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Subject: Post season NFL pick'em contest


Date: Sat Jan 5 11:46:10 2019
User: poptart
Message:
Pick ALL games in post season, one week at a time. This week, pts are worth 2 pts. Games start today. Home away IND HOU SEA DAL LAC BAL PHI CHI

Date: Sat Jan 5 14:18:04 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I suspect you waited too long to publish this one, but just in case it picks up steam...…….. Colts to trample the Texans. (Note: this is intentionally different from my pick in the complete-season contest.)

Date: Sat Jan 5 18:42:01 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Dallas over Seattle

Date: Sun Jan 6 10:03:39 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Lightning Bolts hit the birds da Bearce smite da other birds

Date: Tue Jan 8 11:02:18 2019
User: poptart
Message:
I'm doing what I can, TN....

Date: Tue Jan 8 11:08:45 2019
User: poptart
Message:
TN week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA 2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 4 4 36
HUFFY week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard HOU IND -2
SEA DAL -2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -8 -5 12
SNOW week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard HOU IND -2
DAL SEA 2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
POP week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA -2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20

Divisional - 3 pts each
Away Home
IND KC
DAL LAR
LAC NE
PHI NO

Anyone interested can jump right in!

Date: Tue Jan 8 11:09:50 2019
User: poptart
Message:
that -5 up above in Huffy's is supposed to say -8. Fat-fingered.

Date: Tue Jan 8 11:18:55 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Brutal. Those *were* some tough games to pick. And I hesitate to point this out, but for this particular post-season contest (IF you're scoring it separately from the original one, which it looks like maybe you're not??), I missed the IND/HOU game (see "Colts to trample the Texans" above). I got it right in the ongoing contest, however. If you've decided for the sake of simplicity to combine the picks like I said you could, then thanks for that. Really sorry to be a pain. Not trying to be.

Date: Tue Jan 8 21:33:56 2019
User: huffy
Message:
My tips were crap but I did tip LAC over BAL, can I please have a score recheck. this weeks tips KC over IND LAR over DAL NE over LAC NO over PHI on my recent form that will wipe out most of the top teams

Date: Thu Jan 10 14:53:03 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Chiefs tame the Colts Rams trample the Cowboys Saints march over the Eagles And, despite thinking the pat's Pats will have an edge in possibly snowy Foxboro, I'm gonna pull for the Lightning Bolts to smite said Pats

Date: Thu Jan 10 15:15:31 2019
User: Snowguy
Message:
Colts Rams Chargers Saints

Date: Fri Jan 11 17:47:54 2019
User: poptart
Message:
Btw... Either thread. I'll find it.

Date: Fri Jan 11 17:51:29 2019
User: poptart
Message:
Huffy, I see your comment about a recheck. Will do. YE is brutal at work, and 🤒🤕😷😭 apologies.

Date: Tue Jan 15 13:03:44 2019
User: poptart
Message:
TN WROTE:
(IF you're scoring it separately from the original one, which it looks like maybe you're not??)

yes, I am keeping track of both. There is an added column between week and total, which says "post-seas".

TN week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA 2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 4 4 36
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NO PHI 3
LAC NE -3 6 10 42
HUFFY week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard HOU IND -2
SEA DAL -2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -8 16
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NE LAC 3
NO PHI 3 12 4 28
SNOW week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard HOU IND -2
DAL SEA 2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
Division IND KC -3
LAR DAL 3
NO PHI 3
LAC NE -3 0 -4 20
POP week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA -2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NE LAC 3
NO PHI 3 12 8 32
KAOS week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
Division IND KC -3
PHI NO -3
LAR DAL 3
LAC NE -3 -6 -6 -6

This week - Conference matchups for 4 pts each.
Away Home
LAR NO
NE KC


apologies for delay. Not only have I been sick (again), it's year end, and have been dealing with a sick dog. We had to put him down last night. I'm so incredibly heartbroken.


Date: Fri Jan 18 14:11:41 2019
User: poptart
Message:
NO NE

Date: Fri Jan 18 20:30:04 2019
User: Snowguy
Message:
NO KC

Date: Fri Jan 18 20:54:26 2019
User: huffy
Message:
LAR NE think that means TN has to tip LAR/KC

Date: Sat Jan 19 03:37:46 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Hmmm........not sure what huffy means by that.... I suspect he's referring to some advantage to be gained by taking the pics of the others into account. But that would be ignoring my strong desire for diversity of supremacy. And my strong Nawlins' affinity. Those certainly are some hard picks. Who's going to be better in the KC cold and wind - Brady or Texas boy Mahomes? One would imagine Brady, who's been tested and re-tested in such conditions. Hate to root for NE, but also am not a fan of boring, flat KC (sorry, bil). Yet having not won one in such a VERY long time, they need some love, right? (BTW............Hank Stram is the first person to use the term "Super Bowl". He didn't really like it, but it stuck.) Reluctantly (and I may change my mind tomorrow): Chiefs to scalp the Minutemen (knowing the odds are likely the other way) Nawlins' to out-party/out-pray the City of Angels

Date: Sat Jan 19 04:31:11 2019
User: huffy
Message:
Sorry TN just my unusual way of looking at things. There are only 4 possible combinations this weekend and the first three of us all went differently. The Rams/Chiefs combo was the only one not selected. I really like the way you have tipped much preferred to my suggestion. If I am totally right then you are totally wrong - huge turnaround for me. Of course if you are totally right then I am gonzo in a big way,

Date: Sat Jan 19 04:55:41 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Ah............permutations, permutations. If I didn't have any favoritism towards diversity of supremacy (somewhat socialistic, I guess - or at least egalitarian), and didn't have geographic biases, or biases against teams who've abandoned their roots (like the Rams twice, for example, as if one could call their stay in St. Louis "roots"), or biases against cheating, then I might see it the same way. Since I don't really have a home-town team, my slight loyalties side with teams geographically associated with their respective baseball teams that possess Native-American names: Cleveland and Atlanta - and thus also Redskins. I used to pull for both the BoSox and Patriots (but not the used-to-be-ever-dominant Celtics); but when Brady, Belichik, etc. began cheating (and winning too much), and the BoSox became mercenaries by selling themselves to the dreaded Yankees (after also becoming a rich and strong team)...............well.......... (I still like the city quite a bit, however.) So you say *you* have an unusal way of looking at things? Altho.........that said, I'm quite puzzled why more folks don't seem to share my (completely rational and sensible) biases - or maybe they do and just don't express it. So......at this stage of the season, altho it's quite exciting, more times than not I'm rooting against perennial victors, instead of 'for' a team. It just makes sports in general more interesting when the standings get shaken around some. But I'm pretty sure pop's Patriots will have the edge. We've just seen Brady do his thing this time of year about 4 or 5 too many times; I just can't stand the thought of 'wanting' them to win for this trivial (other than Denny's massive prize package) contest. Thus I'm "making" myself say Chiefs.

Date: Sat Jan 19 08:59:37 2019
User: poptart
Message:
I am always amused, and do an eyeroll, when people equate Pat's to being cheaters. Get a grip on reality. Yourteamcheats.com I'll be watching the game in the middle of the Caribbean!

Date: Sat Jan 19 10:55:37 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Just an observation

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/sports/football/new-england-patriots-super-bowl-cheating.html

Date: Sat Jan 19 13:36:30 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Bit of a follow-on from poptart's post and the yourteamcheats.com link: I read from top to bottom the Colts' and the Patriots' so-called cheating scandals, and I started laughing at the contortions that the authors were willing to assume to make their case. The perfect example is DeflateGate. The yourteamcheats website totally exonerates the Pats of any wrongdoing, going to great lengths (literally!) to convince the readers that NE is the target of an endless "they hate us" conspiracy by the entire world and all parties from NE were falsely accused. However, yourteamcheats actually says that the Colts were the guilty party and were cheating with deflated footballs in that very same game. ROFLMAO!!!! =============== TN: I am curious about your "slight loyalties side with teams geographically associated with their respective baseball teams that possess Native-American names: Cleveland and Atlanta - and thus also Redskins." Is this a backlash against pervasive PC pressures? Or, am I misinterpreting your point?

Date: Sat Jan 19 14:51:52 2019
User: poptart
Message:
Truth about spygate was that the infraction was the LOCATION of the filming. Y'all need to give the cheat chatter a rest. Its stupid. And no.... no exoneration. Only the koolaid drinkers think that. Even a bunch of QBs on other teams said it was stupid. My advise is to grow up and stop whining about it. Eventually the Pat's will be like the 'Boys... dynasty over. We are already headed that way.

Date: Sat Jan 19 15:03:49 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
No, not a backlash - altho I think this idea that "Redskins" is an offenive moniker in the way the D.C. football team uses it is nonsense. History, and multiple polls of Native Americans have certainly shown otherwise. That said, the team must bear a tiny amount of shame for having Lombardi as their coach for 1 year. *That* said, family friend Steve Spurrier coached them for a few years, too, altho not very successfully. *That* said, they're in our nation's capital, not quite the shiny example of Truth, Justice, and the American Way it's purported to be. Pretending to be on Jung's couch here (but not really)........................I must be quite an outlier on these things. I remember, at age 5 and 6, watching "cowboy movies", always rooting for the Indians. Disappointed 99% of the time, I vividly remember the shock, awe, and pleasure at one ending the opposite most all did. I can't remember the details, but it was amazing. In elementary school, I was much more fascinated by Lief Erickson, the possible early visit by Phoenecians, or whoever, prior to, and than, Columbus. I *always* sided with Native American sensibilities, and the sense of shame at what European invaders had done as they swept across this hemisphere. I almost got beat up, twice, in junior high school because I was rooting for our opponents in local high school football games because their nickname was "Indians". In high school, my senior paper was about the rampant injustices to Native Americans wrought by European invasions. And that was totally on my own, with zero outside influence. Although Andrew Jackson used to live, practice law, and have duels around here, I remember the further shame when in junior high school I learned about the Trail of Tears. So it was that when I was either 7 or 8 years old, I selected the Cleveland Indians as my favorite team, followed shortly by the Milwaukee Braves. And then transfered that to the Atlanta Braves, of course. *Nobody* was an Indians fan in this part of the world back then. I guess this is really related to why I continue to call out the cheating some players on this site engage in. I just CAN'T STAND someone taking advantage of others, in whatever form. I remember as an adolescent, in a neighborhood dodgeball game, getting ever-so-barely nicked by a ball, and calling myself out, even tho not a soul on earth could have known it, as I barely felt it myself. Later on, playing basketball, I twice tried to correct officials when they awarded my team the ball, even tho I knew I had touched it last before it went out of bounds. Once the official took my word for it and reversed his call. The other time, that official didn't, and despite my pleadings, gave possession to my team. Similarly, I lose a bit of respect for any coach or player that instinctively(?) tries to influence an offical's call on a ball-going-out-of-bounds play by pointing their arm in their preferred direction, regardless of what really happened. That kind of stuff is important to me; it's just the integrity of the game - which is a subset of integrity of life. I'm not trying to say I'm some kind of saint, as I couldn't pretend that, but in matters of competition, why play the game if not to measure oneself against opponents - fairly? The whole point is lost if that can't be maintained to the best degree possible. That's the whole concept of the phrase "level playing field" after all. Ok............I guess that was WAY too much about that! I can feel the truth serum effect starting to wane...................

Date: Sat Jan 19 15:55:11 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:
Knowing you, I assumed there was a thread of rebellious nature in your sporting-team allegiances, but I couldn't convince myself it was an anti-PC move. I considered some sort of fondness for or relating to Native Americans, so I appreciate you taking the time to give the details. Your post was coincidental with me finding out earlier this week that Stanford University used to the the Indians until a group of Native Americans successfully petitioned for a change in 1972. I'm guessing that Stanford was (please forgive me) the tip of the spear in this movement.

Date: Sat Jan 19 16:37:38 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Nice one on the spear. I don't know if Stanford was the first in the movement or not. When did Dartmouth change? Seems like it was about the same time. There's probably some others, too.

Date: Sat Jan 19 17:17:40 2019
User: TNmountainmanMUDstains
Message:
From an old thread entitled "The Chiefs have a lead": Date: Mon Nov 19 22:52:55 2012 User: TNmountainman Message: My support for the Browns initially came from the city of Cleveland - only for it being the home of a baseball team with a Native American nickname. Even as a young child, I realized that European immigrants had taken away this land from the original first peoples, and thus I chose to root for the Cleveland Indians and the Milwaukee Braves. Heck, I even pulled for the Indians in cowboy movies as a child. Also, I kind of detested Earl Weaver, so the Ravens lose a tiny amount of points for that, too. "Collateral damage", as they say...

Date: Sat Jan 19 17:24:42 2019
User: BuzzClik
Message:
The timeline is a bit fuzzy, but it could be that Stanford was the first to change its nickname away from a Native American reference. -- In 1970, University of Oklahoma dumped their mascot, Little Red. -- In 1971, Marquette got rid of mascot Willie Wampum. Dartmouth was under pressure in the late 1960s but did not succumb to changing from the Indians to Big Green until about 1974.

Date: Sun Jan 20 22:10:12 2019
User: Snowguy
Message:
It's the beginning of Overtime, pop. Are you still breathing into a paper bag?

Date: Sun Jan 20 22:21:20 2019
User: Snowguy
Message:
The luck of thhe coin flip rules again.

Date: Sun Jan 20 22:38:23 2019
User: huffy
Message:
Lucky I qualified for the final series. I’m in there with a chance now. It wasn’t until the top teams got serious that I hit my stride. Pop I am sorry to hear about your dog and I deliberately left this alone as I tipped both outsiders and if either of the favourites won I was out of contention and it would not matter. When you corrected my first round finals score you did correct the overall score but not the finals series score so I had a first round in the finals score of -4 but my total was left at -8. I should have started this round with +8. (minus 4 in the first week plus 12 in the second week) I think only you and I can win the finals series. I also think we will both be tipping the Patriots. Being from Australia I don’t have a team so if there are major injury outs I would jump ship but based on todays games I will be picking NE.

Date: Sun Jan 20 22:48:58 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
The two blatant no-calls on pass interference in the fourth quarter of the Saints/Rams were tragic. Sadly, now a "wrong" team is awarded a berth in the Super Bowl, so it's relevance is greatly diminished. And this is in no way sour grapes, nor has anything to do with the contest some of us have engaged in; it's just sad for the game/sport, and sad for those players who have dedicated their lives, in no small part, to achieve that goal. I don't think anyone wishes we'd go back to the days of no instant replay. It's been a great enhancement to the fairness and accuracy of the games. We just have to extend the system to referees' calls - 2 challenges a game, or something like that. This has happened in some March Madnesses, too, diminishing some of those, not to mention with balls and strikes calls in baseball, for which there is now a technological solution that needs to be implemented. The camera reviews work extremely well in tennis. The stakes are just too high in these matters to let such a magnificent display of human prowess be tarnished by clearly-correctable human error. A very sad day for the sport............and now we have a 'false' Super Bowl.

Date: Mon Jan 21 00:26:50 2019
User: poptart
Message:
there were bad calls and non-calls in both games. The NFL refs should be embarrassed. That roughing the passer call was horrible (against KC). but there were some holding calls not called also. Nobody wants to win on bad calls, and nobody wants to lose on bad calls. Huffy, I will check later. apologies. I thought I had corrected it. remind me which week? and thanks for the condolences.

Date: Tue Jan 29 02:18:14 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Science says...……….. (I present this only for entertainment value - not as factual evidence or to prolong the discussion. Only a cute story.) ------------------------- In addition to that, it seems that the momentum to have a rule change based on that super-critical pass interference play is picking up.

Link: Just a normal football/science report

Date: Tue Jan 29 14:35:06 2019
User: poptart
Message:
With the ever increasing points values post season, the numbers swayed big time. Interesting, and glad nobody bet the house! LOL

I didn't see any picks from Kaos this week.
Huffy: I did find the error in the spreadsheet and fixed it. It was the only week with a hard number in it.

TN week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA 2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 4 4 36
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NO PHI 3
LAC NE -3 6 10 42
Conference KC NE -4
NO LAR -4 -8 2 34
HUFFY week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard HOU IND -2
SEA DAL -2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 16
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NE LAC 3
NO PHI 3 12 8 28
Conference LAR NO 4
NE KC 4 8 16 36
SNOW week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard HOU IND -2
DAL SEA 2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
Division IND KC -3
LAR DAL 3
NO PHI 3
LAC NE -3 0 -4 20
Conference NO LAR -4
KC NE -4 -8 -12 12
POP week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA -2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NE LAC 3
NO PHI 3 12 8 32
Conference NO LAR -4
NE KC 4 0 8 32
KAOS week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
Division IND KC -3
PHI NO -3
LAR DAL 3
LAC NE -3 -6 -6 -6
Conference
0 -6 -6


Superbowl:
NE vs. LAR - 5 pts!

I pick NE. of course.

Date: Tue Jan 29 16:30:27 2019
User: bil
Message:
Chiefs Super Bowl LIV

Date: Tue Jan 29 16:33:36 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
I tend to agree - altho I would pick the Saints. I'm considering not picking one of the teams as a protest (as if....).

Date: Thu Jan 31 21:10:02 2019
User: huffy
Message:
I have not changed my mind from 20 Jan NE to win

Date: Sat Feb 2 23:37:25 2019
User: Snowguy
Message:
Rams

Date: Sun Feb 3 04:17:58 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
pop - I know it's a bit late to ask this, but I'm having trouble deciphering(?) the point totals for each contest. I suspect it's a moot point, but just in case it's not...……. Does one look at just the heading "post-seas" for that contest, and the 'grand total' for the overall season? Thanks. And sorry.

Date: Sun Feb 3 09:04:14 2019
User: poptart
Message:
post-seas is post season only. total points is from beginning of contest. if you want to look at just regular season, just go to that last regular season week, and the totals are there.

Date: Sun Feb 3 14:09:48 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Ok, thanks. So it looks like huffy has wrapped up the post-season contest, with both you and he (the only two with a chance) picking the Patriots. And the only way for me to win in the overall contest is to pick the Rams and hope. So I guess that's what I'm doing, even I tho I think the Pats most likely will win. I would actually like to take the "Snowguy flop" and not pick either, and be non-penalized for doing so, but I don't think that's in the spirit of the game. So with all that said........................Rams.

Date: Sun Feb 3 17:33:26 2019
User: Snowguy
Message:
Tempoary Eagles Fan revisited:

Link: Temporary Rams Fan

Date: Mon Feb 4 09:03:15 2019
User: poptart
Message:
that was the most boring superbowl I've ever seen. I've always watched at home, and as soon as game is over, I went to bed. This year, went to a party. It was loud, couldn't hear the TV at all, distractions left and right. Thankfully, it was a boring game, so didn't miss much this year, but going forward, I'm staying home.

Date: Mon Feb 4 15:42:35 2019
User: poptart
Message:
Regular Season:
32 pts TN
24 pts Snowy
24 pts Pop
20 pts Huffy

Post Season:
+21 pts Huffy
+13 pts Pop
-3 pts TN
-17 pts Snowy
* excl Kaos, since only one week participation

Full count:
41 pts Huffy
37 pts Pop
29 pts TN
7 pts Snowy

Post season really swung the contest. Huffy was a rockster post-season.

TN week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
Regular Season 32
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA 2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 4 4 36
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NO PHI 3
LAC NE -3 6 10 42
Conference KC NE -4
NO LAR -4 -8 2 34
Superbowl LAR NE -5 -5 -3 29
HUFFY week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
Regular Season 20
wildcard HOU IND -2
SEA DAL -2
LAC BAL 2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 16
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NE LAC 3
NO PHI 3 12 8 28
Conference LAR NO 4
NE KC 4 8 16 36
Superbowl NE LAR 5 5 21 41
SNOW week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
Regular Season 24
wildcard HOU IND -2
DAL SEA 2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
Division IND KC -3
LAR DAL 3
NO PHI 3
LAC NE -3 0 -4 20
Conference NO LAR -4
KC NE -4 -8 -12 12
Superbowl LAR NE -5 -5 -17 7
POP week # winner loser pts wk pts post-seas total pts
Regular Season 24
wildcard IND HOU 2
DAL SEA -2
BAL LAC -2
CHI PHI -2 -4 -4 20
Division KC IND 3
LAR DAL 3
NE LAC 3
NO PHI 3 12 8 32
Conference NO LAR -4
NE KC 4 0 8 32
Superbowl NE LAR 5 5 13 37







Date: Tue Feb 5 01:41:34 2019
User: huffy
Message:
Thanks Pop for running the competition. I was fun.

Date: Tue Feb 5 02:10:47 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Thanks much, pop. I know it wasn't easy for you. And congrats, huffy - you really did nail it in the playoffs. And pop, great comeback with those division picks. Not that it matters...……..but let the record show that I also 'picked' the Patriots to win their last two games, but couldn't stand to put those as my official picks. And I also 'won' the N.O.-Rams game, even tho it doesn't count, either. As to the game itself...…….I really liked it. Reminded me of an old-school pitcher's duel. Very nuanced strategies and wit-matching where the slightest things could spell the difference. Belichick clearly was the master puppeteer.

Date: Wed Feb 6 13:52:00 2019
User: TNmountainman
Message:
Now *this* is a Saints-less Super Bowl protest!

Link: If the Saints ain't playin'.........I'm outta here!

Date: Wed Feb 6 14:31:57 2019
User: joeygray
Message:
It felt like the Rams were lucky to be in it all game long; had a tiger by the tail feel to it. You always felt as if the Pats could stop getting unlucky any time and blow it open; conversely, you never felt like the Rams had any chance at a decisive victory, if they could win at all.


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