Ha, Ha. It's Back! The A2K NFL "Pick-Um" Game!

Zowie, Orton to Stokeley. I was counting my Cincy chickens before they hatched..

I warned JPB, when she ran this, never call a game until it is over.

10 games over with. Congrats to MaPorsche who is 100% right so far. I have McGentrix, ElStud and Ragman as having only one miscue. A bunch of us (including Spendius) with 2 wrong.
And then, and then, there is Alex. He has 8 wrong picks out of 10 games. That is pretty awesome, dude. But George, Mysteryman and Rockhead with 6 each are close behind.

Only 2 of us here had San Francisco over Arizona. McGentrix and Osso.
Maporsche and McGentrix each have only 1 wrong pick so far. They disagree om the Bears-Packers game, as do the rest of us (18-10 Chicago).

I really wanted to go 16-0....oh well.

And not that I want to 'win' this week for the pick-um game....but I'm in a $5 weekly football pool with the same rules as this one that have over 70 players (so a $350 weekly payout)....if the Packers win I win THAT league. If they lose, I can still win but it comes down to MNF points (I'd need a low scoring game).

Maporsche is $350 richer today!!!!!!

I stood up and yelled when Jennings scored that TD, and once again with that INT. Freaked my dogs out.

WTG Maporshche.

W00p Maporsche!

I'm a great believer in the science advertisers use to refine their target audience so as not to waste energy (money) on those who have no interest in the product they are selling. Advertising pays the most in salaries and perks so it is a sound evolutionary principle that the best graduates will gravitate to advertising just as squirrels do to places where nuts grow best.

And they are very good at what they do which is, essentially, psychoanalysing the population on bonus schemes and other carrots such as access to ladies who are not obsessed with the virtues of our religion.

For example, Channel 4 weekday horseracing coverage is characterised very emphatically by an obvious focus on elderly people who find the alternative afternoon programmes too dreadful to bear and who are not short of poke. Walk-in baths, stair lifts, remote controlled garage doors, doubles, and conservatory blinds, pet food, lawn treatments, mattresses that sit you up in bed so that the smiling lady holding the silver tray on which are arranged jugs, toast racks, cups, glasses, bottles and plates etc doesn't have to stand there while you sit up yourself, and schemes to ensure you leave something to your loved ones when you have passed on ( a free carriage clock for calling the number at the bottom of the screen, which is an easy one to remember, such as 001-1112-3456, which is pulsating in white light bright enough to prevent people whose eyesight is not so good from seeing the "calls charged at 99 p per minute from landlines but network charges may vary" reminder, a legal requirement, which is in a corner and in rather nondescript lettering.

One might make a good guess what the audience is like taking it all in all, dividing by the number and arriving, scientifically, at a stereotype. It is different on a Saturday when plebian workers come into the reckoning.

Hence-and to my astonishment--the advert on the bottom of this page which is, as you might have noticed, for advice on debt problems. This implies that those attracted to threads with NFL in their title are statistically likely to have such problems and the stereotype is thus of a character of a dissolute nature given to gambling, drinking and other vices I will pass over with my usual discretion, a tendency to risk being as sick as a parrot to gain access to OTMS (Over the moon syndrome) with a forward pass and a sponge for advertising messages which are no longer noticed on the surface of the cerubellum.

To deny that is to deny the science and the expertise which led to the advert for debt problems appearing on this thread. The evidence is right there.

The fact that I myself have no debt problems makes the likelihood of the others on this thread having them that much more certain.

What would NFL look like if big advertising money was withdrawn from the game on the grounds that soccer is where it's at for a global audience which has no patriotic allegiance to home-made items. Joe's Gardening Services? Roofs Repaired? 24 hour Plumber? Pampered Pets Grooming Parlour.

Congratulations to Maporsche on winning the ca$h and for winning week #1 here. He is at 13-1 with 2 games tonight. McGentrix is right behind at 12-2. He has the same picks for tonight's games as Maporsche so will not be able to change the outcome.
Six of us are 11-3 and then there are a bunch at 10-4 and 9-5.
Alex is at 4-10 and George is at 5-9.
Full results - including how we compared to the self-proclaimed ESPN experts around this time tomorrow.
AND the schedule for week #2 will be posted.
Thanks for playing.

Thank you for all your work on this, rjb.

Seconded. I'm enjoying this so next time you go boozing rjb pretend the first one is on me.

thanks for all your work rjb and congrats to maporsche, the first week is by far the hardest to pick

It gets easier, Pan?

Ditto..

Rjb is sort of stuck in that he is so good at dealing with all of this and all of us'ns. His charm is, of course, his own damned fault. I've never met a spread sheet other than my own ancient handmade charts decades ago and even then I was better at outlines, for example. I would only gum the thread up into a panforte of confusion. On the nagging, I used to volunteer to be a primo nagger, but geez, we're all adults here, and some people post last minute for their own reasons. Those who actually forget to post and would like to be reminded are usually fairly few. On the other hand, I'm energetic at interstitial chatting, which is either a plus or a minus depending on the reader. So, carry on, John, please..

And carry on I will. I enjoy it, actually. It is a nice diversion from the real world, where I am involved in trying to develop 15 stories of real estate - a 9 and a 6 - and dealing with bankers, architects, bureaucrats etc. A big meeting tomorrow night in front of the Board of Architecture Review.
A year or so ago I was asked why we play this here when Yahoo has big whirling computers that can do the same thing. I did a bit of a survey and found that many folks would not play if registering on Yahoo was required. And the rules regarding missing some picks or making picks a little late were a bit too rigid.
And then there is the chat. We haven't really gotten going yet.

that's true, this is a very social pool.
I'm real proud you're doing so well as a developer. Is it in an area I would remember?

Me and Francis did a bit of chat and you came over like a New England school marm.

And I did a bit more earlier.

I like chat. Scuttlebuck. Have you committed adultery recently rjb?

I haven't so you needn't think it abnormal.

Tomorrow. 2 games tonight.

Okay.