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WEW's 42nd Annual Football Picking Contest

Football Season is Finally Here!!

And so is WEW's 42nd Annual Football Picking Contest

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Ready for the Challenge!

I hope that you are up to the task, only a long grueling season will reveal the truth

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Let the Picking Begin!

Lace up your picking cleats, double knot them and accept the challenge of this years picking contest

 
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ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL???

Good luck and good picking!

 
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Welcome to the New Football Contest Website!

It's all new this year so I hope you like it (go the FAQ to see all the changes)!

 

Here is the Pro Playoff Picksheet due Saturday 1/3

Here are the Pro Playoff Results

Here are the College Bowl Results

 

Are You READY For Some Football??

Football at last, football at last, thank God Almighty football at last.

A famous quote from War Eagle Walt

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

A famous quote from Vince Lombardi

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

A famous quote from John Heisman

Football Picking Dudes & Dudettes

So what has happened since we last spoke:

1.  Rory broke up with Caroline and then won both the British Open and the PGA Championship.  Coincidence – maybe, maybe not?

2.  Rafael Nadal won the French Open (who else) and Novak Djokovic beat Federer for the Wimbledon title.

3.  California Chrome won the first two Triple Crown races but then got hosed by the “fresh hosses” at the Belmont.

4.  Some Italian biker won the Tour de France and said that he was not a doper, but I don’t believe him – because…..umh….he’s a bike racer.

5.  Germany “blitzkrieged” all of South America for the World Cup title.

6.  Some other team won the NBA title and LeBron said “I quit” – at least in Miami.

 

7.  A bunch of rednecks in “not really stock” cars continued to turn left at high speeds while wasting lots of gas – to what end I have no clue – cause is this really a “sport”.  I think not.  Plus, I heard some sportscaster refer to these guys as “athletes” and I almost choked on my iced tea.  Here is what they should do:  Have all the drivers push their cars around the track for the first lap and the last lap – then they can be called “athletes”.

8.  I think some team in the NHL won Lord Stanley’s Cup – but I can’t remember who it was.  The only thing I remember about the NHL season was that I read where some player missed several games due to an injury he received in a fight.  That there was a fight in a hockey game is not surprising, but this player was injured in a fight that broke out in the handshake line after the game.  Now that is funny.

9.   There is still lots and lots of baseball being played (and we’ve got probably six more weeks to go or at least until the diamonds up north are covered in snow).  Most of the division leaders have records like 68-59 – meaning they have won “9” more games than they have lost out of over a hundred games played.  What is the point here?  I’d rather watch the Little League World Series games than any MLB game.

 

So what does this all mean....

....well, it don’t mean crap anymore because it is Football Season.  We have made another trip around the sun to reach the true beginning of the year - no matter what those dumb calendars say.  Every team is for now equal – oops.  I should say that due to the recent NCAA capitulation there are 65 big boy teams who are now “equal” yet still more “equal” than the 63 little boy teams.  And we no longer have the old BCS to bitch about, we can now whine about the four teams picked for the college football playoff and the panel of Neanderthals who picked them.   

 

Reason to celebrate

This season we have an anniversary to celebrate:  1954 – sixty years ago – Tommy Lewis, UAT fullback comes off the bench to tackle Rice halfback, Dickey Moegle, who was running 95 yards for a TD.  The referees awarded the TD to Rice anyway and Rice won the game 28-6.  This illegal tackle by UAT was obviously a blatant disregard for the rules of the game; but, alas, this was not the first time that UAT “bent the rules” to their advantage nor would it be the last time, it was just one of the many times.  Also, in spite of cheating and losing the game anyway, I believe that UAT was awarded one of their many phantom National Titles after the game and I believe that it was Marvel Comics that awarded it to them.

But I digress, it’s time to suit up for another football picking season.  So lace up your cleats and strap on your helmets – wait a minute, this season I’m going to let you pick barefooted if you want to; but you still got to wear a helmet cause there are just too many concussions occurring now days in sports.  I wish all of you good luck in picking and all your teams good luck in their games unless you are playing Auburn.  War Eagle!!

WEW

High Commissioner

 

Let the Contest Begin!!