Looking Ahead: Week Two

We've forged through one week of Tecmo football, which is already a good omen for the completion of this weblog on the 1992 NFL season. With excitement at a fever pitch, it's time to dive into the match-ups for Week 2 to continue our tradition of making completely baseless predictions on how the computer will simulate the winners. Game on!

1992: The Year Kosar Lost His Smile

Two of the games in this second week will feature teams that were strangely idle during Week One, due to the NFL still trying to iron out the wrinkles of having an even number of teams face off while also keeping the Patriots out of the eyes of its prospective fans. New England makes their Grogan-less debut, hoping to steal a win against the spiraling Los Angeles Rams. The Rams were a victim of their own horrid defense, but this week may look like an iron wall against Hugh Millen's limp noodle of an arm. Miami also makes their 1992 debut, starting their championship campaign against the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland experienced the double whammy of losing Kevin Mack and Mike Tomczak not getting hit by a double decker during the week, which means Miami's already off to a record-setting start.

The NFC Central continues its incestuous affair with the Vikings picking on the Lions and the Buccaneers entering as the underdog despite being ahead of Green Bay in the standings. Brett Favre hopes to put his 1st career start behind him, though if he continues to play the way he did in Week One, we see lots of CFL in this young man's future. Other games to watch include seeing if Pittsburgh kept their tank full for the New York Jets and whether or not Houston can get their first win against our upset pick in the early games, the Indianapolis Colts. And Dallas versus the New York Giants should provide no shortage of drugged up, hostile sociopaths, when the fans of either team engage in this battle of the 0-1 NFC East juggernauts.

The late games include the annual Tecmo Bowl pick, Buffalo versus San Francisco, and a key divisional match-up between last year's AFC West champion, the Denver Broncos, trying to make up some ground against this year's predicted crown-winner, the San Diego Chargers. Perhaps one of the more intriguing match-ups is between the Cincinnati Bengals and Los Angeles Raiders. The Bengals continue to make us eat our filthy, disgusting words by simply winning, while the Raiders looked like vicious monsters despite the noticeable absence of a man named Bo. The winner of this contest will go a long way in convincing us of their right to be noticed. Meanwhile, the upset pick of the late games will be Phoenix over the Philadelphia Eagles. We picked the red birdmen to only win 1-2 games this year, and we think they'll decide to get it out of the way early against a punchless Eagles team, inspiring Cunningham to lead his troops on a march to not make us look like ignoramuses.

The KingDome will be rocking in Seattle for Monday Night Football, when Dave Krieg returns to the city he put on the NFL map, now with the division rival Kansas City Chiefs. The Seahawks hope to bury Krieg on the same turf he picked out of his helmet for 11 years, though Stan Gelbaugh may have something to say about it. The Chiefs won't have Christian Okoye leading the way with the ball through most of the game, so it's up to Krieg and his gifted ability to not be Gelbaugh or any of the other 'platoon' of Seattle quarterbacks to pull out a needed win for Kansas City. The AFC West will continue to be winnable until Week 17, though in Seattle's case it'll only relate to them having the first pick of the division in next year's draft.

Ah, the glory days

Now look at these standings before we knock down your door and serve you with them.

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