The 2005 Football Pool

as told by the Commish

Week 3



Nana's Boys won the battle of attrition this week with an 8-6 record. Nana! Nana!
Despite losing on Monday night, Nana was on the money with the Monday night football points and takes the big prize for the week. Nana's win moves her to within 1 game of our very crowded leaderboard. Congrats to Nana!

Not really notable performances because everybody sucked this week, but what would a week of commentary be without recognizing err... making fun of... those people that make this football pool the great form of entertainment that it is.

Betsy Nichols 8-6 - Newcomer Nichols has been impressive so far this year as she joins the 26 team tie for 2nd

Major Deegan - Kathy Toomey - The always consistent Toomey has hung in there this year. She joins 31 teams in a tie for 3rd

Real and Spectacular - Brian Chabarek - Mr. Chabarek's performance this week was remotely tolerable. So impressive was Real and Spectacular that the Jets named him emergency QB for this week's game vs. the Ravens





Nana's Boys 8-6 The Velvet Fog 0-14



State of the Pool

In the words of the Japanese guys in Major League, "They are shitty". We had one negligent player this week, but those who played might as well have not played. Those who played picked at a 37% clip. This means that if you had 5 wins, you were right around average this week. Guys, let's pick this up!!!

After three weeks, just about everyone is in contention, but two teams reign supreme:

Team Bean, Me is hanging on by a thread after a pathetic 4-10 week. Team Bean sits at a mediocre 24-21-1.

Behold, the Power of Cheese - Rookie Sage has been the most consistent player in the pool thus far this season, as she has been wearing the prognostic pants in the relationship for the first three weeks of this season. Sage's 24 wins are good for a share of first place

The Cellar

Let's forget about Mr. Diapola, The Velvet Fog for a second, who did not bother to make his picks this week. The best story of this week was the performance of our resident cellar dwellar, Michelle "Moose" Haas. Michelle is 5-43-1 this season, but that is not the story: Her 1-13 mark this past week is. In Joe Dimaggio fashion, Moose lost 12 consecutive games this week through the 1:00 and 4:00 games - a record for The Football Pool. For those scoring at home, the odds of going 0 for 12 are 1 out of 5000. Michelle's 1-13 mark also breaks the record for worst record by a participating member of the football pool. Michelle broke Gary Kessler's mark of 2-14, back in 1989.

Michelle leads Latino Heat, David Liriano by six games in the basement

Best of luck in week 4! (We need it!)