The NFL Superbowl Thread! Back Again With Big Prizes*

My scorecard shows Thack at 18 points and picking the Patriots next week (by a final score of 35-28). LiontamerX is also at 18 followed by Ragman at 17 but they do not have a team in the Super Bowl. McGentrix is at 16 and has NE (34-24) while Tsarstepen is also at 16 and has NE (38-21).
George, Rhys, Region, Jespah have the Patriots but are too far back in the standings to have a chance of winning.
My intention when I set up the awarding of 1 or 2 points for predicting the final score of a game required a player to have at least 1 or 2 teams on the field.
CoinToss also has NE (40-30) but is also too far back.

Gargamel on another thread notes that in only 27 days pitchers and catchers report to training camp. Where's my glove?

I'm not sure whether or not you meant to write this exactly but I DO have one team in the SB - the Pats; however, I don't have the Pats as the winner as I chose GB Packers as winner.

Bad wording on my part. You along some others (including, most notably, Lion who has NE but picked NO in the Super Bowl) may have NE playing, but picked someone else to win. No one has the Giants. That means that you could add to your 17 points if the final score you picked (34-31) is closest but you won't catch Thack.

thanks

Meantime the superbowl has lost some luster for me (I'll still follow it and this thread) because midway through all this I turned out to be rooting for Baltimore and SF.. sob.

Next year!

There's no rush now, right?

i heard his timing got messed up because he thought the pates would call an 'icing the kicker' time-out...

Who is JRB? And I'm spendius although I'm usually known as spendi or spurious.

Spendius is the hero of Flaubert's stunning masterpiece Salammbo.

I'm nothing like that.

BTW fbeazer--why do you think I didn't lodge an objection to you missing a week as I did with panzade?

indeed.

I usually read you as Spurticus...

I used to know the last chicken sexer in England and he gave me a few tips.

The agricultural biologists put him out of a job.

We're next.

well, you couldn't make it a government job.

Hi, I'm the minister of chicken sex...

hehehe! One way or the other, he got iced and so did his Ravens!
Nevermore!

Hee Hee!

I have a team in the final and I'm nowhere.

Welcome to the club.....New Orleans was supposed to be playing the Pats, I thought.

If the world was spinning on it's correct axis, CowDoc. Unfortunately...

I projected Patriots v Saints as well.

But tis matchup is one I am very excited about.
And very worried about.

I looked at the line this AM and it's Patriots, giving away 3.
I thought the Giants would be favored, given recent performances.

Do I get any points for being a lifelong Giants fan ? Not that I really need any. I'm positively dumbstruck that they have gotten this far.

I've no idea ... I was providing light banter by quoting from "Ace Ventura." The "Nooooooooo" part was not to say the laces were not out, but that the kick was missed.