Do you know what I was doing at halftime of Friday's Chattahoochee-Marist second round playoff game; besides eating the free pizza in the press box that is. I was on Expedia.com looking for incredibly cheap flights to Cincinnati.

You see, I only go home three times a year: for Thanksgiving, Christmas and my birthday – of course Christmas and my birthday don't really count because I only go home to get presents. Presents never get old. I'm 28 and I love presents now more than I ever have in my entire life. I would celebrate Arbor Day if it meant more presents.

Anyway, back to Expedia.com. Tim Altork was at the Roswell-Collins Hill game and he sent me a text that said Roswell was down 21-10 at the half. I was watching Chattahoochee get manhandled by Marist (they were down 28-14 at halftime), so I thought for sure I was going to have Thanksgiving weekend off (Oh, I think I left out an important part of this story: I have Thanksgiving weekend off if there are no North Fulton teams left in the playoffs).

In case you somehow missed the cover of today's Beacon or the front page of sports, Chattahoochee came back and won. Now on one hand, I'm losing my weekend off, but to be honest, I just saw my family last month, so Chattahoochee did me a favor by winning because now I can't go home.

However, because I'm not going home, this now means I have no one to eat Thanksgiving dinner with. I can't cook, I can barely make chocolate milk, and I don't know how to grocery shop, so making myself a turkey dinner is out of the question. So Chattahoochee families, since you're team kept me in North Fulton, I'm accepting offers to eat turkey at your place. Or you can just bring some leftovers to me at Friday's game. Either one works. And in case you're wondering, I really like sweet potatoes.

THE PICK

Speaking of Friday's game, lets get to the pick. There's a good chance that unless you’re a Chattahoochee coach reading this right now, you've never heard of Dutchtown. There in some town called Hampton and they're entire schedule consists of teams that I've never heard of.

Here's what I do know though, they only give up six points per game, they haven't surrendered a point in the playoffs and they've shutout four opponents this season. Are they going to shut out Chattahoochee? Unless Timmy Byerly injures his throwing arm while cutting turkey on Thursday, there's no way Chattahoochee gets shut out. They have too many weapons. Unless Dutchtown has 11 defensive backs, there's no way they can cover all of Chattahoochee's receivers (And if they employ 11 DB's, then they won't be able to stop the run).

Now, you probably haven't noticed, but I've hit Chattahoochee's score dead on the past two weeks. In round one, I said they'd beat Pope 42-21, they won 42-14. In round two, I said they'd beat Marist 31-21. They won 31-28. For round three, I'm going to say Chattahoochee 24-14. That means you can start buying your state semifinal tickets now.