Nanapong Memorial NFL Pick'em 2023

[marknberk]

Welcome to the annual NFL pick'em contest! It's named in honor of its longtime
host, nanapong1 (Rick). Each week of the NFL season we pick who we think will win,
and the player with the most games correct is declared the winner for that week.
The player with the highest cumulative total of correct picks at the end of the
18-week regular season is declared that year's winner. All comers are welcome!
(Not only is it lots of fun, but it promotes interest in NFL football--therefore
stimulating sales of football equipment, jerseys, collector's items and other
related fee-generating merchandise.)    So heeeere we go!

Nanapong Memorial NFL Pick'em 2023 RULES

---For fun and bragging rights only!

---The games will be posted each week, you can just copy/paste the list into
      your reply, then boldface, italicize or underline your picks...or just list
      your winners, whatever. But please make your choices very clear.

---Picks are straight up, not against the line (you just pick the winner, not the
      points.)

---Your picks must be posted before the start time of each game, minutes count.

---After Monday Night Football, everyone's score, the week's winner and YTD
      standings will be posted.

Give it a try! The more the merrier. You really don't need to know much about
football--the favorites are readily available, and they often win.

mountolimpus is the reigning champ...who will win this year??

I'll post Week 1 shortly.

[tdreamer56]

Houston at Baltimore                   
Green Bay at San Francisco      

Tampa Bay at Detroit                  
Kansas City at Buffalo

[marknberk]

DIVISIONAL ROUND  🏈

Houston at Baltimore...last-second switch; Ravens at home beat Texans 25-9 Week 1,
                                               and Texans are 0-7 all-time in Baltimore...but, the last time
                                               the Ravens won a postseason contest at home was January 2013
                                               --and the Texans could be this year's 'Cinderella' team
Green Bay at San Francisco...Niners are nearly 100% healthy--only ex-Raider DE Clelin
                                                            Ferrell will miss game...(but then, the Packers could be
                                                            another Cinderella team!)

Tampa Bay at Detroit...Bucs were lucky to draw the Eagles during their tailspin
Kansas City at Buffalo...Week 14, Bills beat Chiefs 20-17 in KC when Chiefs' go-
                                                  ahead TD was called back on a penalty; Bills are now
                                                  without several players on defense...but, there's the
                                                  turnover differential: Chiefs are -11, Bills are +2    😬

[catzhave9lives]

Congrats to tdreamer and wvmart!!

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@marknberk wrote:

DIVISIONAL ROUND

Saturday, Jan 20
Houston at Baltimore                   1:30pm Pacific
Green Bay at San Francisco      5:15pm

Sunday, Jan 21
Tampa Bay at Detroit                  12:00noon
Kansas City at Buffalo                  3:30pm

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[wvmart]

Saturday, Jan 20
 Baltimore                   1:30pm Pacific
Green Bay

Sunday, Jan 21
 Detroit                  12:00noon
Kansas City 

[marknberk]

Baltimore 34, Houston 10
San Francisco 24, Green Bay 21
Detroit 31, Tampa Bay 23
Kansas City 27, Buffalo 24

The Divisional Round ends with both catzhave9lives and marknberk
getting all four games correct! Woo-hoo! Yay for us.  wvmart and
mountolimpus were one back with three right. In the post-season
just-for-fun standings, wvm has a one-game lead over three others
with just three games left.   That ridiculous Pro Bowl 'flag football'
game doesn't count.  😝

Divisional Round results
catz, mark...........4
mounto, wvm.....3
landl, tdr...............2

Congratulations, catz!

Post-season just-for-fun standings
wvm.......................8
tdr, catz, mark.....7
landl, mounto......5

Check your count against mine; errors will be corrected.
The Conference Championship games will be posted shortly. Both
games are on Sunday.

[marknberk]

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sunday, Jan 28
Kansas City at Baltimore         12noon Pacific

Detroit at San Francisco           3:30pm

[catzhave9lives]

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@marknberk wrote:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Sunday, Jan 28
Kansas City at Baltimore         12noon Pacific

Detroit at San Francisco           3:30pm

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[marknberk]

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS  🏈

Kansas City at Baltimore...halftime show: Jumbotron shows highlights of a panel
                                                      discussion featuring three clinical psychologists.
                                                      Topic: is it considered abnormal behavior for a 34-year-old
                                                      woman to sing syrupy pop tunes written for teenage girls?

Detroit at San Francisco...Lions' D was the only defense in 2023 to NOT allow a running
                                                      back over 70 yards in a game (Niners' RB McCaffrey did it
                                                      12 times this past season). SF had to come from behind to
                                                      beat the Packers; and since Deebo Samuel is kinda iffy,
                                                      ...I'll pick the upset. I want to root for Goff, anyway.

[tdreamer56]

Kansas City at Baltimore         

Detroit at San Francisco 

[landlubbert]

Kansas City at Baltimore

Detroit at San Francisco

[mountolimpus]

Baltimore

San Francisco

[windhaze]

Playing for a friend.   🏈

Kansas City

Detroit  

[wvmart]

Sunday, Jan 28
Kansas City 

Detroit  

[marknberk]

Kansas City 17, Baltimore 10
San Francisco 34, Detroit 31

First off...WELCOME to new players windhaze, and your friend!   😃

Conference Championship Sunday is now over, and catzhave9lives
was the only one to get both games correct! That's six games in a
row (including last week's contests)!!  Four players got one right,
while two of us  🙄  totally whiffed. In the overall standings, catz
is now tied with wvmart for the lead--meaning that the Super Bowl
will determine the winner(s) of the post-season pick'em contest!

Conference Championship Sunday results
catz................................................2
wvm, landl, mounto, wind+......1
mark, tdr.......................................0

Congratulations, catz!!

Overall standings, just-for-fun postseason
wvm, catz.............9
tdr, mark...............7
landl, mounto.....6
wind+.....................1

Check your count against mine; errors will be corrected.
Everyone knows that it's the Kansas City Chiefs versus the San
Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, but I'll make an official post
in the next day or so anyway...I want to find out which team is
designated as the 'home team' and whatnot. The game is being

played at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas two weeks from now.

[marknberk]

SUPER BOWL LVIII  

at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV   

Sunday, Feb 11

                                    

San Francisco vs. Kansas City              3:30pm Pacific, 6:30 Eastern

...turns out that the Chiefs are the 'home team' this year, and have chosen to wear

their red home jerseys--which are the same ones they wore when they beat the 

49ers 31-20 in Super Bowl LIV.  Not counting that game, the 49ers have had pretty 

good luck in their white jerseys though...and over the last 19 Super Bowls, the team

in white jerseys is 16-3..!   The Niners have opened as one-and-a-half pt. favorites.