Week 9: Results & Thursday Night Note

Last week Jon Stover called the Monday Night Points (MNP) exactly.  This week we've got an encore performance, though not by Mr. Stover who sucked donkey taint this week.  No, this week's genius was Joey Bansen, who nailed the Monday Night Points total exactly, at 48.  Poor, poor Josh Money...  Not a darn thing he could'a done.  But, whatever, that makes Joey Bansen this week's big wiener! 

Congratulations to Mr. Bansen.  He wins a giant heaping load of goat dung!  For no good reason!  Goat dung!  Smellly!! Exclamation Point!  Hooray! 

No, sadly Joey wins the Weekly Standard Prize (WSP) of $70 which, if he likes, he can spend entirely on goat dung, which as any good farmer can tell you, will improve fertilizer capacity immensely!

Congrats to Joey. Here be the final standings for Week 9:

1. Joey Bansen ... 11-2
1. Josh Money ... 11-2
3. Jon Stover ... 10-3
3. Matthew Mariam ... 10-3
3. Robin Wood ... 10-3
3. John Weaver ... 10-3
3. Zack Klein ... 10-3
3. Dave Labowitz ... 10-3
9. Karl Vaillancourt ... 9-4
9. Matthew Kory ... 9-4
9. Alex Mena ... 9-4
9. George Smith ... 9-4
13. Bill Denton ... 8-5
13. Sandy Kory ... 8-5
15. Gedeon Mariam ... 7-6

As for the Current Overall Standings (COS), we got some stratification up in this piece.  To wit:

1. John Weaver ... 84-46
2. Josh Money ... 83-47
3. Zack Klein ... 82-48
4. Matthew Mariam ... 81-49
5. Alex Mena ... 80-50
6. Sandy Kory ... 78-52
6. Dave Labowitz ... 78-52
6. Karl Vaillancourt ... 78-52
9. Jon Stover ... 77-53
10. Joey Bansen ... 76-54
10. Matthew Kory ... 76-54
12. Bill Denton ... 75-55
13. Robin Wood ... 74-56
13. George Smith ... 74-56
15. Gedeon Mariam ... 72-58

I'm tied for tenth!  Horseballs! 
 
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In more important news, this week marks the first in an annoying series of weeks that include the wonderfully hideous Thursday Night Football games on NFL Network.  Gosh I hope Joe Theismann is doing color commentary again!  Hooray (meaning: poop)!  In that vein, I just checked on the poll results and they are as follows:

7 want the Thursday Night game to be submitted separately
2 don't want that
1 hates me and wishes I'd go away

This means we'll be allowing your picks for the Thursday night games to be submitted separately from your weekly picks.  Also I won't be going away whether you hate me or not. 

Also, this means that you'll have to send in picks twice each week. I won't be sending out emails every other minute to remind you so hopefully you can handle this incredible, immense responsibility akin to giving burning AIDs patients their medication and a healthy douse of ice water. 

I will probably send out one email reminder this week though because its the first week and, well, I love you all, so so much.  Especially Jon Stover, who smells just like honey.  Sweet, sweet honey. 

Congratulations again to Joey Bansen, and my apologies for not going away.  But hey, you had your chance. 
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Week 9: Update

As I write this Green Bay is pouring a giant cauldron of bubbling poo down the collective throat of the Dallas Cowboys.  Due to surgery its not physically possible for Jerry Jones to frown, but you can tell he's unhappy because his smile isn't as large as usual.  Also there are fewer cockroaches crawling out of his eyes.  This is wonderful. 

There will be blood tonight in Dallas.  Wade Phillips chicken-like coaching is likely to be on the block, but even if Jones chops Phillips' head off, his body will keep coaching for a few more weeks, and probably as effectively.

As for the pool(poop!), its come down to just two of us. Just the two of us... Joey and Josh! That's right, Joey Bansen and Josh Money, two of the oldest of old friends, battling it out for the Weekly Standard Prize. Both Joey and Josh have 10 wins so far and since everybody and everybody's mom picked the Steelers to beat Cincy on Monday night (and rightly so), nobody can catch either of them.

As for the Monday night game, the result doesn't matter a tick. The points are all that counts. Josh picked 36 total points while Joey went with 48. Since we play Price Is Right rules here at MFSAFP(p!)!, the one who wins is the closest to the actual points without going over. As the high man on the totem pole, Joey will be over if the point total is 47 or less, and thus Josh would win. If the points total 48 or more, Joey would be the big wiener.

That's it from beautiful rainy Portland. Back tomorrow with the final results from Week 9 and your Week 10 schedule.

Ta ta!
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Week 9: Schedule

Week 9 begins this coming Sunday, November 7th at 1pm EST.

New York Jets at Detroit
Miami at Baltimore
New England at Cleveland
San Diego at Houston
Chicago at Buffalo
Arizona at Minnesota
Tampa Bay at Atlanta
New Orleans at Carolina
New York "Gross Over-Estimation" Giants at Seattle
Indianapolis at Philadelphia
Kansas City at Oakland
Dallas at Green Bay
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (plus total points)
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Week 9: Results

Week 9 came down to the Monday Night game. If Pittsburgh won, so did Bill Denton. Zack Klein tied his proverbial boat to the Denver Broncos. As you may know, the game was close into the third quarter, but then Pittsburgh turned it on and pulled away. That makes Bill Denton this week's Big Weiner! Bill, you win a goat eating a t-shirt that says "eat more goat". It's in the mail now, so I suggest you buy some straw.

We're starting to see some real stratification in the standings. First, the final standings for Week 9:

1. Bill Denton ... 10-3
2. Zack Klein ... 9-4
2. Dave Labowitz ... 9-4
2. Joey Bansen ... 9-4
5. John Weaver ... 8-5
5. Matthew Mariam ... 8-5
5. Gedeon Mariam ... 8-5
5. George Smith ... 8-5
9. Jon Stover ... 7-6
9. Dan Sinclair ... 7-6
9. Josh Money ... 7-6
12. Matthew Kory ... 6-7
12. Adam Roy ... 6-7
14. Alex Mena ... 5-8
14. Sandy Kory ... 5-8
14. Karl Vaillancourt ... 5-8

The Current Overall Standings (COS) are getting interesting. The top seven people are all within five games of each other. Gedeon has fallen off the pace a little bit but a few good weeks could put him right back up at the top. Dan Sinclair and Jon Stover are both within shouting distance and a few good weeks could move them up as well. John Weaver and Dave Labowitz have been hanging around at the top for a while. It's shaping up to be an interesting final 8 weeks.

1. Bill Denton ... 92-37
1. Joey Bansen ... 92-37
3. Dave Labowitz ... 90-39
3. John Weaver ... 90-39
5. Gedeon Mariam ... 89-40
6. Jon Stover ... 88-41
7. Dan Sinclair ... 87-42
8. George Smith ... 83-46
8. Josh Money ... 83-46
8. Adam Roy ... 83-46
11. Matthew Mariam ... 82-47
12. Zack Klein ... 81-48
12. Karl Vaillancourt ... 81-48
14. Alex Mena ... 79-50
15. Sandy ... 77-52
16. Matthew Kory ... 73-56

An important note: in its infinite wisdom, the NFL will now be playing games on Thursday nights pretty much from here on in. That means that you, the participants in this wonderful pool(poop!) must send in your picks, all of your picks, by that point. I'm sorry, I know many of you like to wait until the last minute to get your picks in, but as long as there are Thursday night games, the lat minute is going to be 8:19pm EST on Thursday.

I'll have the schedule for this week up momentarily... Have a good week, everyone.

Unofficial Update: Week 9

Two with 9 wins so far: Bill Denton and Zack Klein.

No MNP tonight. Bill picked Pittsburgh, Zack picked Denver. May the best man win.

More later...

Week 9: Schedule

Here is the schedule for Week 9. The week begins on Sunday, November 8th at 1pm, EST. Please have your picks to me by that time. Thanks, and have a great week.

Baltimore at Cincinnati
Miami at New England
Kansas City at Jacksonville
Green Bay at Tampa Bay
Washington at Atlanta
Arizona at Chicago
Houston at Indianapolis
Carolina at New Orleans
Detroit at Seattle
Tennessee at San Francisco
San Diego at New York "Gallop'n Granny" Giants
Dallas at Philadelphia
Pittsburgh at Denver (plus total points)
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