Posted by Johnnymac 10:06 PM
Football Pool
For the longest time my dad and his friends ran a massive football pickem game each week in Snyder, my hometown in West Texas. They ran this game out of the offices of a local oilfield drilling company and all of the guys from all of the crews all over the state would send in entries, as would a lot of the local guys in town and my dad and his friends and even my brother and I and some of our friends. At time there were more than a hundred entries in the game and it made for some healthy pots in return for a little $20 wager.

Last year the company went public and the CEO decreed that they would no longer allow any organized gambling to take place on company property. I can see his point, but it was still disappointing last summer when the game ended. In response, my brother and I decided to start our own version of the pool last year just before the season started and we were able to recruit two other guys to play. It turned out to be a lot of fun.

This year we are doing it again and our goal is to recruit 6 more players for a total of 10 and I am posting an open invitation to the blog for anyone who might be interested in playing.

The rules are fairly simple:

- Pay $20. 75% ($15) goes into the weekly pot. 25% ($5) goes into the overall pot.

- Weekly Pot: Choose any 5 NFL games each week and pick the winner against the spread. The player who correctly picks all 5 of his games that week wins the weekly pot for that week. If more than one player picks 5 games correctly, then the weekly pot is split. If no one picks 5 games correctly then the weekly pot carries over into the next week(s) until there is a winner.

- Overall Pot: You may also pick the winners (against the spread) of every NFL game in a particular week. At the end of the season the player with the most total games picked correctly will win the overall pot.

That's it. That's the idea of the game. There are a few more specific rules in response to certain situations (ie carryovers) and you can find those rules here.


If you are interested in playing, please send me an email and I will get you set up. I need to know who you are specifically, or know someone who knows you and can vouch for you (and so on), but otherwise anyone is welcome to play.

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