A couple years ago during the NFL lockout, much was made of the arrest list compiled by NFL people during the league's self-imposed downtime. (I use the word "people" because it wasn't just players. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a coach and a front office person make the list.)

When the season was set to resume in July 2011, we tallied things up to see which team had "won the race" for the Crimesman Trophy for offseason crime (with the actual trophy being a version of the Hesiman, except instead of the right arm pointing out holding off would-be defenders, both arms were being handcuffed).

Not surprisingly, Tampa Bay took home the prize with Kenny Britt singlehandedly putting the Titans in the runner-up spot.

Well, with the league getting a little (stress little) more risk-averse when it comes to employing turds, we might have to readjust how we track the Crimesman for the 2013 offseason, what with Titus Young and Cliff Harris both unemployed right now. These two titans of crime might force us to make the Crimesman an individual award.

"Titus Young and Cliff Harris?" some of you may be asking. Who? Well, I'll tell you.

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So this is my second post in about five days where I go through betting lines for the 2013 NFL season with a fine tooth comb. Keep in mind that none of the games I'm investing my time and energy in here take place until at least four months from now, but still, I pore over schedules, draft classes, trends, and such.

In college, I was a finance major, and it has become abundantly clear: if I had spent the amount of time throwing myself into my major in and after college as I do the betting lines for a football season that's still 120 days away, then I wouldn't have to wager on football.

But I'd also be miserable, and no one wants to be miserable. Let's get to these season win totals, shall we?

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Tick...tick...tick...

While the viral celebrities of the Internet age are, in our minds, all part of the same dysfunctional family (Ladies and gentlemen, the VIRAL Family! Tay, Chris, Antoine, Charles, and Zombie Kid! Ready for action!) , the fact of the matter is that none of them actually know each other and none of them knew exactly when their 15 minutes of fame would begin.

So while I am a huge fan of Charles Ramsey, as you know, it's hard for me to act like the interruption of his still-ticking-but-almost-up 15 minutes of fame by a new burgeoning, temporary star is the violation of some sort of "viral" code.

After all, you just never know when the clock on your quarter hour may begin. So, no, I don't blame you, Filomena Tobias, for harshing my man Chuck Ramsey's soon-to-be-expiring fame.

"Who is Filomena Tobias?" you may ask.

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The Internet has made our lives easier in so many ways.

Thanks to the Internet, we can now Christmas shop without having to leave the comfort of our own homes, Johnny Manziel can take an entire semester's worth of courses at Texas A&M without leaving his apartment or even putting on pants, and no longer do junior high boys have to sneak copies of Playboy out of a convenience store in order to look at naked women.

And perhaps most important, the Internet has allowed us to accelerate at breakneck speed our viral hero worship of vigilante dishwashers in Cleveland.

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Oooh, that's a big lock.

It's always good to get in on something at the beginning, at the ground floor. In the world of sports wagering, for bettors equally long on hubris and illness (gambling is a sickness, my friends), some betting outlets realize that no time is too soon to put out lines on NFL games.

The draft just ended about ten days ago, rookies are just now showing up to minicamp and there are several "name" free agents still on the street. But if there's a line on something, rest assured 1) people will think they know more than the oddsmakers, and 2) they will subsequently bet it.

With that in mind, here come the NFL betting lines on every game for Weeks 1 through 16 lines, courtesy of cantorgaming.com, but first my cautionary look back to the previous season that I will give you annually when I do this post:

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Photo by Talltodd66 via Wikipedia.

I suppose that news outlets can determine what exactly constitutes news. I'm just one man, one voice in the current events wilderness.

With that in mind, allow me to say this:

Former West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith's precipitous tumble from potential top ten pick in the NFL Draft to 39th overall pick (to the New York Jets) is news.

Geno Smith's firing his agents just days after the draft is news, which means that narrowing his list down to three potential replacements for said agents, is also news.

Anything having to do with Geno Smith's play on the field from now until the end of time is and will be news.

Anonymous "sources" telling anybody with a pen, paper or recording device what they thought of Geno Smith before the draft or what they think of him now?

Not news. Not even close.

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I am mesmerized by LeBron James.

I'll admit, he's converted me. I am a fan. This is coming from someone who wrote four straight posts around the time of "The Decision" in July 2010 about what an asshole LeBron was. This is coming from someone who openly rooted against him every time he was on my television screen. I think I even stood and booed in my living room one time. And I don't ever boo.

LeBron James drove me to irrational levels of athlete hatred.

But somewhere along the way, probably about the time he was tearing the Boston Celtics' heart from their collective chest in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference Finals last season, I realized that enjoying the Age of LeBron was going to constitute a far more pleasant existence than resisting it. Greatness was in full bloom.

I've now even gone so far as to repeatedly argue on my show that LeBron is the best ever, blasphemy to my Chicago native co-host John Granato.

If all of this makes me a bandwagonner, then so be it. I've pushed my basketball chips to the center of the table on LeBron.

Which makes my reaction to his not being named the 2012-2013 Most Valuable Player unanimously surprising to me, and my reaction is this:

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When it comes to sports and championships, Boston is different than most cities. Whatever the sport, every city wants to win a championship, but very few cities hate to lose as much as Boston. They level to which fans in that town care is borderline irrational.

Consequently, if you're a player who leads a team to a championship, you're beloved. If you're a player who leads a team to multiple championships, you can do damn near anything you want.

Exhibit A: Tom Brady.

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Rex, Rex, why hast thou forsaken me?.

Judging by the tsunami level downpour of rain and hail along with the two-hour strobe light of lightning, it was around 3:30 p.m. Houston time on Saturday when the Jets officially decided to release football's former "chosen one," quarterback Tim Tebow.

They just chose to announce it publicly on Monday.

For it was Monday morning when the news came down that, after forfeiting a 4th round draft pick last season, $1.5 million in salary and eventually about $4 million to Denver to complete last year's trade, the Jets realized what every football fan with a brain, even Stephen A. Smith, had been already knew decided that the circus that came with Tebow, the thousands of sycophants thinking he was some sort of read option messiah, just wasn't worth the trouble anymore.

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Alex Flanagan wins again.

All right, it's Friday morning, and either you're hungover from getting destroyed by the Battle-Drink BINGO drinking card for the NFL Draft or you're mentally exhausted from sweating out all the NFL Draft prop bets I shared with you earlier this week. Either way, however shitty you feel is likely my fault, so I'm just gonna give you some good ol' fashioned draft analysis to get you through breakfast.

Here are four winners and four losers from last night's first round of the NFL Draft:

WINNERS

4. Alex Flanagan
The Notre Dame sideline reporter drew the highly enviable task of flying to Hawaii to presumably cover Manti Te'o on draft night for the NFL Network, although for the entire evening she appeared outdoors on a beach somewhere and I don't recall once seeing Te'o in a shot with her. Honestly, I could have gotten the same insight from a reporter standing on a street in Bumfuck, Indiana, so long as that person had Manti Te'o's cell phone number and enough time to make a phone call before the draft started. So why is Flanagan a winner? Well, Te'o didn't get drafted in the first round, so she gets to boondoggle the company out of at least one more night of lobster, mai tais and a cool island breeze!

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