There. I said it. I’m opening myself up to unimaginable ridicule (that is, beyond the normal amount of ridicule I get). The late New York Giants head coach Jim Fassel guaranteed that the Giants were going to make the playoffs in 2000 after the team had lost two consecutive home games, and didn’t play well in doing so, in dropping to 7-4. That was a high-stakes gambit by Fassel...but it worked. Amazingly, Fassel’s team responded to this and ran the table the last five games to indeed make the playoffs, and they went all the way to the Super Bowl before losing to the all-time great Baltimore Ravens’ defense.
I’m shoving my chips to the middle of the table
