One more go for the Underdog Game

Time flies! It behooves us to start thinking about the charity pro football underdog game that we play here on the blog when the NFL regular season starts. We skipped it last year as I took a mental health break from blogging (you be the judge of how well that went), but it's "game on" this year, so long as we get at least 10 players. (Last time around, we got 23.)

The regular season doesn't start until September 9, and so there's no need to do anything yet other than starting to scrape together the $25 donation that's needed to play. The basics of the season-long contest will be unchanged. Each week, you pick an underdog that you think can win its game outright, without the benefit of the point spread. If your underdog does indeed win outright, you collect the number of points by which they were expected to lose. The players with the most points at the end of the long season get to steer to entry fee pool to their favorite charities.

It's been a lot of fun over the years, and it's all for good causes, so please think about playing. More on the game next week.