Here we go, here we go, here we go… Okay, so I usually relay the message that our annual Football Survivor Pool is the biggest pool we run every year. I guess not this year though—not likely—with the World Cup Pool having topped 800* entries.
* Seriously, it was 817 until one group requested I remove them completely from the database post-World Cup so they can keep complete anonimity, and I obliged their request.
Football Survivor will have to settle for second biggest this time around, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be the best! Although that World Cup Pool was a heck of a pool though… BUT! American football is back! The season is not far off now so time to put the footy out of our heads and figure out this funny shaped pigskin and every which way it bounces.
The NFL season starts Thursday September 9th, with the reigining Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints hosting the Brett Favre-led (that’s right, he’s back too) Minnesota Vikings. That will be a good one, although the Vikes will be without star WR Sidney Rice. You don’t know who Sidney Rice is? It doesn’t matter. That is the beauty of this pool—its simplicity.
All you have to do is pick one team to win the first week, straight up (no point spread). If your team wins, then you move on to the next week to pick again. If your team loses or ties, then you are out of the pool. The catch of course is that you cannot pick the same team twice all regular season. It takes a little bit of skill to plan ahead, and a little bit of luck to avoid the upsets and stay alive before everyone else drops off.
It took us until Wild-Card Weekend last year until our final two survivors finally got a pick wrong to end the pool. Lets see what it takes this year. The deadline to enter is kickoff on the first Sunday of Week 1 of the NFL season. That is, Sunday September 12th at 1:00pm Eastern.
Our Football Survivor Pool now boasts the same great pool features we just introduced in the World Cup Pool. You can play for free and create your own pool group, inviting your friends, as many as you like and you can all play for free (or for money, but just sort that out amongst yourselves). Or, join the MOP $20 Poolies group, paying your $20 entry fee online, winner take all and I’ll administer this group.
Come join the pool, and good luck! I’m thinking Miami Dolphins over Buffalo Bills for Week 1, although it is a Bills home game. Maybe the Tennessee Titans over Oakland Raiders…