Weekend Taunt XII

No changes in the Thanksgiving Week, a week of giving thanks, indeed. The Reaper spent time with family and the participants got through with their souls intact. No losses in the Twelfth Week means sh

Marino Week arrives ... and the Reaper returns. Beware.

That is all.

Weekend Taunt XI

Twelve more souls depart. One soul remains unscathed. Take a bow, G-Pa 02 ... now everyone left is gunning for you.

Week Eleven Stats
159 participants
1 participant at 11-0
17 participants at 10-1
141 participants deceased
12 slapping their foreheads after Week 11

The cream has risen. From this top 12%, who will ascend even higher?

That is all.

The Fiery Taunt of the Root of the RIP Week

And so the Swami returns to the land of the living, having come through smoke and fire and flame . . . 

. . . only to be ousted from the Swami Pool by virtue of wing-clipped birds shot down by (one night not) impotent cowpokes . . .

. . . along with fifty other fellows who thought the Eagles, Jets, Falcons, etc, would ensure Week Ten survival.

'Twas not to be, however - only a few got through unscathed and so now we look at a much more manageable field: three unbeatens only and two dozen more.

Week Nine/Ten Stats
159 participants
3 undefeated at 10-0
24 with one loss at 9-1
132 deceased

Side bets on whether this topsy turvy season will reach the playoffs will be taken. 

The Swami is dead. Long live the Swami.

That is all.

The Root of the Week IX

Separation once again. This is a pivotal week, there are no easy matchups, and therefore separation is on the menu. The strong will separate from the weak. The talented will separate from the mediocre. The kids will separate from the parents. 

As in, no more tandem jumping. The Swami Clan has tandem jumped almost every week this season ... with mostly great success ... but will now be taking their talents in different directions.

Why, you ask?

Well, Week Three saw the Clan take the Vikings at home against the Bills -- and go down 24-0 in the first quarter of the game, ne'er to recover. So while the Bears traveling into Buffalo seems like a fantabulous proposition, the Swami remembers.

The Patriots in November is always a good bet, particularly out of their own divisions, but the Packers are desperate and Discount Double Check is very excited to best the GOAT Tom Brady.

Hence, the tandem split. The kids will roll Patriots and the grown-ups will roll Bears.

That is all.

Saturday Taunt VIII

Like sands through the hourglass, so go the days of our lives. Like wheat at the blade of a scythe, so fall the stalks of the field. Like souls through the middle weeks of this season ... everyone prevails.

Apparently, the Reaper so dramatically hard those first three weeks, it's not a vacation, it's a sabbatical. No one lost in Week Eight - not one loser, not the one.

159 participants
10 players at 8-0
64 players at 7-1

87 deceased

Reminder: Week Nine is the last week you can select a team and still reuse them in the playoffs. Please make sure you brush up on the Playoff Rules because this becomes important at least every other year.

That is all.

The Root of the Week VIII

Put your Warpaint on, kids. The Swami Clan is breakin' rules. One of the strongly recommended Rules for Survival of the Swami Pool is:

# - Do Not Pick a Team Playing Against a Team in Their Division

Strange things happen in divisional games, talent be damned. Still, there are only two selections left before the Playoff Rules kick in, and if the Swami Clan does want to use them, they will need to do so this week ... and break the Swami's own divisional rule.

The Chiefs to Mahomes all over the Broncos at home on Sunday.

That is all.

Saturday Taunt VII

Well, that was close. Far too close. Like Bart says, the Swami will not do the Dirty Bird anymore this season, thank you kindly Atlanta. 

We move into the middle rounds of the season where our inexorable climb continues. A few people fall from the side of the cliff, the rest watch them fall and then look for the next hand-hold. After three crazy weeks to start the year, in which more honor, virtue, and life was lost than a Littlefinger establishment in Westeros, we have settled in and start to gravitate back towards the norms.

Weekend Stats
159 participants
10 undefeated at 7-0
64 with one loss at 6-1
87 deceased

The great game rolls merrily onward. Who will sit upon the Swami throne at season's end?

That is all.

The Root of the Week VII

Everyone loves a Dirty Bird, even if they don't admit it. The Swami Clan loves the Dirty Birds on Monday even more than on Sunday, and will ride Julio and the Ice to greatness and glory ... and into Week Eight.

That is all.

Saturday Taunt VI

The Reaper continues his vacationing ways as only three souls drop this weekend past -- and deservedly so, betting against the Beloveds. Woe be to those who would diminish the greatness and glory of the Beloved Fish.

Onward we merrily roll into Week Seven with 81 participants still in the fold.

That is all.

The Root of the Week VI

A double dose of teams for the Swami Clan on this fine Week Six, a double dose of teams and thus a double dose of images. There is no pick to feel good about, not ever, in this crazy 2018 season ... but I suppose if one was to feel good about anything, it would be (1) a backup quarterback for an otherwise extraordinarily medium team going into Rodgers-land (despite the gimp) and, therefore, highly unlikely to Lambeau Leap, and (2) a rookie-and-yes-plays-like-an-unseasoned-rookie-led team in the NFL going up against a highly competitive if somewhat up-and-down (are not they all) defensive-oriented squad from the great state of Texas.

Honestly, who knows. We just know it is unlikely -- not a given -- that both teams lose. The Reaper might scythe one or two, but the pack prevails.

Packers and Texans, FTMFW.

That is all.