Brandon’s 55 Percenters

Football is back baby!  We had some college games last weekend to wet our appetites, and this weekend the glory of football hits us hard.  Last night, the Vikings and Saints kicked off the NFL season, even if it was a bit of a lackluster opener.  Saturday, we get our first real taste of college football as great games litter the schedule.  Sunday, the NFL season finally kicks into full gear with a full slate of games.  Of course with the NFL on Sunday, fantasy football season finally begins.  It doesn’t even end there, as we have a pair on Monday night games as a capper to the weekend.  The best part?  We get to do it all again next week.

For those of you newer to the blog, Jake and I began ADPTP last year during football season.  As our domain name and description of the website says, gambling is one of the key building blocks of Al Davis Plus the Points.  We both pick games against the spread and keep track of our records along the way.  The summer is a down time for betting picks, as we only have baseball, not exactly an exciting sport for betting.  Football is clearly the best gambling sport around (secretly one of the reasons for its massive popularity) and we usually post betting picks pretty regularly during the season.

Today I will kick off my 55 Percenters for the 2010-2011 season with my favorite college bets for the week.  My 55 Percenters have the goal of beating a standard sportsbook, where bets are -110.  -110 means that you have to bet $110 to win $100.  That extra 10% is how the sportsbook make so much money and is typically referred to as juice or vig.  In order to break even with all -110 bets, you would have to correctly hit 52.5% of your bets.  So to make some money, I set 55% as the bar for my bets.  After a hot start on ADPTP, I really struggled down the stretch last year.  In this space, I will give my year to date record and my all-time record, which I hope to get back up to 55% this year.  Enough of this wasted space…to the picks!

College Football Picks

West Virginia -13 over MARSHALL

This is a rare Friday game, so if you want to join me here, you have to get in today.  I like this West Virginia team with 4 offensive lineman returning and senior Noel Devine in the backfield.  Devine is a stud and I don’t think that this mediocre Marshall team can stop the Mountaineers offense.  Granted, Marshall played a very good offensive team in Ohio St last week, but they allowed a whopping 6.8 yards per carry in their opener.  I see the team of brothers (literally) from West Virginia winning easily tonight and will lay the thirteen.

Georgia Tech -14 over KANSAS

For me, this is one of the easiest picks of the weekend.  Georgia Tech has mastered the option offense and should be able to pound Kansas into submission.  Kansas lost a 6-3 thriller to North Dakota St in Week 1, so I’m not extremely concerned that they will match the Georgia Tech offense score for score.  Even on the road, the Yellow Jackets roll.

Michigan +3.5 over NOTRE DAME

The game between media darlings can be properly fawned over as both teams come in 1-0.  Michigan’s offense looked fantastic in Week 1 against UConn, as Denard Robinson showed why he won the starting quarterback job.  I don’t think he’ll look that great throwing the ball all season, but he certainly proved that he isn’t a run only option behind center.  Notre Dame isn’t a terrible team and I do expect this to be a pretty close game, but I’ll gladly take Michigan getting over a field goal.

Florida St. +7.5 over OKLAHOMA

I bet this game on Wednesday and got in at +7.5.  My website is now down to a 7 point line, but I’m guessing you can still find it at 7.5 somewhere.  Oklahoma is a good team, but is not the Oklahoma that went to multiple BCS bowls a few years ago.  Landry Jones should be better this year at QB, after being decent filling in for Sam Bradford as a freshman last year.  The big worry is in the secondary, where Oklahoma is dangerously thin.  That secondary is paired against a Florida St. team that is highlighted by senior quarterback Christian Ponder and an offensive line that returns all 5 starters from a year ago.  Despite playing in Norman, I give Florida St. a reasonable chance to win this game outright, much less cover a touchdown plus spread.  Don’t bet on past Sooner success, take the ‘Noles.

 Miami/OHIO STATE OVER 46

This is another line that has moved since I bet it, from 46, to 46.5, and now rests at 47.  I still highly recommend betting this one at 47.  These are two powerful offenses led by Jacory Harris and Terrelle Pryor.  I expect both teams to move the ball successfully and was expecting to see an over/under settled in the low 50’s.  Bet the over, at least you’ll have something to root for in a game between two of the most unlikable teams on the college football horizon.

Brigham Young +1 over AIR FORCE

Another one of my favorites this week as the Mormons are somehow getting points against Air Force.  In last year’s battle, BYU won by 18 points and outgained AF by almost 200 yards.  Granted, that was in the heart of Mormon country and this year it is in the land of planes, but I don’t expect a drastically different result.  BYU still has superior players and coaches, which for me, is a good enough reason to pick them to win.  Load up on the Cougars and count your winnings.

ALABAMA -12 over Penn St & ALABAMA/Penn St UNDER 44

Two bets for you when the Nittany Lions travel to Tuscaloosa.  Penn St is starting a freshman quarterback in the heart of college football country, the only place on earth where wearing a fedora doesn’t automatically make you a douche.  Alabama’s defense may not be as good as last year’s version, but I see the Nittany Lion offense struggling like Lou Holtz trying to form a coherent sentence.  This game screams 24-6 kind of game at me, which leads to both of these bets.

Stanford -6 over UCLA

This is my final college pick of the week and is another one of the race for my favorite of the week.  This UCLA team has some talent, but should not be able to play with Andrew Luck and this Stanford team.  Perhaps it is the loss of Toby Gerhart, but I feel like this Stanford team is undervalued right now.  UCLA seems to be on the opposite end as they continue to get respect, despite the horrendous play of quarterback Kevin Prince.  Lay the six in this one.

55 Percenters

2010 - 2011 Season Record: 0-0-0 (.000)

All Time on ADPTP: 57-61-2 (.483)

Last Post: 0-0 (.000)

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Our official NFL Predictions are here.  After the full season predictions and Jake’s bowel issues, the boys get into the Week 1 lines.  Enjoy!

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Finally I’ve put up the correct fantasy football preview! Enjoy, our new podcast should be up tomorrow!

Podcast Update

As pointed out by several, I posted the wrong podcast. Being at work, I can’t get the correct one up now, but will do so tonight.  I apologize to the adoring fans, I know you crave our fantasy preview, that will be completely obsolete by the time you hear it.  I just hope Al doesn’t fire me for this.

Jersey Shore Power Rankings Bukkake Extravagaaaaaaaaaanza!!

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Episode 204: Breaking Up

Episode 205: The Letter

Episode 206: Not So Shore (it’s a pun… get it?)

I know, I’ve been lazy. I had missed the past two episodes of the Shore making me behind the Eight Ball for last night’s. In a move that was extremely dangerous to my personal health I watched all 3 episodes in one sitting. I now have compiled 180 minutes of The Jersey Shore into a single power ranking (hence Bukkake in the title… plus that term makes me laugh every time I hear it) and the extra A’s in Extravaganza make me sound like a Carnival Barker calling attention to the Post. I’m going to spice this Ranking up with some Screen Caps… but there’s so much great material like Emiliogate, Genital Wartsgate, and everyone’s favorite: Anonymous Lettergate.

10(10). Enzo - he’s been absent for as long as I can remember (what is he, my dad?) which is too bad because he was one of the finer Italian stereotypes I’ve seen in a while. My best guess is he’s dead in banana peel related gokart accident, or was eaten by a giant plant that comes out of green tubing.

9(9). Sweetheart -the main conflict in the house for a while has been Anonymous Lettergate. Pretending like she had absolutely no idea what Ronnie was doing she cried and then showed the note to everyone in the house. Who gives a fuck. Sweetheart is boring and the only thing that is bearable with her is she makes a semi-cute scrunch face while looking in the mirror… it’s really her only redeeming quality. I honestly can’t say this enough - the show would be a lot better without her in the house as the worst wet blanket in the world.

8(8). Angelina -there are a bevy of reasons why I hate Angelina. One of them being that she uses the phrase, ‘I could care less’. Every time the exits her mouth I just want to yell at the TV, ‘it’s I COULDN’T CARES LESS YOU STUPID FUCK… if you could care less YOU WOULD!’ Pretty soon she’ll start pluralizing RBI and I’ll lose my god damned marbles. One of the only two talking points in the last three weeks involving Angelina are her fight with The Situation in which she snapped because Mike asked her to help out around the house. The other being the tag team from Hell: Sammi and Angelina. Those two getting together are like when Denise Richards was on a few episodes of Two and a Half Men. Independent from each other their awful, but combined make a new kind of torture. And in the saddest thing I’ve ever seen Sammi actually barters friendship with Angelina to get information on Ronnie… it’s pathetic. God, she’s the worst.

7(7). Ronnie -remember when Ronnie was an interesting character and had balls? Yeah, neither do I. After Anonymous Lettergate Ronnie tries to play it cool by lying (which MTV awesomely inter-cuts with the act he’s lying about) and pouting. I just want that gorilla getting hammered and hitting on fat chicks… is that too much to ask? He pleads his case though and has the perfect line, ‘I’m definitely not a Saint’.

6(5). Snooki -Snooks surprisingly drops a few spots even though she was engaged in every ‘gate’ the last three weeks. Her complicity in Anonymous Lettergate, her sex with Vinny in Genital Wartsgate and the phone call with Emilio in Emiliogate. Emiliogate and Genital Wartsgate actually overlap at one point. Emilio is an asshole over the phone to which drunk Snooks says she’s going to test the boys’ beds to, ‘test which bed is comfortable enough.’ If you didn’t think she was going to get smushed at this point you’ve never seen Snooki, Jersey Shore or a porno. It’s fantastic, and not only that via Wartsgate we also get a juicy tidbit of what Vincenzo’s working with. Apparently (as Snooki so elegantly put it), ‘it’s like trying to fit a watermelon in a pinhole’. She did have another classic moment while she was writing down a recipe from an ex-boyfriend, she did so with one of those giant crayons they make for the slow kids… I think it’s the same type of crayon Sarah Palin writes her tweets with.  Maybe most famously (and might be the defining moment of the season) JWoww and Snooks wrote ‘The Letter’. Snooki was the one who actually did the typing and I was going to make a joke about her graduating high school, but this makes me legitimately concerned for the the American education system. Jesus Harold Christ, the spelling and grammar in that letter are atrocious. I know it’s an anonymous letter letting your friend know that her boyfriend’s cheating on her, but have some pride.

5(6). JWoww -even though Snooki was the typist, Anonymous Lettergate’s mastermind was none other than every one’s favorite fake titted Newports smoker. I’d be worried about getting caught with an anonymous letter if there were 20 people in the house. There are 8… and Ronnie or Sammi didn’t write it, that means there are 6 people to choose from, and when two people represent 1/3 of that population you are going to get caught. Not to mention there are cameras filming everything because YOU’RE ON FUCKING TELELVISION. Also randomly in the episode JWoww talks to Tom her boyfriend. Did I miss something? I realize she wasn’t as whorish this season, but this boyfriend thing came out of left field. Not only that, but he got play in the episode for the last 15 minutes. And speaking of the last few minutes of this show there was a fight between J and Sammi. Besides the fact that I’m physically afraid of JWoww this seems like it’d be a pretty easy win for her, and it starts that way when she Pedro on Don Zimmer’s Sam to the ground. In a shocking twist though Sammi gets up and land a few haymakers right to J’s chin. I can not wait to see how this ends (*crosses fingers and hopes for kissing*).

4(3). Pauly-D -quiet week for our fair DJ but he does have one of my favorite lines in Jersey Shore history now. While he was with Vinny a the Optometrist Pauly casually mentions to the Doctor during the examination that, ‘he has a history of Pink Eye’. Oh, that’s gold.

3(4). Dirk Diggler Vinny -Vin you dog, you. In these episodes Vinny does what we’ve been waiting a season and a half for him to do. No, not bang Snooki, but to start being awesome. He used to just casually quip in the background or in the confessional - now he’s doing it out in the open. Here are my favorite Vinny quotes followed by that amazing Screen Cap.

~’This spray tan, this chain, and this fitted… how could she not?’ (in reference to Mike’s sister being sexually interested in him)

~’It’s hard to look this fresh.’

~’It’s like your tits. It looks sick, but it’s fake.’ (in reference to the Ice he bought and JWoww’s fake knockers)

2(2). The Situation - Mike has turned from classic Guido dirtball into one of my favorite characters in recent TV memory. Why do I use the term ‘character’? Because that’s exactly what The Situation is. While having a Jersey Shore discussion at work I casually brought up that one of my favorite things about Mike this season is how self-aware he is. You don’t think he realizes he can capitalize off this? He’s toned it down and made a character out of it. Maybe my favorite being how he constantly mugs to the camera. Whether it’s girls rubbing his abs or in the middle of a roommate fight The Situation always has a hilarious face to give directly at the camera, his ability to mug is taking pickles to a whole new level. One of my favorites being when he found out he was being hit on by a Tranny and our new #1.

1(NR). Lady Gaga - MTV can pixelate the face all they want. Awful gloves, terrible looking ratty hair, a suspected Tranny, there is no question the blurred he/she that was hitting on The Situation was Lady Gaga. Has anyone ever considered that Lady Gaga was the inspiration for Charlize Theron’s character in Arrested Development? Think about it, a woman who dresses crazy and talks a little insane but it’s let go because people think she’s artsy or eccentric… and then it turns out she’s just retarded. The parallels are there, that’s all I’m saying… and that’s The Situation.

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Rex Ryan is Awesome: Exhibit A

Siegs will argue (incorrectly) that Rex Ryan is a douche. And thank to HBO’s Hard Knocks week in and week out I have evidence of the contrary. The above video is Rex Ryan with some words for Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Williams after he had a late hit on LaDainian ‘Mr. Glass’ Tomlinson.

Draft Day

Draft Day

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It’s been a lazy week… I’ll be the first to admit that, and apparently Al Davis will be the first to call us out on it. Not only did we not Podcast (but who listens to that anyway?) but I failed to post Jersey Shore Power Rankings (an ADPTP Staple). Next week I promise to have a Power Rankings blow out covering the past two weeks, and to hold you over I’ve posted a Vitamin Water video featuring (guy who I hate for no apparent reason) David Wright and The Situation. Enjoy.

Dynamic Duo, My Ass

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted on this website, which is actually a good thing for once. The two clowns who normally post on this have both informed me that there will not be a podcast this week. This is unfortunate for a few reasons - mainly being that I have to stop everything I’m doing and write something up for these morons. The other being that it was supposed to the the big Fantasy Football Preview and talking about the NFL seems to be the only thing that gets people to this God forsaken website. They offered up a myriad of trash excuses for why there will be no post, the main one being that school has started? School? Nice joke, you know where I went to school? The School of Hard Knocks (maybe you’ve heard of it?) with an honorary Doctorate in Badassery from Compton. Plus let’s be honest B’s and G’s it’s Grad School how hard can it be? You have class twice a week (maybe) and jerk each other off about ‘theories’ that no one but nerds gives a fuck about.

Plus Brandon claims that he’s on ‘vacation’. Vacation? Your whole God damned life is a vacation. Oh wait, I forgot he’s married… I retract that statement. But Jake really has no excuse. What you can’t post because you’re too busy? My best guess is he’s been playing copious amounts of NCAA and has spent a good portion of his nights looking for meatballs that fell out of a hoagie and got lost in his recliner. Christ, I got more production out of Lane Kiffin and he spent most of his time with the Raiders ‘scouting talent’ at the nearest Bath House.

Now I wish I could sit here and wax poetic about something going on in sports, but unlike the other two dolts I have shit to do, like run an NFL Franchise. Who knows, they’ve essentially given me the keys to the car here by telling me there will be a lack in posts this week. Maybe I’ll write something about JaMarcus Russells latest NFL venture (selling beer at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum), maybe throw in a Rick Pitino premature a ejaculation joke, or everyone’s favorite - pot shots at Lane Kiffin. Well folks I’ve got to run, I’m going to be late for my monthly Rich White Guy meeting. As always kiddos keeping tuning in, keep reading, stay safe and drink up.

Kisses,

Al

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Hard Knocks continues to be one of my favorite shows on television. If you don’t know what it is you’re probably too poor to afford HBO. The show chronicles Training Camp for one team - this year it’s the New York Bretts Jets. Besides the sheer awesomeness of Rex Ryan (I know Siegs will disagree) it is also through the roof on the Unintentional Comedy Scale. Such instances are when Punter Steve Weatherford bought the entire team Shake Weights, or (the video I posted) Antonio Cromartie remembering all of his kids. Judging by how many of them are 3, 2007 was an extremely busy year for Cro.

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