Wanna play the 'dogs for a good cause?
If you've been following my exploits in the weekly pro football underdog pool in which I play, here's a proposition for you: A reader suggests that I run a similar pool on this blog, with all the proceeds going to charity. The top readers in our pool would get to designate a portion of the pool proceeds to their favorite nonprofit organizations. There'd be nothing in it for the players individually but bragging rights and a warm glow from helping others.
The entry fee would be $20 for the season, payable up front by PayPal, and weekly entries would be by e-mail. Weekly point offerings, picks, and results would be posted on this blog. You could operate under any pen name you like, as long as you front the funds.
We could still start the pool this season, maybe two weeks from this weekend (the weekend of Oct. 25), and have about a dozen weeks to see who's got the right stuff in picking underdog teams who can win their games outright. We'd need about a half dozen players at a minimum to make it interesting. I'd pay all the PayPal fees, and so every penny of the entries would go to charity. To avoid conflicts of interest, I wouldn't play our mirror game myself (although, as ever, I'll reveal whom I pick each week in the other pool).
For more background on how the game is played, see this year's posts at any of these links: 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1. I'd post a more complete set of rules right away once we're sure we're going forward.
And so here's the question of the day: Would you be interested in throwing a 20 at charity and playing the game? Please say yes in the comments to this post if you're sure that you'd participate. Maybe we'll do this, and if we do, we'll start on Oct. 25. Thanks.
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Comments (10)
GREAT idea!
Posted by Mojo | October 9, 2009 7:01 AM
Not a sports junkie, but would gladly throw a Jackson into charity pool guessing the price of the City's next debt offerings.
Posted by dyspeptic | October 9, 2009 10:43 AM
Great idea. I'm in.
Posted by jmh | October 9, 2009 10:53 AM
Needless to say, I'm eager to sign up, and thanks for offering to pick up the paypal vigorish.
Posted by George Anonymuncule Seldes | October 9, 2009 11:15 AM
I'e be interested except PayPal has some issues that I am not willing to expose myself to.
Posted by LucsAdvo | October 9, 2009 6:05 PM
We'd take a check or money order in the mail.
Posted by Jack Bog | October 10, 2009 1:56 AM
Where are all the football peeps? This is a cool idea - let's make it happen!
Posted by jmh | October 10, 2009 8:29 AM
Sorry, busy watching the Ducks sputter a bit right now. Count me in.
Posted by genop | October 10, 2009 12:54 PM
Wow, UCLA leaves the red zone pointless. Ducks block field goal.
Oregon picks up 50yd run from the one yd line. Costa needs to sharpen up.
Used to have a mother/son sports action tradition before the lottery commish dumped it. Count geonop's Mom in.
Posted by genop | October 10, 2009 1:17 PM
Oops, shouldn't type and watch football simultaneously. Make that "genop's Mom".
Posted by genop | October 10, 2009 1:21 PM