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PIGSKIN PROGNOSTICATORS: Desperate Conroy brushes off incompetence

MIKE PATRICK | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 8 years AGO
by MIKE PATRICK
Staff Writer | October 20, 2016 9:00 PM

Jeff Conroy is fighting his way out of the cellar the only way he knows how.

He’s letting his friends do the work.

Jeff Conroy, meet Tom Sawyer.

Unprecedented in this modern era of pigskin prognosticating, Conroy is calling on friends and family to paint his fence. And why not? There are no league rules against it, and so far this season, one of the best records of all was posted by a pigskin picker whose selections were made by the 15-year-old daughter of a Press journalist.

For the record, here’s Conroy’s desperate plea, posted Monday morning on his Facebook page:

MY NAME IS JEFF AND I CAN’T PICK WINNING FOOTBALL TEAMS! There, I said it. That’s the 1st step.

Many of you know that I’ve been asked to be a part of the Coeur d’Alene Press’ “All-Star Pigskin Prognosticators.” Weekly, 12 of us make our picks, and the results become public weekly as we go head to head. And I’m getting killed. I need help.

So I’m coming to my Facebook family to ask for help with next week’s picks. Please, I need your help. “No 1 person is smarter than the all of us.”

Here are next week’s games….HELP!

After listing the games, including the “Seachickens” at Cardinals, and noting that his picks needed to be turned in to The League by 5 p.m. Tuesday, Conroy received an official warning on his Facebook page. It read:

The League is reaching for a penalty flag on this one, Jeff... Or maybe the public admission of pigskin pickin’ incompetence is enough.

How will Conroy do this week with a little help from his friends? The League is at least as curious as you are. Let’s go to page B5, see the newly whitewashed fence under Conroy’s grinning mug, then learn over the next few days if “all of us” really are smarter than “one of us.”

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