The Return of Logical Betting and NFL Playoff Locks

People, how the hell are you?  Ya look great.  Been working out a bit?  How's the fam?  Awesome.

Now that the pleasantries are out of the way, I owes a little apology.  The Blogger website says I haven't posted since July 12th, and I've had countless (read: countable) people ask me about post again.  Believe me, I've thought about it, and had some great ideas for posts.  But in case you haven't noticed, this whole Twitter and Facebook thing...

1.  Isn't going away.
2.  Makes the media cycle about this fast.




All that means I'm just not quick enough to keep up.  I'm sorry.  I'm not gonna make any cash off this (though this guy deservedly does, love you!), so I'm just going to post when I want, how I want, despite all of you much appreciated and solid feedback about adding links and pics.  I'll keep doing that when I can, but I'm going to concentrate on just getting the info up and the conversations going again.  On that note, we'll be letting the logicalbetting.net site go when the rights are up, too, so again, much thanks to those who made that happen.

I'm really looking forward to getting this rocking a bit again, the old school, not quite as classy as him style.  On that note, allow me to spoil the NFL playoffs for you, and tell you who's winning and why.  Read up so you know the logic, and remember I get 10%, if you admit you used my picks.

NFC

Detroit vs. New Orleans (-11) - New Orleans may be playing better than anyone in the league right now.  Too bad they'll have to go to Green Bay eventually, or they'd probably be the favorites to win it all.  They are definitely a "bet on them all the time" LB team.  What to say about the Lions... they may be a bad good team, if anything.  More an enigma/bet on them at home team.  I figured this game would open at about 8-9 points.  It's 11.  And I think it's going up.  And I'd still bet it.  Hell, I'll tell you right now, LB will recommend betting on the Saints next week, too.  Lions are a cliched year away.  LB says - Bet on New Orleans.  Score - New Orleans 42, Detroit 24.

Atlanta vs. NY Giants (-3) - This has LB rules aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall over it.  Atlanta = bad good team, Giants = good bad team.  Bet against the former, on the latter.  Even the line seems a little weird.  Everyone seems to think the NFC sucked all year, and they did.  It's true.  The Giants usually lay an extra point (NYC gambling), but even -2 seems a bit high.  Doesn't it feel like a pick 'em on paper?  Yep.  LB says - Bet the G men.  Score - Giants 27, Falcons 21.

AFC


Cincinnati vs. Houston (-3) - I love, I mean love, the NFL.  Can't watch as much with the baby around, but seriously, I wouldn't watch this in the middle of a blizzard.  Rumor has it Ambien is fighting to get this game blacked out for fear of their stock prices dropping.  Anyhow, both these teams are completely unpredictable, in a bad way, so just don't bet on it.  If you're going to, get help.  I know one family watching it, at least.  Go!  LB says - At least it gives you a reason to watch.  If you absolutely must, take the Texans.  Or the Bengals.  Just don't do it.  Score - Houston 20, Cincy 17 (told you you wouldn't win or lose).



Bet against Me, it's okay.  I forgive you.



Pittsburgh (-8.5) vs. Denver - If you read the 2010 picks posts, you know LB likes the favorites.  But how can you not?  Even without Mendenhall, and going against Jesus Tebow... I mean, how many points could Denver possibly score in this game?  10?  Maybe?  I'd set the Denver over/under for touchdowns at .5, and I'd bet the under.  Denver stinks.  Even when they went on that run, it was all defense and special teams.  The only thing that scares me is that line... it's actually not posted at 8, I found two at 8, and two at 9.  8???  Really?  That means only 11 on a neutral field... seems low to me.  Going to bend, not break (cliche!) my own rule here, and take the bait with the kinda low line.  LB says - Bet Pittsburgh.  Hard.  Actually, bet the Pittsburgh money line really, really.... REALLY hard.  Seriously, can you picture Denver winning this?  I can't.  Score - Pittsburgh 28, Denver 6.

Three locks if you care to email me and set up a friendly wager.  (Baiting Lions fans and my cousin-in-law here...).  This would be where I would like to plug a hopefully-soon-to-be blog with a weekly weird video post and rant.  However, I can't convince the person to publish it, so here's my shameless attempt to at least get him to send another one via email.  Then again, he's gonna be a dad in a few months, so he's kinda busy.  Congrats, buddy.

Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did pick out a nice tree.  Contact Logical Betting at logicalbetting@gmail.com and twitter.com/logicalbetting.  Thanks to everyone for reading and encouraging me to start again.  We'll keep the picks coming, and get back to the rants soon.  Missed you.