As Wego bails out, FunkyPool suffers Money's Bear Market

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After Wego's bolt to the top of the Week 3, his charge continued in 

Week 4 as the Chargers came back against the Raiders and he looked 

ready to pose for his second straight photo.  However, a foolish 

investment in the RoadEagles came back to haunt him on Sunday night, 

after he also over-speculated on the Cowboys late in the afternoon.   

Cowboy-hating Dylan "Money" Retsek, on the other hand, bought low on 

Washington, and then proudly predicted a Bear market (a 9 on his team 

when only three other poolsters picked them at all) and won the week 

for the 15th time in his career -- all while throwing down a timely 

Swingers quote on the smack page.

    Money's 15th win ties him with Eric Emerton and Chris Sabbe for 2nd 

on the all-time list, and pulls him back to within striking distance 

of the playoff line.  Wego and Mike Godsey (with a vengeant solo shot 

against the Broncos), looked to finish 1st and 3rd late Sunday 

evening, but didn't receive the necessary assistance from the National 

Football League in the 11th hour, and finished a nominal 2nd and 6th 

instead.  Nevertheless, the duo from Charger Nation took over 2nd and 

3rd in the overall pool, with Mr. Emerton (3rd place for the week) 

barely behind them in 4th.  Eric Emerton, the vocal proponent of the 

"middle road," remained in the league lead with the lowest (most 

conservative) dot total (582) in two years (Eric himself logged a 518 

in Week 6 of 2006).



- It's the 12th time in this pool's history that two players (this 

time, Money and The Man) have flown solo in the same week. 

Incidentally, only two players have ever soloed twice by themselves 

-- Eric (twice) and Diane Emerton -- ever since Ely Kumli (he's a real 

person) double soloed in the first and second week of this pool's 

existence.  Godsey's 13 shots puts him 2nd place on the all-time list, 

behind Kevin Sabbe's 16.



- It's been 38 weeks since Money last won, and 34 weeks since "Cowboy" 

Hassanali has finished in last place.







If only...



- Wego had been right about the Bears sucking, he would've won the 

week.  He also would've won with a Dallas win.



- If the Raiders had won, Franzen still would've only finished in 5th 

place.







Pick of the Week

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We're publishing this rag early this week (on time), and so the voting 

booth hasn't closed yet.  Nevertheless, we can offer some candidates: 

While Adam Jennings doesn't "immaturely whip out [his] full boat to 

wag at everyone in the pool in a misguided attempt to prove [his] 

machismo and fanaticism," he does wisely pick his Browns for a dozen 

(349 dots); Mike Godsey, who admits that he "wags his thirteen" at 

anybody who wants physical evidence of machismo, pegged a solo shot 

with the Chiefs (340 dots); Dylan Retsek's week-winning 9 on his Bears 

(336 dots) was awfully nice; and Money's solo shot on the Redskins 

(301 dots) was even cooler (though some people hold the anti-Dallas 

habit against him in terms of originality).  Meanwhile....



Clown of the Week

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Tully and Kathy Wyatt lost the most dots on a non-Raider game, missing 

two birds with one stone (the Cardinals and Falcons; 350 and 340 dots 

respectively), and Robert Hassanali suffered a Solo Whiff with the 

Rams (324 dots).  Meanwhile, the people usually like to vote for 

Raider fans who deny their team (a little more love might have helped 

a team over the top against a 1-2 road team), or for Raider fans who 

support their team (Eric Franzen's 465 dots).  We're not sure if 

Franzen's 23 first-half text messages justify how awesome that pick 

was, or highlight how ridiculous Raider fans are, but we'll let the 

people decide.  Hit the booths!





Next week

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ChargerNation at the Fish Tank

(We know that's not much, but that looks like it.)



See ya then...