Most print publications have experts picking NFL games every week. Pegasus News, however, is different, in that we have near-flawless methodology in picking teams that will actually win. Our panel of perfect prognosticators -- Todd Maternowski and Mike Bullock -- will bring the pain each and every week.
This table done using the latest graphics program. You know the one we're talking about.
As an added bonus, we have included three competing methodologies. The first is the return of "Mascot War," in which we discuss which team's actual moniker would win in a pitched battle to the death in the wild. Besides being easily the most controversial aspect of this feature, it will probably also be a constant source of embarrassment as our picks routinely show up.
The second and third methodologies are perhaps equally arcane and mysterious to the average NFL fan. There is the "Occult Pick," in which our experts use the forbidden art of divination to predict each week's winner; and "Fashion War," in which Todd's wife selects each victor based on the relative superiority of each team's uniforms.
Most of these picks need no explanation: However, our panel has provided some commentary (footnotes and indexing to follow) for certain especially difficult-to-pick games.
Todd M: Giant versus Saint -- A pitched battle to the death with an adjective is never a good thing. This week, the Saint's path to martyrdom will turn into an expressway when he meets the Giant; specifically, St. Punchius Nutskickius of Ulm, who is considered to be one of the three or four Giant Saints recognized as such by the Catholic Church since the Diet of Worms. Can the Regular Saint pull a David to Giant Saint's Holy Goliath, and fell the foul follower with a well-placed stone? Not this week -- in a pitched battle to the death, Big beats Actual-sized with charismatic fury. Giant over Saint
