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SURVIVOR PICK POWER RANKINGS: Week 4

by TheCommish

Commish is holding on to his season lead after a brutal Week 3. We all have the Packers near the top (again), @LibbySims thinks the Patriots are gonna get beat, and @BigDaddy continues railing on pretty boys while taking full credit for Jim Caldwell's contract extension...

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NEW COOL STUFF: You can now do weekly NFL pick'ems in your groups

by TheCommish

Think Jets-Browns games can't be exciting? THINK AGAIN! You can now do FREE weekly pick'ems with your friends. Play for a $10 side pot. NAY. Play for a $1,000,000 side pot!!!

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NEW COOL STUFF: Get a SZN "app" icon on your phone's home screen

by TheCommish

SZN's mobile website now works like an app... except it's better than an app because we don't hound you with notifications you don't want and don't take up ANY space. Do these two things to turn SZN into your phone's best "app"...

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The Irony in How We Get Back to Watching Football

by TheCommish

Commish hopes we can get back to football for football's sake. I'm guessing you hope so, too. And, ironically, the fastest way there might be putting the focus back on Colin Kaepernick and his original intent...

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BFIG Week 4 Update

by TheCommish

After our most prolific Week 2 in BFIG history, we nearly had our most disastrous Week 3 in BFIG history. We narrowly avoided the Survivorpocalypse, on the wings of the game's two best quarterbacks...

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BFIG PICKS: Week 3

by TheCommish

Never has Commish ever seen so much hate spewed in your pick comments. Never has Commish ever seen so many Hedge of Happiness picks. And never has Commish ever been so perplexed. This should be the PERFECT week to root fully against the Packers...

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SURVIVOR PICK POWER RANKINGS: Week 3

by TheCommish

It's tight at the top, with three powerhouse teams to choose from. Do you burn one of the title favorites, or do you save them for later? BigDaddy and Commish don't quite see eye to eye, but they do agree on Jim Caldwell's talent for selling donuts...

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BFIG Week 3 Update

by TheCommish

That was our most prolific Week 2 in BFIG history. Commish was like, "We're too confident." The NFL's shit teams were like, (poop emoji poop emoji... human bitmoji spiking football into poop emoji). See how our Week 2 performance compared to previous years...

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BFIG PICKS: Week 2

by TheCommish

Commish can feel the overconfidence. We're all a little too "Brett Favre when he sees it's ONLY double coverage" right now. Sometime last season, our picking became about the stankness of the stank instead of the greatness of the great. We're due for a correction soon...

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BFIG Week 2 Update

by TheCommish

THE RAMS: Good? THE COLTS: What the f*** did we just watch? THE BROWNS: Good lord they're Brownsy again... but wait, maybe they're not? THE TEXANS: Woof. We fared pretty well in the first week of BFIG's ninth season. Where we go from here is anyone's guess...

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SURVIVOR PICK POWER RANKINGS: Week 2

by TheCommish

The Raiders look like a mortal lock at home to the Jets... is there scenario in which they lose? @BigDaddy thinks there is. Plus, we question the 13.5-point-favorite Seahawks, and reflect on Browns Brownsiness...

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BFIG PICKS: Week 1

by TheCommish

Circa year 4 of BFIG, Commish started talking like he knew how this survivor thing goes. He'd seen the patterns, crunched the numbers. Now, in year 9, well... lol. Commish has a new approach: WATCH FOOTBALL EAT NACHOS DRINK BUD LIGHT LIME. And let the survivor-induced craziness wash over us...

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BFIG PICKS: Special Pats-Chiefs Edition

by TheCommish

Picture Commish, Bud Light Lime'd up after a furious pick comment review, literally jumping in the air and GRONKSPIKING his laptop keyboard... three times bc shit is hard to click... to send this email. REAL FOOTBALL. HERE WE GO!

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SURVIVOR PICK POWER RANKINGS: Week 1

by TheCommish

Commish and his dad, @BigDaddy, are at it again. This year, we're ranking all favored teams by how good of a survivor pick they'd be. Should you listen to us? DEFINITELY I have no f***ing idea...

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TORPEDOED SURVIVOR DREAMS: Know the 5 teams with giant wakes of BFIG misery

by TheCommish

BFIG is entering its 9th year. More than 10,000 picks have been made. More than 10,000 title belt dreams have been crushed. Do teams equally split the dream crushing? Hell no. Learn which five teams can't WAIT to torpedo your $50,000 dreams...

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WEEK 1 MOXIE RANKINGS: How bold will your first pick be?

by TheCommish

We all BADLY want to survive Week 1. But that doesn't mean you're running to Tom and Bill. The weekly "You've Got Moxie, Kid" Award is BFIG's oldest tradition, given to the person with the boldest pick. Here's an early shot at ranking Week 1's games by Moxie level.

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POLL: What's the BEST way to spend BFIG's $50,000 first prize?

by TheCommish

Let this NFL season's first comments party begin. Take 2017's first poll, and Commish will feature some of the better ideas (though I'm not sure "better" is the right word here)...

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BEHOLD the BFIG Pick Comment Hall of Fame

by TheCommish

In 2010, @joepreiner (BFIG's first-ever Second Chance champ) was riled up over his Week 1 win. He was probably drunk. His Bears-Lions themed "I Will Survive" parody birthed a level of commenting absurdity this world had never seen. Now it's forever immortalized...

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BFIG 2016 Season Recap: We've Hit Peak Brownsy Browns

by TheCommish

One year after the most brutal survival season on record, the pendulum absolutely... well, it absolutely Brownsed. Cleveland accounted for more BFIG victories in 2016 than the *total* of any BFIG season prior, forcing the Title Belt to be decided by the largest tiebreaker in BFIG history...

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2017 NFL SZN: Tell Commish what you want to read!

by TheCommish

I sent off the "OH YES WE'RE BACK" email this morning, and I've already received two responses from people claiming to be Bud Light Lime drunk. IT'S SO GOOD TO BE BACK. Now, tell me what you want to read this SZN...

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BFIG 2016 is OVER: Commish awards The Belt

by TheCommish

The season ended in an eerily similar way to BFIG 2014, the only other time the race for sports most coveted title belt lasted till the Divisional Round. Commish gives you the results, and outlines how our final two could have won $2.54 million with their picks...

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HasselBracket Update: How many 8-0s?

by TheCommish

Commish reveals the HasselBracket leaderboard with three picks to go, and reveals just what happens when you pick against the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs. Seriously. If there's ONE thing you learn from me...

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NFL Update: BEHOLD! We award the Rex Ryan Buffet Plate

by TheCommish

One man went 21-0 (including two wins per week since Week 10) and capped it off with a 4-0 pickoff. SHOW HIM WHAT HE'S WON! Commish also recaps HasselBracket round 1, and agonizes over the hardest playoff betting decision of his life...

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PICKS: Wildcard Weekend edition

by TheCommish

The Steelers garnered 95% of picks in their game against the Dolphins and are favored by over 10 points... so why is Miami the highest leverage pick of the weekend? Commish explains, and reveals the pickoffs for all the BFIG (and NBA) marbles...

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BFIG PICKS Week 17: It all comes down to this

by TheCommish

Commish breaks down the top contenders' final week picks, ponders whether BORTLEMANIA!! is about to hit its peak, and brings in @BigDaddy - who waxes poetic on blind squirrels' ability to predict football games - to make Week 17 predictions...

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