Alternative Picks – Week 8, 2017

by Andy | Oct 26, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Picks

This is turning into some Harlem Globetrotters/Washington Generals exhibition side show.

It was another hideous week for Andy,  who is currently checking with his accountant to see if it’s legally allowable to pay off debts with funds from his daughter’s college account.

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We’re kidding. … We hope.

At any rate, Tony’s commanding lead got bigger. Andy’s left pondering, once again, whether the game has passed him by. … Or whether there was ever really a time in which it was sitting in front of him and he actually knew what was going on.

With that little bit of positivity, here are the standings:

Andy, again, gets to choose. He goes first. And here are Tony’s winners, err, we mean the picks for this week. (more…)

Alternative Picks – Week 7, 2017

by Andy | Oct 20, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Picks

This is turning into a bad joke. Andy got killed again. Not that Tony’s picks have been great, but … Andy’s continue to be godawful. What we anticipated would be a fun contest where one of us might owe the equivalent of a Subway sandwich is turning into a Manny’s Steakhouse dinner.

Andy’s going to need to turn things around fast or he’s going to have to start digging into college funds to pay the debt. Here are the standings:

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Alternative Picks – Week six, 2017

by Andy | Oct 12, 2017 | 2017 Season, NFL Picks

Well, at least it was a contest last week. We were tied going into the Sunday night game, but Tony got that one and the Monday nighter, to pull off his fifth straight win to start the season. Most troubling to Andy has to be his inability to pick winners in the early rounds of selecting games – of the first eight games last week, Tony got six.

Andy’s going back to picking second and third this week. He’s going to have to either start catching up in the standings or take out a second mortgage on his house. We’ll see. Here are the standings:

And the explanations:

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