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]

San Francisco

[windhaze]

Kansas City 

[catzhave9lives]

Kansas City

[marknberk]

                                               

San Francisco vs. Kansas City...I'll definitely be rooting for the Niners to beat the

                                                                Raiders' AFC West rivals, but nobody ever got rich

                                                                betting against Mahomes in a big game...so anyway,

                                                                that's the tortured reasoning behind this pick.

[mountolimpus]

San Francisco 27

Kansas City 23

[wvmart]

San Francisco

Been waiting for Catz to pick first in order to choose the opposite.😁

Going to watch Iowa/Nebraska women's basketball to see if Catlin Clark breaks the scoring record today at 1pm .....nice warm up for the super bowl.😎 

[landlubbert]

Kansas City Chiefs!!!

[catzhave9lives]

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@wvmart wrote:

San Francisco

Been waiting for Catz to pick first in order to choose the opposite.😁

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I was going to do the same thing if you had picked already. 😂 Looks like KC has a real battle if they’re going to win this. Btw, Lloyd says hi to you and @tdreamer56 ! Hopes you’re both doing well. ❤️

[marknberk]

Kansas City 25, San Francisco 22 (OT)

Super Bowl LVIII went to overtime, and the Chiefs responded to
the 49ers' field goal by scoring the winning touchdown.

catzhave9lives, marknberk, windhaze and landlubbert all had the
victorious Chiefs.  Those that didn't...do not pass GO, etc. etc.
That means catz wins the post-season just-for-fun pick'em contest!
Nicely done!!  Since catz had previously won both the pre-season
and main competitions prior to this win, this constitutes what
is now known as a 'catz's clean sweep'...

Final standings, post-season just-for-fun pick'em
catzhave9lives....................10
wvmart....................................9
marknberk.............................8
tdreamer, landlubbert........7
mountolimpus......................6
windhaze................................2*

*did not play entire postseason

Congratulations, catz!

Check your count against mine; errors will be corrected.
That's it for the 2023 season. No more NFL games until the
2024 Hall of Fame game several months from now.

Final remarks will appear in a separate post.

[marknberk]

Again, that's it for this season.  Congratulations again to
catzhave9lives, who won pretty much everything this year (!!)
(We'll have to have Roger Goodell check her for PEDs, for sure.)

Don't know why, but this past season flew by--it seems like just
recently we started this year's contest.

For next season, I'll post the Hall of Fame game and the pre-season
at the end of this thread in the same manner as I had this past
year using the 2022 thread. Hopefully it can still be accessed.
Then the 2024 regular season will have its own thread.

Anyway...I really enjoy picking NFL games with all of you, and
hope you had fun too. I look forward to seeing everyone in a few
months for next season. Maybe we can attract some more players
for 2024--and I'll make an effort not to alienate them this time!
...y'know, like I did with what's-his-name during Week 1.  😏

Until then...

[shirleys809304]

Hooray for the Chiefs!   Watched the first half and then checked in every so often. 

Congrats again to Catz!

Love the cat, Mark.

The season did fly by for sure. 

[catzhave9lives]

Thanks Mark for making this year so entertaining! I had a lot of fun. Hope to see you all again next season.

[tdreamer56]

congrats catz!  🙂  say hello to Lloyd.  

thank you mark for running the contest again.  🙂

stay safe and happy people.