Now that we’re past the halfway point for the 2008 NFL season and based on my current record for picking games against the spread this year (horrendous), I’ve decided to throw caution to the wind and try a new experiment in terms of the strategy I use in making my weekly picks. 

When I was a kid watching TV shows on Friday nights, ABC used to run what they called TGIF, a lineup of family friendly shows designed for that very weak timeslot (Full House, Family Matters, Step By Step, etc.).  Well my absolute favorite out of this bunch was “Perfect Strangers.”  I’m not going to explain the premise of the show because if you don’t know about it, then do yourself a friggin’ service and go board yourself up for a week and watch the DVDs.  But I digress…I have a faint memory of one of the episodes where Larry and Balki become very successful at picking the games each week, simply by thinking up a theoretical death match between the two teams mascots. 

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