Sorry for the short notice folks, but I have been pretty busy this year. Anyways, on to the intro: Anyways, on to the normal intro: Well folks, its that time of year again -- with the coming of winter in Duluth (any day now) I am once again contemplating the start of football season, and more importantly, my annual football pool. As with past years the pool will have no monetary reward, just the chance to make all your friends green with envy over your prognosticating skill, plus the chance to have your name listed in the annals of past winners: 2006 Nick Street (nstreet) 2005 Paul Bradley (Paul) 2004 Kelly Street (bostreet) 2003 Matt Koehler (matty) 2002 Mike Rawdon (rawdon) 2001 Paul Bradley (paulb) 2000 Nick Street (nickstreet) 1999 Matt Koehler (matty) 1998 Jeff Horvath (jeff) 1997 Dave Opitz (opitz) 1996 Dave Opitz (opitz) 1995 Rich Maclin (rmaclin) 1994 Bob Olsen (olsen) 1993 Bob Olsen (olsen) 1992 Jim Pruyne (pruyne) What I need from you today are three things: 1) Confirmation that you want to be in the pool (otherwise I will assume you are not interested). 2) Names of anyone else you think might want to play. 3) Week 1 picks, here is the form: Week 1 (Due *** Thursday 9/6 *** at 7:00 pm) *** Cut Here ***---------------------------------------------------------- [ ] New_Orleans at [ ] Indianapolis 7:30 pm (Thu) [ ] Denver at [ ] Buffalo 12:00 noon [ ] Pittsburgh at [ ] Cleveland 12:00 noon [ ] Philadelphia at [ ] Green_Bay 12:00 noon [ ] Kansas_City at [ ] Houston 12:00 noon [ ] Tennessee at [ ] Jacksonville 12:00 noon [ ] Atlanta at [ ] Minnesota 12:00 noon [ ] New_England at [ ] NY_Jets 12:00 noon [ ] Carolina at [ ] St_Louis 12:00 noon [ ] Miami_ at [ ] Washington 12:00 noon [ ] Tampa_Bay at [ ] Seattle 3:15 pm [ ] Chicago at [ ] San_Diego 3:15 pm [ ] Detroit at [ ] Oakland 3:15 pm [ ] NY_Giants at [ ] Dallas 7:15 pm [ ] Baltimore at [ ] Cincinnati 6:00 pm (Mon) [ ] Arizona at [ ] San_Francisco 9:15 pm (Mon) *** Cut Here ***---------------------------------------------------------- Note that there is a web page that allows you to get forms for future weeks (all of the forms will be available shortly). Plus you can look at past results. Check it out at: http://www.d.umn.edu/~rmaclin/fbpool07/index.html Contact me if you have any problems with that page. I still plan to send out forms via email, the web page just adds an extra resource. Rich P.S. I have all of the schedules for the whole year, so feel free to request as far ahead as you like.