Everyboy Hates Pittsburgh

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Poor Dave Wannstedt. The wrinkled mustache photo is making its rounds in the AP story talking about how fall the Pitt Panthers have fallen. And tonight, the Pittstaches are 21 point underdogs to the 24th ranked Louisville Cardinals, even though they’ve won their last three games. 21 points is a huge amount of points to give—even to the hapless ‘Staches. We’ll make the pick later in the day, but it’ll take a lot to walk away from that many points. Just a hunch.

Pitt Getting No Respect;Dogs Of Three Touchdowns [Covers]
Pittsburgh versus Louisville [Covers]

The Joys of Internerd Free Pick Trash Talking

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We will probably regret this much more than the time we lost that “drink a shot of Kiwi Mad Dog out of a half-full Hellman’s jar” prop bet a few years back, but we figure it’s newsworthy in the sense that an ornery fella from the land of Julius Erving’s fictional basketball team has issued a challenge to us on his website starting in Week 6 over Monday Night Football picks. Yes, the sword-rattling scribe at American Gambling News has apparently taken a playful comment of ours in the wrong way and offered up this solution to our differences:

For those who haven’t seen it, our good—not good at picking WINNERS, mind you—buddies at OddJack left a flaming bag of crap in the AGN comments, going so far as to cuss. But I’m cool with it so long as he keeps picking MNF games along with the Monday Night Countdown crew–that is, wrong pretty much every week. And I’m SO cool with it that I’m willing to issue a challenge…and a fun little wager:

For the rest of the NFL season, let’s pick ‘em every week. Stick ‘em up head to head, keep a cumulative record, starting with week 6. And we’ll do it like we’re mayors: At the end of the season, the loser’s gotta pony up something from his hometown. I’ll throw down a case of Iron City. And since OddJack’s probably from New Jersey (just a hunch), I’ll be expecting a big old bag of toxic sludge. Or at least a gift certificate to Texas Arizona, Hoboken’s Steeler Bar.

And here we are, ready to beaten like a mule(cuz we like it), and feverishly searching the messy library at Gawker headquarters for an atlas to find out where this land called “Hoboken” he speaks of is. So, we’ll play along and keep track of our records and AGN’s MNF picks for the rest of the year just because we like to keep an open dialogue with unhinged lunatics from Wannstedt country. And, sure, we’ll pay up if we lose. We’re good like that.

Nothin’ Quite Like A Tuesday [AGN]

Football Betting: Set The Mustache on Fire

READ MORE: Dave Wannstedt, Football Betting, Picks, The Mustache, University of Pittsburgh

So, this was all-in-all a fantastic weekend to be Oddjack: 1.) We didn’t get blown up on the subway; 2.) We went 4-0 in NFL picking and 3-1 in NCAA. And guess which NCAA team tripped us up for the fourth time this year? If you said The Mustache, well, you would be correct. The Pittstedts miraculously covered the 16.5 points against the Cincinnati Bearcats over the weekend preventing us from going undefeated for the first time all year.We’ve officially taken his team off the board because it’s such a mush. Lessone learned. But, regardless, 7-1 is something to be proud of and just like the Patriots, we’ve got our swagger back. To summarize:

NFL Picks: 4-0

NCAA Picks: 3-1

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.

Chopping Lines: Getting Off the Mustache

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Sat. 2 p.m.

Pittstedt (1-4)

Best Line: PITT -11.5, CIN +13

If there’s anything we’ve learned so far this college football season is that Dave Wannstedt and his fire-breathing mustache have cost way too many games so far this year. This whole team is in disarray and it’s been apparent that unless he’s playing Youngstown State, there’s absolutely no shot at this guy winning or covering a spread at any point this year. The offense is abysmal, the defense is battered and defeated, and the mustache is furious.We’re not falling for this again, as we’ve picked Wannstedt three times so far this year and his lost each and every time. Cincy can score and it only takes a few dumb mistakes to knock Pittsedt off its horse, so we’re expecting something to go terribly, terribly wrong once again.

PICK!: CINCY +13

Wannstedt’s Mustache Hides the Number of the Beast

READ MORE: Dave Wannstedt, Sedge Court Journal, University of Pittsburgh

After another demoralizing loss as 14 point favorites on Friday night against THE—wait, ahem, sorry—Ohio University, University of Pittsburgh coach Dave Wannstedt has already seen his young coaching tenure turn to runny poo thanks to two horrible performances back-to-back. Yet, the messianic cranks over at Sedge Court Journal are thinking all Iron Maiden about Wannstedt these days. That he is, in fact, the Anti-Christ:

Our ancestor’s used Numerology to make sense of a complex and mysterious world. Using this ancient art we can examine his name in a search for answers. 13 is universally recognized as an unlucky number. Guess how many letters are used to spell Dave Wannstedt? 13! Or just for a moment consider this: Wannstedt uses 9 letters to spell his last name. Using numerology we can do this very simple calculation which potentially identifies him as the one “The Book of Revelations” called the “Beast” 3+3x3=18; 18= 6+6+6!!!!! Coincidence? I think not.

We have to agree since we took Pitt as well. We forget—did Al Pacino sport a mustache in The Devil’s Advocate?

Is Dave Wannstedt the Anti-Christ? [SedgeCourtJournal]