There was an amazing stat on HBO's Inside the NFL Wednesday night...During the Patriots 12-1 playoff run since the 2001-02 season, dickhead Dan Marino has picked against them 7 times. Those picks included all 3 AFC Championships and 2 of the 3 Super Bowls. Marino's fellow co-hosts commented that they knew he hated the Jets but didn't know he hated the Patriots too. Marino replied, trying to joke around, that he hated the whole division.

During the 2004 playoffs Tom Brady actually called Marino out on Inside the NFL, noting that he never picks the Patriots in a personal message. Brady said, "Well have to keep winning until he picks us."

The funniest thing about these series of anti-Pats picks is that during the Super Bowl XXXVI preview show back in 2002, Marino predicted a close game with the Patriots winning 20-17 on a last second Vinatieri field goal. The funny part is that after they shot the scene Marino made them re-shoot him predicting a Rams blowout because he didn't want to be wrong and look like an idiot at his new job.

Of course Danny boy did us all a favor, picking the Colts this Sunday.