According to the Christmas songs they play so often on the radio, I'm too busy "mistletoing" and "jingle belling" to make picks, but I will tear myself away from my "scary ghost stories" to pick these meaningless boring games.

DEN at HOU: Like the '72 Dolphins, I will pop the cork on the champagne once the Broncos are eliminated from the playoffs. I don't care how bad they are, they still scare me. DEN

CIN at SF: I could easily see the Bengals losing this one, but then they wouldn't finish the season at 8-8 and make it seem like they were actually respectable this year. CIN