NO Dave

NFL Week 5 Predictions - For Week 4: 13-3. For the year: 39-23. Thursday: Indianapolis Colts (+3.5) vs. Denver Broncos (-3.5) Hard to see which Colts team shows up. Broncos win this one. Sunday: New York Giants (+7.5) vs. Green Bay Packers (-7.5) @ London, England Packers keep finding their groove. And the Packers keep on winning as well. Pittsburgh Steelers (+14.5) vs. Buffalo Bills (-14.5) Steelers have a rookie QB making his first start. Bills win this one, but it should be a good one. Los Angeles Chargers (-3.5) vs. Cleveland Browns (+3.5) Chargers have lots of weapons, and the Browns keep digging. Chargers win this one. Houston Texans (+7.5) vs. Jacksonville Jaguars (-7.5) Up against history. The Texans have owned the Jags since 2018. It ends on Sunday with a Jags win. Chicago Bears (+6.5) vs. Minnesota Vikings (-6.5) Can't say "No way", but this is about close. Vikes win this one. Detroit Lions (+2.5) vs. New England Patriots (-2.5) This is a tailor-made win for the Lions, unless Goff melts down. Lions win this one. Seattle Seahawks (+5.5) vs. New Orleans Saints (-5.5) Seahawks look good, and the Saints will lose this at home. Look for the bag heads to return in NOLA. Miami Dolphins (-3.5) vs. New York Jets (+3.5) No Tua is a problem as the Dolphins go into free fall. Jets will win it. Atlanta Falcons (+7.5) vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (-7.5) Brady and the Bucs should win this one in their sleep. Tennessee Titans (-2.5) vs. Washington Commanders (+2.5) Titans are starting to turn things around while the Commanders wander aimlessly. Titans win this one. San Francisco 49ers (-3.5) vs. Carolina Panthers (+3.5) Only 4 points? Ok, I'll take it as the 49ers cruise to win this one. Philadelphia Eagles (-4.5) vs. Arizona Cardinals (+4.5) Eagles are good, but this looks like a trap game. Eagles will win and go to 5-0. Dallas Cowboys (+5.5) vs. Los Angeles Rams (-5.5) The Rams got keel hauled by the 49er defense. The Cowboys will punish them again. Rams win this, but it's close. Cincinnati Bengals (+3.5) vs. Baltimore Ravens (-3.5) Ravens forgot their defense in 2022. Look for the Bengals to win this one. Monday: Las Vegas Raiders (+7.5) vs. Kansas City Chiefs (-7.5) Chiefs win it, but this will be a pretty good game.

Rams came out swinging with a 25-yard touchdown pass from Pat Haden to Preston Dennard. On the next possession, the Niners went to work. Montana scrambled to the Rams' 5, and Ray Wersching hit a 22 yard Field Goal. The Niner defense stuffed Eric D. to a halt... And then took the lead on a 29-yard TD Strike from Montana to Rice - After a Ram punt, the Niners closed this one out with a 25-yard strike from Montana to Dwight Clark. Joe Cool was under heavy pressure as he let this one fly. And Clark made the grab at the flag. Final for this one - 49ers: 17, Rams: 7.

NFL Week 4 For the week: 9-7. For the year: 26-20. Thursday: Miami Dolphins (+2.5) vs. Cincinnati Bengals (-2.5) The Dolphins have been getting the hype all week, and Tua may not play. Therefore, the Bengals win this. Sunday: Minnesota Vikings (-2.5) vs. New Orleans Saints (+2.5) - @ London, England The Saints have played well across the pond, but Sean and Drew are gone. Vikings win, ‘nuff said. Cleveland Browns (-2.5) vs. Atlanta Falcons (+2.5) The Falcons are trying to make things interesting. They will beat the Browns this week, too. Buffalo Bills (-3.5) vs. Baltimore Ravens (+3.5) Bills are playing for a little payback, and beat the Ravens. Washington Commanders (+2.5) vs. Dallas Cowboys (-2.5) Look for the Dallas bandwagon to keep on growing. Cowboys should win this one. Seattle Seahawks (+6.5) vs. Detroit Lions (-6.5) This could be a statement win for the Lions, but they will be missing key players. Look for the Seahawks to win it. Los Angeles Chargers (-6.5) vs. Houston Texans (+6.5) Chargers win as long as Herbert plays. Chargers should prevail for this one. Tennessee Titans (+3.5) vs. Indianapolis Colts (-3.5) Don’t let the smoke and mirrors fool you. Colts win this one, but it’s close. Chicago Bears (+2.5) vs. New York Giants (-2.5) Giants have receivers who can’t catch. Bears should win this one, and it’s a good one. Jacksonville Jaguars (+6.5) vs. Philadelphia Eagles (-6.5) Doug Pederson vs. his former team. Eagles win it, but this will be another good one. New York Jets (+3.5) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (-3.5) Zack is back for the Jets, and the Jets respond by regressing. Steelers win this one. Arizona Cardinals (+1.5) vs. Carolina Panthers (-1.5) Look for the Cardinals to win this snooze fest. New England Patriots (+8.5) vs. Green Bay Packers (-8.5) Packers win this one. Rodgers is finding his groove. Denver Broncos (+2.5) vs. Las Vegas Raiders (-2.5) 11 points won’t cut it here. Raiders win, but it’s another defensive battle. Kansas City Chiefs (-2.5) vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers (+2.5) Chiefs still have a lot of firepower, and win this one. Monday: Los Angeles Rams (+2.5) vs. San Francisco 49ers (-2.5) I like the Niners with Jimmy G, and wait until he gets a full week of practice. Niners win this easily.

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Closest I know is from a site called www.printmybrackets.com, which has a weekly NFL Pick 'em. Perhaps we could submit predictions on PDF?

NFL Week 3 Thursday - Steelers at Browns (-4.5) I cannot pick the Browns to win this. Nope, can’t do it. So Steelers win this. Sunday - Texans at Bears (-2.5) Bears win this one. This is the game that is on while you fall asleep on the couch. Raiders (-2.5) at Titans Someone has to win it right? Titans should get back on the right path today. Chiefs (-6.5) at Colts Chief win this easily. What happened to the Colts? Bills (-5.5) at Dolphins Mark this down - DOLPHINS win this one! Lions at Vikings (-5.5) Vikings are kind of a mixed bag, and the Lions are good. Vikes win this one at home. Ravens (-3) at Patriots Patriots are doing a lot better, but the Ravens are quietly good. Ravens win this one. Bengals (-4.5) at Jets Bengals are looking every bit like previous SB losers. J-E-T-S win this one! Eagles (-6.5) at Commanders Eagles win this by running all over the Commanders. Saints (-3) at Panthers I can’t do this again. Look for the Panthers to win the Dumpster Fire Bowl. Jaguars at Chargers (-7) Chargers win it, but you might want to watch it. Gonna be a good one. Rams (-3.5) at Cardinals Rams will be fine and win this one. Falcons at Seahawks (-1.5) The ‘Hawks still look good, and should beat the Falcons. Packers at Buccaneers (-1.5) Bucs are too banged up. Packers will win this one. 49ers (-1) at Broncos Almost even? Wow, gotta go with Jimmy G and the Niners. Monday - Cowboys at Giants (-2.5) Finally! A real test for these teams. Giants win an early statement game. For the week: 10-5 (Forgot Viking/Eagles). For the year: 17-13.

I grew up in a suburb of New Orleans, LA. In the fall of '80, My friend showed me a Model 660 with the Cowboys and Steelers. It had been his older brother's, and was quite beaten up. Nonetheless, I found the game loud, but fascinated. I was a young artist, so it wasn't so much about the game, but the figures and the colors. Oh, and the fact that the pieces would move! So I would say it was my interest in Electric Football that got me into understanding real football. In Christmas of '80, Santa brought me a 660 of my own with the Steelers and Rams. I collected all 28 of the teams and made my own Solitaire League. In '83, I had a neighborhood league for the few days it was too cold or rainy to play outside during the winter in South Louisiana. We never actually decided a champion, we just played against each other for bragging rights. Our neighborhood league had the Saints, Rams, Steelers, Redskins, Cowboys, and Oilers. Game play continued off and on for the next year, and I had also dug out my Dad's old Gotham G-880 from the attic as well. I am still fascinated by that game, but that's a post for some other time. Because my world of interests was about to change again.... For Christmas of 1984, Santa brought me an Apple IIe computer with a color monitor, and I was hooked. The board games were packed away, and my love affair with computers began. High school became a challenging time and there wasn't a lot of time for games between school, working, and well, being a teenager in New Orleans. In 1990, I left for the Army after high school, and my mother dutifully packed it all away until I came home. When I returned home from Active Duty in 1996, I gave all that stuff to a thrift store (MISTAKE!!). So, in June of 2000, I receive this huge box from my friend, and he's laughing hysterically as he tells me "Dude, open it." So, I do. Lo and behold, it's a Miggle Super Bowl Board with the Rams and Titans! I tell him, "Joke's on you, I had one of these, now let's play!" Inside that box was a copy of the newsletter that Miggle Toys published. This was before Electric Football had hit the Internet, and the community kept in touch by way of a quarterly newsletter. Sure enough, I read about a gentleman from Harvey, LA (across the river from me) who had just won the National Electric Football Tournament. His email address was in the article, so I contacted him. The next day, I get a reply back, and he invites me to meet the rest of the fellas in Baton Rouge at one of their game days. Later that year, I joined the New Orleans Electric Football League. We had eight members, six from New Orleans and two from Baton Rouge. Hurricane Katrina knocked out our league, and I helped start the Jefferson-Orleans League in 2006. That league ran until 2018. In that time, I have had the great pleasure of meeting some amazing people because of this hobby, and I have participated or officiated in several of the national conventions from 2004 until 2017.

Those are tried and true methods, however, the other way was found as a "happy accident". A professor at a local university told me that he stacked several books on top of the board until he achieved the levelness he wanted, and left them there for a few days. Voila, crown was gone.

Week 2 NFL Predictions - Thursday - Chargers at Chiefs (-3.5) This game will be this close. Look for the Chiefs to pull this one out. Sunday - Dolphins at Ravens (-3.5) Ravens at home are hard to beat, but the ‘Fins make them earn it. Ravens win this one by a FG. Jets at Browns (-6.5) Did you see the Browns trample all over the Panthers? Lather, Rinse, Repeat, and the Browns go 2-0. Colts (-4) at Jaguars Colts will have their groove back, and win this easily. Buccaneers (-3) at Saints Brady hasn’t had success in the ‘Dome since 2001. Saints will keep it that way with a win. Panthers at Giants (-2.5) Giants look good, and Barkley will run wild on the Panthers. Giants win a close one. Patriots (-1.5) at Steelers What? Steelers keep the Trubisky train rolling, since all they probably need is 13 points to win it. Commanders at Lions (-2.5) Lions win this one, and it won’t be close. OK, it might, but it’ll be high-scoring. Seahawks at 49ers (-10) The Seahawks impressed me on Monday night. This one will be a street fight, but the Niners win it. However, they won’t cover the spread. Falcons at Rams (-10) Rams will be hungry after the thumping by the Bills. All should be well in L.A. for this week. Texans at Broncos (-10) The heck happened to the Broncos? Texans are going to get them into another wrestling match, but the Broncos should not have to resort to a 64-yard field goal to win it. Or do they? Cardinals at Raiders (-6) Raiders win this, no problemo. Cardinals are a dumpster fire. Bengals (-7.5) at Cowboys Dallas’ defense is rough. Look for the other Joe (Mixon) to win the day for Cincy. Sunday Night - Bears at Packers (-10) The NFL’s grand daddy of them all! Take the under on this one since Packers receivers can’t catch. However, they still win it. Monday - Titans at Bills (-10) Bills look good and keep owning the Titans. What is up in Nashville? NO Dave for the season: 7-8 (Did not pick the TNF game)

We used to play this as an office pool. Yeah, I'm a little out of practice.

It can. Typically you add weight to a TTC base using lead tape on top of the base, or by wedging small nuts on the dial.

NFL Predictions for Week 1 Here's what I got, what do you think? Chime in! Saints (-5) at Falcons Saints should win it, but not sure about the points. This will be a close one. Browns at Panthers (-1.5) The “Baker Bowl” should be intriguing. Browns should win this one. 49ers (-6) at Bears Great matchup between two young quarterbacks. Niners have too many weapons, and win this one. Steelers at Bengals (-7.5) Steelers’ offense marred by many question marks. Bengals cruise to a win in this one. Jaguars at Commanders (-2.5) New mascot, new QB, same results in DC. Look for the Jaguars to make a statement and win today. Ravens (-6.5) at Jets Ravens have Jet fans headed to the exits by halftime. Eagles (-4.5) at Lions Don’t sleep on the Lions’ offense. Eagles win this on a field goal. Patriots at Dolphins (-3.5) Patriots are outgunned and on the road. Dolphins start the new year with a win. Colts (-7) at Texans Matt Ryan and the Colts come to impress. Colts win this easy. Giants at Titans (-5.5) Derrick Henry vs. the Giants? Titans win. Packers (-1.5) at Vikings Packers win this one, and it’s not as close as you think. Packers defense is that good. Raiders at Chargers (-3.5) Take the points and the Chargers W. They are better than you think. Chiefs (-6) at Cardinals Chiefs start their Super Bowl return today with a win. Buccaneers (-2.5) at Cowboys UPSET SPECIAL - Cowboys over Bucs! You heard it! Broncos (-6.5) at Seahawks Russell Wilson shines in Orange. Broncos win handily.

Here's your thread to talk about all the actual NFL Games for the 2022 Season. Let's start the discussion!

Here's some teams that I've been updating. These started as original Haiti Repro teams, and I add a few dudes to them and base them up. Who's game?

Kev, I'll be going over to my local bowling alley today, seems like the right time to start setting this up. Thanks!

Coach Shawn, I agree on playing in a gaming shop. We did try a league at two of the shops, but participation lagged quickly. I see a lot of stores are having the same issue with their collectible card game leagues as well. Seems like it relates back to another issue in the hobby - If people can't win right away, they just don't play.

All right! My biggest fight has been with some of the decals that won't peel away from the backing. Keep up the good fight!

I saw it. However, I prefer to use a variant of "See Fence" with a bit more blitzing. My thought process on defense goes back to something I learned at the Academy - "The object is to disrupt and destroy your enemy's resources and limit his decision-making process"

I think that location was a prime place for it. I made some great contacts at the USO, and they would have been totally down for supporting it! I'll keep that in mind for next time.

Who's tried painting sleeve and leg stripes with 5 stripes? How about 7?

I've attached a copy of some local rules we have for our Fab 5 League. Enjoy! MidSouthEFL Rules.ppt.pdf

Coach, make sure to check out all the great info on the forum about base tweaking. Good luck in the new season!

YEAH!!!

The interesting thing with this rulebook is that it's very light on rules. It's more of a guide for assembly instructions.

Would it be possible to add weight to a strong Invisibase at the factory? Because that could be cool!