2008 KFOG Football Pool

[RGMike]

Just to be different:

Urth  ARI  IND   MIA   PHI  53

well, in this case, different was good!

Wow!  SD proves almost all of us wrong!

Atlanta's coach wins Coach of the Year... and the Falcons lose.

Manning wins MVP... and the Colts lose.

 

[ggould]

Just to be different:

Urth  ARI  IND   MIA   PHI  53

well, in this case, different was good!

Wow!  SD proves almost all of us wrong!

And then BAL seals the deal.  After these 3 games, only 2 people in the whole KFOG pool have all 3 picks right.

[RGMike]

Just to be different:

Urth  ARI  IND   MIA   PHI  53

well, in this case, different was good!

Wow!  SD proves almost all of us wrong!

And then BAL seals the deal.  After these 3 games, only 2 people in the whole KFOG pool have all 3 picks right.

At least Philly came thru. Personally, I'm glad MIN lost; if you have trouble selling out a playoff game at home (the NFL extended the blackout deadline for them... twice!) then your fans don't deserve a championship (it's an indoor stadium, so winter weather didn't factor in).

[mshray]

In my Tri-Valley Times Sunday paper, the photo from the Arizona win was of a fan in the stands holding up a big placard which read:

Finally!  A Cold Day In Hell!


(In case you missed it - the Cardinals have now won two consecutive home playoff games.  The 1947 NFL Championship, and their win over ATL in 2009.)

[RGMike]

Playoffs Week 2:

RGMIKESF  TEN  CAR  NYG  SD  47

[Gazoo]

Playoffs Week 2:

RGMIKESF  TEN  CAR  NYG  SD  47

Joe Mama TEN CAR PHI PIT 37  <-- Pennsylvania Power, baby!

[ggould]

TEN CAR NYG PIT 45

no expectations after last week's meltdown.

[urth]

Urthwerm  TEN CAR NYG PIT  53

[RGMike]

Playoffs Week 2:

RGMIKESF  TEN  CAR  NYG  SD  47

Joe Mama TEN CAR PHI PIT 37  <-- Pennsylvania Power, baby!

Ha! I'd like nothing better, actually; ah loves me some Donovan M and Big Ben. But my crystal ball sez otherwise.

[mshray]

Even though I gave myself a 4 month timeout from football this year, I still have been keeping tabs on my favorite football website website www.footballoutsiders.com.  I mentioned them several times in the past, because both their stat analysis and their feature writng are excellent.  My favorite guy there is Mike Tanier, and here is an excerpt from his weekly predictions rundown:

Cardinals fans don't travel for playoff games.

There are three reasons for this: 1) There are no Cardinals fans. 2) The Cardinals never reach the playoffs. 3) There's no good reason to leave Arizona in January.

There are actually a few Cardinals fans in the world besides Will Leitch. There are some retirees in Glendale, the immediate members of the Hightower family, and some Cowboys fans in New Mexico who made a deathbed conversion on December 28th. There just are not enough Cardinals fans to cause a ripple in our nation's air traffic schedule. A US Airlines representative, quoted in The Arizona Republic, called the demand for seats on Phoenix-to-Charlotte flights "noticeable but light," just like the Cardinals running game. <rimshot!>

Phoenix travel agent Eldon Diamond, quoted in the same article, was less diplomatic. "I see zero demand. I think it's hard enough to get Cardinals fans to go to a game here.

Apart from the scarcity of Cardinals fans and the Haley's Comet-like novelty of their playoff berth, the fact remains that the trip from Arizona to North Carolina is no drive up I-95 to see Eagles-Giants. The flight is long, and the weather is unaccommodating. The 10-day forecast for Glendale calls for unrelenting sunshine and highs in the low 70s. Charlotte endured two days of rain and fog early in the week, with more rain and a high in the soggy 50's on tap for Saturday. Only a fanatic would endure a long flight, jet lag, and prohibitive travel costs (it's cheaper to fly to New York from Arizona than to Charlotte) to root for a 10-point underdog attempting a once-per-generation upset. All the Cardinals fanatics in the world could fit in one red eye flight, airport shuttle, and floor of a Ramada Inn, respectively.

(An aside: the North Carolina weather report was a public service for those of us who can never get an accurate forecast from that region because the girl on the Weather Channel is always pregnant. I don't know if it's the same girl, remarkably fecund, or possessing an elephantine gestation cycle, or if my preferred viewing time is the default shift for meteorologists-with-child. But I always seem to get my weather reports from a young woman late in her third trimester, her distended belly dangling in front of Kill Devil Hills, obscuring the coastal communities. A few years ago, a hurricane slammed into Cape Hatteras, but it was only detectable by ultrasound.)"

[Alicat]

Alicat
BAL  CAR  NYG  SD  44

[urth]

Bad day for all of us--Alicat's the only one that picked even one game right, and none of us picked Arizona over Carolina. Good thing this isn't costing anyone real money.

[ggould]

Bad day for all of us--Alicat's the only one that picked even one game right, and none of us picked Arizona over Carolina. Good thing this isn't costing anyone real money.

this day isn't shaping up too well either!  20-11 Philly with 10 minutes to play.

[RGMike]

Bad day for all of us--Alicat's the only one that picked even one game right, and none of us picked Arizona over Carolina. Good thing this isn't costing anyone real money.

this day isn't shaping up too well either!  20-11 Philly with 10 minutes to play.

Total wipe-out for me: the only game I picked to be an upset (SD/PIT) was the only one that wasn't. Kudos to Gaz's home state boyz.

[ggould]

Bad day for all of us--Alicat's the only one that picked even one game right, and none of us picked Arizona over Carolina. Good thing this isn't costing anyone real money.

this day isn't shaping up too well either!  20-11 Philly with 10 minutes to play.

Total wipe-out for me: the only game I picked to be an upset (SD/PIT) was the only one that wasn't. Kudos to Gaz's home state boyz.

methinks some bookies may have lost some money, although I don't really know how that works.