2003 Football Pool
Weekly Update

Week Six

"I dated a girl who loved the Titans. Then I broke up with her." --Goldstein (Ten)

So not only is chivarly dead, but it appears that karma is too. Goldstein and many others rode a good-old-fashioned bandwagon to an easy victory in Week Six. No one on the leader board picked a losing team. That is very impressive. I am glad to see that everyone is finally getting the hang of it.

"Baaa-aa-aahh. I'm bleating, you see. Like a sheep." --Keller (Ten)

And if you can't come up with your own winning picks, just join the pack. It really is a very simple pool. Now go out there and enjoy the rest of the season.

Unless, of course, you tried to outwit, outplay, or outlast the leaders with a slightly less bandwagon-y pick. Those folks did not fare as well, as the Jets joined the list of teams who refuse to be pushed around every week, Carolina stayed on the list of teams with no losses, and Dallas showed it is the class of the NFC East. (And when Dallas is the class of anything, you know it is an unusual season.) We lost 9 players this week. It is just a smattering, but it is sad when any one has to leave us. (I'll say this one more time: Those names are at the bottom of the big board, click on the tombstone to go to the graveyard.)

Current standings...
00 LOSS -- 33 Phone-a-Friend
01 LOSS -- 133 50/50
02 LOSS -- 138 Ask the Audience
03 LOSS -- 87 Out of Lifelines

And from the "no-sooner-do-I-mention-it-but-somebody-falls victim-to-it" files, Visconti~D fell from the leaderboard last week without picking a single losing team. How? you ask. Sadly, she picked the 49ers in both Week 1 and Week 5. As the person who spotted this mistake put it:

"The delicious irony is that the team she most unwisely picked twice was the decidedly mediocre SF 49ers; that she got two 'wins' from this looming trainwreck is a minor miracle." --Football Pool Watcher

Those two wins have become one win and one loss for Visconti~D. Let that be a lesson to everyone. Be careful out there, folks.

Ducey

Pool birthdays...
10/10 Kazan
10/18 McKenzie~C
10/20 Kahl


Week 6 Pick Totals
Total hits: 15
 
Tennessee
15 52 67
St. Louis
6 29 19
Baltimore
6 24 23
 
New Orleans
3 10 9
Miami
1 7 6
New England
1 1  0
Cleveland
1  0 1
Denver
 0 3 3
Indianapolis
 0 2 4
Tampa Bay
0 2 3
Seattle
0 2 1
Buffalo
0 2  0
Philadelphia
 0 1 3
NY Jets
 0 1  0
Kansas City
0 1  0
Dallas
 0  0 1
Oakland
 0 0 1
 
No Pick
1 0 1

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