Week 1 underdog picks are off leash
The players in our charity pro football underdog pool have spoken, and here are their selections for this weekend's games:
8.5 INDIANAPOLIS at Houston - Bob, Tommy W., NoPoGuy, PDXileinOmaha, Pete Rozelle, Bad Brad, Gary, umpire
8.5 MINNESOTA at San Diego - Usual Kevin, Drewbob
7 CAROLINA at Arizona - Paul, Rudie, Annie, AKevin, genop
7 MIAMI vs. New England (Monday night) - Michael K., genop's gal
6.5 CINCINNATI at Cleveland - John Ch., jmh
5.5 SEATTLE at San Francisco - mna
5.5 BUFFALO at Kansas City - Larry Legend, Eric W., john dull
4.5 ST. LOUIS vs. Philadelphia - pdxmick, Sattelihu
[4 NEW ORLEANS at Green Bay (Thursday 5:30) - Brook (did not prevail)]
4 DALLAS at New York Jets - Grizfan, Ricardo, Biggest Cubs Loser
3 TENNESSEE at Jacksonville - Gordon, Broadway Joe
3 CHICAGO vs. Atlanta
3 OAKLAND at Denver (Monday night) - Weavmo
3 WASHINGTON vs. New York Giants
2.5 PITTSBURGH at Baltimore - John Cr., Carol
1.5 DETROIT at Tampa Bay
Nobody chose Chicago, Washington, or Detroit. Every other underdog team attracted somebody in our pack.
Good luck to everybody with a 'dog in the hunt today, tonight, or tomorrow.
Technical note: We're trying a slightly different deadline approach this year, allowing players to choose right up until the scheduled kickoff time of the first Sunday game. These are the picks as of earlier this morning, several hours before the deadline. (This post is being triggered by a robot.) If additional picks have come in (or changes have been made) after this post was written but before the deadline, they will be added to this post as soon as we can get to it later today.
UPDATE, 12:51 p.m.: jmh's pick of Cincinnati was received before the deadline.
UPDATE, 1:56 p.m.: Cincy and Buffalo win in the first round, scoring points for five of our 'dognosticators. Chicago and Detroit also win, but none of our players was on either of them.
UPDATE, 4:47 p.m.: There were no winners for our players in the later day games. Washington won, which means that all three teams that none of our players selected were winners.
UPDATE, 9:06 p.m.: Close but no cigar for the Cowboys. Three of our players have games going tomorrow evening; of the other 31 pickers in our contest, only five are on the board. Still plenty of time for newcomers to join us and take the prizes home to their favorite charities.
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Comments (9)
Gotta love it - I picked Houston, and already have nearly as many points as last year! Go Underdogs!
Posted by umpire | September 11, 2011 4:02 PM
Er, umpire -- Houston was not the underdog. The underdogs are in caps on the left of the slate. We figured you meant the Houston game, and put you down as picking Indy. Please get that straight the rest of the way!
Posted by Jack Bog | September 11, 2011 4:44 PM
"Houston, we have a problem."
Posted by Mojo | September 11, 2011 6:24 PM
It's shocking how Tony Romo can be counted on for at least one bonehead play per game, always at a crucial time. Tonight he had the fumble trying to score when a short field goal would have given a two score lead. Then he pulled an even bigger dummy play throwing directly to Revis.
Tony Romo appears to be hardwired to fail.
Posted by Bill McDonald | September 11, 2011 10:06 PM
I'll take the loss of points for my 'Skins actually putting together a solid game and defeating the G-Men. And Rex Grossman looked suspiciously good. It's probably too early to get my playoff hopes up, right?
Posted by tommyspoon | September 12, 2011 6:13 AM
Man.... the people that took Cincinnati are some brave souls. Or have some kind of sneaky inside information. lol
Posted by Larry Legend | September 12, 2011 7:30 AM
Boy, did I buy in to the hype that Indy still had lots of talent left on offense and that Collins, though no Manning, would be a capable replacement. Yikes!
Onward to next week.
Posted by PDXileinOmaha | September 12, 2011 8:47 AM
Boo-ya! I have to savor that pick-six-point-five. Given previous years' performances, I don't expect too many more good dogs this year.
Posted by jmh | September 12, 2011 10:14 AM
"Tony Romo appears to be hardwired to fail."
I'll never forget when, after fumbling the snap on the potential game winning field goal against the Seahawks in the playoffs in 2007, The Onion revealed that he had just polished off a bucket of fried chicken on the sidelines, and his fingers were covered with chicken fat, which caused the ball to slip through his hands. It's like the guy is cursed.
Posted by Not that "Steve" | September 12, 2011 1:36 PM