Dobiebowl Week 7 - Place-Kick Holder: Lucy Van Pelt

Ghoul Eeevening Everybody,

Thanks for playing the Dobiebowl! And a Big Congrats to beckydoodle – the Out and Out winner of Week 7 with 12 correct picks! Way 2 go Beck! Whew, am I glad I didn’t hafta put together another tie-splittin’ NFL breakdown. (So with the free time that gives me, I’ve posted last Sunday’s Peanuts strip below =)

Week 7 had more close games won by 3 points (or less) in the last minutes of the game than you could shake a proverbial stick at, and here they are: Detroit 13, Cleveland 10 , Minnesota 23, Green Bay 20 , Philadelphia 20, San Diego 17 , Seattle 13, Dallas 10 , and N.Y. Giants 24, Denver 23 .

Indy remains undefeated (and who’s surprised?) At this time I’d like to ask you all to bow your heads and have a moment of silence for the entire town of Houston Texas. Yeah, I know South Florida got hit by Hurricane Wilma inflicting billions of dollars worth of damage and devastation, but Houston is still winless in the NFL and last night their MLB World Series hopes were annihilated in a Shut-out / Clean-sweep, loss to the White Sox! Houston, we have a problem (‘course as long as they’re in the same division as the Jags I’m cool with it).

Oh, yeah… Happy Halloween! Once again, we’re set to celebrate All-Hallow’s Eve this Monday by watchin’ the Spooky Steelers eat their victims alive, or will the Ravens say, ‘Nevermore’? If you remember last year, it was on Halloween that the Pats had their perfect season snatched away from them like a big bag of candy by Big Ben Roethlisberger (then I heard the ‘Bus’ ran over their jack-o-lantern). Maybe we have a tradition at hand? Just like the Cowboys and Lions play each year on Thanksgiving, maybe the Steelers’ll become our annual Halloween treat! Hey, at least it’s something to watch while your house is getting’ egged.

So, tell your wife it’s okay to call your jersey a ‘costume’ this weekend only, put down the beer nuts and reach for the M&M’s, and if there’s a knock at the door when it’s a 4 an’ 1 at the goal line, g’head and answer it. There’ll be a replay anyway and who knows… it might be the Great Pumpkin!

Mark Dobelstein
http://dobiebowl.com

Dobiebowl Week 6 - This is not Spam!

*Due to Hurricane Wilma, the Dolphins-Chiefs game will be played tonight, 10/21/2005, at 7pm*

Hello Everybody,

I swear I only hit the button once! Somehow, my Outlook spat out last week’s email 4 times to all of you. Once a week I send an email to more than 1 person atta time, and that’s the one that gets plastered all over your inboxes! I am so sorry.

I don’t think I’ve said it this season yet, but please if you do not wish to receive these emails just reply with ‘remove’. I don’t wanna annoy anyone.

Okay, ‘nuff said,

Thanks for playing the Dobiebowl! Oh man, where do I begin? I could say that smseigle and Daddio tied for week 7 with 13 correct picks outta 14 games (one pick away from a Perfectomundo week!) However, truth be told there was an actual winner... A Big Congrats to smseigle! The actual Total Score of week 6 was 626. Daddio picked 534 – a difference of 92, smseigle picked 686 – a difference of 60. (Yes, you can ‘go over’ the Total Score and still be counted closer) Way to go both of you!

Now, what’s even more bizzarro than that is both players missed on the same game... oh yes, the Jacksonville Jaguars upset of the Pittsburgh Steelers! Never underestimate the power of Rashean Mathis! For the record, I didn’t snoop to find out, they told me, (It happens to be my Dad and future Mother-in-law, so I prolly shoulda kept it as a tie =) Still I gotta give this game the Dobie Shuffle! Sure Pitt didn’t have Big Ben, or Hines Ward, but to be fair there was a lack of Freddy Taylor on the Jax ‘O’ line. Still, you can’t deny it was one helluva game!

And what else happened this week? Indy remains undefeated at 6 n’ 0, Two games end in OT, Tampa loses it’s quarterback and trades up to San Fran’s 49ersTim Rattay, and Houston still hasn’t posted a ‘W’ all season. Who knows what’ll happen next week? Is it you? for

Keep Playing and find out =)

Mark Dobelstein
http://dobiebowl.com/

P.S. Here’s the break down for the tie-breaker:

Atlanta	34	New Orleans	31
Carolina	21	Detroit	20
Cincinnati	31	Tennessee	23
Baltimore	16	Cleveland	3
Jacksonville	23	Pittsburgh	17	(OT)
Tampa	27	Miami	13
Chicago	28	Minnesota	3
Dallas	16	N.Y. Giants	13	(OT)
Kansas	28	Washington	21
Denver	28	New England	20
Buffalo	27	N.Y. Jets	17
San Diego	27	Oakland	14
Seattle	42	Houston	10
Indianapolis	45	St. Louis	28
Total	393		233	626

Dobie Bowl Week 5 (A tie at 10)

Hey Everybody!

Thanks for playing the Dobiebowl! A big Congrats to Ladd… (now lemme explain)

Week 5 generated a 4 way tie in the Dobiebowl winners circle. The rules clearly state the winner will be the player with the closest total score to the actual total score. Yes there are rules. They’re on the rules page. Yes there is a rules page, I’ve linked to it 4 times already and you still haven’t clicked on it, so I’ll just sum it up here: Jutsman got 10 correct picks, his total score was 0. This means he picked 0 for all the scores of all the games in week 5 for a combined total of 0, which is what Mleckey did, as his total score was also 0. Slim’s scores added up to 443 but as the actual total score was 625 Ladd wins the brass ring with his total score of 519 (there is no actual brass ring, how many prizes do you guys need!?).

Everyone follow me on that? Alright good, now nobody tie again, ever. Onto the big picture: Cedric has announced on the message board that his “reign” is “over”. Don’t buy it for a second. That’s just what he wants you to think. I for one will not be lulled into a false confidence by Ced’s self deprecation. Having said that, kudos to Mleckey who took the overall Dobiebowl lead away from Ced-head like Bobby McCray took the ball away from Carson Palmer in the last minute:28 of the Jax v. Cinn game Sunday night. Go Jags! (Also be on the lookout for a new message board, this one keeps deleting people’s posts. A new one’s in the works – I mentioned it before, but I said it on the message board, and naturally it got deleted.)

And then there was 1. Indy, 5 and 0 stands alone as the only undefeated team in the NFL. I’m so thrilled (sense the irony). They’re in our division, so I can’t wait for week 14 when they gotta come to Jacksonville (probably toting a 13 and 0 record, tying the ‘72 Fin’s record – officially ending the champagne flow in Miami forever) only to be beaten by Byron and the boys who will then go down in history as the ones who kept the record tied. Then again, the Colts could lose in week 6… to St. Louis… at home… on Monday night. Er, maybe not.

Okay, so to amend my last email, Superdan pointed out to me that according to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ “Por favor mantengase se a la hada de las puertas” translates as “Please the fairy of the doors mantengase” Alls I can say about that is, is Disney’s Monorails don’t lie. And now, a cute picture of a dog:





Go Jags!

Mark Dobelstein
http://dobiebowl.com

Here’s the math for the run-off :)
[35+17+20+10+20+14+31+28+52+3
+37+31+14+12+34+20+28+3+24+20
+33+10+21+19+23+20+24+22=625]

35 to 17 Baltimore at Detroit
20 to 10 Chicago at Cleveland
20 to 14 Miami at Buffalo
31 to 28 New England at Atlanta
52 to 3 New Orleans at Green Bay
37 to 31 Seattle at St. Louis
14 to 12 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Jets
34 to 20 Tennessee at Houston
28 to 3 Indianapolis at San Francisco
24 to 20 Carolina at Arizona
33 to 10 Philadelphia at Dallas
21 to 19 Washington at Denver
23 to 20 Cincinnati at Jacksonville
24 to 22 Pittsburgh at San Diego

Dobiebowl Week 4 En Espanõl

Hey Everybody!

Thanks for playing the Dobiebowl – Now in its Halloween Makeup! & a big nepotistic Congrats to Daddio (Me dear ole’ Dad). He raised me as a Dolphin’s fan, converted me to the Jaguar camp, nurtured me into the man I am today… and all he got out of it was a weekly win on the Dobiebowl =) Happy Birthday early Pops!

Right, in honor of last Sunday night’s game in Mexico City I will impart to you all the full extent of my Spanish. (Drum roll please)

“Por favor mantengase se la hada de las puertas” as far as I can tell it means “Please keep your hands clear of the doors.” – It’s what they say on the Monorail at Disney world & I’ve gotta thank Brad Bergdoll for that one (where ever you are). They say our next international game may be in London. By then I hope to be able to offer an English version of the Dobiebowl (right now I’ve only got it in American). I imagine they’ll be a lot of “Ye braggart scribes, writ thou epistles upon thee board-o-message!” Heh… I kid the Brits.

Now, on to football. For those keeping score, the # of undefeated teams is 4 (yeah I forgot to mention Washington in the last email –sorry Brunell, we miss you in Jax)
Washington 3&0, Tampa Bay 4&0, Indy 4&0, Cincinnati 4&0… But I’ve just gotten a message from the ’72 Fins and it simply says, “Ain’t Skeer’d”.
So we’re still lookin’ for a keychain winner and it’s shaping up to be a challenge and a half. Last year we were confident in our Patriots Picks, but the 1&2 Chargers dominated ‘em 41 to 17, Favre's cheese heads have completely curdled as they share the throne of the winless with the Texans. Detroit, a pre-season lock to win their division, has only beaten the Packers, and the ‘Super-bowl bound’ Panthers are a mediocre 2&2. And yes, the Jags lost at home… Grrr. I‘m thinking of picking all my games this week opposite to what I really woulda picked, just to try and get my numbers up. You should try it too… Cedric! Then again, with your luck you’ll end up Perfectomundo!

And finally, I apologize for the lateness of this email. I try to get ‘em out by Friday mornin’, but this week I’ve been spending extra time tryin’ to teach my baby football:


This is our Baby ‘Bailey’-Bear and as soon as she learns to fetch, she’s gonna be drafted as a Jets QB!
(Sorry Chicken, it’s just too easy)

Mark Dobelstein
http://dobiebowl.com/

P.S. Mi gato es muy grande!