The Coeur d’Alene Press All-Star Pigskin Prognosticators League threw a penalty flag on...

...itself. Seems three yards and a cloud of dust gave way to a bald editor and fuzzy math, so last week’s tally was slightly off. This week, on Page B5, you can trust the numbers as being correct. Really. We’re certain. Well, pretty sure.

We’re absolutely positive that Coeur d’Alene High football coach Shawn Amos, wagering on behalf of a cancer fund for Post Falls High football coach Jeff Hinz, posted the near-impossible. Not only did Coach Amos’s Vikings play an almost perfect game last Friday night, but the coach himself played a perfect round of pigskin prognostication, going 16-0. He’s now 31-17 overall, second only to leader Kelly Nosworthy, a swarthy 33-15 on the season. Nosworthy is playing on behalf of Matt’s Place Foundation.

None of the 12 pickers — good guys all, playing for local charities — last week had a losing record, and only two of them, Post Falls Mayor Ron Jacobson and Ford dealer Jim Addis, finished 8-8. Now, about that Addis fellow.

Addis tossed a challenge flag at the league because he missed the deadline to submit his picks and, therefore, was forced to accept whatever picks the league selected on his behalf. The league referred Addis to Pigskin Prognosticators Rule 419, Subsection 2360, Paragraph X, which reads:

“Any Pigskin Prognosticator who, through Act of God or Procrastination, fails to submit his weekly selections by the agreed-upon deadline must accept the picks chosen at random by the League, which shall use a coin toss for every game as the determining method.”

“I know I missed the deadline because of work and I take full responsibility for that,” Addis told the league during a monitored phone call. “My beef is with the Monday Night Football selection.”

Addis is a lifelong Green Bay fan. He unleashed a wandering tale about once washing Jerry Kramer’s socks, freezing while watching the Ice Bowl from the comfort of his living room, and other Packer lore that bored league officials until they declared it was lunch time and had to go. The league did concede that it was probably appropriate to explain to this august audience why Addis was the only pigskin picker to predict the Kansas City Chiefs would win in Green Bay on Monday night. It was because he missed deadline.

Check out the league standings and this week’s picks on Page B5.