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Jan 23: Those games were not good. Unless you are a Patriots fan or Falcons fan I suppose, but if you didn't have a horse in the race and just wanted to see some good competitive football, it was pretty dismal. Much like Wild-Card Weekend, we had two lopsided, double-digit scores in which we sharpened our channel surfing skills early in the second half.

As for our pool, it did shake up the table. Cacciatorini #3 pulls into first place. PistolPete is in second but having lost his Packers pick to win the Super Bowl won't be able to hang on. Ditka, Coachwad and rydel will catch him with a Pats win, while snow1900 and FalconsOrBust pull ahead with a Falcons win. %more% - - -
Jan 16: Much better weekend of football! Two down to the wire games Sunday. The Texans stuck with the Patriots for a while, and the Seahawks-Falcons game was a very entertaining first half before the wheels fell off. The long Devin Hester return called back for penalty and then sack-safety, a big turning point in that one.

The pool is updated and PistolPete shot into first place with a 31 point Divisional Round. He passed Cacciatorini, then Ditka, lambeauleap (makes sense) and snow1900 round out the top 5. We have every possible Super Bowl matchup represented in our top 5 entries, and the only duplicate - Pats-Packers - picked different teams to win. Still lots to settle in the pool. Enjoy the last three games of the 2016-17 NFL season!
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Jan 9: Margin of victory bonus points were tough to come by with four double-digit wins by the favourites, providing for a pretty ho-hum Wild-Card Weekend. Two entries - Cacciatorini #2 and chester30 - did manage to hit exactly right on the margin of victory in one game, and grab a few in another, to lead the pack with 20 points. I wish I had listened to Cacciatorini who was clearly all-in on the Houston Texans while I picked the Oakland Raiders in that game. That was the biggest swing game, along with Giants-Packers, while most picked the Seahawks and Steelers. The Divisional Round is up next and with some closer calls should provide a little more drama and shakeup of our leaderboard.
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• 1st Place: $650 2nd: $325 3rd: $150 4th: $75 5th: $40 credit to future pool
• $20 CAD (or $18 USD) per entry
  * Plus $3 HST ($23 total) for Canadians
• Limited to 72 entries

Deadline to enter Saturday January 7, 2017 at 4:35 pm Eastern (kickoff of the first Wild-Card game). Edit your picks any time up to the deadline.