2000 Football Pool Weekly Update

Week Seven

My goodness.

"Here are our Week 7 picks. I also have picks for two others (they think I am a good luck charm)." --Keen~A

It's as if Keen entered everybody's picks. 110 picks. 110 correct. I don't even know what to say. It's staggering. Have we possibly assembled one hundred and ten of the smartest football prognosticators since Jimmy the Greek? Eight different teams were selected as winners this past week and all eight of them came through.

"Dear NFL gods, Please don't let me go down in flames to Captain Comeback and his sidekick Moses Moreno. Amen." --Clark

The NFL gods smiled on everyone. They smiled on a Buffalo field goal kicker who MISSED the game-winning field goal only to be told it was a practice kick. They smiled on the Rams who gave up an opening kickoff touchdown return only to make history by returning the very next kickoff for a touchdown of their own. And speaking of smiling and Rams and history, their one and only kicker hurt himself on his very first kick, leaving the Rams with no official kicker on the field. The result? MORE points. A four-down offense and four-out-of-five for two-point conversions left many smiling faces in St. Louis and more new offensive records for the Rams. This just in: They can score.

"Has there ever been a perfect weekend before?" --Various

In the regular season, no. Last year in the playoffs all seven remaining contestants did have a couple of perfect weeks. But during the regular season there had never been a perfect weekend. The closest we had come to date was a 96% success rate. There was a week last year when 102 out of 106 people chose correctly. 'What week?' you ask? Oddly enough, it was also Week Seven. (Note to self: Vegas next year for Week Seven. Bet the favorites.)

So, of course, no one lost. No one died. No one fell. No ties were broken. No bottle-necks were eased. I feel almost silly in recapping them, but for the purists, here you go:

The standings...

00 LOSS -- 9 Back-to-Back Champs
01 LOSS -- 67 Perpetual Also-Rans
02 LOSS -- 34 Perennial Basement Dwellers
03 LOSS -- 21 Good 'n' Dead

FYI: New page on the website. If you click on the current Week Heading before Saturday, you will get a list of the remaining contestants organized by number of losses. (Yes, I need a job.) For example, this week click on "WEEK 8" at www.ducey.com/pool2000 and you will see who stands where going into Week Eight.

Fine week, ladies and gentlemen. I am proud of you all.

ducey

P.S. Picks by Saturday. No repeat picks.

Buffalo

Buffalo

Denver

Pittsburgh

StLouis

Indianapolis

PLAYER

Cattoggio

Clark

Dresden

Forte

Geyer

Glickman

Goldstein

Kennedy

Kramer

Lozano

Manoux~Ja

McCabe~B

Mootsey

ReimsFenton

Rice~G

Rice~R

Roth

Vaughan

Auby

Bishop

Cook

DeRosa

Distad

Drier

Flynn

Hochman

Jacobson

PLAYER

Jenks

Keen~W

Kleiner

Manoux~Al

Manoux~C

Manoux~JP

McKenzie*

Michalaks

Millord

Mulcahy

Oberheu

Ortiz

Price

Ramsey

Rudofsky~Ja

Shepard

Silverstein~Mar

Sitzman~D

Stein~J

VanZandt~A

VanZandt~L

Victory

Winer

Yang

Zelman~A

Zisk~C

Zisk~R

54

PLAYER

Johnson

Silverstein~Mt

Spina

Sullivan~N

White

Ciocca

Crudo

Dickshots

Ducey~Jo

Gonzalez

Keller

Kessler~G

King

Lund~K

O'Connor

Rosenthal

Rudofsky~Ju

Ruehl

Stein~T

Uliana

Ward

Weene

Youngs

23

PLAYER

Barley

Diako

Ducey~E

Lund~C

Mollen~T

Doyno

Ducey~Ji

Jensen~S

Keen~A

Manoux~An

Manoux~Jo

Spears

Speichers

13

PLAYER

Becks

Gamble

Sylwesters

Egan

Gomez

Rudofsky~G

Saiet

Zelman~D

8

Minnesota

PLAYER

Corboy

McCabe~E

O'Connell

Sullivan~J

Blake

Duguay

Schwing

7

PLAYER

Manoux~P

Abrams

Simone

3

Washington

PLAYER

Tabata

1

NYJets

PLAYER

Steck

1


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