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Not long ago, BuckeyePlanet got a brand new front page and @Clarity put out a call for #content to drive #traffic to the site. I thought to myself, “Gee, I’d really like to contribute but I’m not really an expert or insider.” Then I remembered that BuckeyePlanet is a site on the internet. The internet is comprised of about 50% college football #hottakes by idiots, and the other 50% is cats. That gave me an idea...
What if I made picks for college football games every week? What if one of my cats made picks too, and we tried to see who's best? We could generate #content every week complete with college football #hottakes, #banter, and cats. We could achieve Peak Internet. We could become famous on Twitter, which is pretty much the loftiest achievement one can aspire to in 2015.
Me, speaking with my friend Jerry after coming up with this idea.
Though I do not pretend to be an expert, I do still have some pride. I don't want to get shown up by a cat. That means that if I'm going to stick my neck out there and make bold assertions, I need to set the bar low in terms of competition. Skip Bayless has mastered this. Everybody knows he's an idiot, but when he sits across from whatever rube ESPN lines up for him to "debate", viewers end up thinking that he *might not* be the dumbest person they are hearing speak at that particular moment. When it comes to generating #content, it's a winning formula.
That's why I chose to make picks against the dumber of our two cats. His name is Leo. That’s what my wife has told me his name is. I call him Poobert. “Leo” seems like a regal name. He looks looks like more of a “Poobert.” Behold:
This is Poobert. He is not very bright. Here, he gets discouraged when he can’t reach to lick his bunghole.
On college football Saturdays we are two peas in a pod. Together we man my home’s College Football Command Center, with all of the screens, food and drink we need to survive and thrive the day-long gauntlet of upsets, blowouts, and laughing at M*ch*g*n. I have my spot on the couch, he has his in an Ohio State pet bed. I watch games for up to 14 hours flipping through channels and soaking in as much of the action as I can catch. He sleeps, suns himself, and gains most of his college football knowledge through (I assume) osmosis.
It will be a titanic struggle college football soothsaying supremacy. You can join the action, too. Poobert and I are both participating in this season’s BuckeyePlanet Pick’Em on Yahoo!. Do you think you know more about college football than the second-smartest cat in my house? Sign up, participate, and prove it!
Here are our picks for Week 1. Please note that because of Yahoo's quirks, some of these games don't match the ones available in our Pick'em contest. There are going to be more picks available there each week than we could possibly write about, so we'll just have the highlights.
Not long ago, BuckeyePlanet got a brand new front page and @Clarity put out a call for #content to drive #traffic to the site. I thought to myself, “Gee, I’d really like to contribute but I’m not really an expert or insider.” Then I remembered that BuckeyePlanet is a site on the internet. The internet is comprised of about 50% college football #hottakes by idiots, and the other 50% is cats. That gave me an idea...
What if I made picks for college football games every week? What if one of my cats made picks too, and we tried to see who's best? We could generate #content every week complete with college football #hottakes, #banter, and cats. We could achieve Peak Internet. We could become famous on Twitter, which is pretty much the loftiest achievement one can aspire to in 2015.
Me, speaking with my friend Jerry after coming up with this idea.
Though I do not pretend to be an expert, I do still have some pride. I don't want to get shown up by a cat. That means that if I'm going to stick my neck out there and make bold assertions, I need to set the bar low in terms of competition. Skip Bayless has mastered this. Everybody knows he's an idiot, but when he sits across from whatever rube ESPN lines up for him to "debate", viewers end up thinking that he *might not* be the dumbest person they are hearing speak at that particular moment. When it comes to generating #content, it's a winning formula.
That's why I chose to make picks against the dumber of our two cats. His name is Leo. That’s what my wife has told me his name is. I call him Poobert. “Leo” seems like a regal name. He looks looks like more of a “Poobert.” Behold:
This is Poobert. He is not very bright. Here, he gets discouraged when he can’t reach to lick his bunghole.
It will be a titanic struggle college football soothsaying supremacy. You can join the action, too. Poobert and I are both participating in this season’s BuckeyePlanet Pick’Em on Yahoo!. Do you think you know more about college football than the second-smartest cat in my house? Sign up, participate, and prove it!
Here are our picks for Week 1. Please note that because of Yahoo's quirks, some of these games don't match the ones available in our Pick'em contest. There are going to be more picks available there each week than we could possibly write about, so we'll just have the highlights.
