Congratulations to Anth…uh, sorry for the typo, Ravi Pillay who wins Week 9 with a score of 94.
As you may have noticed, I started the tradition of allowing the winners to take some time to offer their acceptance speech. This is an opportunity to dedicate your victory to someone or something, or just rant about whatever is on your mind. It’s only fitting that this is Ravi’s editorial:
“Booyeah Jordan how bout them apples!”
To add a little more substance, I gave Anthony an opportunity to speak as well:
“Since I did the picks on behalf of Ravi, it only seems appropriate that I accept this win on behalf of him. We were both running backs on the 3rd-grade football team back in 1988 and I think our deep roots of being on the same teams for the last 20 years are paying great dividends. Here’s to the strongest team in the league!”
It was a resounding victory for Ravi, as he only missed two games, and there weren’t a whole lot of other scores even in the same ballpark. Craig Bench came awfully close to his first win of the season with a second-place 89. This is a bright spot in what has otherwise been a very disappointing season for Craig. Other top scores for the week came from Beau Carlson, Ryan Andrus and Mark Blake, with 85, 84 and 83 points respectively.
Our top 3 in the overall standings remained in place for the first time all season. What does deserve mention is the meteoric fall of Ryan Curtis. Two weeks ago he was in 1st place. Now you need to look very close to find him. Yup, that’s right, he is in 18th! That is truly amazing. I guess he doesn’t want to even know how much money he would have won if he had paid this year. That’s one way to do it. Other notable observations from the rankings:
- Rawley Nielsen has quietly crept into the top 5 with another good week
- Ted Davies jumped into the top 10, going from 17th to 9th in one week
- Tyson and Shane Bills continue to slowly move up the standings and now are at 8th. I heard the big turning point in the season is when Shane started taking over doing the picks a few weeks ago. Doesn’t surprise me really.
I have received a number of notes of praise on the incredible video posted last week. A few really want to know the brains behind the operation. I will talk to the producers of the project and see if I can get permission to disclose the identity of the director. I will also see if he can bring similar forms of entertainment to our blog.
In the meantime, I thought I would post my football highlight video from when I was 12. The more I watch this, the more I wish I had stuck with football instead of basketball and lacrosse. I hope you guys don’t mind that I post it and hope a few might even enjoy it:
Lastly, I mentioned last week that Ryan Andrus had an encounter with our favorite female friend of the blog. It was at a Halloween party and apparently they really hit it off and had a good time. I don’t have a ton of other details at this time, but I did get a picture of the both of them:
I wanted to get the results out today because the first game this week is on Thursday. So please get your picks in before that night. I know this can be very difficult for a lot of us, so please do your best.
Have a great week.
I loved the vid of a young Jordan. I haven’t seen moves that good since I watched the Gators smoke the Bulldogs last Saturday… I’m already begging for tixs to Atlanta for the SEC Champ game