Week 5 - The dilemma continues

 Publishers Note: Week 6 has our first BYEs.  If your team has a BYE you get 22 points.  I am putting this at the top so you do not have to read the rest of the trash below.

Writing these recaps is tough because I don't know most of the new people and it is hard to mock them if you don't know them.  Typically we get banter back and forth and I learn whether they are a ball-buster (see Hartwell, Pisani, Kastin, Knarr, etc.) or just a reader and give you feedback in the background (Kathy G, Jim Slobodjian, Rob "Yorktown" Watts) or are praying you do not mention them at all (Mirna, Rachel Mumma, Bella Mumma, Samy Norris - noticing a theme?).  I thought last week's emails would solicit some feedback from the newbies but the silence was deafening (that's an oxymoron - made famous by Danny DeVito in Renaissance Man including a young Mark Wahlberg, see the clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBlMLlfJrRc).

So this week's winner I saw on a Zoom call once.  I was talking to her worst half and she came into the window.  Yes, Mary Rudolph (no relation to the red-nosed reindeer) rode Green Bay (22), SF (37) and Buffalo (38) to run up a 97 weekly score.  Now I do not know Mary well, but her worst half is Antonio Varano.  We worked together at Foamex (and no we did not sell Faux Mexicans as someone once asked me) and we did take trips to Mexico City where we (editor's revision) went to church and listened in Spanish.  We also went to Orange County and man did we (editor's revision) work at a soup kitchen and taught the Bible to the homeless.  Great times.  Antonio, I hope I don't get you in trouble with those stories and the story of our colleague, Natalie (editor's revision) joining the convent to preach the Gospel.

Mary beat out Vic DeVasto who had 91 and pneumonia this week and Brian Costello who after winning the last place week 3 made a run at the top with 90.  Last place for the week went to Lee Paciello who rode Miami (17) and Detroit x2 (0 times 2 is still zero) to a low score of 17.  Believe it or not, that was not the record for lowest ever.  Andy Lehman in week 11 of 2017 had a 16 so the record stands.  Rachel Mumma tried to finish last with the Broncos (9) Indy (12) and Detroit (0) for 21.

My new, hard luck story of the week is poor Jim Slobodjian.  Jim could not attend watching football with us idiots as COVID hit his household, but Jim called me giddy on Sunday saying Buffalo was scoring at will and the NY Giants had put an unexpected 27 on Green Bay.  Jim was like "If the Eagles just score a little, I am going to win."  Yes, the Eagles did a little and their 20 points ended Jim's dream of victory and I did not have to tilt the scales away from Jim, lady fate did it for me.

The overall leaders:

1. Rob Dolnick - 399 - WHAT?  How did this happen?  After Dolnick cursed Rutgers by hanging out with Kelsey Grammer at the Rutgers/Nebraska debacle he leads the pool!?!?!?!

2. Steve Magenta - 386 - I do not know Steve so I cannot mock him, but I will....I will

3. Rob "Yorktown" Watts - 384 - Rob is slumping like the Cornwallis at Yorktown (I see what you did there) and falls to 3rd.

The Harry Mumma Memorial Last Place Award (Editor's note: You are not dead, but after this garbage maybe someone will do us all a favor)

Tejas Desai - 237 (the number 2 is the 29th highest number in the pool with 79 total points for the season, yikes)

Have a nice week.