It's B-A-C-K.. The ITB Suicide Contest
 

More popular that a haiku contest, more powerful than an Eric Winston throwdown, it's the 2010 ITB.com Suicide contest.

For the uninitiated, the quick rules for the game are that you choose one game each week where you declare which team wins. If that team loses, you're out of the contest. If your team wins, you continue to the next week but you are forbidden from choosing that team again for the rest of the game, making each week a little harder because you'll have fewer good teams left to choose from.

Obviously, whichever game you choose, you have to call it before that game kicks off and you can't change your mind after the game you select has begun (i.e. don't call Tennessee and then change your selection to San Diego at halftime of the Tennessee game.)

I don't know if Keith has any prizes for this year but, if you ask nicely, maybe he'll come up with a grand prize.

Here's your Week 1 schedule: (all times Central)

Thurs, Sep 9:
Minnesota at New Orleans - NBC 7:30

Sunday, Sep 12 (which should be a national holiday):
Atlanta at Pittsburgh - FOX 12:00
Carolina at NY Giants - FOX 12:00
Cincinnati at New England - CBS 12:00
Cleveland at Tampa Bay - CBS 12:00
Denver at Jacksonville - CBS 12:00
Detroit at Chicago - FOX 12:00
Indianapolis at Houston - CBS 12:00
Miami at Buffalo - CBS 12:00
Oakland at Tennessee - CBS 12:00
Arizona at St. Louis - FOX 3:15
Green Bay at Philadelphia - FOX 3:15
San Francisco at Seattle - FOX 3:15
Dallas at Washington - NBC 7:20

Monday, Sep 13:
Baltimore at NY Jets - ESPN 6:00
San Diego at Kansas City - ESPN 9:15

Since I'm practically a jinx at this, I'll try to take one for the team and choose: Indianapolis

Good luck, everyone.

Congrats to our defending champion..barrett

You're a brave man, Bob.

Week 1 - Chicago Bears

Week 1 - San Diego

The Chicago Football Bears....

I'll go with the New York Giants of New Jersey.

Man, the oddsmakers really like Tennessee over Oakland but I'm not going anywhere near that game.

week 1 - San Diego

Because I want to be wrong in my prediction of the game, and I want to done with this early.

The Colts :eek:

edit note ***Bob just saw you took the Colts also, I hope we are both out week 1, but we are thinking alike***

I proudly wore my t-shirt from last year's contest just last week.

And to open the season I go with the Chargers.

And you know it's a week of games that look evenly matched when you go with the jeckyl and hyde chargers on the road with all 32 teams in action.

My reasoning is that even if I am wrong, I get to stay in longer than everyone else who gets eliminated this week since it's the late game monday.

I'll take the Titans.

And, yeah, winner gets a free ItB t-shirt, size XL, shipped anywhere in the U.S.

Just a headsup, WalterFootball.com is having a suicide/survivor contest, too with $350 for 1st place and $50 for second place. Absolutely free - you just need to register at the partnered website.....

http://walterfootball.com/survivorpool.php

I'll probably make the same pick both here and there....

What Chuck said. I'll take the Giants.

I was thinking about taking either the Lions or the Chiefs as upsets, but since a couple of you have already chosen their opponents, I'll just hope that you eliminate yourselves. Therefore, I'm going out on a different limb. Let the new Mike Holmgren/Jake DelHomme regime get off to a good start. I'm taking the team from Cleveland.

The BROWNS

New York Giants

Saints. ---- Bust or boom tonight!

Well, now I see ESPN has another copy of our contest up at
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/frontpage

Actually tough week, but I will guess the New York football Giants

Im taking the Cowboys on the road and I hope I lose.

Well, there's our first winner...

Cleveland Browns

San Francisco 49ers

Hope I'm still in time...
MIAMI

Chargers :cool:

My strategy worked, I'm out and the Texans are 1-0.;)

*A round of applause for Bob and painekiller*

Nice job! ;)

Ew, I had the Bears and they only won because of one of the worst calls I have ever seen vs. Lions. I feel badly for the Lions cause they got robbed on the endzone catch..

Well, that didn't take long. :(

Kind of getting it in late, so Ill have to go with one of the monday night games...

San Diego

Official Week 1 Results
 

As is usually the case, Week 1 wipes out about half the field, so here's who's one-and-done like those latter-day Bobby Knight teams at tourney time:

Bob - Indy - yer out
Machoneil - SD - buh bye
NConroe - SD - see ya
painekiller - Indy - farewell
barrett - SD - no mas
Roy P - Cleveland - adios
Fonz the Boss - Dallas - you won! Oh wait, there's a flag...
superbowlbound - Cleveland - au revoir
The Matrix 31 - San Fran - blown up like a gas pipeline
BigBull - SD - that'll teach you for getting in late
cloudwasher - SD - you too

I regret that I have but one life to give to my Texans...

So, who survived? First, all those who took the Bears deserve an asterisk:

*Arky - CHI
*Mike - CHI
*dadmg - CHI

(a win's a win. right?)

And here's the rest of who are moving on:

chuck - NYG
Keith - TEN
Foo'ball Fool - NYG
Warren - NYG
popanot - NO
ArlingtonTexan - NYG
NickO - MIA

Keep in mind, you lucky ten, that you can no longer use that team for the rest of the contest (not sure you Bears fans would even want to).

Week 2 Schedule:
 

Sun., Sept. 19:

Arizona at Atlanta - 12:00 - Fox
Baltimore at Cincinnati - 12:00 - CBS
Buffalo at Green Bay - 12:00 - CBS
Chicago at Dallas - 12:00 - Fox (Karma HAS to be with Dallas here) :p
Kansas City at Cleveland - 12:00 - CBS
Miami at Minnesota - 12:00 - CBS
Philadelphia at Detroit - 12:00 - Fox
Pittsburgh at Tennessee - 12:00 - CBS
Tampa Bay at Carolina - 12:00 - Fox
Seattle at Denver - 3:05 - Fox
St. Louis at Oakland - 3:05 - Fox
Houston at Washington - 3:15 - CBS (What? A late game?)
Jacksonville at San Diego - 3:15 - CBS
New England at NY Jets - 3:15 - CBS
NY Giants at Indianapolis - 7:20 - NBC (Manning Bowl II - Go Eli!)

Mon., Sept. 20:

New Orleans at San Francisco - 7:30 - ESPN

Good luck, guys.

Week 1: Saints
Week 2: Going with the gimme of the week... Green Bay

How about a losers bracket for the half that are blown out? never mind, I would just take the skins anyway. :D

Week 1: Chicago Bears
Week 2: Green Bay Packers

Apparently I love the NFC North??

1: Ten
2: Atl

1. NYG
2. Green Bay

Rather that get cute and try to Casserly everybody I'm going to go with Goliath for the first handful of weeks.

Week 1: Chicago Bears
Week 2: Atlanta Falcons

Week 1 - Da Bears
Week 2 - San Diego

Week1: NYG
Week2: Green Bay

There you go! Stick with me, son, and I'll have you bounced out of this thing in no time.

1. New York Giants
2. Green Bay Packers

Save me a seat on the chuckwagon. I'm definitely a believer in not getting cute early in the season when the surprise teams (good and bad) have yet to truly reveal themselves.