Greetings football humans!
It is that time of year again to prepare for the Nemmers Family Scrum. Are you in?
As you may notice, I am not Emily. Our beloved commish is taking a break and passed me the torch. Since I seem to have some extra time on my hands, I accepted. I will do my best not to dishonor the bronze La-Z-Boy.
The first week of the NFL season is a few weeks away, so it’s time to get organized. This season we will keep the core format of the previous couple seasons, with one added twist. The format is designed to be quick without requiring a lot of sports knowledge. Here’s the highlights of that system:
- Pick winners in 3 designated games each week, where one game is marked as your Super-Pick.
- 1 point for wins, 3 points for superpick wins (zero points for a tie).
- Person with most points at the end of the regular season wins the pot.
- $10 to play the season.
- Selections are due each Friday before midnight.
- I’ll send reminders if your picks are missing, but if I don’t reach you in time and you have no picks for a given week, that is on you, and not me.
- At some point, I will get bored and stop sending reminders.
- The twist? Consider the season like a long climb up the Cliffs of Insanity. After mid-season, we will lighten the load and start dropping a couple players from bottom each week. You must claw your way up the pack to stay in the race. I will include specific details once we see how many players we have.
If you think you may want to play, here’s what you need to do now:
- Wrestle with your conscious and determine that you do want to participate
- Send me a notification that you are going to play – either via email or via text.
- Send me a couple photos to share on anything interesting you’ve been up in 2023
- Pay up. I strive to make it easy for people to send me money, so I am flexible. $10 checks can be mailed, or beamed via PayPal, or Venmo or Zelle. If you have a fat stack of crisp dollar bills you’d like to slip me under the table… that works too.
I tried my best to reach everyone. If I’ve accidentally left off a name or you notice I am using a bad email address, please let me know.
Please respond back whether you are interested or not. And let me know if the proposed twist is evil or delicious.
cheers!
Kevin