Happy Monday and a very happy Halloween to you all! I hope everyone enjoyed a fun filled weekend with plenty of Halloween festivities. While we were all dressing up and getting into the holiday spirit, there was a great weekend in sports going on.

We’ll start this week’s “Weekend Recap” in Chicago, where the World Series literally stole the spotlight from the NFL. The Fall Classic is certainly living up to its moniker, as this has been a tight and tense series to this point. Games 3 and 5 looked and felt like World Series baseball, where every pitch and at-bat mattered. This Chicago story though, is being upstaged by the Cinderella run of the Cleveland Indians.

Much of the media attention with this World Series has centered on the Cubs trying to break the 108-year championship-less drought. The Cleveland Indians look like a team playing with nothing to lose with a manager who can’t seem to make a tactical error. The Cubs on the other hand, have looked like a team that feels the pressure to win.

Of course, this series is not over though. In baseball they say that the last three outs are the hardest to get, well the same could be said about finishing off a series too. This last win could be tough to get for the Indians. Chicago gets Jake Arrieta and Kyle Hendricks pitching in Game 6 and Game 7 respectively, which is certainly to their advantage.

Prior to this series I picked the Cubs to win in 6, and obviously that’s not going to happen, although I think we could be in for something special here. I’m pulling for a Game 7 in the worst way now, and not because I want the Cubs to win. The MLB needs a Game 7 from Cleveland on Wednesday night.

Baseball has definitely taken a back seat to the NFL and NBA in recent years. Last night, a World Series game beat Sunday Night Football in the ratings for the first time in five years. That speaks volumes about the mainstream appeal of this matchup and the stories behind these two teams.

I will be the first one to tell you, the two best words in all of sports are “Game Seven.” A game for all of the marbles between these two teams could produce a classic that we will be talking about for years to come.

It’s not often that the NFL will play second fiddle to anything in popular culture, but rightfully football took a backseat this weekend to the World Series. That doesn’t mean that nothing great happened yesterday though. I’ll get more into the bigger picture of Week 8 tomorrow, but for now I’ll touch on a couple of things that caught my attention yesterday.

There was a ton of “free football” yesterday with three games needing overtime to come to a conclusion. London got its first taste of NFL overtime between the Bengals and Redskins. Unfortunately though, those fans watched as both teams mucked up the overtime period and the game ended in a tie (much to the surprise of Washington coach Jay Gruden, who just found out about ties last week). Somehow, there has now been a tie in back-to-back weeks for the first time in almost two decades.

Some analysts have been calling for changes to the overtime rules, but honestly that kind of talk is nonsense. Ties are a part of the game in the NFL, hell, just a few years ago Philadelphia tied a game that ended up helping them make the playoffs and they came a few plays short of making the Super Bowl.

The second overtime game of the day between Oakland and Tampa Bay looked destined for the same result after Sebastian Janikowski missed his second 50-yard field goal of the game. However with just over a minute left in overtime, Derek Carr connected with Seth Roberts, who broke away from two colliding defenders, on a 44-yard touchdown pass to win the game for Oakland. The Raiders stayed undefeated on the road, and kept pace with the defending champion Broncos in the AFC West.

For the second straight week the Sunday night game went to overtime. Philadelphia blew a ten-point fourth quarter lead, which led to the third overtime game of the day. Dallas won the toss and marched down the field capped off by Dak Prescott turning a broken play into the game-winner. A huge comeback win for the Cowboys now cements them atop the NFC East with a two-game lead over the Eagles and Giants, who will play each other next week.

Let’s quickly shift our focus tonight’s game between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears. Minnesota is coming off of a tough loss in Philadelphia last week and Chicago is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mike Zimmer ripped his team after the loss to the Eagles and I expect this team to come out tonight with something to prove.

Chicago may get back Jay Cutler tonight, which is an improvement over third-string QB Matt Barkley, but even that won’t be enough to beat this Minnesota defense, which I have said many time this year is up there with the likes of Denver’s defense.

The Bears just don’t have enough on either side of the ball to beat the Vikings tonight; I just can’t envision a scenario where they win. Fittingly this game is taking place on Halloween because this game could resemble the worst parts of a slasher film. Give me the Vikings (-5) to cap off a great week for my NFL picks (currently 8-4 for this week).

That’s it for me today, I hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween. I’ll be back tomorrow with “No Huddle” to go through all of Week 8. Stay tuned to Shooting the Moon all week for everything in the sports world. It’s the most wonderful time of the year with all four major sports going strong right now. Follow me on Twitter @thereal_jmooney and go like the Shooting the Moon page on Facebook.