HawaiiThreads NFL Pick'em!

[anapuni808]

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Niners & Raiders fans don't bet with logic - they bet with love (and sometimes desperation), they bet on faith - but never logic and I say this as a very, very longtime Niners fan. I could never bring myself to bet against my team - even if it meant losing $$$. and the last few seasons, it's been very hard to be a Niners fan & still hold my head up.

and Manoa - How did you get to be so good at picking winners? 12-2 is great! Next time I make bets, I'll be consulting you first! (unless it's the Niners).

[damontucker]

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It was kind of an easy week... I just got lucky!

And you guys will be suprised if and when I bet against my seahawks... but there may be that game

[1stwahine]

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It was kind of an easy week... I just got lucky!

And you guys will be suprised if and when I bet against my seahawks... but there may be that game

Manoa, I'm taking your picking$ seriously too. I think we better have a talk. I going back into....neva mind people. Top Secret!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Auntie Lynn

[damontucker]

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After the game that just ended... I'm actually 13-2

However, Nachodaddy is also 13-2... but I beat him by 1 last week

The tie breaker will be on the point spread on tomorow nights Game....which I think he will take just because mine is kind of a bit high... but will see!

And Gee... (Scrivener technically won it because of a freebie)...but in my eyes...PZarquon won the whole dang thing last weekend so maybe you can take him and his parrot to vegas with you!

And better yet... If you want the guarantee... take Lavagal... she's 100%
if it's based on games played.

[timkona]

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12-3 Not good enough.,.....Gonna have to step it up.

[damontucker]

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Scriv - can we PM you are Picks?

I no like anyone blame me for losing somewhere else!

(I'll still post them publicly online Sunday Morning so no one thinks were in cohoots or anything)

[oceanpacific]

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Niners & Raiders fans don't bet with logic - they bet with love (and sometimes desperation), they bet on faith - but never logic and I say this as a very, very longtime Niners fan. I could never bring myself to bet against my team - even if it meant losing $$$. and the last few seasons, it's been very hard to be a Niners fan & still hold my head up.

and Manoa - How did you get to be so good at picking winners? 12-2 is great! Next time I make bets, I'll be consulting you first! (unless it's the Niners).

I'm also a longtime 49er fan of over 50 years since the days of Leo "the Lion" Nomellini, who was a pro wrestler during the off-season. I'm at 13-2 this week after picking both my 'Niners and the hated Cowboys. The SF pick was sentimental (I'm still not convinced about qb Alex Smith) and Dallas was at home vs. the 'Skins. And, Manoa and I both picked Jacksonville (GO CHAD, GO!) for MNF.

[anapuni808]

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Well - you've got me beat there. I've only been a fan for about 30 years. as for those hated Dallas guys - I used to have a t-shirt with a diagram of "The Play" on the front. and I also had a t-shirt that LOOKED like an official Dallas shirt til you got up close and it said in bold letters: F*** Dallas. My boss in SF bought it for me. I was lucky enough to live there for 4 of the 5 super bowl victories - anyone who has lived in a super bowl winning team's hometown can tell you - those were some parties in the streets!!!

Now, if the team "owner" John York will just loosen up the purse strings a bit more and learn to look at it as a sports franchise instead of just a business, we might have a chance (next season?) for another trophy. Maybe Little Eddie D. will have to take him out behind the barn & give him some Auntie Lynn Whack Whacks to get him in line but I have my hopes that if won't be long til we rise again.

GO NINERS

[oceanpacific]

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Well - you've got me beat there. I've only been a fan for about 30 years. as for those hated Dallas guys - I used to have a t-shirt with a diagram of "The Play" on the front. and I also had a t-shirt that LOOKED like an official Dallas shirt til you got up close and it said in bold letters: F*** Dallas. My boss in SF bought it for me. I was lucky enough to live there for 4 of the 5 super bowl victories - anyone who has lived in a super bowl winning team's hometown can tell you - those were some parties in the streets!!!

Now, if the team "owner" John York will just loosen up the purse strings a bit more and learn to look at it as a sports franchise instead of just a business, we might have a chance (next season?) for another trophy. Maybe Little Eddie D. will have to take him out behind the barn & give him some Auntie Lynn Whack Whacks to get him in line but I have my hopes that if won't be long til we rise again.

GO NINERS

Now, as I recall, Eddie, Jr. relinquished control of the team to his sister Denise York when he was subject to an investigation of financial dealings with Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards to establish riverboat casinos. Somewhere along the line, brother-in-law John York seized control as team "owner" and the 'Niners took a tumble. Will Eddie, Jr. ever regain control of the team?

Ah, those "glory years." SF is tied with Dallas and Pittsburgh with FIVE Super Bowl titles, but the 'Niners have never lost a Super Bowl game (the 'Boys have dropped three title games, the Steelers one).

I have a video tape of the 1981 NFC title game ("the Catch"). The picture's not great - my TV was on "rabbit ears" as there was no Oceanic Cable service in my area then. But, there's no denying the celebration in "Bahgdad by the Bay." Electric!

[scrivener]

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oh please. no, you may not pm me your picks. just post them like everybody else. my life is complicated enough!

[damontucker]

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Ok scriv... understand... but are we still allowed to change our responses up until your deadline? Or does the first thing we put down stick?

[scrivener]

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whatever you have as of 6:00 sunday.

I may make that 5:00 when the mainland falls back an hour.

[anapuni808]

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Now, as I recall, Eddie, Jr. relinquished control of the team to his sister Denise York when he was subject to an investigation of financial dealings with Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards to establish riverboat casinos. Somewhere along the line, brother-in-law John York seized control as team "owner" and the 'Niners took a tumble. Will Eddie, Jr. ever regain control of the team?

Ah, those "glory years." SF is tied with Dallas and Pittsburgh with FIVE Super Bowl titles, but the 'Niners have never lost a Super Bowl game (the 'Boys have dropped three title games, the Steelers one).

I have a video tape of the 1981 NFC title game ("the Catch"). The picture's not great - my TV was on "rabbit ears" as there was no Oceanic Cable service in my area then. But, there's no denying the celebration in "Bahgdad by the Bay." Electric!

I remember being in a bar in the Marina District of SF on Super Bowl sunday #16 - after the game ended, I asked a friend "I wonder what would happen if I punched "God Bless America" on the jukebox"? well, I did it - there were people standing on the bar, leading the singing. You would think we had just solved all the world's problems with that one game! It was quite an experience. and yes, Niners are tied with other teams at 5 wins but as you say - we never lost a super bowl game. and that Lombardi Trophy is really large, silver, shiny & pretty

When I lived there, my neighbors & I got so depressed without football one year that we had a "playoff party" one weekend in June or July - replayed a tape of that NFC championship playoff game, leading up to SB #16. You would think we had never seen the game before - we cheered & yelled so much! The next weekend, we had a tailgate party & watched a tape of Super Bowl 16 - ahh, what fun that was!

I think Eddie D. has been banned for life - he also had to sell off the NHL team he owned - Pittsburgh Penguins. But, he is still "behind the scenes" with his sister & her uptight husband. I'm truly hoping that John York will loosen up this season & start being a sportsman instead of an accountant. I think we have great potential - maybe not this season as re-building is still ongoing but by next season? Who knows what can happen? But win or lose, I'm a diehard Niners fan for the rest of my life.

[oceanpacific]

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Well, I picked the 'Niners both weeks over Arizona and St. Louis. Both regarded by most pundits as "give-away bets," but guess what? 1-1, with the win over the Rams being oh, so sweet! I'm in this just for the fun of it, no more, no less. I don't engage in "P-sheets" or 6-5, anyway. Most weeks I'll be shooting for 15-1 tops, but who knows what happens on the field? Maybe, just maybe, Alex Smith will turn out to be the answer at QB, but SF has so many needs.

GO, 'NINERS!

[anapuni808]

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Well, I'm not putting my hopes on Smith - you are right, Niners have so many needs! I have a good friend who actually played in a Super Bowl - he is my guru when it comes to what makes a good team. Of course, the fact he hates the 49'ers is a mark against him but I love him anyway