14-0

The Jets are the biggest underdog in the history of the NFL. They are playing the undefeated Patriots, in New England, and are 24 point underdogs. Some say the Patriots will run up the score again the Jets because the Jets caught them cheating and told the league (costing the Pats a bunch of cash and a first round draft pick). Tom Brady and Randy Moss are in line to set records and the Jets, well, they are tied for the second worst record in the league with only three wins (and two of those wins have come against the 0-13 dolphins).

Do you remember in the football movie "The Best of Times", when Robin Williams and Kurt Russell were playing that other fancy-pants, overconfident team that had superior talent, and the good guys were getting their ass kicked and than a force great than man decided to change everything. It may have been rain in the that movie, but this Sunday at 1:00pm, I predict the worst storm in 100 years to crash down on Gillette Stadium. Hot hail, tornadoes, blizzards. Real wrath-of-God-type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! Volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!

Well, all of that may need to happen, but in the end, when the sun finally creeps out from behind that unexpected solar eclipse, and the players wipe off the remnants from an exploded marshmallow man; at the moment the universe will come into perfect harmony as the game clock ticks its final tock and the scoreboard in all its electrically glory proclaims to the world a simple set of numbers, 14-0. And no, it will not be the Patriots record; it will be the final score. Jets 14, Patriots 0.

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