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Mike Craig

Joined 2 months ago

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Mike's Bio

Freshman in college, I come from Oil City, Pennsylvania. Football is a big part of my life. In high school, I played in 9th grade. When I didn't start when I thought I should have, and because I didn't like the varsity coach, I decided not to play the following year. Instead I went to all of the games the Varsity and the JV teams had and cheered for our school. Or yelled when I thought the coach called a really dumb play. I always paid attention to the NFL. The Green Bay Packers have been my favorite football team since I was in the 2nd grade. Which at the point (I didn't know it) they had recently just won Super Bowl XXXI the previous year.

I didn't realize that becoming a Packers fan when I was 7 was going to turn into an obsession. Like mentioned before, since I was about 11 I have always paid attention to football. Then the Packers went 4-12. It was a wake up call to me. I started REALLY paying attention to football. So much that I knew what was going on not with just the Packers, but just about EVERY NFL football team. I mean I'm sure I wasn't the only one, but I noticed that just last season in 2007, the Houston Texans who were always seen as a bad team since they were created, went 8-8. That's a .500 record. That is a hell of an improvement for a team of its stature.

The weird part about all of this is, even though since I started getting a little obsessed about football, I decided to go to college for Secondary Education. It was the only other thing I could think of that I liked to do. I like to help people learn, and I'm really good at Math so I decided I'd go try and be a High School Math Teacher. Have I thought about trying to get a degree in sports journalism. Yes, however I know how much of a hard job it is to get.

So I hope by joining this website, I can at least share my views, opinions, and as I like to call knowledgeable information towards the sport of football. And before anybody asks me, yes, I do find it a little absurd that Brett Favre now plays for he New York Jets and not the Green Bay Packers. However, I also wish Favre the best of luck as he has and always will be my favorite football player.

You can expect me to be making a lot of reviews and predictions. I like to predict the NFL season through out the week. So every week I will try to have an in-depth prediction of who's going to win and who will lose.

Also, I'm sure some of you know who Michael Silver is. He has an article for Yahoo! Sports called '32 Questions'. I might try to do that some time every now and then. Unlike him, it wont be every week.

Up-Coming Articles:
After Week 3 Analysis
Week 4 Predictions

2008 NFL Season Predicting Record:
Week 1: 11-5
Week 2: 9-6
Week 3: 7-9
Week 4: 6-7
Week 5: 9-5
Week 6: 10-4
Week 7: 8-6
Week 8: 6-8
Week 9: 9-5
Week 10: 9-5
Week 11: 13-2-1
Week 12: 1-0
Week 13: 0-0
Week 14: 0-0
Week 15: 0-0
Week 16: 0-0
Week 17: 0-0

Total: 98-62-1

Mike Writes About

The Short List facts and information about Mike Craig

Favorite Athletes

Brett Favre, Ryan Grant, Aaron Kampman, Greg Jennings, Mason Crosby, Chris Paul, Albert Pujols, Aaron Rodgers, AJ Hawk, Nick Barnett, Jericho Cotchery, Adrian Peterson, Hines Ward

Favorite Sports Teams

Green Bay Packers, St. Louis Cardinals, New Orleans Hornets, New Jersey Devils, UCONN Huskies, Pittsburgh Steelers

All Time Sports Moment

All of Brett Favre's record breaking moments

Most Memorable Game Attended

It was a college football game just a couple days ago for my school Clarion. One of our receivers jumped up while being pushed by the defense and still caught the ball with his arms basically wrapped around the defender.

Most Unbreakable Sports Record

Most starts in a row by an NFL QB.

Ruth or Mays?

Ruth

Unitas or Montana?

Montana

Jordan or Russell?

Jordan

Gretzky or Orr?

Gretzky

Federer or Sampras?

Federer

Tiger or Nicklaus?

Tiger

Petty or Earnhardt?

Petty

Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

Big East

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  1. by Edgar Antonio
    2 days ago

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/83863-football-night-in-america-worst-pregame-in-tv-sports-history

  2. by Edgar Antonio
    9 days ago

    Excellent points. Nothing wrong with good, intelligent, passionate, fierce debate.

    Who knows? Maybe our teams will see each other down the road again this season in a do-or-die situation. If that time comes around, we'll go at each others throats again! :)

  3. by Edgar Antonio
    9 days ago

    My man, take a chill pill.

    Going down ANY team's schedule with a game-by-game breakdown of who they beat and why is an exercise in futility because, alas, they all play in the same league.

    So no, no points for the generic fan breakdown of who-played-who nonsense. As I argue in one of my articles, the margin between wins-losses in the NFL is ever so slight. The teams that play in Jan win tight games, the bad teams don't.

    How many games did the Pack lose that they probably shouldn't have just this season?? That's the difference between my team and yours at this point in time. The Giants are winning those games. The Pack won those previously.

    Nope, I never said the Giants were the '80s 49ers or '90s Cowboys. Brett's got one ring. Eli's got one ring. Eli has a better shot of winning some more. Don't cry over that. Not my fault. But, you're right, as Michael Jordan said, one ring is just being lucky.

    As for Favre, I respect him, but sorry, the whole media circus and seeing live shots of him in his jet touching down in Wisconsin, having a 'Favre' along the other sports on the ESPN scroll, just grated my nerves. Overkill.

  4. by Edgar Antonio
    9 days ago

    Sure the Giants are overrated, whatever, keep being blinded by our Super Bowl bling.

    Peace, Edgar

  5. by James
    about 1 month ago

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/70573-look-up-get-up-and-never-give-up-cowboy-fans

    Comment please.

  6. by MJ
    2 months ago

    Hey, check out my edits. I left feedback that you can check by going to the article and checking "article history"--it'll appear right above my revision, then you can click "show this revision" and see what kinds of things I am talking about so you can fine tune things. You have great things to say, and the better you do, the more people will read your stuff! Let me know if I can help in any way.

  7. by Thomas
    2 months ago

    i knew Favre would win this week. U must be happy.

    I agree that if Rodgers stays healthy, he'll be pretty good. Keep on the great work.

  8. by Gray Ghost
    2 months ago

    MC, welcome to B/R! Great to have you, and I look forward to your articles.

    Here is my last one:

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/53740-college-football-fans-help-me-save-bleacher-report

  9. by Thomas
    2 months ago

    hey Mike,

    nice Packer article there. So what u'd think bout the whole Favre thing? I got relatives that practically worship favre & the packs so I was forced to pay attention to it.

    Welcome to the BR btw.

  10. by Lisa
    2 months ago

    Mike!

    Thanks for the pick sweetie. And welcome to b/r. You will love it here!

    Hugs!

    -Lise

  11. by MJ
    2 months ago

    I am the Community Leader for the Packers, and I want to let you know I am available to help you in any way I can to make it easier to keep your articles flowing, including editing for punctuation, spelling, grammar, and anything else that will help you get more exposure.