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Quick hit picks for Week 11.

The NFL is unquestionably the "No Fun League." This week, the league fined Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco for being an entertainer—which is what he is. Ochocinco was fined $20,000 for flashing a dollar bill at an official during the review of a play where he was not able to get both feet on the ground in bounds. Basically, the league said, "We take ourselves very seriously, probably too seriously. We realize we're an entertainment provider, but we will not let our employees provide entertainment to their fans. In fact, we forbid it. We also realize that tickets are impossible to buy and that serious fans often cannot even watch their team's games because of our ridiculous blackout rules. We turn a blind eye to gambling on NFL games and refuse to acknowledge it even exists."

This week, Miss Bee is back at it with her picks. She made them based on the median inner-city bus driver wage for each metropolitan area. For New England she used Boston. These numbers are taken from Department of Labor surveys.

The 2008 Phillies were a surprising and welcome departure from the Philly sports norm. Let's face it: We've gotten used to coming up short—whether short or barely short. Not long after the Phillies paraded down Broad Street last Halloween, the Eagles returned the cosmos to their rightful balance. (Villanova's Final Four appearance was an unexpected bonus that threatened to upset the recently-restored natural order of things. Fortunately for the universe, North Carolina did not allow the end of days to come about.)

Here we are in October. Fall is in full swing. The temperature is falling. We're entering "Project Bundle Up" territory where every attractive girl wears enough clothing to overheat an Inuit.

Aside from generally awesome weather, the arrival of autumn has one big perk: fall food. Heavier and more flavorful than a summer menu, but neither as comforting nor as fattening as winter meals (if you don't count Thanksgiving, that is), fall brings with its gorgeous color palate a collection of foods you can't get fresh any other time of year. (And really, who wants pumpkin in July?) A plethora of new produce appears in supermarkets (does anyone know what to do with a five-pound bag of assorted gourds, by the way?), and restaurants roll out new menus and seasonal events. Among them, Old City's Fork Restaurant, which will (among other events in the coming weeks) hold a special fisherman's dinner on October 10—featuring fish that the guests catch themselves in a fishing excursion earlier that day.

Alright, kids. We know you miss Andy incredibly, but you're just going to have to deal with Miss Bee's picks this week. We can't promise you any picks that involve, you know, anything based on actual substance and strategy. After all, she did try out to be an Eagles cheerleader. Oh, and it's gonna be twitter-style, cause we're into that. 140 character reasoning for each pick. This should be interesting. As always, home team in CAPS. Here's your Chips and Dip picks for this week:

It's Friday. Friday means beer. Let's get the weekend started with some NFL picks. As always, HOME TEAMS in caps:

One game into this NFL season and I am already 0-1. While the Steelers marched to victory against the Tennessee Titans last night in overtime, they did not cover the 6.5 points that the experts in Vegas assigned as the spread. There will be no discussion of Hines Ward's fumble at the three-yard-line which would have undoubtedly made the final score 17-10 and given this "expert" a cover. Alas.

Two of our favorite things about the autumn weekends, now combined in one totally weird commercial. (Via Miss Bee, via Bleeding Green Nation.) And hey, new IHOP just opened at Juniper and Walnut!

You probably know someone like Big Fan's Paul Aufiero. Diehard sports fan, lives and breathes football for the season, refers to the team as "we?"

What is it with our off-hours posts being about our beloved Birds? Last time it was Jim Johnson, and now it's that ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that the Eagles have signed Michael Vick to a two-year deal. Obviously, given our love of dogs—especially Pit Bulls—and our loathing of people who would harm them, we've got very, very mixed feelings about this one. By all accounts, Vick has used the time since he's been out of prison to do some positive work with the Humane Society of the United States, but this still makes us really uncomfortable.

...at least for straight guys who like football. It's FantasySportsGirl FTW!

We'll miss you, Jim.

Despite the flurry of playoff wins and losses and analysis pouring in this week, I have managed to keep a steady eye on one Inquirer feature: a Sunday poll that gauged what the "biggest event for Philadelphia fans" was this upcoming weekend. I gave the poll a few days to mature and, as of today at three p.m., these were the results:

It's the middle of April and all this rain is making us think Spring is still eight weeks away (thanks, Phil). But, it's not. Spring is here. And while Fall is actually still months away, grab your cheeseballs, 'cause the party is about to start.

Fun around town, for $10 or less:

If you care to extend the mourning process at all... this was posted yesterday on NBC10.com.

This is a strange story with many different implications, not the least of which is simple. It’s a situation in which nobody seems to be right. We’ll do our best to wade through this murky situation.

Improv drummer + YouTube = World domination. Kinda.

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Remember a while back when we talked about a presentation we saw on 3D technology, which included footage from the upcoming 3D computer-animated film Monsters vs. Aliens? Well, this Sunday at the end of the second quarter of the Super Bowl you'll see an all-3D commercial break, featuring a trailer for Monsters vs. Aliens and a 60-second SoBe Lifewater commercial starring those lizards from last year's SoBe Super Bowl commercial. We couldn't care less about the lizards (frankly we thought last year's SoBe commercial was quite possibly the worst ad shown during the Super Bowl; it was a pointless, annoying, and confusing collection of things that had probably all been thrown together because they'd been labeled as cool by focus groups), but we are pretty excited about the 3D Monsters vs. Aliens trailer. To watch it properly, you'll need a pair of free 3D glasses, which you can pick up at a SoBe Lifewater display in your local grocery store, drug store, or retail outlet.

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