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JIGGY'S FREE NFL FOOTBALL PICKS
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Jiggy's 2008 Football Picks Season Record
Wins: 2 | Losses: 2 | Ties 0:
NFL Free Picks Winning Percentage: 50%
Record updated by Tuesday
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For those of you new to this football betting picks column, our expert NFL football handicapper Jiggy has had a money making 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006, and 2007-2008 NFL season (where he picked over 60% correctly). Besides one down year (2006-07) Jiggy has posted a winning record on both his NFL football free picks and NFL Lock of the Week against the spread. Each week during the NFL season Jiggy will share his free winning NFL football picks as well as his entertaining take on the current happenings of the NFL.
2008 FREE NFL PICKS WEEK 1
Think back to your adolescence. Tell me if this sounds familiar.
You have been courting little Suzie at school for months. You’ve sent her cute cards (today’s equivalent might be text messages) you’ve carried her books to school (today’s equivalent might be text messages) you remembered Valentine’s Day with a long letter and some flowers (today’s equivalent might be text messages) and it all finally worked. She agrees to go with you for pizza. You get to have a slice or two over coca colas and at the end of the night – a little peck on the lips. It is on.
The course for the next couple of months has been set. You have to play every situation perfectly. You have to plan meticulously because the ultimate prize is too dear to lose because of laziness or mental lapses. The goal of vaginal intercourse with a real woman trumps all.
You know when to move from pecks on the lips to tongue kissing. You know when it is prudent to move from dry humping to finger blasting (thank you DJ for that lexicological gem). And now you’re in the end game. Your parents are out of town, or you have managed to arrange for a camping trip. Or if you are really money, you’ve rented a room at the local Super 8. It is on.
But then you let the pressure get to you. You want the night to be PERFECT for her – so that this isn’t a single performance, but rather the first in a long line of bed-breaking, hair-pulling, sister-including, anal-puckering, blissful nights. So you spend hours planning the music that will softly remove her inhibitions. You go to the store and agonize over just the right wine coolers. You order food from the perfect ‘upscale casual dining option.’ You shave… everywhere (and lord knows we all hope that she does too). You choose clothes over the whole day. You buy cologne. You set the table for her. The doorbell rings…
And she can smell the desperation on you. First little things go wrong, then bigger things and then before you know it, she is driving home to watch a Molly Ringwald movie with her friends and you are jerking it to scrambled Z channel.
 I could break down all the problems with this story and really get in to the details. But the main takeaway is that she needs you to be the cool guy that you have always been. She can’t know that you think this is a big deal. You need to be a cool customer – no matter that you have the entire Dallas Cowboy Cheerleading team doing naked backflips in your head. To the outside world (girl target specifically) you are as cool as an Alaskan cucumber (insert Sarah Palin joke here).
If you had just been calm and had the attitude that this type of thing happens everyday, she would have succumbed and you both would have had at least three full minutes of locker-room bragging pumping.
So what does all of this have to do with the NFL?
 Sure, Jiggy is pleased that the new season is starting again. But it isn’t a big deal. Happens all the time. I haven’t been chomping at the bit for six months, watching NFL network and breaking down film, diagramming special teams, working statistics on everything from home-turf-covers ATS when flying more than 2.5 hours. Nope. I have just been casually watching synchronized diving and never thought for one second how much I needed the NFL season to start so badly that I was calling cryogenic centers getting price quotes for being frozen for four months. (It is prohibitively expensive and sometimes results in permanent damage to nerves and the limbic system.)
When you are cool like Jiggy – you don’t have the sweats everytime you see a Monday Night Football ad, and you certainly haven’t been pulling out your hair and fingernails waiting for today to come.
Because I am so mellow, I am just going to get to the picks…
 JIGGY'S FREE NFL PICKS
UDub (Wash) @ Gmen (NYG) - NY Football Giants -4.5
In the beginning of the season no one knows anything about anything or anyone. So what the handicappers do is they take last season’s results (and mental impressions) sprinkle in a little bit of big off season news and then get their point spreads. So in the first week, one must be cognizant of this tendency. So we have the NYGs, super bowl champions. They must be favorites. And then we have the big news that they lost the gap-toothed wonder. Oh and then OSI UMENYOURA got hurt. And they’ve lost many starters on defense. Whoa is them. Anytime I can have the defending superbowl champions against a first time starting qb (Jason Campbell is barely a starter) and a new coach – I have to take the champs and give the points. Then add in the NY crowd, at home for the season opener (we all hate new Yorkers – but they can be intimidating – even to NFL players) and it is an easy one. Jiggy is all over the NY Giants and loves giving the points.
Boomer Esiason and Tim Krumrie (Cincy) @ Cal Ripken Jr. (Balt.) – Cincy -1.5
Tell me how this sentence makes you feel. ‘Well, we feel we have two great options at qb, we love Joe Flacco, but we also would be real comfortable with our Heisman trophy winner, Troy Smith.’ Sure the Cats are a mess. They have gimpy QBs, crazy wide-outs and they have just sent last year’s starting running back to Detroit where his luggage was stolen. (As an aside on Detroit – shouldn’t the ‘big story’ be the times that someone goes to Detroit and has nothing stolen?) I am on the Bungals and will enjoy watching the inept Ravens struggle. (Oh and Ray Lewis may be crazy, but he is also old and slow.)
Oilers (Houston) @ The Steel City (Pitt) – Pittsburgh -6
I have very few words for this except the following. Daddy loves the Steelers at home with Big Ben at the helm. Houston has been improving, but the Steelers are a legit contender this year. And Jiggy has been giving verbal fellatio to Big Ben for years. This could be his year. Gimme dem Steelers and I will give less than a touchdown all day long.
Adrian Peterson (Minny) @ Aaron Rodgers (GB) – Minny +2.5
 I think that Aaron is going to do well in Green Bay. I think that the team is better than people give them credit for. I think that Favre acted like a selfish prick. All that being said, I am still expecting a let down for the Packers. They have a gimpy running back and a new starting QB. All that on a team that underperformed up until last year. The Vikes defense is solid and actually improved in the off season. They have the ability to run the ball (like virtually no other team in the NFL – AP could probably gain 50 yards against GB with the Harvard Saracen O-Line from 1990 in front of him.) Jiggy isn’t afraid of Tarvaris Jackson (or is it Tavaris?). Vikes and the points please.
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