Survivor Recap, Wild-Card Weekend

We have a winner – I mean winners – in the original survivor pool!

We still haven’t crowned a champ, but we have an agreed upon split of the proceeds between our last two standing in the pool, haysie and knarf67. They are each going to take $700 from the $1,634, and then continue to play for the $234 through the playoffs. So, one person will get the trophy, both guys get some cash and everyone is happy.

Well, maybe not everyone. Here is my deep thought for DonS and Eugenius in the original survivor, and paulkney in the second half survivor: Regardless of having a playoff berth on the line, do you think maybe when a high strung rookie head coach decides to bench his stud WR (who near single-handedly won games for them this year) and top TE, that he might have a bit of a mutiny on his hands? Maybe they’ll fold like an old lawn chair with the likes of Kyle Orton to Jabar Gaffney being the offensive threat? Maybe not the best team to back in a survivor pool?

Of course I’m talking about the Denver Broncos, who knocked out our three aforementioned survivor pool participants. Ah heck, I’m not trying to be hard on you guys. In Week 17 anything can happen. Plus a run of 16 straight weeks (or nine in paulkney’s case) would have got it done most years in survivor. But not this year.

As mentioned, we have just two alive in original survivor and we’re down to five in the second half pool. So, we are going to the playoffs, baby!

Wild-Card Weekend is this week and both pools are still active. Get your pick in before the first game on Saturday. That is the New York Jets at Cincinnati Bengals with a 4:30 Eastern start.

You’ve definitely got to plan ahead in this one, because once you pick a team – and presumably you’ve picked a winner – then you can’t pick them again in the playoffs. So if you think the Green Bay Packers are going to make a run all the way to the Super Bowl, then don’t pick them this week.

Unless of course you think everyone else is going to get dumped on their behind. Too many things to think about. Good luck to all of our participants. Its been a great survivor year, and we’re continuing on a little longer.

Enjoy the games this weekend!