My to-do list: Run and root

This will be a strange Sunday. I don't have a game to go to.

I don't have to leave my house or hotel three hours before kickoff. I don't have to be anywhere or do anything.

But I have a to-do list anyway.

Get up when the dogs decide it's time. If I make it to 7:15, the dogs slept in.

Drink milk.

Eat cereal with bananas.

Read the Sunday paper.

Walk dogs. Sunday is our adventure walk. I try to deviate from our usual routes and take them someplace new.

Run. I have to run. I don't want to run, but the five-mile Turkey Trot is coming up.

I've never missed one, not in 20 years, but I have never run more poorly.

Here's the problem: I grew up Catholic, and if I don't run I'll feel guilty all day. Running hurts, but at least the pain goes away.

Watch Curt Menefee and Howie and Jimmy and Terry and Michael Strahan and Frank Caliendo and the fellows.

I never thought I would like Terry Bradshaw, but I like Terry Bradshaw. Their pregame show is vastly superior to the competition.

Yes it's Fox, but all the footage is real.

Try to watch the early game, the mid-afternoon game and the evening game.

Fail. As much as I love football, I'm not a great spectator. I need to do things.

One of the things I need to do - pull for my Lock of the Week.

Last week: 9-6

Season: 101-43

I did get my Lock last week, which was Baltimore (-11) over Cleveland.

For the season, my Lock (picking against the line) is 7-3.

And I've picked six of the past seven.

I could not find an upset last week. My Upset of the Week, picking an underdog to win, is 6-3.

(And I'm off to a bad start. In a blog, I picked CAROLINA by 3 over Miami.)

This week's picks, with the home team in CAPS.

Upset of the week

Indianapolis (a 1-point underdog Friday when I made this pick) 2 over Baltimore

Games of the week

NEW YORK GIANTS 2 over Atlanta: I can't give you a compelling reason other than that the game is in New Jersey.

San Diego 3, and not 2, over DENVER: It's not over for Denver fans. The Rockies report to spring training in three months.

NEW ENGLAND 13 over the New York Jets: I liked the call by New England coach Bill Belichick last week to go for it on fourth down against Indianapolis.

The Patriots lead the league in many departments, among them scouting.

The Patriots have the most sophisticated scouting techniques, not just in the NFL, but in all of sport. And each of Bill's secret cameras indicated the play would work.

The rest

DALLAS 12 over Washington

GREEN BAY 5 over San Francisco

Pittsburgh 5 over KANSAS CITY

New Orleans 9 over TAMPA BAY

JACKSONVILLE 8 over Buffalo

MINNESOTA 7 over Seattle

Arizona 4 over ST. LOUIS

Cincinnati 8 over Oakland

Philadelphia 4 over CHICAGO

HOUSTON 5 over Tennessee

Lock of the week