The 2005 Football Pool

as told by the Commish

Week 13



Week 13 saw Da Bull, Scott Stern steamroll into the record books with an all-time football pool high record of 14-2!!! What a week! Scott's huge week beamed him up into the top 4 in the overall chase. Scott, congratulations, now go buy your brother some odor eaters!

Typically 13 wins, gets you $51. This week, it merely gets you mentioned in the column. In a week where the favorites flourished (you would have went 12-4 if you picked ALL favorites), here are the folks with 13 or 12 wins - congrats on a great week

13 wins

Jason Weinstein, Jason Weinstein - The Football Pool will be enacting tests for performance enhancing drugs beginning in week 15. Weinstein is 29 games over .500 this season

Nostradamus, Peter Sharrow Jr. - Pete was impressive this week as he attempts a late season charge. If anything, he moved over the .500 on the season and overtook Team Bean this week

Brett Kaplan, Brett Kaplan - Kaplan has emerged from the depths of the football pool and is one of the hottest team in the league right now

The Velvet Fog, Michael Diapola - See Brett Kaplan. Diapola has been very up and down this season and is now scratching and clawing towards the .500 mark.

12 wins

Karl Knechtel, Karl Knechtel - ahh, the life of Knechtel. An impressive 12 win week gains him nothing in the standings - in fact, he lost a game. On the flip side, "Krazy with a K" Karl did keep pace with the Great Weinsteini and is prepping us for an epic Yankees-Red Sox type battle in the final weeks of the season

I Love The Bean, Gary Engel - I Love the Bean celebrated his impressive week with a trip to the Bahamas. In a season where my Dad and Weinstein are flourishing - you know we are in the Bizarro world.

Mrs. Rog, Lynn Rog - Definitely a down year for Mrs. Rog, but she had a glimmer of what was (last year) with an impressive 12 wins this week

Kip Dynamite, Dana Champlain - Even a blind squirrel occassionally finds a nut. Nice job this week Dana!







Da Bull, Scott Stern 14-2 Moose Haas/Dry Humper 0-16

State of the Pool

Back to back unbelievable weeks in the pool. We hit 59% this week (and that includes our two no shows). This huge week moved us to within 1 percentage point of the Ramiro Mendoza line. Keep up the great work. I am now proud to show my face as the commissioner of this league.

Overall Leaders

What can you say about Jason Weinstein? He's amazing.......... He can't lose....... He's just been jinxed. In all seriousness, the men were separated from the boys (and, to be P.C.: the women were separated from the girls) this week. Jay has a two game lead on his nearest competitor Karl Knechtel. Good for third place, 4 games back, is the always steady Major Deegan, Kathy Toomery who hung in with 11 wins this week. Da Bull was discussed earlier. His 14 wins moved him within 5 games of the leader. Advantage Burns, Steve Yamarik and Michael Casserly had 10+ wins and sit seven games back of the leader. Time is running out in the pool and now is the time to make your move because these leaders are fierce and do not appear to be coming back to the pack!

The Basement

Moose Haas maintain her basement lead with her no-show this week. Dry Humpers moved into 2nd place with a no-show, they are six games back.

Good luck in week 14!