Nemmers Scrum

Hello Footballers,

I hope you are enjoying your new Erector Set, Barbie doll, or whatever magic you found under your Christmas tree. The Manteeth are in Columbia with Judy and Charlie, Celia and family and Adam and Lisa. We are eating and talking a lot! So much fun.  Thanks to everyone for sending in photos of their trees. It was great to see all the celebrations going on.

Week 16 was a good one for the lower half of the pool, with all 3 perfect scores coming from the lower environs. Congrats to John, Dan and Kevin for putting on a strong showing and rallying to the middle of the pack.

On the top of the leader board, Gerri and Dana are holding strong, with Heidi still right in it too. Good job, ladies! Let’s see who can keep it up for 2 more weeks.

With end of season injuries, COVID, and motivation to make the playoffs all playing into things, making the picks has been getting a little trickier in the past couple weeks.  This week is no different, with Week 17 picks as follows:

Eagles v Football Team
Rams v Ravens
Browns v Steelers

Good luck to everyone!  All the games are on Sunday and Monday this week, so no Saturday mad dash like last week. But, please get your picks in on time. GO STEELERS!

Merry Christmas Footballers,

I hope everyone is having a beautiful and fun Christmas morning. There were no bikes or dolls under the tree this year, but there was a socket set and a waffle maker, so we’ll still count it as a success!

Here are the picks. I can’t imagine picking against the Saints on Christmas day, but about half of you heathens did. I am also surprised that here in week 16 we still have all six choices being used as the power pick. Whoah, that’s crazy. We’ll see what that does to the leaderboard. And, shout out to Charlie N. who was the only one to go with all animal choices. I hope everyone gets to eat early so they can at least check in on the Colts and Cardinals – a LOT of power picks on this game – on BOTH SIDES.

Here are a sampling of our Christmas trees from around the league.  I’ll leave you to guess which is which.  i sure to wish we could come see them all in person.  Merry Christmas to all…and to all a GO STEELERS!

Merry Christmas Footballers,

I hope you are spending your week smiling and singing and full of life itself.  Or at least eating Christmas cookies.

Last week we had four perfect pickers – congrats to Mary, Violet, Celia and Fletcher for scoring a mighty 5 points each.  Despite their big wins, our top 3 spots didn’t change, although Mary did manage to sneak ahead of Charlie H. for 4th.  And…as Violet explained to me, “If everyone else gets zero points this week, and I get all 5, I will be tied for the top spot.” Makes perfect sense to me.

This week I am late on purpose.  After the NHL shut down for a few weeks, I wanted to see if the NFL was going to make any changes for the weekend.  As it stands now, we’ll have the 3 games listed below.  If any of them get cancelled, then we’ll remove that game from our pool and no one will get a power pick for the week.  It’s the best I can come up with.

This week send a photo of your Christmas tree or favorite Christmas decoration when you send in your picks. I’ll share all our Christmas cheer when I send out the picks on Saturday (probably later in the day). Try and get those picks in before the Yuletide carries you away.

Week 16 picks:

Colts v. Cardinals
Broncos v Raiders
Dolphins v Saints   (and send in a picture of your Christmas tree!)

Merry Christmas everyone.  And GO STEELERS!!!

Hello Footballers,

I cannot believe that this late in the season we are still managing to get a selection of all 6 teams as a power pick…or as Uncle Bill called it this week, “The Big Juicy”

Some bold choices might mean big moves are made if any upsets happen. But, all I really know is that I will be cheering for the Steelers.

Good luck to everyone. Merry Christmas! Stay safe out there and wash your hands!

Emily

Hello Footballers,

When it comes to “challenge accepted” I really took Kevin as his word.  Yeppers, I managed to get a big ol’ goose egg for the second week in a row.  Boo.  But enough about me, let’s talk about the good stuff from Week 14:

First off – congrats to Gerri for being the only player who got all 5 points last week.  That’s pretty impressive.  So impressive in fact, that she is also newly atop the leaderboard. Congrats too to Dana and Heidi for sharing the top spot. Can Heidi’s good luck hang on for another week? Will Charlie H sneak back into a top spot? Welp, we are about to find out.

The picks for week 15 are as follows:

NE v IND
TEN v PIT
MIN v CHI

Good luck to everyone, but especially the Steelers!

Hello Footballers,

You may remember back in week 13, a certain “acting” commissioner suggested that we should try to get zero points, as that’s as hard as getting a perfect score.  And, congratulations to the 7 people who accepted this challenge.  Yep – seven players didn’t move at all last week, and another seven only got one point. So, maybe not as hard as we thought.

On the flip side – congrats to Heidi as the only player who got perfect picks last week.  She was rewarded with their placement atop the leaderboard. We’d also like to welcome Jim and Stephanie as they also make their first forays into the top standings this week. Adam and Charlie H have their work cut out for them to stay in it.

Here are the picks for week 14. Clearly the AZ game is the favorite for power picks, but there are some variants. We are running out of weeks, so hopefully this one counts. Good luck to everyone. No sense in cheering for the Steelers, as they already are done for the weekend.

And…much overdue, here’s some pics from everyone’s Thanksgivings. We do have so very much to be thankful for. (Also, we are one good looking family!) It was so great to see all your smiling faces:

The picks are in! Cincinnati is the popular choice this week. Dianne has the same picks as me, so that doesn’t bode well for either of us. 🙂

Cecilia sent a pic of the Lillegard girls this week. What a trio! This totem has Erika on top with Heidi and Paige below.

The last photo is of Violet who won two medals in the Dallas district “All City” swim meet this weekend. She placed third in the 50y freestyle sprint and second in the 500y free. This was the first time she attempted a 500 yard race and she may have found her niche. Although she said she about puked in the pool afterwards.

Finally, how could we close the weekend without sharing a few pics sent to us from Paris. I don’t want to accuse our esteemed (former?) commissioner of embezzlement, but it sure seems like someone has been skimming from the entry fees.

Good luck to me in the pool this weekend.

Go Steelers!