Tuesday, December 23, 2008

TheFatherLife.com: Osburn On Tap: Deck the Beer Halls


The calendar continues to roar towards 2009 and we are smack dab in the thick of the holiday rush. I know it’s sad, but some of us haven’t even begun, let alone finished, our holiday shopping mere days before the big event. At the time I write this, I myself have only finished about 45% of my total Christmas shopping. I can only hope that I’ll be done by the time this article appears online. But, since I tend to fall under a lot of male clichés, I will most likely have one or two more items to buy on Christmas Eve. Let’s just hope the lines aren’t as long as they were last year...


Monday, December 22, 2008

TheFatherLife.com: NFL Power Rankings: Week 16


There are big changes in the rankings this week. The Titans, who have held the top spot for pretty much the whole season, have been bounced by the upstart Steelers. The only other time Tennessee wasn’t holding a tight grip on the top spot was in weeks 6, 13, and 14. The top spot was taken by the Giants during those weeks. The G-men are the only other team to sit at the top of my rankings, so Pittsburgh climbing to the top of the mountain this late in the season changes the whole AFC playoff outlook tremendously...


TheFatherLife.com: NFL Power Rankings: Week 15


The NFL season is coming down to the wire and a few teams have already clinched playoff spots. The Titans, Giants, and Cardinals have all clinched spots in the postseason. Tennessee and New York are recent playoff teams, but the Cards haven’t made the playoffs since 1998. They haven’t even had a winning season in ten years. They also clinched a home playoff game for the first time since 1947...


TheFatherLife.com: NFL Power Rankings Week 14.


I don’t think anyone will disagree with me that this year’s crop of Thanksgiving NFL games had to be one of the worst in history. The Titans beat the hapless Lions by 37 points, the Cowboys beat the sad Seahawks by 25, and the one game that was supposed to be decent ended with the Eagles trouncing the shell-shocked Cardinals by 28, proving once again that there is some kind of Voodoo curse that won’t let Arizona win a game on the east coast...