This is Halloween Week in the NFL. With a Bears-Vikings clash looming on Halloween night — it’s rumored that the Bears will be disguised as a pro football team — Steve Griffitts is suddenly looking scary good.

Two weeks ago, the Hayden mayor proclaimed he’s serious about this Pigskin Prognostication stuff by going 11-4. Last weekend his percentage was even better: 11-3-1.

Griffitts, who supplements his mayoral wages with a pretty good gig as a Mountain West Bank VP, wasn’t giving away clues about the secret to his newfound success, but he has been seen wearing a Wrigley Field shirt from a recent trip to a Cubs-Cardinals game in Chicago. Apparently, some of that 2016 Cubbie luck has worn off — but hasn’t quite made its way to the Bears’ locker room.

Griffitts is now in second place, just one game behind Ryan Davis (68-38-1) and one ahead of Mark Koerner and Blaine Bennett.

Meantime, Jeff Conroy’s social experiment was slightly less scintillating. If you’ll recall, the bossman at St. Vincent de Paul confessed his pigskin pickin’ powerlessness on Facebook and asked his friends to help him out. The teamwork proved perfectly mediocre. Conroy went 8-6-1, which was better than five players, worse than five and tied one.

The quote of the week comes from Jeff Runge of Runge Furniture. Runge could have been speaking for most Coeur d’Alene Press All-Star Pigskin Prognosticators when he wrote, “This is like golf. The harder I try the ****tier I get.”

To see this week’s ****ty picks, look above this story at the plethora of Patriot, Bronco and Viking helmets.

And happy Halloween to everybody from The League.

Here’s hoping your pumpkin’s color resembles the Cleveland Browns’ helmet rather than their jersey.

And if you’re among that sparse group of North Idaho Chicago Bears fans, you probably want to spend more time rewarding trick-or-treaters Monday night than watching whomever the Bears throw into the huddle as quarterback.