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

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@CowDoc,

Thanks CD but I don't follow that. Who has the ball?

@spendius,

Essentially, the offense has the ball but loses yardage to the point they retreat into their own end zone, thus yielding two points to the defense. That make more sense?

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@spendius,

A safety (2 pts) is scored in one of 4 ways...

From the NFL rulebook:

Quote:

Examples of Safety:

(a) Blocked punt goes out of kicking team’s end zone. Impetus was provided by punting team. The block only changes direction of ball, not impetus.

(b) Ball carrier retreats from field of play into his own end zone and is downed. Ball carrier provides impetus.

(c) Offensive team commits a foul and spot of enforcement is behind its own goal line.

(d) Player on receiving team muffs punt and, trying to get ball, forces or illegally kicks (creating new impetus) it into end zone where it goes out of the end zone or is recovered by a member of the receiving team in the end zone.

In other words -- the offense gets nailed in their own end zone or they're trying to kick the ball away and it's blocked, pushing it out of the end zone.

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Right--okay. I think I have it now. Thanks CD and JPB.

Come on the Cardinals. 5 minutes to go and only 3 points adrift.

The London game was pretty good. A sell out. But do all the cheer leaders have teeth like the two they interviewed. I cringed.

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@spendius,

You look at their teeth over there?

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@CowDoc,

The English are afraid of dental hygiene.

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@CowDoc,

First off.

Don't they bite where you are?

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@realjohnboy,

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Favre (ankle) may have his remarkable streak of starting at QB broken today. Or he could, perhaps, come in for just one play.

Brent played quite well until he (literally) took one on the chin in the 4th quarter.
ol' randy (1 catch, 8 yards) was a non-factor...

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@Region Philbis,

I've never seen anybody with so much grey hair playing in a football match before.

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@spendius,

yeah, he's the oldest-looking 41-year old athlete you'll ever see...

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ooof! Al Michaels talking about "New Or-leee-ans" all night. Almost makes me want to mute the sound.

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@spendius,

The last couple of years George Blanda played, he was grayer than Brett is now. Oops - I think I just dated myself again. And I never got close enough to cheerleaders to find out whether they bite, Spendi - I always merely admired them from a distance. The guys who didn't play football got to be around them a lot more than I did. Of course, I then proceeded to spend the next thirty-five years looking at horses' teeth, which really didn't make up for anything else I might have missed out on.

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It is looking like another not so good week for us as a group. Wins by SF over Denver, Detroit vs Washington, Green Bay against the NY Jets and San Diego over Tennessee made my scorecard bleed red on Halloween.
Alex, Cowdoc and Spendius are at 9-3 with only tonight's game left. Cowdoc has Indy (31-21) as does Spendi (24-14). Alex picks Houston (14-7).
It would be quite a coup for Alex if he wins. He is 22nd in the rankings, and he like Cowdoc has not won a week. Spendi was the winner in Week #6.
JPB, in 1st place, and Liontamerx, in 2nd, are 7-5 and both have Indy. Regardless of the outcome tonight Spendi will pick up 2 games in the standings.

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@realjohnboy,

realjohnboy wrote:

Regardless of the outcome tonight Spendi will pick up 2 games in the standings.

That's rather unfortunate.

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@Ticomaya,

You are obviously not up-to-date on relativity theory Tico. And complementarity.

I trust you don't use the word "unfortunate" when a fleet footed winger dances past you in a blur of mystifying step-overs and feints, gets to the by-line with you floundering in his wake, and crosses to the striker coming into the penalty area who drills the ball into the far corner of the net just out of reach of the goalie's despairing fingertips to win the match, previously a sluggish mid-field stalemate, this is the second minute of 3 minutes OT, 1-0.

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@JPB,

JPB wrote:

WEEK #8
Denver
Dallas
Miami
Kansas City
Washington
St Louis
Jets
San Diego
New England
Arizona
Oakland

Pittsburgh - Maybe the Saints will win if I don't pick them...

Indianapolis (21-17)

Taking one for the team (or losing one, as the case may be) also means giving one to spendi, it seems. Oh, well...

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@spendius,

Can fingertips feel despair? Does a goldfish in a bowl get lonely? Does a bicycle get cold in the rain? Are leaves scared of heights when they fall.
Deep thoughts.

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@realjohnboy,

Much as I hate to say it, johnboy, upon further review, I'm pretty sure I'm actually 8-4.

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@CowDoc,

Ooops. It's AndyClubber's fault! He told me this morning that Arizona won.

Wholesale correction coming up.

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