Nemmers Scrum

Happy Thanksgiving Footballers,

I hope everyone has remembered to take the turkey out of the freezer, and has located their elastic waist pants. Thanksgiving is almost here – yay!

This week’s picks are pretty evenly distributed, with all 6 selected teams picked at least once as a power pick. That being said, the Cowboys v Vikings game has way more Viking picks than ‘boys, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends in a tie. The Cowboys do always manage to find a new way to complicate things.

The other thing to keep an eye on, is what happens at the top of the leaderboard.  With Stephanie and Molly picking opposites on all 3 games, there is potential for Stephanie to catch up, or for Molly to pull even farther ahead. Good luck to both!

I hope that everyone has a great Thanksgiving. Here in Dallas, Fletcher is home – woo hoo! and we are looking forward to having Team Sherburne roll in later this week.  I am so thankful for all of it.

I’m also thankful for the great pictures sent along this week:  weekend hikes (Charlie and Cassie) , school plays (Heidi as Dumbledore), the beauty of fall (Bill’s photo skills), and adventures with family (Charlie, Judy and Celia at the capitol in Jeff City and Stephanie and Mary at a winery).  It doesn’t get any better than that. Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Hello Footballers,

Well, there’s good news and bad news about our Week 10 picks. The good news is that you mostly likely had one of your best weeks. Woo hoo! Go you! The bad news is that almost everyone else did too. Womp womp, cue the sad trombone. So, yay to you for feeling like you finally nailed your guesses. And, boo that the magic wasn’t exclusive to your pick sheet.  (Also, I didn’t catch it until I had already done the screen grabs, but Whoosie’s super pick was Miami – the 4 point total was correct).

The youth contingent continues to dominate the overall standings with Molly in the lead and Fletcher and Madison right behind.  And yes, Stephanie is not in our youngest group, but she doesn’t look like she’s aged in the past 25 years, so we’ll lump her in with the young people too.  Way to go, y’all for surpassing 30 total points.

As we roll into week 11, a reminder to document your Thanksgiving holiday fun and make sure to send pictures. And, to send pictures of whatever else you might be up to as well. I do think that for those of us at the bottom and no hope of climbing out – seeing the pictures becomes the best part of the pool about now.

Here are the games for week 11:

Bears v. Falcons
Jets v. Patriots
Cowboys v. Vikings

Good luck to everyone.  GO STEELERS!!

Hello Footballers,

Molly continues her perfect pick dominance. Dianne got in on the act this week by also posting a perfect score. Nice work, ladies! Me and Violet are asking if you can send some of that mojo to Dallas.  And…let’s congratulate all the 4-point pickers as well.  It was truly a week of strong scores, surprisingly.  So very little movement in the overall standings.

Here are the picks for week 10.  Let’s see if we get more shakeup this week.  If Molly continues to crush it, the pack may not have the chance to catch her much longer.

Broncos v Titans
Browns v Dolphins
Saints v Steelers (GO STEELERS!!!!)

Cheers! I hope you have a great week.

Here’s a picture of Charlie and Fletcher at the football game at Mizzou last weekend with Christian and Victoria (The Tigers were robbed!!!!)  We love to see those smiling faces.

Hello Footballers,

I am running late and thankful for the extra hour daylight savings has provided to get this done in before the early game kickoff.

It should be an exciting week – all 6 teams in contention were selected as a power pick.  So, that means the standings should get a shake up no matter what.  As someone sitting at the bottom, that’s the best thing I can hope for.

Good luck all (Steelers are on a bye week).

Hello Footballers,

Well, unless you are Heidi Lillegard, that was a pretty rough week. Amazing job by Heidi to get a perfect 5 points this past week. With only 5 people notching more than 1 point, she definitely got a big climb in the overall standings to second place. Molly managed to hold on to the top spot, but the gap is a lot smaller – Heidi and Stephanie are closing in. Way to go, ladies!

Here are the picks for week 9:

Packers v. Lions
Vikings v. Commanders
Seahawks v. Cardinals (The battle of the birds!!!!)

Go Steelers!

Happy Halloween Footballers,

For a week with razor thin spreads, the picks this week were more lopsided than I thought they would be.  Most people put all their good candy on the Bengals. We’ll see if they can spook the Browns and get the win.

As for the rest of the fun…here’s a great sampling of fall and halloween picks sent in by our players. Thanks to everyone who took a sec to grab some pics.

We’ve got pumpkins:

Our Neighbor’s warning from Santa

Calvin and Stephanie Showing off their knife skills

Bailey’s Fall Portrait session.

Some great group shots;

Power Rangers! (The Nemmers Family Nails the poses)

Lucy Mazza and her friends baking up a storm

Cowgirl Molly and her friend Molly

Bob Villa Charlie, with his Happy Little Trees, Cassie

Tyler and Brooks on a jurrasic adventure

Our individual contributors:

Kevin as the Ghost of Elvis circa 1997

Adam as Axl Rose

Violet and Emily messing around in Target

Emily does love tacos!

Proof that Fletcher’s Race car ambitions started early:

And the 44 year difference in Nemmers Kid photos:

Happy Halloween everyone!  Go Steelers!

Hello Footballers,

Overall, week 7 was a pretty good week.  Lots and lots of perfect and near-perfect  pickers. Well done to everyone who managed a 4 (10 players) or 5 (8 players) point week. Nice work! I managed to do the opposite by getting a zero again. Amazing that we are 7 weeks in and I have only picked 6 games correct so far this season. Boo for me.

In the overall standings, Molly manages to keep her clear lead. Getting a perfect week sure helped to solidify her standing. But, Fletch, Madison and Stephanie are not giving up easily, all with 21 points.

And, here are the picks for this week, we’ve got both the Battle of California and the Battle of Ohio. I would have totally gone for all three interstate games, but none of the other matchups fit the bill, so you get Ravens and Saints.

Action Required:  As it is Halloween Weekend – bonus points for sending in a favorite halloween photo with your picks. It can be of you, or someone else.  It can be new, or old. With or without comment.

Raiders v. Saints
49ers v. Rams
Bengals v. Brown

*Good luck everyone! Looking forward to seeing picks and halloween photos.  (Go Steelers)

Emily

Hello Footballers,

There are a lot of New York picks this week.  But that was bound to happen with two games including teams from the Big Apple.  And interestingly – it was a pretty even split on the Jets v Broncos game, but not a single one of us picked Denver as their “Superdy duper-ty” pick. Not sure what that means.  I think that Russel Wilson won’t lose 4 in a row. Should be fun to watch.

In the other two games we have power picks on both sides, meaning that our shuffle will continue in the ranks.  Can Molly hold on?  Will Calvin have a surge?  Only time will tell.

As for fall activities, here’s a great shot of all the Lillegards sitting in the balcony taking in Mamma Mia! So fun.

This is a good time to remind everyone that pictures are always welcome.  Send along some shots of whatever you are up to for us to share.

Have a great Sunday.   Go STEELERS!

Hello Footballers,

Well, week 6 was a good one, especially for Fletcher, Madison, Tyler and Whoosie. That was some lucky picking for sure. Congrats to them for getting all 3 games correct in what turned out to be a pretty difficult week of picking.

And, in the overall standings, Molly – despite her goose egg in week 6 – has managed to cling to her lead.  Mary, Fletcher and Dan are all closing the gap, so the next few weeks will be critical to see if Molly can hang on.  With 7 players all within 5 points of the lead and 11 weeks of football to go, there are lots of ways this season could play out.

Here in Dallas, we sadly said goodbye to Whoosie, and then I snuck out of town to go antiques shopping out in the middle of nowhere farm country with my friend Anne. I was having such a nice time, I forgot that I hadn’t finished the football pool.  Below a photo of the sunrise I was enjoying as I typed up this post.

Here we go for week 7:

Colts v Titans
Giants v Jaguars
Jets v Broncos

Good luck everyone!  (GO STEELERS!!!!  I smell a 2 week winning streak in Florida!!!)

Hello Footballers!

I hope that everyone is having a great weekend.  Here in Dallas we are proud that we are sleeping off our massive walk around the Texas State Fair yesterday.  The weather was on the hot side, and the crowds were big, but we made the most if it. If you get the chance, ask Whoosie about the bird show.

This weeks picks are interesting. With all 6 teams being selected as at least one player’s power picks, we have lots of head to head match ups.  My favorite is the Battle of the Sherburnes: Maddie vs. Margie with opposite power picks on the Bills v. Chiefs Game.  That should be exciting.

The other thing I enjoyed this week were the comments coming in with the picks:

From Kevin: “I’m going all in on poor choices this week.”
From Paul: “I’m hoping to keep my hot streak going.”
From Bailey: “LOLZ RAWR XD” (you’re on your own with this one.)

(also, a score update – Mary got a PERFECT 5 in week 5, and I logged it wrong.  WAY TO GO MARY!!!!!  The scores have been updated to reflect the accurate standings and point totals.)

Some pictures for this week:  A hello from Big Tex, and even better – recognition of Gabe’s service on the banners in Wetmore, CO.  (I love this so much!)

Good luck to everyone today, but especially to the people who made the same picks as me.  (GO STEELERS – I hope Tom Brady forgets how to get to the stadium)