Nemmers Scrum

Hello Footballers,

Well that was sure exciting, wasn’t it? The games came down to the wire….and I’m pretty sure nobody at the beginning of this crazy season would have predicted that it would come down to Doug Pederson benching Jalen Hurts.  Like, did any of us even know who Doug Pederson or Jalen Hurts even were back in August?  Geez.

All that to say…..(drumroll, please)….Congrats to Bill Nemmers as our 2020 Scrum Winner!  In addition to having the most points at the end of the season, Bill also filled my inbox each week with his game selecting philosophies (“I’ll go with all teams that are verbs”) and a great thesaurus-ical effort of giving the “Power Pick” a new name each week.  Some of my favorites included:  “The Big Naboo”, “The Gobble-Gobble Pick” (thanksgiving week), “the Whoop-tee-doo” pick, and “The Big Cahooza”.  I’m not saying these silly names made any changes in the standings, but it did make getting picks from Bill quite a joy.

I’d like to shout out some other top competitors who kept it interesting until the very end…good job to Margie, Jim, Kevin and Adam, who all hung around near the top for most of the season.

And….a high five to the folks who got a perfect 5 for 5 in the final week.  With all the unknowns of which teams were benching starters, what the weather would end up like, and all other end-of-season shenanigans, this was a particularly hard week.  Somehow, Dianne, Heidi, Mary and Molly all managed to get them all correct!  Nice work, ladies!

I can hardly believe that we’ve been at this for a decade. Thanks to everyone who has played and commented and talked trash. I enjoy every minute of it and hope you do too. Just to recap our decade of football competition, here are our Champions of the first 10 years:

2011: Paul Hergenrother and Cecilia Lillegard (co-champions)
2012: Kevin Mantooth
2013: Team Sherburne
2014: Team Sherburne
2015: Jim Mantooth
2016: Stephanie Carter
2017: Molly Hergenrother
2018: Gerri Lefton
2019: Paul Hergenrother
2020: Bill Nemmers

Whew! That’s a whole lotta awesome.

Enjoy the playoffs.  I hope you cheer for the Steelers, even if it is just a little bit.

Happy New Year Footballers,

We have made it to the final week.  It is hard to believe we’ve been at this for 16 weeks…and yet the title of 2020 Nemmers Scrum Champion is still up for grabs.  And, I didn’t spend too much time looking at it, but I am pretty sure that any of the top 4 players still have a puncher’s chance at winning.

Good luck to everyone – but especially to Margie, Bill, Jim and Kevin as they duke it out for the top spot.

Thanks so much to everyone for playing along for the whole season.  For some of us, picking past week 7 or so was a new experience. Speaking for myself, I kinda liked the way this season worked out. And, its always a highlight of my year to hear from everyone, but especially from all my nieces and nephews. I love being a teensy part of their lives.

Oh, and one more time:  GO STEELERS!!!!