The NFL Superbowl Thread! Back Again With Big Prizes*

I have an invite out to someone most of yall on A2K know and is either online or has been online very recently (hours).
It is a bit of a tough sell, asking them to flip a coin numerous times without a lot of explanation as to why they should do that. I often drop in your names, for better or for worse, to try to make them feel more comfortable about playing along.

is it H2O man?

cuz my name won't carry much weight with him...

Saturday, Jan 14th-
GAME #1 New Orleans: 28-42
GAME #2 New England: 42-7
Sunday, Jan 15th-
GAME #3 Baltimore: 21-14
GAME #4 Green Bay: 45-3

Sunday, Jan 21st-
GAME #5- GAMES #1 and #4: Green Bay 21-20
GAME #6- GAMES #2 and #3: New England 35-21

SuperBowl Sunday-
GAME #7- New England: 38-31

I suppose Spendius will agree.

The game should not be named football, but handegg



My picks, later today.

New Orleans 24 San Fran 17
New England 31 Denver 17
Houston 14 Baltimore 21
New York 28 Green Bay 34

New Orlands 34 Green Bay 31
New England 21 Baltimore 17

New Orlands 34 New England 31

I totally support this.

Good afternoon. 24 hours until the next round of handegg. I am still looking for picks from Mysteryman, Tico, Rockhead, EhBeth. Fbaezer, Thack and Soupkitchen.
CoinToss tells me this afternoon that we have successfully rounded up a celebrity picker. I asked CT to hold off posting until I clarified whether it was all right to use the picker's name. That just came in.
CT expresses disappointment about not being eligible to get any points for predicting the final scores of the games. Points are awarded for being closest to the actual scores.
I came up with a plan. I need a player here to offer to invest about 3 minutes of coin flipping. Thanks.

Don't know how I left the Ravens' point total off against the Pats. I meant to give them 10.

Hello to everyone on A2K as we head into the final phase of this game. I wish everyone the best of luck. In my case it is all luck.
Did you know that the U.S. Treasury is reporting that banks sent back to the Fed a record number of surplus coins this holiday season? Piggy banks got raided, evidently. I wonder about my future sometimes.
I am pleased to announce that Johnboy went through his Rolodex and found a celebrity A2Ker to pick for me through the rest of the playoffs.
Joe(tththth)Nation from NYC. Johnboy "met" him a fair number of years ago when Joe, whose name is not Joe, prepared for and ran in the NYC marathon.
Anyway, Joe flipped for me and here are my picks:
San Francisco
New England
Green Bay
Houston

New England
San Francisco

New England

Packers distraction -
But I will not change my picks.

With the recent news of Green Bay Packers offensive coordinator Michael Philbin's son, Josh Philbin, losing his life this past week, the team as a.....

Saints 24 49ers 20
Pats 31 Broncos 10
Ravens 27 Texans 13
Packers 27 Giants 24

Pats 27 Ravens 21
Packers 45 Saints 30

Packers 38 Pats 31

They'll all be very fine handegg games!

This week:
NO 31-21
NE 34-13
Bal 20-16
GB 34-20

Next week:
NE 24-13
GB 45-38

Superbowl:
NE 35-28


Or something

Thanks, Fbaezer and Thack. We are at 20 players with about two hours left until the deadline. There is still a chance we might hear from Mysteryman, Tico, Rockhead, EhBeth and Soupkitchen.

Each player (including me) who correctly picks a winner in this weekend's four games gets awarded 3 points. In addition, the player who comes closest to picking the final scores gets some points. I mused that I wished that I could somehow be included in that aspect of the contest here. Johnboy worked out a scheme to allow me to do that. It is too complicated to explain, but here are my bets for the final scores:

I'm back a page

http://able2know.org/topic/182150-9#post-4859393

I missed that EhBeth. Thanks.
So the first game is New Orleans @ San Francisco. McGentrix is the only player picking the 49er's.
Six of us think the Saints will win the Super Bowl. AndyClubber claims that they can be very good or not so good. They lost last year early on in the playoffs to Seattle, he says. I didn't check to see if that is correct.
The weather today in SF looks great.

Saturday, Jan 14:
GAME #1: New Orleans 36–23
GAME #2: Denver 24–21

Sunday, Jan 15:
GAME #3: Baltimore 27–21
GAME #4: Green Bay 39-21

Sunday, Jan 21:
GAME #5: Green Bay 40-34
GAME #6: Baltimore 27-21

Super Bowl:
Baltimore 30-27

So this weekend's handegg will be starting soon.

Putting a pot of soup-to-be on the stove to simmer.

Oh, my. SF up 14-0?