This has been a week of things happening that I didn't see coming. The Browns beat the Giants. I didn't see that coming. I discovered that Chris Rock has a brother who looks quite a lot like him, except more GQ, and who is also some sort of comedian and who has some show on Comedy Central. It's kind of like Eddie Murphy's brother, except without a memorable skit on the Chappelle Show. I didn't see that coming.

I'm not really going anywhere with that. It's just happenstance that I saw the commercial for the Tony Rock show before I started this writeup. Just like it's happenstance that Chris Rock's Bigger and Blacker is playing on TV right now. It seemed like the world was telling me that this was a Rock family sort of night. Or, at least, Comedy Central was telling me that.

But I can't really lay down some quotes from Bigger and Blacker. It's just not appropriate. On second thought, maybe I just should have written this thing about Little Big Planet. There's nothing inappropriate about that game. Heck, it's downright cute! It's just happenstance that a Little Big Planet commercial just went by on the TV a few seconds ago.

Now, at first glance, it appears that I'm writing this intro stream-of-consciousness-style based on whatever happens to be on TV, that I have no focus, that I'm just plain not trying. But that's only half true.

In reality, I have this whole thing tied together. I bet you didn't see that coming (see, I tied it together right there).

Now, let's see what we didn't see coming with the results*.

 Philadelphia @ 49ers

1. Ninerfromacrossthepond (12)
2. JerseyNinerFan, marcello (20)
3. albertoleecho, UnleashTheGore, groug, good as gold, Josh from Hollywood, Niner Fan Lost in WI (26)

New England @ San Diego

1. SuperFly, Niner Fan Lost in WI (6)
2. JerseyNinerFan, ro128487, sam23 (14)
3. sancho8297 (18)

New York Giants @ Cleveland

1. good as gold, StrictlyFootball, Niner Fan Lost in WI (20)

Chicago @ Atlanta

1. wjackalope (2)
2. ro128487, Fooch (4)
3. albertoleecho, illini49er, CB30, Vote4Gore

Green Bay @ Seattle

1. bayboy, albertoleecho, illini49er, sam23, Vote4Gore, Mike Hawk (6)
2. ro128487, 49erLou, howtheyscored, StrictlyFootball (8)
3. marcello (10)

Dallas @ Arizona

1. ro128487, 49erLou, sancho8297 (6)
2. Niner Fan Lost in WI (8)
3. StrictlyFootball, Mike Hawk (14)

Which makes our week 6 leaderboard look like this:

1. wjackalope – 31
2. albertoleecho – 22
3. Niner Fan Lost in WI – 21
4. marcello – 19
5. 49erLou – 18
5. proudcanadian99 – 18
5. StrictlyFootball – 18
8. good as gold – 15
8. howtheyscored – 15
10. Vote4Gore – 14
11. bayboy – 13
11. Mike Hawk – 13
11. Ninerfromacrossthepond – 13
14. 408 – 12
14. CB30 – 12
14. Fooch – 12
14. illini49er – 12
14. jtoj – 12
14. Netsky – 12
14. sam23 – 12
21. Number22Drew – 10
21. sfgfan – 10
21. youngbuckeroo – 10
21. Josh from Hollywood – 10
25. montasmob69 – 9
25. mojorisin’ – 9
25. Ninjames – 9
25. ro128487 – 9
29. groug – 8
30. JerseyNinerFan – 7
31. PHUT! – 6
31. SuperFly – 6
32. etb2 – 5
32. gatling – 5
32. J2daZ – 5
35. Ali4President – 4
35. camwoody – 4
35. sancho8297 – 4
38. Rishi – 3
38. shlecko – 3
38. The Golden One – 3
38. UnleashTheGore – 3
42. Ceradecke – 2
42. KingofDucks1987 – 2
43. DiegoAsFan – 1
43. jfainsf49 – 1

Let me tell you something. I ran these numbers yesterday, and I had no idea how much movement happened this week. I knew we had a lot of players taking home at least 3 points, but I didn't foresee a first-week player stealing 9 points to jump right into the thick of a group of players who have been plugging away every week.

But there was a lot of movement. Two players jumped into the top ten, where they hadn't been before. Congratulations are due to good as gold and to Vote4Gore for taking that step. Then I look and I see other players who had really good weeks: Ninerfromacrossthepond, Niner Fan Lost in WI, 49erLou, Mike Hawk, JerseyNinerFan, sando8297... all these players can be proud of the week's they had.

Even wjackalope, who only scored in one game, managed something special by becoming the first player to go over 30.

And then there was me and Fooch. I only mention us today because I always mention us. After my [mumble] bad week in a row, I'm going to be out of the top ten next week if I don't actually, you know, score. And we all know how Fooch is biding his time, but I'm starting to worry that he's waiting too long. I'll give him credit if he plays this ruse straight into week 17, but I just don't know if it's the right strategy. Seems kind of like a Nolan strategy to me.

In any case, The Daily Show is on TV right now and funny stuff is happening, so I'm leaving.

* Frankly, I can't believe you read this far before jumping to the results. Couldn't you tell that I was just spewing crap?
** You're going to drive yourself crazy trying to find the double asterisk above that this is referring to. I win this round.