TV: Amazing Race - Pedestrian Predictions

I was incorrect about the Amazing Race ending last week. Tuesday Dec 13 is the day of the two-hour finale. From the trailer for the final show it looks like the teams will go to the great northwest, search a stadium, and take at least one flight somewhere which may act as a bunching opportunity.

Ranking the teams
Linzs (I thought it would be Linzes but not in the CBS promos): 2-1
They may be the strongest team, but sometimes they can get cocky, and cocky teams have an odd habit of losing the final leg of the race.

Bransens: 4-1
Nice, boring teams don't win reality shows especially ones that have already won free gas for life and now a new car to fill up. If gas prices go up, and they learn to siphon the gas out and resell it from time to time, the prizes may be worth more than the million-dollar winnings. It looks like Daddy Bransen may fall victim to a needle in the haystack type challenge that brought down the Gaghans (who I had been rooting for). But the editors of the Amazing Race are good at throwing red herrings in their previews.

Weavers: 3-1
They may feel the power of Jesus is on their side while the other teams have treated them like lepers. They could be right(eous) in the end. Plus it makes Phil look like a prophet when he inspired the demoralized Weavers with good tidings of previous teams that had improved from worst to first after a non-elimination round. The Weavers' disadvantages are struggling at detours and occasionally not divining the swiftest path from point A to point B.

Now, I was ready to jot this all down last week, but I got, um...., distracted by the Victoria's Secret Show. The years when the broadcast was on the Internet, I didn't watch because I knew every one else would be. Plus how much detail can you really discern in a low resolution picture the size of a postage stamp. Then when they first appeared on network television, the shows were quite boring. After all, it was just people walking up and down on a catwalk. Even the bathing suit competition in the Miss Universe pageant lasts just one segment. If I remember correctly, the show was on ABC the first year. All I vaguely remember was that Rupert Everett was kind of unconvincingly leering as a host, and then he came out of the closet. When CBS took over the special, I guess they must have brought in the folks who did the Fashionably Loud events on MTV (who remembers House of Style with Cindy Crawford, then Rebecca Romijn?). Now the show almost elicits a seizure with camera switches every few seconds. But I guess that just adds to the distraction factor. Perhaps the theory was to move so fast that nobody would notice any wardrobe malfunctions (except for a shoe coming off). B-