<div><div dir="auto">Woohoo! Thanks Caroline, for the intro and the novel strategy! Sounds like great fun! And also for reminding me that I'm late in sending out a reminder. Please, if you haven't already done so, get your picks in before kickoff of tonight's season opening wallop of the Chiefs by the Superbowl Champion New England Patriots! </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 5:42 PM Caroline Rice <<a href="mailto:carolion.rice@gmail.com">carolion.rice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>
<p class="m_-7995497954033814029gmail-p1">Hi Everyone!</p>
<p class="m_-7995497954033814029gmail-p1">For those of you who don\u2019t know me, my name is Caroline and I\u2019ve been allowed into this wonderful football pool thanks to the Stewarts, who I am friends with from church. My dad is Terry - you might have seen his emails in the past. I am currently in college in France, where there are a lot of international students, and Tom asked us to keep up the email banter, so I thought I would combine the two.</p>
<p class="m_-7995497954033814029gmail-p1">In light of the fact that, honestly, I don\u2019t follow football very closely, and therefore make fairly random picks each week, I have decided to add a little spice this season by bringing in my foreign friends. I\u2019ll have someone from a different country do my picks each week, and then report on whether or not you can trust that nationality to do your picks :P And we\u2019ll see how I do in the rankings this year! First up will be Canada - one of my roommates is from Vancouver, and when I said \u201cfootball\u201d she thought I was talking about soccer, so\u2026 it should be a good first week.</p>
<p class="m_-7995497954033814029gmail-p1">Happy Labor Day! Go Pats! :D</p></div><div>
<p class="m_-7995497954033814029gmail-p1">Caroline</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Tom Stewart <span><<a href="mailto:tastewar@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">tastewar@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Greetings Swimmers!</div><div><br></div><div>I believe the pool site is all set for the 2017/18 season. Please give it a try, enter your picks, and let me know if you encounter any problems. Deadline for pick submission is 8:30 p.m. ET Thursday, 7 September 2017.</div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>A few reminders:</b></div><div><br></div><div>The main URL, <a href="http://pool.tastewar.com/" target="_blank">http://pool.tastewar.com/</a> should always point to the current week's sub-pool pages. But if it doesn't, you can always use the "Next Week" and Previous Week" buttons on the button bar, or the Archive button to bring you to a list of *all* the many years worth of archived weeks. The URL for the Archive Page is <a href="http://pool.tastewar.com/index.html" target="_blank">http://pool.tastewar.com/index.html</a> Note that there are links for every week this season, but those links will only become "live" when we get to those weeks. If you click them now, you will be disappointed.</div><div><br></div><div>At the bottom of each email to this group you should see a footer with interesting/useful links for the pool, the big index page, the mailing list archive, etc. It's more fun if the mailing list is active, so please send your taunts to <a href="mailto:players@pool.tastewar.com" target="_blank">players@pool.tastewar.com</a>. Flames to /dev/null (that's a geeky Unix/Linux joke, in case you didn't know, meaning throw them away)</div><div><br></div><div>Picks are always due before kickoff of the first game of the week. I try to send reminders, but it is ultimately your responsibility to get them in on time. That said, I generally accept late picks, especially for games that haven't yet started. E.g. if you fail to submit on Thursday, and realize it Sunday morning, email me your picks and I will enter them. You will get credit for all games except the Thursday night (even if you swear up and down that you didn't see the results...)</div><div><br></div><div><b>NFL Schedule Notes:</b></div><div><br></div><div>This year's NFL schedule has a Thurs. night game at 8:25 p.m., a bunch of early Sunday games (1:00 p.m.), a smaller number of late Sunday afternoon games (4:05/4:25 p.m.), 1 Sunday night game (8:30 p.m.), and 1 Monday night game (8:30 p.m.), except: (all times ET).</div><div><br></div><div>Week 1: Thursday game at 8:30 p.m.; 2 MNF games (7:10/10:20 p.m.)</div><div>Weeks 4,8: 9:30 a.m. Sunday game!</div><div>Week 12 (Thanksgiving Week) has 3 Thu games: 12:30, 4:30, 8:30</div><div>Week 15: Saturday games at 4:30 and 8:25 p.m.</div><div>Week 16: (Christmas Week) No Thursday game; Saturday games at 4:30 and 8:30 p.m., no Sunday night game, 2 Monday (Christmas Day) games at 4:30 and 8:30 p.m.</div><div>Week 17: All games played Sunday; 1 Sunday night game</div><div><br></div><div>This means that the pick sheet deadline is 8:25 p.m. on Thursday night except week 1, when it's 8:30 p.m., week 12, when it will be 12:30 p.m. (be prepared!!), and week 17, when it will be 1:00 p.m. Sunday (relax!).</div><div><br></div><div>Also FYI a varying number of teams get BYEs during weeks 5-11 inclusive. Full schedule therefore weeks 1-4,12-17.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers! Go Pats!! :-)</div></div>
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