In a thread entitled 'gambling', GetYourOwn suggested predicting the Super Bowl winners with each participant contributing to a "cigar pot" for the ultimate winner ... responding to his thought, I suggested a weekly pool, much like I and probably most of you have participated in at work or elsewhere at one time or another ... then, to call attention to the idea, I made a reference to it on the Cigars/Related page ... so far, Rickamaven, Cruiser, Tailgator, Guv and CWilhelmi have replied that they like the idea and would like to participate. However, the idea of a pool would be of much greater interest and a far greater success if the pool of participants were to be at least double, if not triple or quadruple, the 6 (counting me) so far ...
So, I'd like to restate my concept, both to answer a couple of questions posed so far, and to inform any who've not yet seen it, here is my suggestion ...
On the Tuesday preceeding the regular season and post-season games, 'coordinator' would send to each participant via e-mail, a list of the upcoming matchups ... each participant would reply to the coordinator by no later than Friday, with his/her predictions of the winner of each matchup ... a simple tally or right/wrong predictions without considering odds or spread would determine the weekly winner and a prediction of the score for the MNF game would be included in order to serve as a tie-breaker, should one be necessary.
On the Saturday before game day, the coordinator would send a list to each participant, listing the predictions of everyone in the pool, then on the next Tuesday, following completion of the games, send a note to each declaring the weekly winner and by the end of the day on Wednesday, each participant would send a cigar to the winner. The coordinator would be 'paid' for his time and trouble by each person in the group sending him a pre-season and a post-season cigar. I have expressed a willingness to serve as coordinator in the absence of other volunteers, but would happily defer to anyone else that would be willing to serve.
So, if you have an interest in participating or a suggestion to improve the concept, please post below ...