers are the team to beat.  The Lions are coming off the worst year in NFL history and don’t look very improved.  Chicago and Minnesota will battle for 2nd place and a wild-card berth but defense will give it to Minnesota.

1. Green Bay Packers -  Barring a major injury the Packers have the offensive fire power and an impressive new 3-4 defense that may just make them the team to beat in the NFC.

2. Minnesota Vikings (Wildcard) – Sorry Vikings fans adding Brett Favre to an offense featuring Adrian Peterson will not bring you to the promised land this year, even with a strong defense.  But the playoffs are likely.  If Favre doesn’t play all year look for it to be a .500 season.

3. Chicago Lions – Jay Cutler may be the new guy in town but did he really do much in Denver?  If he surprises and the aging defense holds it together, could make a run for 2nd place and a wild-card berth.

4. Detroit Lions – Not much improvement in a team that had the worst record in NFL history last year.  While another winless year is unlikely don’t look for many wins here.

The rest of the NFL.

NFC East

1. Dallas Cowboys

2. Philadelphia Eagles (Wild Card)

3. New York Giants

4. Washington Redskins

NFC South

1. Carolina Panthers

2. New Orleans Saints

3. Atlanta Falcons

4. Tampa Bay Buccaneers

NFC West

1. Arizona Cardinals

2. San Francisco 49ers

3. Seattle Seahawks

4. St. Louis Rams

AFC North

1. Pittsburgh Steelers

2. Baltimore Ravens

3. Cincinnati Bengals

4. Cleveland Browns

AFC East

1. New England Patriots

2. Miami Dolphins (Wild card)

3. New York Jets

4. Buffalo Bills

AFC West

1. San Diego Chargers

2. Denver Broncos

3. Kansas City Chiefs

4. Oakland Raiders

AFC South

1. Tennessee Titans

2. Indianapolis Colts (Wildcard)

3. Jacksonville Jaguars

4. Houston Texans

Playoffs

Look for the Packers to have the #1 seed in the NFC and the Steelers to the #1 seed in the AFC.

NFC Champion: Packers

AFC Champion: Titans

No prediction for the NFL Championship.

In February 2010 we’ll see how the crystal ball held up.

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Battle lines are drawn

Tucked away in the pages of HR 3200 are details of the huge windfall proposed for unions.  Also tucked away in various bills before Congress are provisions that will force unionization on the healthcare industry.

BerryLaker explains the dirty details and how the battle lines are in place.

The battle lines will be drawn between two groups of people. It will have nothing to do with race, nothing to do with skin color, nothing to do with religious preference or nothing to do with your heritage. It will not matter how much you make or what your name is. The tensions between members or groups of different social classes will be but a memory in history.

For the people of this country, there will be only two groups of people, union and non union. Union people will have free health care the non union will pay for free health care. Union people will be first in line and same day visits for health care, non union people will be in waiting lines for days, months and God forbid years for care.

Union people will have access to free prescriptions of the best medicines and the rest will have to buy generic Tylenol. Unions will see the best medical experts, non union will talk to death panels. Unions will get surgery and non unions will get a blue pill and will be told to go somewhere and die.

It will pit unions against employers. unions against non union workers. It will pit fathers against their own sons. Mothers against their own daughters. Union members will be for their brothers and sisters in the rank and file and diss their own blood brothers and sisters of their own families. A mother or father will be on their death bed in some hospital and their son or daughter will be walking the side walk on strike for a longer break time. Cities will be divided with union members on one side of town with their nice homes and green cut lawns and the rest will live in shanty towns we read of the past or high rise complexes with broken windows and infested crime areas.

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All this will happen in the disguise of health care for all. All this will happen before people even realize it even happened. The union bosses and the liberal left (most democrats) are seeking as much power and wealth they can get their hands on. Nothing will stop them. All for the sake of absolute power. (Source: Battle Line Drawn – BerryLaker)

It’s time to press foward Patriots, time to keep applying the pressure needed to defeat this attempted power grab.  To do that you need to keep spreading the truth about the proposed healthcare reform known as ObamaCare to your friends and neighbors.  Remember the future of this great nation is at stake.

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Non-conference blowout

West DePere went on the road for their non-conference  football game last night.  It was a long trip, three hours and forty-five minutes one way.

Image via Wisconsin High School Helmets (www.mghelmets.com)

The game may not have started good, but it ended well.

Taylor Hauser opened the game for the Vikings with a 4-yard TD run in the first quarter, then followed with another 12-yard score in the second.

But that would be it for the Vikings, who were topped by West De Pere’s six unanswered touchdowns. (Source: Inside Preps)

Here’s the scoreboard recap from Inside Preps.

WEST DE PERE 41, HOLMEN 14

W. De Pere 0 18 9 14 — 41

Holmen 7 7 0 0 — 14

First quarter: H—Hauser 4 run (Berden kick).

Second quarter: W—Rottier 1 run (Berken pass from Linssen); H—Hauser 12 run (Berden kick); W—Linssen 1 run (Hill kick); W—Hill 27 FG.

Third quarter: W—Rottier safety; W—VanDenLangenberg 4 pass from Linssen.

Fourth quarter: W—Mason 16 pass from Linssen (Hill kick); W—Berken 5 run (Hill kick).

Rushing: WD—Rottier 18-119; H—Stokke 11-71. Passing: WD—Linssen 10-16-0-106; H—Luft 3-9-1-40; Cejka 0-1-1-0. Receiving: WD—Mason 4-38; H—Hauser 1-16. Total yards: WD: 255-105—361; H: 140-40—180. Fumbles-lost: WD—1-1; H—0-0.

Bet the trip back home didn’t seem so long following the blowout win. The Phantoms are now 2-1 overall.

Meet Me in the Stairwell – 9/11/01

(H/T – Silent E)

‘MEET ME IN THE STAIRWELL’

You say you will never forget where you were when
you heard the news On September 11, 2001.
Neither will I.

I was on the 110th floor in a smoke filled room
with a man who called his wife to say ‘Good-Bye.’ I
held his fingers steady as he dialed. I gave him the
peace to say, ‘Honey, I am not going to make it, but it
is OK..I am ready to go.’

I was with his wife when he called as she fed
breakfast to their children. I held her up as she
tried to understand his words and as she realized
he wasn’t coming home that night.

I was in the stairwell of the 23rd floor when a
woman cried out to Me for help. ‘I have been
knocking on the door of your heart for 50 years!’ I said.
‘Of course I will show you the way home – only
believe in Me now.’

I was at the base of the building with the Priest
ministering to the injured and devastated souls.
I took him home to tend to his Flock in Heaven. He
heard my voice and answered.

I was on all four of those planes, in every seat,
with every prayer. I was with the crew as they
were overtaken. I was in the very hearts of the
believers there, comforting and assuring them that their
faith has saved them.

I was in Texas , Virginia , California , Michigan , Afghanistan .
I was standing next to you when you heard the terrible news.
Did you sense Me?

I want you to know that I saw every face. I knew
every name – though not all knew Me. Some met Me
for the first time on the 86th floor.

Some sought Me with their last breath.
Some couldn’t hear Me calling to them through the
smoke and flames; ‘Come to Me… this way… take
my hand.’ Some chose, for the final time, to ignore Me.
But, I was there.

I did not place you in the Tower that day. You
may not know why, but I do. However, if you were
there in that explosive moment in time, would you have
reached for Me?

Sept. 11, 2001, was not the end of the journey
for you. But someday your journey will end. And I
will be there for you as well. Seek Me now while I may
be found. Then, at any moment, you know you are
‘ready to go.’

I will be in the stairwell of your final moments.

God