An Appetizer or Meal

The only thing I enjoy more than winning a week myself is when  someone else wins with a username I can work with. And lets face it I can count on one finger the number of weeks I have won in the past five seasons so when a usable names win it is an treat.  This week "Riblet" took home the bacon  ... ribs with a 10 win week. It was a vanilla, nothing all that great week, not so bad week for most people our little pool. Of the 126 players 87 players had between 7-10 wins so almost 75% of us were withing 3 games of winning.  If you started the week in the top 9 you finished the week in the top 9. The only player who dropped out of the top 10 was "uncle billy" which is just a really creepy nickname to use in this pool. Last seasons overall biggest loser  and season last place "winner" "Tabaccy" continues his impressive turn around, he  is up 2 spots into 8th place.  This begs the question, if "Tabaccy" finishes the season in the top 10 after being dead last a year ago is that the greatest accomplishment ever in this pool?  Last season he said he was trying to lose and he did and now he is trying to win and he is. I need a ruling on this and I need it now!


Meanwhile the "Suck for Luck" campaign is going strong. Three teams win no losses,   five teams with one win  so I can leave my shoes on and count,eight teams have a combined 5 wins and we are at the 40% point of the season.

In Survivor last night the said farewell to SPOILER ALERT 22 year-old "Mikayla Wingle" and you probably don't get why this is important.  Besides the fact she has a really cool name Mikayla plays  for the Tampa Breeze of the Lingerie Football League?  Has been in playboy and was the hottest girl on the island where you have nothing to do but talk and look at each other.  If I was sent to an island and could bring three things with me Mikayla would  be one of the items.  And they vote her off.  Barbaric!

But I'm not on a island I am here playing in our Survivor version.  Once again this week we lost three players who choose not to make a pick.  But what is worse, not making a pick or picking a team twice which is what "BGW" did which gave him loss #2 and an early shower.  Really, at least the three people who didn't make a pick could have an excuse but what excuse do you have for actual picking a team that you just picked two-weeks ago. Loser!  But we still have 40 players left, 8 with no losses.

Random fact of the week, Tom Brady has not lost a home regular season game since November 12, 2006. Think about that - 2006. Yea sure he is 2-2 at home in the playoffs in that same time frame so save your facts they don't work for my point.

This is a rudimentary list of things that happened in 2006:

The Celtics sucked, so did the Bruins ... Barbaro won the Kentucky Derby and was still alive .. so was Anna Nicole Smith (they both died the same day in 2007).  GW Bush was president, Tony Blair was PM. Curt Gowdy, Don Knotts, James Brown, Red Auerbach, Ed Bradley, Kirby Puckett, Gerald Ford, Aaron Spelling all died in 2006. Steve "the Crocodile Hunter" Irwin  took on and lost a battle with a sting ray and died in 2006. Raiders owner Al Davis who also died but no one realized it until this week. In 2006 our little NFL pool had 68 players, Drew took home the top spot and won a cool $1,100. I ...  yes me ..  won the Survivor Poll and became the first and until last season only sole winner of the Survivor pool.  I clinch it in week 13 when Chicago beat Tampa Bay in OT.  And Finally in 2006... Giselle was still banging Leonard DiCaprio and Brady was tagging Bridget Moynahan and not yet a father.

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