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Week 2 Update

by TheCommish

That was the worst Week 1 in BFIG history. We've been at this for 10 years. Easily the worst. Thanks, Drew, Ben, and Matt. You should have formed a boy band instead. Commish recaps the damage and looks forward...

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PICKS: Week 1

by TheCommish

In this, the TENTH season-opening picks email in BFIG history, Commish wants to thank you... for ignoring all of his advice and forgetting disasters of BFIG past so damn quickly. Our top pick is the Saints at home vs. the Bucs? Again? Really?...

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PICKS: Eagles-Falcons opener

by TheCommish

Real football is BACK. And so is our first taste of 2018 pick comments and our first 2018 edition of Commish and BigDaddy's survivor power rankings. Is BigDaddy every bit the prophet he was last year? You're damn right he is...

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2017 Season Recap: They'll win at some point... right?

by TheCommish

Remember when Commish said 2016 was "peak Brownsy Browns"? Yeah, about that... Despite moving to two picks per week in Week 10, the Browns still enabled three perfect BFIG seasons. It came down to the gutsiest pickoff pick ever...

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HasselBracket FINAL: We have a champ

by TheCommish

Commish joked about it all along... then it actually happened. With a 9-2 record, our HasselBracket champ is...

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Super Bowl UPDATE

by TheCommish

Commish's parents live next to US Bank Stadium. I told @BigDaddy to get at least one celeb/athlete cameo every day. I've received Stefon Diggs and weather app screenshots instead. Which is kind of how a Patriots-Eagles Super Bowl makes most people feel...

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PICKS: Conference Championships

by TheCommish

The Patriots are incredible. Of course Tom Brady is playing. If you ever had a doubt, then Commish has an interception-less Brett Favre game to sell you. Do this many of you actually believe in BORTLEMANIA!!! Or do you just hate the Pats? Let's see those picks...

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Conference Championships UPDATE

by TheCommish

It's happening. It's all happening. If Bobby Bottle Service takes (OK, rides with?) his team to the Super Bowl, how are we celebrating? HOW?! In other news, no undefeated people are left. Will we see a 9-2 champ?...

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PICKS: Divisional Round

by TheCommish

Last year, 17 folks went 11-0 in HasselBracket. This year, just 36 people survived the first weekend 4-0. And with the two NFC games being close matchups plus the ever-looming possibility of BORTLEMANIA!!! going mainstream, we may get a 10-1 or 9-2 HasselBracket champ...

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Divisional Round UPDATE

by TheCommish

Mariota threw himself a touchdown pass, the Titans roared back to upset the Chiefs, the Falcons then promptly disposed of the Rams, and we had ourselves one of the most un-chalky days in SZN history. HasselBracket is still anyone's game...

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PICKS: Wildcard Weekend

by TheCommish

You know the adage by now. Say it with Commish. "You can't win BFIG without a little Moxie." If the Falcons win tonight, we have ourselves a BFIG champion. If the Rams win, well...

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PICKS: Week 17

by TheCommish

Pop quiz, question 1: What is Houston and Indy's record in the last nine games? Q2: How many of the 524 Americans watching today's Houston-Indy game will be involved with The SZN? Commish has answers, plus each BFIG survivor's probability of winning both games today...

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Week 17 Update: The Finale

by TheCommish

We're nearly assured of a playoff tiebreaker to determine our champs. But deep into Sunday's Panthers-Bucs game, it didn't look that way. Down 19-15 (lol) with 39 seconds left, the biggest play of Carolina's season - and an incredibly high-leverage play for survivor - started like this...

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PICKS: Week 16

by TheCommish

Commish has a fireside story for you on this Christmas Eve. Bundle up. Grab a cocoa... There once was a QB who should have been a soccer dad with a side gig as a world-class unoffensive Santa Claus. He once threw seven passes in a game, completed four of them, and smiled two times...

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Week 16 Update

by TheCommish

Typically, weirdness is good. It gives you writing fodder and juicy storylines to ponder. But 2017 NFL weirdness leaves you grasping at patterns that don't exist. You start to doubt the virtues of weird. And then... THEN... in a flash of tall, white, and immobile mediocrity...

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PICKS: Week 15

by TheCommish

Five of our final seven BFIGers are on Baltimore. If this game defies last year's Chargers-Browns result, we may well see a Week 17 showdown for the season nine title belt. If it sticks to the 2016 script, we may well crown a champion today...

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Week 15 Update: Unveiling the Second Chance trophy

by TheCommish

The Bills-Colts snowfest was (insert all the overused football adages here), in a way that made those football adages feel proper and relevant again. A battle of who wants it more. Hardnosed. Old school. REAL football. And it propelled four brave souls into BFIG's final seven...

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PICKS: Week 14

by TheCommish

Commish saw the brutal Week 14 schedule. Commish knew a certain mediocre team was widely available. Commish saw the Geno. Commish bid adieuAdoo. Commish KNEW it would be tempting... But Commish did NOT think you'd actually do it. Have we learned nothing?!

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PICKS: Week 13

by TheCommish

Our top BFIG pick is under .500. Our third pick is under .500. Our fourth pick is 3-8. Our fifth pick is 1-5 in its last six games. The survivor gods called me this morning. It went something like this...

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Week 13 Update: The Golden Spreadsheet returns!

by TheCommish

The Chiefs were the only BFIG pick to lose last week. The Chiefs were good. Now the Chiefs are bad. This ends Commish's tale. I've got hilarious BRANDO comments from Week 12. I've got a deeper look at BFIG's final 34. And yes, I've got 2017's first Golden Survival Spreadsheet...

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THE ELI FACE: An Oral History

by StatCzar

Over the last 15 NFL seasons, we've seen pleasure and pain, tragedy and triumph, greatness and whatever the f*** the Browns are doing. But we've seen just one look that, miraculously, has the ability to convey every single one of these things... at the same time. The Eli Face.

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PICKS: Week 12

by TheCommish

BFIG could end any week now. Our ninth season is in the balance. Will it end because too many got cute by holding the Pats too long? Will it end because too many believed 0-16 was a Brownsy inevitability? Meanwhile, BRANDO!!! has 28 teams in play... again...

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SURVIVOR PICK POWER RANKINGS: Week 12

by TheCommish

In this week's rankings, BigDaddy predicts Browns victory and Marvin Lewis' firing, calls Andy Dalton a top-tier quarterback, and ponders whether Hugh Hefner is the coach of the Browns... ALL IN ONE BREATH...

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Week 12 Update: The Eli rule. THE ELI RULE!!

by TheCommish

The man didn't even play well. Eli was nearly invisible. And yet, the 1-9 Giants went ahead and beat the listless Chiefs, anyway. For the millionth (and perhaps final necessary?) time, Survival Golden Rule #4: Never pick a game involving Eli Manning...

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PICKS: Week 11

by TheCommish

You picked all 28 active teams in Third Chance Survivor. Eight picked the Browns. Someone picked Eli and the McAdoos. Someone picked Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Jay Cutler, in a game involving Ryan Fitzpatrick and Jay Cutler. Welcome (back) to the party, friends...

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