Nemmers Scrum

Happy Thanksgiving weekend to all the scrummers! I hope everyone found some good food and company the past few days. Now it is time to reset and have a quiet Sunday full of naps and football. Or at least that’s the agenda in Dallas.

The game of the week this weekend appears to be Eagles-Ravens. We had a pretty even split of picks on that game including 6 power picks for the Ravens and 3 for the Eagles. That should be fun! Beyond that, the Chargers and Steelers got most of the remaining power picks with a couple lone rebels pulling for the Bengals and Falcons. Considering the Bengals are 3-point favorites, I thought they might get a little more love this week. But there weren’t many true believers outside of Cincinnati. Perhaps three seasons of Steelers brainwashing is finally working on this crew.

Thanks everyone for sending in pictures this week. I have more than I can handle. I will spend some extra time this weekend getting them all uploaded and include a very large photo gallery in the next post. Until then… Go Steelers!!

Welcome back Scrumbies! Another fun weekend of football is in the books. The scrum games were not as close this week. I think if someone had told us all that San Francisco would be missing its QB, everyone would have picked the Packers as their power pick. I know I would have just moved on to select a different game for the pool! But that’s where a bit of luck or some extra research comes in to help. And then there are the unfortunate ones who picked the Cardinals as a power pick instead. Oof!

Six people walked away unscathed with perfect scores this week along with seven others with 4-points. That’s a strong week! But on the flip side, nine people were hit with two or fewer points. Ouch! I am included in that latter group. Double ouch!

Mary took her perfect week to pull away from the pack even further. I don’t know what she’s been sprinkling into her tea, but she is making a lot of sharp picks this season!

Here are the games for Thanksgiving weekend. With four games happening before Sunday, the selection of competitive games was small. I apologize for featuring some overly familiar teams again.

• Steelers @ Bengals
• Chargers @ Falcons
• Eagles @ Ravens

I assume there will be a lot of travel this weekend, so take extra care to make picks before you head out or set some reminders to do it after you recover from your turkey coma. Picks are due Friday night.

Also, the blog has been a little stale without many pictures these past few weeks. Please share any family get-togethers and holiday feasts. We’d all like to see what you are doing!

cheers!

Here we go! We have three battles this week. 

• In the battle of the birds, we have an even split of picks between the Cardinals and Seahawks with two brave souls going all in with Arizona. 
• In the battle of the bros, most of the picks went to John’s Ravens with just a handful going for Jim’s Chargers. The power picks were split 6-2 in this game. 
• Finally, in the battle of the ‘ers, we got a lot of power pick attention with 8 people going all in with the Packers and 5 for the 49ers. Overall, the crowd leans to Green Bay for this one.

We will see how it all shakes out. Hopefully we have some good games and a surprise or two. It should be fun!

Welcome back, Scrumketeers! I hope you got to watch a little football on Sunday. There were some exciting games. The most inspiring was the Steelers flexing their black & yellow muscles against the evil Ravens. But there were also some good games for the scrum as well. In Los Angeles, the Bengals went full Bungle in the first half, but pulled it together in the second half to make a game of it. The game came down to the wire, but the Chargers held them off in the end. The Bills and Chiefs had a great game, but in the end the Bill flexed and broke away. In Denver it was never a contest… the Broncos scored early and often and pummeled the Falcons.

We had a good variety of picks this week and consequently a good spread of results. Mary was the lone perfect picker, but five others had a nice 4-point week. Congrats to Mary, Violet and a handful of old men!

Overall, the standings remain boring at the top. Mary pulled away even further with her perfect week. Will she ever stumble? Adam and John are working hard to keep her in their sights. But even more important, I cracked the top ten! Yes, I am just as excited as you are. Let’s see if I can hang onto it for one week.

Those games were fun for the pool. Can we follow it up in week 12? Maybe. It was slim pickings. Here are the next set of games:

• 49ers @ Packers
• Cardinals @ Seahawks
• Ravens @ Chargers

You know the drill – picks due Friday!

hello everyone! This week looks way more fun and interesting with a nice spread of picks. We have a pretty even split between the Chiefs and Bills for picks and power picks. Likewise for the Bengals-Chargers. The Falcons-Broncos game has a pretty good split of picks, but nobody is doubling-down with the Falcons. All those power picks lie with the Broncos.

On paper, these seem like they should be fun games to watch and hopefully will shake up the pool standings a bit. It should be a fun Sunday!

Go Steelers!

Hello everyone! I feared a boring week with so many people going all in for the Lions. Even though I was one of them, I was kind of cheering for the Texans to invoke a little scrum chaos. But a 52-yard walk-off field goal restored order and put the Lions on top. Oh well, no chaos but I at least got to join five others with a perfect score this week. The perfect pickers this week included Stephanie, Dianne and the entire Mantooth household. Hooray for us!

There were lots of other good scores this week too. Except poor Dana who got a taste of bad karma picking against the beloved and cherished Steelers. It was a hard life lesson, but I am sure she will grow stronger because of it and have better judgment next time!

Not much changed in the overall standings. Mary still leads the way with Gerri one step back. However, we did the gaps close with John and Adam closing in fast.

Here are the games for week 11. Hopefully we have a bit more variety in picks this week!

• Falcons @ Broncos
• Chiefs @ Bills
• Bengals @ Chargers

Picks are due Friday. Have a good week!

cheers

Welcome back Scrumchies! It’s time for another exciting Sunday. It may be harder to separate this week as EVERYONE picked the Lions. Even the Sherburnes in San Antonio did not have the courage to back the Texans. Along with that sweeping pick, almost everyone also chose the Lions as their power pick. Only Dana, Bill and Heidi dared to be different. Bill is taking the Jets while in a moment of great treachery, Dana has picked against the Steelers. Luckily, Heidi came in strong to make a climb up the niece and nephew rankings by picking the Steelers. I hope Heidi’s good taste pays off.

Here are the picks. Go Steelers!

Hello scrum people. I’m back home and slowly getting caught back up. It was also a generous slate of games for half the pool as seven players ended up with perfect scores and another nine had 4 points.

In the big picture, Mary still holds the lead with Gerri and John keeping a close distance.

Here are the week 10 games. Do you smell any upsets?

• Steelers @ Commanders
• Jets @ Cardinals
• Lions @ Texans

Picks are due Friday night. Get ’em in on time!

cheers

Greetings from Liverpool. You’ll be happy to know Liverpool FC came from behind to deliver an exciting 2-1 victory over Brighton. The experience was amazing.

Here are the picks for the week. If I had known almost the entire field was taking Detroit, I might have taken a risk as the contrarian. As it is, only five brave souls went their own way, including two for Green Bay. Is there an upset in the air? I hope not.

There was also a lot of love for the new look Brownies. Can they deliver two weeks in a row? Can the Bears step up for Whoosie (in spite of her pick)? We’ll see…

Go Steelers! (we cheer even on bye weeks)