Welcome to the Nemmers Family King of the Hill Football Pool, 2011 NFL edition. While the main goal is for everyone to have fun, it seems like a few rules and guidelines usually help these things along. That way, at the end, there will be no arguments when I take your money.
Here’s how it will work:
1. Each week players will pick the winner of one NFL Game.
2. If your team wins, you move on to the next week. If your team loses, you get a strike against you. When you lose a second game, you are out.
3. You may pick a team only one time per season.
4. Last man standing (aka King of the Hill), gets to keep all the money.
Cost to play: $10. Checks made payable to Emily Mantooth. (My birthday is in a couple weeks, you can just throw the money in the card you know you are going to be sending me).
Now the details:
1. On weeks there is a no Thursday game, picks are due by end of day on Friday. Weeks there are Thursday games, then I need picks by end of day Wednesday.
2. If you don’t get your pick in on time, you will be assigned a crappy “team of the week”. So, get your picks in on time, or you may be forced to cheer for the Bills. (Too bad William and Mary isn’t in the NFL.)
3. You are out on the occasion of your second loss. However; you are still allowed to talk smack to Adam until the end of the season.
4. Grandpa Bill is only allowed to pick the Bears once, but is not required to do so.
5. I will post the pick sheet here each week before games start on Sunday, and will post the standings sheet on Tuesdays.
6. It is your own responsibility to make sure you don’t pick a team you have already used. If I catch it, I will let you know and hopefully you can get a legal pick in on time. If I don’t catch it, then you will get a strike for that week.
7. If we get to the end of the season and we have a tie, the winners may decide if they would like to split the pot, or they may arm wrestle for winner-take-all in Columbia at the holidays.
8. Use the comments section of this blog to converse about the Scrum. If you want to – you can subscribe to the blog and see the posts via email whenever anyone comes up with something to say. Or, you can just check in from time to time to get a pulse on the group. Please remember that minors (and Dad) are playing, so let’s keep it G-rated. Or, at least PG-13.
9. Thanks to everyone for playing. I think it will be fun.
Adam
September 13, 2011 at 2:43 am
The Bills don’t look like such a bad pick after this weekend’s games.
Kevin
September 17, 2011 at 5:24 pm
Is it the year of the Lions and Bills? Is this another undesirable side effect of global warming?!
Dianne
September 17, 2011 at 6:25 pm
Looks good, Em. Thanks for herding the cats.