It's B-A-C-K.. The ITB Suicide Contest
 

More popular that a haiku contest, more powerful than an Eric Winston throwdown, it's the 2010 ITB.com Suicide contest.

For the uninitiated, the quick rules for the game are that you choose one game each week where you declare which team wins. If that team loses, you're out of the contest. If your team wins, you continue to the next week but you are forbidden from choosing that team again for the rest of the game, making each week a little harder because you'll have fewer good teams left to choose from.

Obviously, whichever game you choose, you have to call it before that game kicks off and you can't change your mind after the game you select has begun (i.e. don't call Tennessee and then change your selection to San Diego at halftime of the Tennessee game.)

I don't know if Keith has any prizes for this year but, if you ask nicely, maybe he'll come up with a grand prize.

Here's your Week 1 schedule: (all times Central)

Thurs, Sep 9:
Minnesota at New Orleans - NBC 7:30

Sunday, Sep 12 (which should be a national holiday):
Atlanta at Pittsburgh - FOX 12:00
Carolina at NY Giants - FOX 12:00
Cincinnati at New England - CBS 12:00
Cleveland at Tampa Bay - CBS 12:00
Denver at Jacksonville - CBS 12:00
Detroit at Chicago - FOX 12:00
Indianapolis at Houston - CBS 12:00
Miami at Buffalo - CBS 12:00
Oakland at Tennessee - CBS 12:00
Arizona at St. Louis - FOX 3:15
Green Bay at Philadelphia - FOX 3:15
San Francisco at Seattle - FOX 3:15
Dallas at Washington - NBC 7:20

Monday, Sep 13:
Baltimore at NY Jets - ESPN 6:00
San Diego at Kansas City - ESPN 9:15

Since I'm practically a jinx at this, I'll try to take one for the team and choose: Indianapolis

Good luck, everyone.

Congrats to our defending champion..barrett

You're a brave man, Bob.

Week 1 - Chicago Bears

Week 1 - San Diego

The Chicago Football Bears....

I'll go with the New York Giants of New Jersey.

Man, the oddsmakers really like Tennessee over Oakland but I'm not going anywhere near that game.

week 1 - San Diego

Because I want to be wrong in my prediction of the game, and I want to done with this early.

The Colts :eek:

edit note ***Bob just saw you took the Colts also, I hope we are both out week 1, but we are thinking alike***

I proudly wore my t-shirt from last year's contest just last week.

And to open the season I go with the Chargers.

And you know it's a week of games that look evenly matched when you go with the jeckyl and hyde chargers on the road with all 32 teams in action.

My reasoning is that even if I am wrong, I get to stay in longer than everyone else who gets eliminated this week since it's the late game monday.

I'll take the Titans.

And, yeah, winner gets a free ItB t-shirt, size XL, shipped anywhere in the U.S.

Just a headsup, WalterFootball.com is having a suicide/survivor contest, too with $350 for 1st place and $50 for second place. Absolutely free - you just need to register at the partnered website.....

http://walterfootball.com/survivorpool.php

I'll probably make the same pick both here and there....

What Chuck said. I'll take the Giants.

I was thinking about taking either the Lions or the Chiefs as upsets, but since a couple of you have already chosen their opponents, I'll just hope that you eliminate yourselves. Therefore, I'm going out on a different limb. Let the new Mike Holmgren/Jake DelHomme regime get off to a good start. I'm taking the team from Cleveland.

The BROWNS

New York Giants

Saints. ---- Bust or boom tonight!

Well, now I see ESPN has another copy of our contest up at
http://games.espn.go.com/eliminator/en/frontpage

Actually tough week, but I will guess the New York football Giants

Im taking the Cowboys on the road and I hope I lose.

Well, there's our first winner...