It's Saturday night and normally I would be getting ready to post the picks for the week. But this week has been different! By the middle of the week I would have read up on what's been happening in the NFL and I would have sent out an email reminding everyone to get their picks in. A few days later I would do a little research before making my picks and maybe send out another email reminder. By Saturday I would be anxious to see how my picks would compare to everyone else's, but if one of you hadn't picked yet I would have to send out another email (or call you on the phone) and would have to wait to print out my picks sheet! Sometimes though everyone would have their picks in early enough that by now I would already have the picks sheet in my hand. I would be analyzing it, putting little dots beside the picks that are different than mine, adding up the total number of people that differ on certain "key" games so I could see who I might pick up a game or two on. Then all I would have to do is wait until game time - but like I said, this week has been different! What am I going to do? It's only been ONE week and I already miss football!!

Last weekend we were all getting ready for the Super Bowl! Poor Todd had gotten so sick that he had to cancel his Super Bowl party, but Ken P. stepped up and invited us all over to his house to watch the game - Thanks Ken (and Becky)!! We had lots of family, friends and FOOD and a great game to watch on the BIG screen! What a game that was - down to the very last play. No one was able to call that game early! And then it was over - another season done. Kinda felt weird (or maybe it was all that food I ate) but it was still fun watching the post game celebrations and interviews. What a high it must be to celebrate such a victory - what an awful feeling it must be to have lost! Football... the greatest sport on earth!

Shortly after the game came the time to have our own little celebration there in Ken and Becky's living room. It was time to crown the 2011-2012 NFLWP Over-all Champion! Leading up to the play-offs it looked like a 3 man race between Ken H., Jerry and Ken P. But once the play-offs began the race turned in favor of only one of them and by the Conference games the race to 1st place was basically over! So there in his very own living room we crowned KEN PARRISH for the Third Season In A Row as our Champ! WOW, a Three-Peat! Two year's ago he had to share the win with Jason and Stephanie, last year he had to share it with me, but this year First Place is Ken's alone! Congratulations, you are the undisputed Champ!

When there's a winner, there's a loser and here at NFLWP we have a special place for losers :-) Each year we have one final induction ceremony and induct the over-all last place finisher into the Corner of Losers. So without delay I announce Steve Battenfeld as the "Biggest Loser" of the 2011-2012 NFLWP season. As for the rest of us, here are the post season results and then the over-all results for this season:

1st - Ken Parrish (9-2)
T-2nd - Gary Fields (8-3)
T-2nd - Stuart Whitaker (8-3)
T-4th - Becky Parrish (7-4)
T-4th - Greg Cruz (7-4)
T-4th - Scott Goodman (7-4)
T-4th - Shawn Parrish (7-4)
T-4th - Steve Battenfeld (7-4)
T-9th - Ken Horton (6-5)
T-9th - Earl Long (6-5)
T-9th - Eddie Burgess (6-5)
T-9th - Jason Frisbee (6-5)
T-9th - Jerry Parrish (6-5)
T-9th - Rob Miller (6-5)
T-15th - Cody Carr (5-6)
T-15th - Haley Wherry (5-6)
T-15th - Julie Parrish (5-6)
T-15th - Stephanie Parrish (5-6)
T-15th - Steve Parrish (5-6)
T-15th - Todd Whitaker (5-6)
21st - Ben Parrish (4-7)

Congratulations Ken Parrish for finishing 9-2 - Great Job!!

And now the 2011-2012 final over-all standings:

1st - Ken Parrish (182-85)
T-2nd - Ken Horton (180-87)
T-2nd - Jerry Parrish (180-87)
4th - Stuart Whitaker (179-88)
5th - Becky Parrish (178-89)
6th - Shawn Parrish (177-90)
7th - Haley Wherry (176-91)
8th - Todd Whitaker (173-94)
T-9th - Eddie Burgess (172-95)
T-9th - Stephanie Parrish (172-95)
T-11th - Cody Carr (166-90)
T-11th - Scott Goodman (164-92)
T-13th - Greg Cruz (171-96)
T-13th - Jason Frisbee (169-98)
15th - Steve Parrish (168-99)
16th - Earl Long (166-101)
T-17th - Gary Fields (165-102)
T-17th - Rob Miller (165-102)
19th - Julie Parrish (163-104)
20th - Ben Parrish (153-114)
21st - Steve Battenfeld (151-116)

Congratulations Ken Parrish - 3RD WIN IN A ROW!!

Here are a few fun pictures from our Trophy Presentation:

Stuart presenting Ken with our trophy for the THIRD year in a row!!

Ken giving us his Heisman pose!

I guess this means that the 2011-2012 NFLWP season is officially over :-( so sad! The Draft is only 2 and a half months away, that's something to look forward to - right?

Have a GREAT off-season and thanks again for another fun year!!

So What Do You Think?
Poll by Todd Whitaker

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