Greetings loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader was just over on Kilgore Trout’s page. And all he has to say is “Amen Brother Kilgore!” Read this post. Now let your Maximum Leader state that he couldn’t care less about the NBA; but he loves hockey. And the NHL post-season is waaaay too long. (And frankly the league is too big. Did you see this article about the impending lockout and the general financially sucky situation the league is in?)
Anyway… Football… Final score prediction: Patriots 24; Panthers 17. I know this is a gutsy call. Not only because your Maximum Leader is predicting that the Patriots will win a 15th straight game (and aren’t the odds against that something like 3,000,000,000:1?); but that the chances of predicting a final score are nearly impossible. But your Maximum Leader, a religious reader of Gregg Easterbrook’s TMQ column, has read that 24 - 17 is the most common score of the past season. So there it is.
Carry on.