Transcontinental American Football Pickers Association

Here are the picks for this season, as well as the standings:
* Picks and Results for Week 1.
* Picks and Results for Week 2.
* Picks and Results for Week 3.
* Picks and Results for Week 4.
* Picks and Results for Week 5.
* Picks and Results for Week 6.
* Picks and Results for Week 7.
* Picks and Results for Week 8.
* Picks and Results for Week 9.
* Picks and Results for Week 10.
* Picks and Results for Week 11.
* Picks and Results for Week 12.
* Picks and Results for Week 13.
* Picks and Results for Week 14.
* Picks and Results for Week 15.
* Picks and Results for Week 16.
* Picks and Results for Week 17.
* Wild Card Games.
* Divisional Playoff Games.
* Conference Championship Games.
* Superbowl XLVII

Click one of the following to view results from previous years:
* Picks and Results from the 2012-2013 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2010-2011 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2009-2010 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2008-2009 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2007-2008 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2006-2007 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2005-2006 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2004-2005 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2003-2004 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2002-2003 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2001-2002 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 2000-2001 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1999-2000 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1998-1999 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1997-1998 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1996-1997 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1995-1996 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1994-1995 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1993-1994 Season.
* Picks and Results from the 1992-1993 Season.

Other Football Sites:
* Official Superbowl Home Page.
* Official NFL Home Page.
* HBO's Inside the NFL Page.
* The Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* The NFL Europe Page.

Click here to see biographical sketches of the pickers.

Background

Two weeks after I graduated from Brandeis, in 1987, I moved to Germany, and found a job with repas. That's where I met Pete and Kevin. About a year after I started, Gert joined the company, and we shared an office -- this was the beginning of a cool time! Life at repas was excellent! Cool people and cool work. Sometime later, we changed offices, and Pete and I were put in the same room (trouble). Kevin was a frequent visitor, and when football season came around, we would get together to watch the games on AFN (American Forces Network. It's like the best of the major American networks, with worse commercials).

This is when we started picking the winners. First we did it on paper, and only for the second half of the '91 season. Kevin won that shortened season. Then I wrote the first football program, and things started to get more organized. Henry won that year (More on him in a minute). Soon after, Kent joined repas. Kent's wife and I went to school together at The University of Southern California (in Germany). That's how Kent fits into the mix. Some of the previous pickers who are no longer in the pool are Henry (also a student with us in Germany) and Martha (the first female picker).

I returned to the U.S. after 6 years in Germany, and went back to school. (Kevin still maintains that the only reason I went back to school was to meet a woman! Which, coincidentally, I did! More on that in a minute.) This was the first year that things became "international". We had pickers on both sides of the Atlantic.

I met Joerg at the GW School of Engineering graduate reception at the beginning of September, 1993. In 1994 he joined the picking pool, and won the whole thing that year (beginner's luck!). Kevin choked during the waning momemts of the season, and the champion, Joerg, was decided in the playoffs. (Two Words: "SAN DIEGO!")

Suneil is another geeky (though he denies it) GW Computer Science student, whom I got to know by chance as I was walking on the Mall in D.C. one Saturday in August, 1994. He was playing soccer, and Joerg and I had talked about starting to play on the Mall just a few days before, so the next week we started playing in the pick-up games with Suneil and others. He's Scottish, but he's okay.

Kaori is my wife. She's the only current female picker, and usually does better than I do! We met through Joerg, who took the same "English as a Foreign Language" course as Kaori did. For some odd reason, Kaori likes most things German (as do I), so we hit it off quite well. We met in October, 1993, right after I started school (Kevin, you were right!). We were married in September, 1996.

Mike is an old Brandeis buddy of mine, and is "Mr. Sports". He's the type of guy we loved having around the house that we shared our senior year with 5 others, because we could watch any seven sporting events simultaneously on cable, and Mikey could flip through the channels so that you would never miss any of the big plays. He was the king of channel-surfing before it became trendy!

I don't know Garrit, but if he's friends with Gert, he must be a bit strange ;-).

Ken is another friend from Brandeis, who lives in Florida, but is originally from New York (and you can hear it in his accent!) He supported the Giants all through college, but now that he's a Floridian, he supports the Dolphins. I guess you can't blame him -- after putting up with all the frustration of being a Giants fan, you'd probably switch too!! 8^)

Mitsu is Kaori's father, and is a big fan of American Football. He joins us this year all the way from Japan! So, that's 3 continents down, and only 4 to go!

Geof? Well, Geof is Geof.

Hope this season turns out to be as much fun as last season!

Last Change: August 24, 2013 / gogo@lindeman.com