All picks due by 7:50 p.m. EDT Thursday, September 27th.Let's just add this to the list of things the NFL's idiotic nickel-holds-up-a-billion-dollars referee lockout has ruined.
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should we just call it Odinsleep?
Starshine
either he went with a smile or that's Joker gas
ScubaSteve
three and oh crap
Tribephyl
attempted to train their dragons
MaxHeadroom
hid in bush just before terrified mistrained dragon got there
Byoffer
it's not as if a little teenage mischief from a reverted deity of chaos could hurt anything, right?
Estee
nervous condition
VisionQuest
choked on artificial zebra
KidFlash
We all warned Wally about that appetite.
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Right. Everybody. A combination of upsets and escaped Foot Locker employees just wiped out the field. In Week #3. Which means I have to design an eight-way lose-off. If I wasn't totally against frivolous lawsuits, I would so totally be dragging the NFL into court right now for mental distress...
*looks at schedule*
So naturally it's a @#%^ing bye week for two teams. So much for even division.
Okay, clearly finding a way to work this out in one week is either going to wind up a majestically unfair or take a lot more math skills than I've got. So we're going to start by playing Schedule Round Robin.
(No, not you.)
Starting with the Thursday game and working down the schedule, I will assign the first person in line the first three games of the week. This player must pick the loser for all three. (Previous picks are wiped, as if it really mattered when we didn't get to Week #4). The next person in line will get the last game of those first three, plus the next two in line. When we reach Monday, we cycle back up to the top. And so on through the player list. This means everyone is going to have some game(s) in common with others, but no one will have an exact duplicate.
In order to advance to next week's second round, you need to get at least two of your assigned games three right. And should the artificial zebras wreck things to the point where every player gets all their picks wrong, I give the hell up.
The first player to make a pick last week gets the first three games, and we continue in order from there. So...
KidFlash
Cleveland at Baltimore
Carolina at Atlanta
New England at Buffalo
Starshine
New England at Buffalo
Minnesota at Detroit
San Diego at Kansas City
Scuba Steve
San Diego at Kansas City
Seattle at St. Louis
San Francisco at New York (Jets)
Tribephyl
San Francisco at New York (Jets)
Tennessee at Houston
Miami at Arizona
MaxHeadroom
Miami at Arizona
Cincinnati at Jacksonville
Oakland at Denver
Byoffer
Oakland at Denver
New Orleans at Green Bay
Washington at Tampa Bay
VisionQuest
Washington at Tampa Bay
New York (Giants) at Philadelphia
Chicago at Dallas
Estee
Chicago at Dallas
Cleveland at Baltimore
Carolina at Atlanta
*sigh*
And yes, there was a moment when I considered blowing the whole thing up and starting over. Unfortunately, that's kind of hard to do when your hands go right through the detonator...
What fools these refplacements be.
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