Nemmers Scrum

Hello Footballers!

Well, it came down to the wire – I wasn’t sure what I was gonna do if the Chargers and Raiders tied last weekend….but they didn’t, and so we can wrap up our season.

CONGRATULATIONS TO GERRI LEFTON as the 2021 Scrum WINNER!!!!

Gerri triumphed over all of us knuckleheads, proving that hard picks are a strategic advantage.  Nice work! Your winnings are on the way to you!

Also congratulations to Ceila and Dan, who got a perfect 5 points in Week 18. That’s pretty amazing, no matter the week.  And, a special call out to Dan who started in week 2, had a few rough weeks at the start, and then managed to close out the season with two 5 for five weeks, moving from 5th from the bottom to 9th place.

Also props to Heidi, Stephanie, Dana, Mary, Jim and Adam who were in the hunt until the very end.  Nice work!

While we are sharing good news, it seems like we should end with the good news I know.  In addition to Gerri winning I’m happy to say:

• Judy Nemmers has conquered her bout with COVID and is home from the hospital – woo hoo!
• Gabe Carter completed his Crucible (a 54-hour training exercise that validates the physical, mental and moral training Marine recruits endure throughout  training), and is now officially a Marine (and Stephanie is a proud Marine Mom).  A big Hoo-yah! Thanks, Gabe, for your service, we are all super proud and wish we could be there this month in San Diego to help celebrate – we are counting on Stephanie, to share lots of photos.
• Molly Hergenrother has committed to Notre Dame!  She’ll start as a freshman in the fall (and be able to pester big sister Dana from the same campus).

Those are the biggies I know – if you have other news to share, please send it on.  I’m not opposed to an off-season update.

Thanks again to everyone who played and made this year fun.  I so enjoy getting to hear from all of you!  Have a great 2022, enjoy the playoffs, and we’ll see you in September.

Hello Footballers,

Here’s the picks for this week. With such big spreads, I thought we’d see a more consistent set of picks. But, I guess some of us are going to go out with a bang one way or another.

Because Gerri and Heidi have the same picks, it looks like Heidi cannot catch Gerri.  But, if Minnesota loses, then Stephanie and Gerri could tie.  Here we go….

Enjoy your football watching today.  For me, I’m just cheering for the Steelers (well, and Jacksonville…)

Cheers,

Emily

Hello Footballers,

Well here we are.  We have made it to week 18.  It’s the final countdown on another amazing season of football and fun.

Let’s start off with congrats to all who got perfect 5 picks this past week. Way to go:  Stephanie, Mary, Dan, Kevin, Charlie N and Molly. Some bold picks paid off. And, the Rams v. Ravens game really came down to the wire. So exciting – we were all yelling at the pick sheet a little bit around here! It was also super nice to see the storybook ending to the Steelers game, glad that everyone who picked them could enjoy that moment.

After all the points were totaled, we see that Gerri managed to hold on to her lead, and now has a one point advantage over Heidi.  With this one last week there are still 7 people who still have the mathematical possibility of winning.  Everyone with less than 50 points – well, it was nice playing with ya. (But, still please pick this week to finish it out).

So, this week we’ll keep with our regular system.  If we only have one person at the top of the leaderboard after the game Monday night, then that person will be our 2021 winner.  If we have a tie, all players that are tied for the top spot will begin a play-off picking process that will include picking winners and point totals.  People not tied for first place at the end of week 18 will have been eliminated. (queue sad trombone.)

The picks for week 18 are:

CHI v. MIN
NO v. ATL
LAC v LVR  (I only had to retype this one once from San Diego v. Oakland: how times change)

Good luck to everyone.  And GO STEELERS (with an extra hope sent to the Jaguars to beat the Colts).

Happy New Year Footballers!

I hope everyone had some joy and cheer over the holiday season.  We had a great time here in Dallas, and on our drive up to Missouri.  We sure hope to see everyone that we didn’t get to see at Christmas sometime soon.  And, we send you all wishes for health and prosperity in 2022.

The picks for this week are kinda wild…and by wild I mean I can’t believe how many people joined me in cheering for the Steelers.  Well done, Footballers, well done. Even more telling for the pool than our collective newfound love for the Steel City, is the fact that Gerri and Dana, tied for the top spot are going Head to Head with their power picks today.  This will leave us with one clear first place person…at least I think…I can never figure out exactly all the possible scenarios that might crop up. All the same, it should make for a great day.

And, for our pictures this week, I’d like to present the winners of the Columbia Hallmark Christmas Movie Bingo challenge.  Turns out watching Hallmark movies is way more fun if you get to play bingo.  We needed a prize for the winner, and decided a photo in the football pool was a good choice.  So, congrats to Kevin and Celia for checking all the right bingo boxes, including “Drinks Eggnog” “Wears a red dress” and “Movie includes a second romance between side characters.” Well done!

Enjoy the football and the New Year!  GO STEELERS!