🏈 2026 NFL Pick'em Contest 🏈
galaxy27
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It's that time again. We're a mere 10 days away from the first game of the NFL season between the Pats & Hawks. From now until kickoff, let's get a show of hands. Who's ready to rumble? Kindly toss your hat into the ring via a post confirming your participation. I made a unilateral decision this year: The only barrier to entry is a single post anywhere on this forum in 2026. If you're unable to leap unaided over that horizontal bar placed at a very low height, then that essentially means the only time you come up for air is when money is involved. That's not going to be allowed this year.
bgr & I are putting up 100$ apiece, so the winner will stick two benjamins in his pocket. My plan is to run the show for the first half of the season, then I'm going to pass the baton over to perkdog. I will post each week's schedule along with up-to-date standings. The rules are quite simple: Make sure you get your selections in before the first game of the week. Pick each game straight up, not against the line. Every game is worth a point. At the end of week 18, the individual with the highest total is the champ.
Good luck to all!
Competitors as of this moment:
galaxy27
bgr
perkdog
stevek
BLUEJAYWAY
Darin
ElMagoStrikeZone
Saint Ezzard
LandrysFedora
Canes8387899101
Comments
Count me in please. It would be a fun pleasure to see how many I can get right this season. I'm usually wrong, so no threat to you guys. Heh heh.
I'm in. 😊
Good luck to everyone, except against me. 😉
Okay I’ll play.
Galaxy and bgr….. if a miracle happens and I win give the prize money to your favorite charity or some hard working waitress or waiter…. just do something nice with it and thanks that’s very generous of both of you.
Thanks once again for running this. I hope to defend my poor record title from last year once again. Think I was last or next to last last season.
Same here. After I win the contest by a dozen points or more, send the contribution to the March of Dimes, my favorite charity. Thank you!
As i stated in another thread when bgr brought this up I'm due to put some work in so I'll take care of the standings from week to week for the first half of the season, if it goes well I'll reevaluate and consider doing it for the whole season
Thanks @galaxy27 and @bgr for generously putting up prize money like that
If I pull this off and finish in first any organization that helps kids is where I want my winnings to go!
Appreciate the heads up @galaxy27, and if I do manage to get lucky and win, I want my prize to go to the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation (PBTF). 👍
I'm going to use artificial intelligence by just copying stevek's picks!
My charity this year is Second Harvest Heartland. After I had to shut all my daycare centers down I had some free time and did some volunteering with them this summer along with my kids. Great organization.
American Cancer Society will be my charity for any winnings.
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for me -- my one and only sibling died from it back in 1982 at age 6
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This will be my charity
Awful sorry to read this bro
thanks brother. he was dealt a terrible hand in life. but the collateral damage was arguably just as bad -- my mother's tear ducts still empty on his birthday, and it has been almost a half century. one of the worst things that can happen to any parent is outliving your offspring.
the very good news is that great strides have been made over the decades where CF is concerned. Boomer Esiason's son has it and is still going strong to this day, which is wonderful. if memory serves, he was diagnosed in the early '90s.
looking forward to the fun 🤙
Count me in @galaxy27, if I win, I would like to donate the winnings to the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League (shelter) in beautiful West Palm Beach, Florida. They do Gods work for the animals there.
Same here galaxy.
Very sorry about your sibling.
Great to hear about the progress being made with this disease.
I'm in for $100
If I win the contest, in which I am the heavy favorite, then my $100 goes to the March of Dimes. If I don't win, which is very unlikely, then it goes to the winner's charity. 😊
Sorry to hear about that, in honor of him I'd like my prize money, if I win, to go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It's the least I can do, he'd be proud of the man you became. 👍
Week 1
Seahawks
Rams
Bengals
Lions
Jets
Colts
Steelers
Bears
Jags
Texans
Raiders
Packers
Eagles
Chargers
Giants
Broncos
Week 1:
Patriots
Rams
Steelers
Ravens
Bills
Bears
Jaguars
Bengals
Lions
Titans
LA Chargers
Packers
Raiders
Eagles
Cowboys
Chiefs
Week 1
Seattle
Rams
Pittsburgh
Indy
Buffalo
Chicago
Jax
Tampa
Detroit
Tennessee
Chargers
Minny
Vegas
Philly
Dallas
KC
Week 1 And so it begins. Luck to all.
Hawks
Rams
Falcons
Colts
Texans
Bears
Jags
Bucs
Saints
Titans
Chargers
Vikings
Raiders
Commanders
Giants
Broncos
Hey everyone jumping in to the mix if it is not too late?
Galaxy, sorry to hear about your loss.
I would like to donate my winnings, if a miracle happens, to the V-Foundation.
Good luck everyone.
Seattle
LA Rams
Pittsburgh
Baltimore
Buffalo
Chicago
Jacksonville
Tampa Bay
Detroit
Tennessee
LA Chargers
Green Bay
Las Vegas
Philadelphia
Dallas
Kansas City
Jaguars
Chargers
Lions
Eagles
Hawks
Rams
Steelers
Ravens
Bengals
Raiders
Bears
Chiefs
Cowboys
Bills
Titans
Vikings
I quoted Stevek to keep the picks in front of the week one schedule
I can't attach a spreadsheet here? yikes.
New England
LA Rams
Atlanta
Baltimore
Houston
Chicago
Jacksonville
Cincinnati
Detroit
Tennessee
LA Chargers
Minnesota
Miami
Philadelphia
Dallas
Denver
Seahawks
Rams
Steelers
Ravens
Texans
Da Bears
Jags
Bucs
Lions
Jets
Chargers
Vikes
Vegas
Iggles
Cowpatties
Chiefs
IF I win, my donation to an organization on behalf of animal care and rescue, Southern California Golden Retriever Rescue, who assisted us in finding our beloved pup. Thanks.
Seahawks
Rams
Steelers
Ravens
Bills
Bears
Jaguars
Bengals
Lions
Titans
Chargers
Packers
Raiders
Eagles
Cowboys
Chiefs
Unofficial Week 1 check-in - 14 of 16 in the books. @perkdog has the official book, so treat this as a placeholder until he posts.
bgr 11-3
Darin 10-4
ElMagoStrikeZone 10-4
perkdog 9-5
stevek 9-5
Saint Ezzard 9-5
Canes8387899101 9-5
galaxy27 7-7
BLUEJAYWAY 5-9
@LandrysFedora - I didn't see picks from you, holler if I missed them somewhere.
Two games where the whole room went down together. Every one of us took the Rams (49ers 27-7 in Australia) and every one of us took the Chargers (Cardinals 26-14). Nine for nine on both. If anybody wants my picks going forward, they're available and clearly worth exactly what you'd pay for them.
A few other notes:
Bears 59, Panthers 37. Fifty-nine points. In week one.
Minnesota hung 22 in the fourth to bury Green Bay. I live here, so I know better than to trust it, but I'll take the point.
And so much for my plan to just copy stevek's card.
Left to play: Cowboys-Giants tonight, Broncos-Chiefs tomorrow. Darin and ElMago have the same two games as me, so those two can't catch me this week no matter what happens. stevek is the only one still live - he needs the Giants and the Broncos, I need Dallas and KC.
Good start here I suppose, I underestimated Buffalo & Cincy, duh. 🙄
Nice early write up
I'll do my best to add some character to my posts, it's off to a good start, the NFL is in full swing boys where it's always the witching hour where wins become losses and losses become wins!
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I had to ask Claude for that one so if it ever sounds weird then it's my AI assistant.
I did also want to note that I didn't see Landry's picks there. if he wants to get them in I'll leave it up to vote but I'll trust him.
If he legit forgot I'll honor his picks because I'm fairly confident he would be as honest as he could be
I'm good with the boards majority vote
No protest from me if he's let in on the contest.
It’s a long season.
Thanks for the update bgr!
we put together a pick'em contest and everyone starts disappearing
sorry worthy charities, we have to pool this money together so we can hire a private investigator
When the Giants beat the Cowboys by two TD’s and stevek hasn’t made any jokes yet it might be time to get worried. And his Eagles won.
Sorry… one TD and a two point conversion.
Steve hasn't logged on since 9/3
I 100% wouldn't put it past him to pop in and post his week 2 picks and say "Sorry real busy"
Very weird that he didn't do 100 different posts during the Philly game though ...
dueces is also on the missing person's list
he always participates, plus his team had a scintillating win yesterday
🦗🦗🦗 crickets 🦗🦗🦗
i wish people would prioritize this glorious forum and start wasting copious amounts of time again
I have no idea what "Scintillating" means but it sounds like it's good 🤔😂😂😂
Joe is a great guy, hope he is well
Week 2
Bills
Panthers
Ravens
Bears
Texans
Steelers
Packers
Bucs
Eagles
Broncos
Chargers
Seahawks
Commanders
49ers
Colts
Rams
Dude you’re supposed to wait until perk actually posts the schedule to make your picks. And you’re already
0-1 because the Colts aren’t beating the Chiefs.
If I get flagged for taunting then so be it.
STANDINGS
Bgr-12
Darin-11
EliMagoStrikeZone-11
Stevek -10
Canes8387899101 -10
SaintEzzard -10
Perkdog -10
Galaxy27 -7
BLUEJAYWAY - 6
Week 1 is in the books, congrats to Bgr for posting an impressive 12 win week and being in first place even after Darin and Eli posted up 11 wins a piece, a log jam in the middle with 5 contestants close behind with 10
The battle has just begun
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Keeping Steve in front of the scheduie