tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post6707180152662797280..comments2023-10-30T08:56:36.302+00:00Comments on Pseuds' corner and home of the frustrated hack: NFL Playoffs: The Case for Momentum - Mac MillingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-16997314684677382292009-01-13T03:45:00.000+00:002009-01-13T03:45:00.000+00:00Mac, I know at least one Bill who ruminates all th...Mac, I know at least one Bill who ruminates all the time. (I think perhaps he is merely working on building up momentum, however).<BR/><BR/>Always enjoy your provocative pieces, keep 'em coming. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-32036414226912877122009-01-12T22:25:00.000+00:002009-01-12T22:25:00.000+00:00Thanks for all your comments, everyone.Allout - I'...Thanks for all your comments, everyone.<BR/><BR/>Allout - I'm 2-6, you're 4-6, there are 3 games left...watch out, you're still in my sights!<BR/><BR/>Offie - I would have picked hunter, and therefore expected deer to win.<BR/><BR/>There are plenty of equine representatives in the NFL, as well as birds, big cats, and people, but no deer at all, and, in fact, only one ruminant in the Rams (the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-17090118126486865092009-01-12T21:00:00.000+00:002009-01-12T21:00:00.000+00:00I can't believe there isn't a single NFL f...I can't believe there isn't a single NFL franchise called the Deers. Or the Hunters.<BR/><BR/>Because, if they met, Mac's prognostication technique might show its limits:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD5zjUbWpXY&feature=relatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-20367958892833431972009-01-12T20:43:00.000+00:002009-01-12T20:43:00.000+00:00Good article Mac. It's not been an easy job predic...Good article Mac. <BR/><BR/>It's not been an easy job predicting the results in these playoffs (especially for a certain Hawaii based individual who is currently 2-6)! Of the eight matches so far only one as been won by the team with the better regular season record which is an amazing statistic.<BR/><BR/>I am not sure about your momentum analysis but what is clear is that in American football (Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-48192460787638012022009-01-12T20:21:00.000+00:002009-01-12T20:21:00.000+00:00Well, Gui, I suppose Pete had that in common with ...Well, Gui, I suppose Pete had that in common with everybody.<BR/><BR/>Yes, interesting, now that you mention it, to recall that location circumstance re. Deer Hunter--and even more curious than the fact these Pennsylvania steelworkers were actually in Cleveland was the fact that when they go out on their mythic deer shooting expedition, they jump in the car in Pittsburgh/Cleveland and only a few Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-89544026127861672242009-01-12T19:56:00.000+00:002009-01-12T19:56:00.000+00:00-everything under control, I should have added "at...-everything under control, I should have added "at the exception of al Davis"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-55145443645058817302009-01-12T19:25:00.000+00:002009-01-12T19:25:00.000+00:00Beyond,thanks, I was referring to 1979 superbowl t...Beyond,<BR/>thanks, I was referring to 1979 superbowl team, (chuck Knoll) who beat the Rams-because of the mystic of this team,their legendary coach, Terry Bradshaw over 300 yards passing Game and Franco Harris over 1000 yards seventh season.<BR/>Reference to the film Deer Hunter shooting in Pittsburg is very interesting because It's about steel workers, hunting, drinking and dancing (btw most Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-26324051867560922642009-01-12T16:37:00.000+00:002009-01-12T16:37:00.000+00:00The problem with this particular American "tribal ...The problem with this particular American "tribal rite" (for me anyway), Gui, is, I fear, that the current incarnation of televised American football, with its intermittent climacterics of awful artless violence and chest-bumping barely interrupting the endless stream of coma-inducing brainless adverts, is simply unwatchable--again, that is, by me. During the playoffs the commercial streams growAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-30145228331868839222009-01-12T07:57:00.000+00:002009-01-12T07:57:00.000+00:00Mac ,Great piece.How about these birds?remember in...Mac ,<BR/>Great piece.<BR/>How about these birds?remember in the comics books, the <BR/>Bird and the cat, the bird always get the last word .<BR/>Love the Steelers always did since Swan and Franco Harris era when Monday night football was an American tribal rite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-10691889528351463462009-01-12T05:47:00.000+00:002009-01-12T05:47:00.000+00:00andrewm,Fair point. I hurried the piece to get it ...andrewm,<BR/><BR/>Fair point. I hurried the piece to get it done before this weekend's round of games (I was 2-for-4, a great improvement), but even if I'd worked on it until this moment, I still wouldn't really know what to say.<BR/><BR/>I get, of course, the idea that confidence can help success (in other people - it's alien to me), but I still wonder where it ranks on the list of important Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-29746852981157561362009-01-12T02:06:00.000+00:002009-01-12T02:06:00.000+00:00BtP,You are, of course, quite right. I suppose (I ...BtP,<BR/><BR/>You are, of course, quite right. I suppose (I hope) that I was thinking of the football team when I typed it, rather than of steelworkers.<BR/><BR/>Still, not a mistake I should have made, especially as my wife's family is from Youngstown, Ohio - a former steel town itself, as you'll know.<BR/><BR/>Some of the family are Steeler fans, but most support the Browns, which can't be muchAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-51615055607316579422009-01-11T20:23:00.000+00:002009-01-11T20:23:00.000+00:00Mac--Well, a steeler is not necessarily a bloke. ...Mac--<BR/><BR/>Well, a steeler is not necessarily a bloke. "Person" would be the more accurate term, as, in the heyday of Pittsburgh's famous domination of the world steel industry, women (not forgetting Rosie the Riveter and her sister-workers) as well as men worked in those Monongahela Valley mills, as you will note from the following excerpt from an article on the collapse of that industry Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912136666601692339.post-35069686339554288622009-01-11T10:33:00.000+00:002009-01-11T10:33:00.000+00:00Very interesting, Mac, and it's always a pleasure ...Very interesting, Mac, and it's always a pleasure to read about American football on Pseuds. I'm not sure you're entirely correct on momentum though. <BR/>As good as the game plan might be, the execution of it largely comes down to the will and belief of the players. Put simply, if they lose games running those plays, they won't believe in the plays and consequently they won't execute them as Frankie Morganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16726994229958279318noreply@blogger.com