and bet on them. The average joe has a tendency to magnify in his mind how bad a team is beyond how bad they actually are. Case in point: the Detroit Lions. As 35-0 kickings go, they actually played OK. Granted defensive return yards are ignored, but I think they were less than 100 yards behind St Louis in total O. Plus Minnesota hadn't scored more than 20 points all year or so. So there was no way Detroit should be a double-digit dog against them, Dennis Green's evangelizing notwithstanding.


JG