Tuesday, October 7th, 2008...12:14 pm by Bill
Pigskin Pick’em Week 5 Results!
For the last few years, I’ve personally felt that the Philadelphia Eagles, as an ORGANISATION, had been slowly rehabilitating their reputation as a football team in a football town that had little class and little dignity. From Booing Santa Clause, to Buddy Ryan’s Body Bounty and his “Fall down and fake an injury so we can have a timeout” tactics, the Eagles have exuded that special something called NO CLASS. The Philly fans still have that… witness their constant egging of opposing team buses, the fact that their field has a JAIL built in, etc. But I had higher hopes for Andy Reid, Brian Westbrook, and Donavan McNabb. While Westbrook (a DC native) still seems to have that, Reid and McNabb exercised the old adage about “it only takes a moment to undo years of hard work” in the wake of the demoralizing beating they suffered at the hands of our Redskins this week, with even the Philadelphia media calling them “delusional in defeat”. But we Pigskin Pick’em players weren’t delusional… and we weren’t defeated. Hail to the Redskins is reverberating throughout Redskins Nation as our ‘Skins have taken what the league meant as a death sentence to Redskins hopes this season and turned it into an AMAZING 4-1 record, starting into what should be the “bakery” portion of our schedule. However, for the Pigskin Pick’em players, we’re still in the “Bye Week” low-cal portion, where 13 or 14 game weeks mean that a very good keeper week here can make up a decent bit of ground as players expect lower total points to begin with.
Speaking of cupcakes, most of our players did well in this 14 game week, with about 8 1/2 wins on average for our players. Some did substantially better this week, such as Terp4Life and BRAGGIN’ RIGHTS, with 10 wins this week, but none did better than our Player of the Week, Texas Redskin, with a very nice 11. Props to these players for their outstanding week!
For the Upset Pick of the Week… Miami over (at least MY) preseason AFC representative in the Superbowl, San Diego. I guess I believed somehow that even Norv Turner couldn’t ruin what the Chargers had… I guess I’m wrong. But a number of other folks don’t believe in Norv, or they think the Dolphins must be the best awful team in the league, having dispatched the Patriots already, as well. Terp4Life, BRAGGIN-RIGHTS, Java_woman, lostnbigD, Pizzatown, Veretax’s Picks, and Udothedishes.com all knew that Miami would be able to handle the Chargers, earning them the Upset Pick of the Week Props for Week 5!
Last week, in Highlander style, there was only ONE when we talk about Season Props, at least in first. This week, there are now 6. Leading the way with 41 points, are BigGay, Sundayisforfootball, Java_woman, 22209, Pizzatown, and chris horton hears a who. Seven other players are one game back, waiting to bounce with a good week on that first place tie, but for now, those six are all deserving of our Season Props! It’s a long season, and anyone who’s played even as few as three weeks still has a reasonable chance at winning one of the three prizes Lee has offered at the end, so remember to Get In It To Win It!
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October 9th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Hello Redskins Nation.
We are very excited to have the team come home after winning two NFC East road games against the Dallas Cowboys and the Philadelphia Eagles. HAIL!
This week we have the St. Louis Rams, and this will not be an easy game, especially if we want to maintain our growth and standing the NFC East, the NFC conference, and the league.
We are the only team in the NFL with a battle cry (Hail to the Redskins!). And now we are the only team in the NFL with a post-game celebrate chant thanks to our new Head Coach Jim Zorn (Hip-Hip Hooray!).
After beating the Dallas Cowboys, the supposedly best team in the NFL, Jim Zorn in the locker led the team in a celebration chat of Hip-Hip Hooray. It would be exciting to have the entire stadium, and the Redskins Nation, join the team in the celebration chant before they head to the locker room.
My brother and I are organizing the first Hip-Hip Hooray celebration chant this Sunday after our team beats the St. Louis Rams at the stadium. If it is clear at the 2:00 minute warning of the 4th quarter that the Washington Redskins will win the game we ask that all Redskins fans in the stadium (we will be at the game in Section 424—Row 12—Seats 7, 8 & 9) to join us in a celebration chant of Hip-Hip Hooray!
If it is not clear by the 2:00 minute warning of the 4th quarter that we will win the game then we will start the chant 30 seconds later at 1:30 minute mark. If not then, then 30 second later at the 1:00 minute mark. If not then, then 30 seconds later at the 30 second mark.
You get the pattern. At some point at the 2:00 minute warning of the 4th quarter or after we want to do the chant if it is clear we will win the game. We do not want to do the chant before the 2:00 minute warning of the 4th quarter!
To make it easy for everyone to participate for the first time we asking that the entire stadium join together in the Hip-Hip Hooray chant in unison. And yes brings to celebrate.
If we are successful in getting fans to join in after the game this week, then we will organize the second chant with sections of the stadium doing the call (Hip-Hip) and the other sections doing the response (Hooray!).
We hope this celebration chant will become a tradition for Redskins fans attending the game after each victory.
Please join us this Sunday for a big Hip-Hip Hooray, after we win the game.
Thanks,
Derek Silver and Marvin Silver
Washington Redskins Fans 4 Life
PS, Check us out on Facebook at Hip-Hip Hooray (Washington Redskin’s Coach Jim Zorn’s Celebration Cry)
October 13th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
How much Hip Hip-in are we doing? Is this site just limited to a game breakdown and pigskin pickem? what about a blog on performance and observations.. maybe I’m at the wrong place.
October 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Hey Riggo!
Lee is having some issues at work; he’ll be back in a few more weeks. I’m working on my PhD as well as my regular job, wife and daughter, etc., so I haven’t had as much time as I’d like, either. However, I’ll get back to some of it soon, as will Lee.
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