DocMcG wiped the floor with the competition in week nine to become the new AYRFSF pool champion. The Steelers and Redskins covered, so DocMcG picked up two automatic wins there. Add to this nine other correct picks, including underdog wins with the Bears, Cardinals, Bills, and Vikings, and DocMcG cruised to the winner's circle. Losers, offer your congratulations below. DocMcG, let's hear how you did it.

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Since Dan asked I will share with you all my secret way of picking. It is really quite simple. It is a Straussian variation on the Farrakhan insight. The number nineteen is also sacred in football, having been the number of the first great modern quarterback, Johnny Unitas (who of course was from that cradle of quarterbacks, Pittsburgh). I simply add all the jersey numbers of the offensive starters for a team and then subtract all the numbers of the defensive starters and pick the team whose number is closest to nineteen.

If the Straussians are right there might be some subtext in the stuff above for you to ponder. But if Short is right (see last week's discussion) I might just be the football picker equivalent of Rousseau, an undisciplined, inconsistent, football picker who occasionally has some good insights and doesn't know why. In any case, like Rousseau, I plan to let this go to my head and treat all my rivals with disdain, and then the next time I lose I plan to be paranoid. Maybe then I, too, can become an icon of the left.