What four weeks ago was fast turning into a cakewalk for the Junior Bro has suddenly become a contest again after Glenn picked up another pair of games on Sunday. With one week remaining on the season, Sean's once heady lead is down to a scant 1 game.

With four splits at stake in Week 16, it appeared that Sean had the inside track to defending or enlarging his 3-game advantage after Detroit ran up a 19-0 lead en route to a 25-20 victory over visiting Kansas City. But Santa's elves must have been sprinkling some of their pixie dust or whatever on the rest of the league. Cincinnati fended off a late rally by playoff-caliber Cleveland for a 19-14 win; San Francisco, which hadn't won but four games all season, dropped playoff-bound Tampa Bay, 21-19; and then Washington handed Minnesota its first defeat in seven weeks, 32-21, at the Metrodome on Sunday night. Three improbable outcomes that wrote an equally improbable chapter in what is becoming an improbable Gehlke Bros. season.

Glenn's 13-3 mark set the pace this week, while Ben went 12-4 and Sean was 11-5. There were no games that fooled all of us, but we agreed on plenty of winners: Pittsburgh, Dallas, Indianapolis, New England, New York Giants, Jacksonville, Seattle, Tennessee and San Diego.

SATURDAY ALERT: Fresh out of Thursday and Monday games, the NawFuL gods have served up a doozy on Saturday when the Patriots go for a perfect 16-0 season against the Giants at the Meadowlands. We'll have that pick on Saturday morning.