JUST LIKE OLD DAYS
Week 5 reminded Weinkopf.com poolers of the 2001-02, era, when names like Jersey Girl (then Hoboken Headhunters) and SLP1313 (Wildstyle 75, I think), dominated the standings each week. The two ladies took the 1 & 2 spot, respectively, this past week, too. And a pool newcomer, Ow 'bout dem Cowboys! Jr. won the kiddie pool. But keep an eye on Steel Train and Mo-J & and K-Ro, who lead the adult and kiddie pools overall ...
posted by Chris Weinkopf @
2:06 PM
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10/11/2006  |
OH BROTHER
He's a monk, he's in Rome, and he made all his picks at the beginning of the season -- before seeing any of the spreads. And yet Br. Chrysostom was the winner of Pool Week 4! And second in the week was the two-year-old Ow 'bout dem Cowboys! Jr., this week's kiddie-pool winner.
So much for all us "informed" poolers!
posted by Chris Weinkopf @
4:45 PM
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10/3/2006 |
CBS IS EVIL
So here we are in the L.A. market, with no local pro football team -- a blessing that ought to guarantee us the best game on TV each week, right? Wrong.
At 1 pm this Sunday, evil CBS has decided NOT to air New England v. Cincinnati, a clash of two first-place teams and division champions with but one loss between them. Oh no, instead, it's decided to inflict upon the poor people of Southern California the Browns v. the Raiders. That's right, the clash of the bottom-dwellers, two miserable franchises with not a single victory between them.
Egad. Why in the world would anyone prefer to watch this? So we can know who will get the #1 pick in next year's draft?
Yes, I understand that there are some truly pitiful, benighted souls in the Southland who still pine for the Oakland Raiders. To which I say, get a life, guys. Al Davis dropped you like a bad habit. You've been dumped. Move on. This hanging on to love lost is pathetic. Especially because your team is AWFUL. Horrendous. Atrocious. Abominable. There aren't enough words in the dictionary to describe such consummate badness.
If you want to put on your Darth Vader costumes and watch the game in your parents' garage, then for crying out loud, buy the dish. The rest of us shouldn't have to put up with games this bad polluting the airwaves. (Surely this is an FCC violation of some sort, no?)
Come on, CBS. Relent. Stop catering to the Raider dorks. Let the rest of SoCal watch some real football. Or be known forever as The Evil Eye.
posted by Chris Weinkopf @
11:53 AM
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9/27/2006 |
THE WEEK THREE CURSE
Week 3 is, in my experience, always brutal. Through weeks 1 and 2, we are lulled into forming certain impressions of teams that, invariably come week 3, get shattered. The result is a dismal performance all around, where 63 points can carry the week, and yours truly racks up a pathetic 19. (Less pathetic, though, than Beacb Bums' 12 -- both of us only picked 3 games correctly.)
So we shouldn't be surprised that the week's top performer, I Can Throw a Touchdown, comes from the kiddie pool -- that makes two of three weeks so far! Congrats, ICTAT! Second-place also came from the ranks of the very young, namely my own Mo-J and K-Ro. We have to go all the way to the #3 spot to find the top-performing grown-up in week 3, and that's Big(ger) Sankas!
Congrats are in order for Sankas -- but not for his ho-hum 58 points. No, the real happy news in Sankas' life is ... the birth of his fourth son! Congrats to the whole family -- your D-line is now complete! (Assuming you're using the 4-3.)
Click here for a pic of (not so) little David.
posted by Chris Weinkopf @
12:27 PM
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9/26/2006 |
BELATED KUDOS
To Canes fan, who tore through week 2 of the Weinkopf.com Football Pool with 108 points! Honorable mention also goes to Ow 'bout dem Cowboys! (105 points) and The Bart Starrs (100) -- anyone who can crack the century mark has my respect.
Congrats also go to I Can Throw a Touchdown, who won the week in kiddie pool!
Now on to week 3. If anyone can crack 100 on a 14-game week, I'll be really impressed!
posted by Chris Weinkopf @
5:03 PM
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9/22/2006 |
BEST BACK IN THE DRAFT, II
Pats nearly blew it against the Jets today, but Laurence Maroney continues to out-perform a certain SC alum playing in New Orleans ...
----------Rush Yds Avg Lng TD FumL
L. Maroney 16 65 4.1 14 1 0
R. Bush........6 05 0.8 06 0 0
posted by Chris Weinkopf @
4:30 PM
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9/17/2006 |
PROUD PAPA
The winners in Week 1 of the Weinkopf.com Football Pool were none other than Mo-J & K-Ro, the team consisting of my 3-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son. That's to say they didn't just take the "kiddie pool" portion, they took the whole prize. Dad, FWIW, didn't do quite so well -- finishing 12th place or some such in the group, just shy of the middle. Oh well, at least I can live vicariously through my kids' triumph ...
For what it's worth, the top-scoring adult in Week 1 was Steel Train. (Good job, Lyndon!)
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2:24 PM
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9/12/2006 |
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