The A2k NFL "Pick-Um" Game Is Back!

The Replacement Officials Handbook, a slideshow...

excellent

So Sorry for the delay. Was hit in the head by a bat playing softball last Thursday and haven't quite been myself. So I will use that as an excuse if my picks are really off the wall this week. lol

Baltimore
Houston
New England
Detroit
Atlanta
Seattle
San Francisco
San Diego
Denver
Arizona
Cincinnati
Green Bay
Washington
NY Giants
Chicago (24-21)

Good ... now we can complain about the regular referees.

THU, SEP 27
Cleve at Balt

SUN, SEP 30
Carolina at Atlanta
NE at Buffalo
Minn at Detroit
SD at KC
Seattle at STL
SF at NY Jets
Tenn at Houston

Sun, late afternoon
Oakland at Denver
Miami at AZ
Cinci at Jax
Wash at TB
NO at GB

Sun, evening
NY Giants at Phil

MON, OCT 1
Chicago at Dallas
24-19

Ouch, Coastalrat. We hope you are okay.
We are all in this week except JBLosman. A few hours to go yet.
All of us are choosing Baltimore tonight except JPB who is going with Cleveland.

I hope someone's got a better reason than mine (John Waters).

So who are you now?

Trash talking from MMan.

Yeow! That must have smarted.

Always remember, always make sure you got bat-room.

Seriously, I hope that you're ok and there was no concussion.

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I sure hope you're feeling better soon.

Well done JPB. +$5. All the rest --$5.

Cool pick. Thanks everyone for the concern. I am actually doing pretty good. Headaches come and go still, but not as much the last couple of days. It was a pretty deep gash just above my eye that required 2 inside stitches and 6 outside. But we don't think I suffered a concussion. I feel a bit better each day. So that is a good thing.

Although, as I was being questioned immediately after getting hit, I was asked if I knew where I was. I answered and then was told that I was really at a Justin Bieber concert, at which point I asked that someone please hit me again. So at least I kept my sense of humor as I lay there bleeding all over the dirt behind home plate. lol

the hazards of playing catcher... glad you're ok!

Yeah, it was the first time I had caught in over a year. But neither one of our regular catchers was there, and we had someone else who could play 3B, so I volunteered.

On a side note, I know my wife and I have been married a long time, but I didn't realize just how much she was used to my getting injured playing softball (I've had one or two injuries over the years.) When my son called her to tell her I'd been hit in the head by a bat and was headed to the emergency room, her response was, "Ok. Well, I'm going to bed now. Tell your father I'll see him when he gets home."

I love my wife.

I can relate. I regularly get the living hell knocked out of me working cattle, but few people in corrals cut anybody any slack for minor injuries - and anything short of decapitation is usually considered minor. Rule of thumb: "If you're lookin' for sympathy, you can find it in the dictionary - somewhere between **** and syphilis."

You got me laughing..

And you did too..

As we used to say, "No autopsy, no foul."