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After nearly a decade on the Blogger network, The Playhouse is moving to Tumblr. This shift comes as it's become increasingly obvious that no one under the age of 65 uses Blogger, which hasn't made any significant upgrades in, well, nearly a decade. It's also driven by the wide availability of porn on Tumblr's platform. The transition will be completed within the next couple weeks. All four of

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Glad to have you back, college football. You might be exploitative. (It's definitely cliche at this point, but an unpaid mercenary having his jersey sold in the school bookstore for $100 is beyond gross. Yes, we can talk about a scholarship, which we often hear is invaluable. But not everyone feels that way, including many of the players on current FBS rosters. They are in school to do one thing

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Regular Playhouse readers (there are four) will notice that we have not posted in this space since December 8, for which we apologize. But shit happens, and when you have very young children and shit happens, it's not called shit, it's called life, and it tends to gets serious real quick - which explains our absence. And while everyone is now fine, enjoying robust good health, a dose of

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The Super Play hit again yesterday, as Michigan St (+5.5) beat Ohio State straight up.  It was our third winner in a row, lifting our record to 10-12 for the year. Because we always set lofty goals for ourselves, the objective now is to somehow scratch and claw our way to .500.  No extended Playhouse today. There are unconfirmed reports that we've been up since 3:50 attempting

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Fresh off the Super Play of the Year Monday night, the Crew has somehow hit two in a row to push our record to an 9-12 for the season. We'll look to build on this extraordinary success with not one but two Super Plays today. But first a rambling thought... **Disclaimer:  Though I live roughly three miles from UW, I didn't go there nor do I care about them. I went to Arizona State, the

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Super Play of the Year Seahawks -4.5 It's blatant homerism, but this number is short for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, Seattle is the better team, especially at home, where it's hard to find many good reasons to go against them with less than a TD in your pocket.  Also, the last time there was this much local hype surrounding a game was earlier this year, when the Seahawks

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Shockingly, backing the Jags didn't work out for The Crew last Sunday. It dropped our record to 7-12 for the year, meaning we have to win today to reach 40 percent. Nice effort. Ultimately, anyone putting money on Jacksonville is an asshole. Write that down and lock it away in your mind, because that's right up there with 'Don't Drink and Drive, 'Do Unto Others as They Would Do to You' and '

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After a long week, there was no Super Play on Saturday. We apologize to the zero people who were impacted by its exclusion from their weekend routine. Last Sunday, we offered up more fade material, missing with the Bears. The lost dropped our record to 7-11 for the year.  A couple thoughts before the Super Play, which is a guaranteed winner, our Five-Star, AAA-rated Play of the Year...

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Amazingly, the Super Play won easily Saturday, as Minnesota continues to cash for their backers. Going into the game, the Gophers were the first team since Arizona in 2007 to win outright as a dog of a touchdown or more. It ran our record to 7-10 for the season. No extended Playhouse today. We have neither the time nor the energy this morning (don't have kids) to come up with something that's

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After Thursday's 'special' Super Play - which was terrible - we can only be described thusly: Our record dropped to 6-10 for the year and we are fade material from here on out. We'll be back tomorrow with a more robust version of the Playhouse. Super Play of the Day Minnesota -2.5 

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The Super Play tanked again on Sunday, as the Seahawks, despite their robust 8-1 record, continue to play like also-rans, having been taken to the brink over the last two weeks by the likes of St. Louis and Tampa. In the NFL, if you can run the ball and stop the run, you are going to win a lot of games. But Seattle’s defense is a sieve and they rely far too much on Russell Wilson to

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The Super Play and The Playhouse were terrible yesterday. If nothing else, at least we have achieved uniformity. The loss dropped our record to 6-8 for the year (Seriously, who bets on UNLV. Christ).  We take on the rest of the season with one simple goal in mind: Limit the damage. Reaching .500 would be nice, but realistically there's almost zero chance of that. But like Ghandi once said,

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In a rare singular first person appearance, this has been my morning: I woke up at 2 am to a screaming baby and haven't been to bed since. On top of that, I just spent an hour writing The Playhouse, only to lose all the material when this piece of shit computer crashed. Fuck off. I hate everything and everyone at this point. I need beer and heroin Super Play  UNLV +4.5  

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The Super Play was just terrible yesterday, as USC easily took care of Utah, which might have the worst quarterback play in the nation. If the Utes can't compete with the Trojans in their current state of disrepair, they never will. How did they beat BYU and Stanford? The loss dropped our record for the year to 6-6. All things considered, it's not awful, especially given some of our recent plays

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The Super Play (6-5 for the year) won easily last Sunday, as San Francisco destroyed Tennessee. It continued an interesting, season-long trend in the NFL: Teams are 0-6 ATS the week after they play the Seahawks. It's not clear whether that's a statistical anomaly or because Seattle's physical style of play takes more of a toll on opposing teams. Perhaps it is a little of both. Ultimately we don't

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The worst Playhouse of the year, which included a typo and an incomplete sentence, also was perhaps our worst bet ever. Clemson never had a chance against Florida State. Typically it's not a good idea to lay points on the road with a freshmen quarterback against the no. 3 team in the country, but clearly Jameis Winston is not a typical freshman. And while he gets the biggest share of the credit

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Worst Playhouse ever: Lost Super last week and it wasn't even close. Our record dropped to 5-5 for the year. Don't have kids Super Play  Clemson +140

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Super Play winner yesterday on Oregon State, who outscored Washington State 28-0 in the fourth quarter to cover the short number and win going away late last night, 52-24. The Beavers, as is their pattern in recent years under Mike Riley, are getting considerably better as the season goes on. Mizzou also cashed, but our leap of faith on Washington was misguided. We took Stanford last week,

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The Super Play is heading the wrong direction, as we knew it eventually would. After hitting over 70 percent for nearly a calendar year, Sunday's debacle on the Dolphins marked our third loss in a row, dropping our season record 4-4. It's very unlikely that will cash again this year. Seriously, it could happen. Start the fade train immediately. As many of you know, our posts have been sporadic

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Despite assurances to the contrary, it's going to be a short and sweet one today. We had a four-month old yelling at us all night, and since we have a job coupled with a biological need to sleep we're not about to take an hour to write some drivel that no one will read anyway. Our government shutdown edition of The Playhouse will have to wait until our actual adult responsibilities dissipate. On

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After taking last week off, The Crew marks its triumphant return by completely mailing it in. (If you had a four-month old, you would too). But rest assured we will be back in full force tomorrow with our government shutdown version of The Playhouse.Super Play of the DayStanford -6.5*The locals think the Huskies should be giving points to the '85 Bears. The game begins a brutal stretch for

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The Playhouse editorial board were in meetings all weekend. The Super Play will return next week. We apologize to the zero people were inconvenienced by this development

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Continuing The Crew's surreal run, the Super Play hit again yesterday. Utah won outright as a 7-point dog, which puts our season record at 4-1-1 and 29-11-3 (73 percent) dating back to last year. If you have ever lived in Vegas, you know that there's always some a-hole at the local bar that claims to hit 70 percent. Incidentally, he's the same guy that drives a truck with 32-inch wheels and

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Another Super Play winner Sunday on the Falcons. It's a good thing we waited till later in the week to throw down, because (for some reason) late money came pouring in on the Rams, which drove the line down to -4 at kickoff from an opener of -7. It marked one of the few times ever we actually got in at the best number possible. Whatever the case, our record is now 3-1-1 this year and

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The Super Play pushed yesterday, which, quite frankly, was the best result we could have possibly hoped for given that Washington out gained Illinois by nearly 300 yards. We were clearly on the wrong side of that one. Once again, much to the relief of everyone outside of our four readers, there will not be an extended Playhouse Sunday. An unnamed 14-week old boy who is still unwilling to take

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