Ha! It's Back! RealJohnBoy's A2K NFL "Pick-Um" Game!

Yes, they do, region. The PAT is considered to be a part of the TD, except in overtime. The first score ends sudden death, so OT has no PAT. In regulation time, the PAT is attempted even after the clock has run out.

There is a thread on A2K devoted to DADT, by the way. Perhaps someone could post that video there.

So will Brett play tonight? Does anyone really care?

The field seems to be very questionable - they say - so that's what interests me most. I'm trying to remember from the days of yore when stadiums didn't have covers and snowfall was plentiful, whether playing while it snowed was any kind of big deal. They wouldn't have had coiled heating under the grass back then, and ice would have formed then as now.

Brett? I can't figure all that out - might be ceremonial, or, what? Mr. Drama.

I reckon I was thinking about the final score. Does snow inhibit the passing game, for example? Will the two teams spend a lot of the clock grinding out a few yards per play running?

But that cant apply in the new rules for the playoffs in the Superbowl. OT in those. Offense down 20-26 scores a TD and clock runs out. What then?

I think Cowdoc got it right. The point after a TD is an extension of the play before regardless of the time on the clock. In overtime, if the PAT is irrelevant, it is not played. But in your 26-20 scenario, it would be played.
By the way, JPB, with regards to my brother: He made it back to San Antonio after the better part of a week in Chicago. The temperature didn't affect him as much as the wind did. He met up with some friends there who invited him to go ice skating...at 10 pm...right by the lake. His reply was "Are you @#%+NG crazy??

I ice skated there in very cold temps as a kid - I remember it as - 7 F, pre windchill factor. (Cowdocs would just laugh. She thinks that's cold..) But, a) I was a kid, b) there was a warming hut on the South Blvd. and Asbury frozen over vacant lot, and c) there were a pitcher of hot cocoa and plate of about to be toasted marshmallows waiting for us.

I'll surprise you and give my ill thought out first rendition of choices, just in case I get all busy. You would be smart, RJB, not to put them on your chart in ink.


WEEK #16 SCHEDULE:

Carolina @ Pittsburgh Pitt
Dallas @ Arizona Dallas
NY Jets @ Chicago Chicago
New England @ Buffalo New England
Baltimore @ Cleveland Baltimore
San Francisco @ St Louis St. Louis
Tennessee @ Kansas City Kansas City
Detroit @ Miami Detroit
Washington @ Jacksonville Jacksonville
Houston @ Denver Houston, ugh
San Diego @ Cincinnati San Diego
Indianapolis @ Oakland Oakland
Seattle @ Tampa Bay Tampa
NY Giants @ Green Bay GB
Minneapolis @ Philadelphia Philadelphia
New Orleans @ Atlanta (+ final score) Atlanta 30-28

What happened to Favre? Head injury?
A second head injury - Madieu Williams?
Yikes.

Bed time for me. The Bears crushing the Vikings.
And Mysteryman appears to win the week!
Whoopee for the man in western Kentucky.

Sleep well.

Yayy for Mysteryman.

Damn!!!
I have won more weeks this season than I did in the last two seasons combined.
Thats ok, it will never happen again.

Yay Mysteryman!

Hugs for mutual comfort jes. I hoped you would win on the last rule of the tie-break system.

Oh aren't you sweet?

I have been told that more times than was good for me.

Yay goes out to Mysterman and all the close-to being winners. After all is said and done, we're all winners just by playing.

I certainly am. Fancy me risking all these years arriving at the Pearly Gates and being unable to converse with the gatekeeper about the NFL. And that was the sorry state I was in until I joined rjb's thread. And I'm ashamed to say it. Not that I ever criticised the game mind you.

To criticise the national winter game of a superpower is almost as bad as criticising the nitrogen in the atmosphere. It's an aid in weighing folks up.

When I won the Title last season I felt "Saved". If I win it again I shall probably feel canonised. If a bloke can't claim honorary American citizenship in that blessed state there's something gone askew.

WEEK #15 RESULTS-
Congratulations to Mysteryman, Jespah and Spendius for going 12-4. Mysteryman is the winner for the week based on the tiebreaker. He also won back in Week #7.
Fbaezer, Pansade, CoastalRat, Lmur and Johnboy finished at 11-5, with LiontamerX, Osso and EhBeth at 10-6. Bill, Cowdoc, Ragman, Region and Tico came in at 9-7 and Alex, missing a game, was 8-7. Rhys, McGentrix, George, Miz Cowdoc, AndyClubber and JPB broke even at 8-8. Edgar suffered through a 6-10 week.
CoinToss was 8-8. The best ESPN predictor was 12-4 while the worst was (snicker) 7-9.
As a group we had a success rate of just under 60%. That is slightly above our average for the year.

STANDINGS After 15 Weeks-
Time is running out. There are just 2 weeks left for this game.
1) Spendius (149-75 .665) stays in 1st and extends his lead from 1 to 3 games
2) LiontamerX (146-78 .652) remains in 2nd
3) Ragman (141-83 .629) holds in 3rd but has to share it with
3) EhBeth, who moves up from 4th
5) Panzade (140-84 .625) sticks in 5th
6) JPB (137-87 .612) drops from being tied for 5th
7) Osso (136-88 .607) is still in 7th
8) Region (135-89 .603) slips from a 7th place tie
9) Johnboy (.589) jumps two spots from 11th
10) McGentrix (.587) gives up one notch
11) AndyClubber (.585) moves down from 10th
11) CoastalRat advances one from 12th
13) Mis Cowdoc (.571) is up one place
13) Cowdoc is down one place
15) Tico (.558) is up one tick
16) Edgar (.556) slips just one spot despite a bad week
17) Rhys (.554) is down one
17) Lmur moves up two
17) Fbaezer does the same
20) Mysteryman (.554) gets only a one spot bounce
21) George (.548) slumps from 18th
22) Jespah (.531) stays in 22nd
23) Alex (.502) clears th .500 mark but is still in the cellar
--) BillW (34-14 .704) has a mediocre week after 2 very good ones

3) The best ESPN guy (.629) would be in 3rd here
20) The worst (.549) would be in 21st

Johnboy's weak picks for week #16:
Pitts
Dallas
NY Jets
New Eng
Balt
St Louis
KC
Miami
Jax
Houston
San Diego
Indy
T Bay
NY Giants
Philly
Atlanta (34-27)

CoinToss/CoinToss has Pitts, Dal, NYJ, Buff, Cleve, SF, KC, Det, Jax, Den, SD, Oak, T Bay, G Bay, Minn, Atl