Survival Football Week 5

I joined a Survival Football league this year, for the first time ever. The goal is to pick one winning team correctly each week, and pick a different team each week. What surprised me was that after 4 weeks, my group was done...because everyone had picked one winner incorrectly. I thought the game would go on for a while. Anyway, I ended up winning with these picks:

Week 1 Minnesota (I thought I was picking them to lose, not win, because I was too dumb to understand the rules correctly. I lucked out when they beat Atlanta by 21)

Week 2 Denver (won by 3)

Week 3 Baltimore (won by 3)

Week 4 Dallas (won by 28)

Now that the Yahoo group is over, I can't make any more picks! I guess once everyone else loses, Yahoo shuts down the game. So I decided to keep track of winners elsewhere until I lost. I assumed the fastest way to experience defeat would be to post a blog about it. This week's pick:

Tennessee. They play at home against Atlanta, and just had a bye last week. Plus, Atlanta finally got a win against Houston, and so Atlanta will be less desperate than they would have been had they still lost zero games.

Who I considered but didn't pick: New England vs. Cleveland at NE was tempting, because of the poor Browns secondary. But I have a feeling NE might look past this game to the Dallas game. Also, Houston vs. Miami at Houston looked good at first, but I don't know how a young Houston team will react to an embarrassing loss to Atlanta. So I stayed away.