The Root of the Week III

The Swami Clan is in the market for Cousins and so to the Cousin's Market we shall go. After a moderate scare in the the Heavenly City -- you know, until Cleveland* -- we will turn our Week Three sights to the Twins.

The Bills are hapless and the iron-armed quarterback will do little to amend that point of fact. Therefore, still smarting off a tie to their fiercest division rival, the merry band of Cousin Men will ready their wooden ships and their horned helmets and search for their place in Valhalla on the field of glorious battle.

They will find it. Vikings across the board.

That is all.
                                                                                                                                                                                                     

The Root of the Week III

An early Root this week, Week the Third, as Swami does not know what his wireless capabilities will be come Saturday night as he will be meditating in a hut in the middles of the Himalayas, looking for enlightenment and a small spec of a sense of what will transpire in weeks to come in this most excellent NFL 2017 season.

One thing to be banked on fully? New England will not lost two games in a row at home.

Do you think the Houston Texans are already game planning for Week Four, just because this weekend is likely to be such a catastrophe? Perhaps they think they would be better served preparing for Tennessee?

The Swami moves en masse on the Patriots -- Swami, Spawn, Lady Avery, Factor, and Darth -- and feels extremely happy to be advancing to Week Four.

That is all.

The Root of the Week II

In by-gone times, it was virtually unheard of for a participant of the Swami Pool to even consider the course of action that so many participants have chosen this week, Week the Second. Silver and Black? 'Twas not a team to be picked, 'twas instead a comely pair of comic book anti-heroines.

*Yes, these are actual comic characters and, yes, they are slated for their own movie as a spin-off of the Spider-Man cinematic universe. But I digress.

The smart money is coming in fast and furious on the Raidahs, pick after pick in email after email ... Raiders, Raiders, Raiders. There are two teams currently that break up the litany: Seahawks and Ravens also get a little bit of play. But the Raiders take the cake by wide margin.

The Raiders are good, yes, but this is more a statement methinks on the ineptitude of the J-E-T-S than any particular (circle of) excellence on the part of Carr's Company, but still.

Still.

The Reaper sharpens his scythe this week hoping for one, just one of the chosen three to fall ... he will be pleased if the silver and black or the Gang Green or the Edgar Allen Poe's drop-kick a few participants into the double loss, therefore granting just a little carnage this fine weekend in September.

In other news, the Swami will also go with the group in this Week the Second. He will be parking his faith in none other than the beautiful and semi-unimportant.

That is all, faithful subjects. Bid you adieu, until the morn.

That is all.

Swami

The Root of the Week III

Ah, 'tis a glorious weekend, indeed.

Few are the spaces of calm one finds in this era in which we live, fewer and farther still between do such moments provide depth of quality thought or flashest of purest insight; it is for this reason specifically that such moments must be treasured.

I will treasure this moment, the calm before the Sunday storm, as we watch my Beloveds take center stage as the most popular selection in Week Three. What's more, the selection of the Beloveds does not break any rule, not one, and incurs no Hex ... quite the opposite in fact.

And so as Saturday comes to a close and the game in South Florida kicks off in just over ten hours, I will say thank you to those who put your faith in the Fish, thank you to those who honor the Beloveds this week, and that I, as well, and the whole of my clan will put ourselves on the line along with you.

Dolphins 31, Browns 16.

That is all.