Pickem Dash Football

The  Week  1 NCAA card is now live. hashtag letsdothis. The general due date for each week's card is before the kickoff the first game, which in this case means 8/29/13 5:00PM Central. We are doing Thursday games for Week 1, y'all. L ate picks totally happen, you guys, and I'll always take any pick that gets to me before the kickoff of a game.  But let's get this out of the way early: All your picks are time-stamped by the Google form, so don't even try with the "my iPhone lost my picks" excuse. Whatever. Google. Says. Goes. Also, I'm keeping the system I added last year where you can send partial cards or edits to your picks. If you fill out the form a second time, you only need to enter the picks you want to add/change and it will automatically be changed online. Note, the form won't stop you from making late picks or cheating, but I'll audit everything at the end of the week. Whatever. Google. Says. Goes. The Links: WEEK 1 CARD...

I'm a football fan. I may not have PhD level ability to break down personnel, scheme, etc., and football is one of a few sports I've never played in an organized league, but I totally geek out on football. I consume football in live form on television and in person, in news form on the Internet, and I even found myself watching classic games on the Big Ten Network last month (great production, by the way). I'm just saying, I like to watch. Naturally, I started my own league. It started when I was in college. The year was 1998, if memory serves. My girlfriend, now wife, suggested we start a league similar to one from the local news station to test our ability to pick game winners. I used my budding Excel skills to create a format to track our success. My dog played too, and he often won. From that innocuous suggestion came what is now the ritual and tradition, the pomp and the circumstance, the simple excellence of Pick'em. Fantasy sports provide a fantastic approa...

Could the road to the Super Bowl go through Houston? Of course it couldn't. Double D (DD) had a great week and is our new leader.

Congrats to Chumlee Banditos (KP) on contest win. Congrats to CG and "15 MF National Championships." Goodnight college football.

BlitzKrieg (RK) takes the lead the simple way. Betting everything and getting every pick correct. The results are posted below with a look ahead to Week 2. I'll send the card after a couple days when the lines settle.

95% of the time, I am right. In this by-degree world, you may be right most of the time too. I can only speak for myself.  I point this out not to be smug, but as an introduction to my coverage of the Pickem-Football 2012 College Bowl Challenge. Kids, my name is Crawford and I'll be taking you to the National Championship games and announcing which one of you confidently picked your way into $112.50, a total that sounds low – just saying. You may know my work as a   beer   blogger . I am not your typical self-loathing blogger. I like to tell it like it is, share my life experiences, and hopefully help you put better stuff in your mouth. Speaking of what to put in your mouth today is New Year's Eve, which also reminds me of that movie 'New Year's Eve.' Rotten Tomatoes described the movie as "shallow, sappy, and dull" with a "star-studded cast [with] no discernible purpose." Last time I checked, this is precisely describes ACTUAL New Year'...

What Thanksgiving dish are you most thankful for? Team Name Answer Comment 14 National Championships CG All of it son!!! Pie... All of the pie. Or all of it, and pie too? +3 A Northmen ANo pumpkin pie : -) I have a bit of a sweet tooth I don't know how you eat it w/o Cool Whip. +3 Beelzebubbles CCo Dish network Haa! +4 Bevo XIV DW The big bird! Does Big Bird taste like chicken? +3 Bourbon Street Bounty Hunters JC Sweet potatoes! Do you like them with all the marshmallows? I'm going to assume that is your favorite part, and that makes this only worth +3 Chicainery CCa Baked sweet potatoes with pecans and brown sugar. That's what I'm saying. +4 Chumlee Banditos KP Turkey Turkey needs help to be real good… you gotta admit. +3 Double D DD Turkey and turkey gravy. Because they're just that good. Gravy needs a little turkey. Turkey needs a lot of gravy. +3 Ferments-A-Lot GN Gravy. Good on everything. Everything. +3 Gig'em! AP Cranberry Sauce...I know yo...