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Pick 'Em 2008: Burnt Orange Nation League Signing Up Now

Morning Coffee to follow in a bit, but first, an announcement about this year's pick 'em league.

We're trying a new pick 'em league manager this year, hosting our competition at Fun Office Pools, which allows for greater customization than the ESPN leagues. Instead of being forced to pick whichever games they choose, I'll be able to choose the games myself.

League Details

Sign up: Go to the sign up page here, using password gohorns

Make picks: I didn't choose any early games, but I think for this week, you still need to have picks in by 8/28. I'll work on getting that bumped back to Saturday morning, but if you want to be safe, make 'em now.  NOTE: Picks are weighted by confidence. Rank the game you're most confident in with 10, the least confident with 1.

Prizes:  Two sets of prizes this year. 

Weekly: The winner of any given week will receive a free copy of Rose Bowl Dreams: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Football, the new book by Adam Jones about Texas football. Readers of this year's Eyes of Texas 2008 will recognize Adam's name from his stellar contribution on the 1983 Texas defense. As is noted in this Fan Post, the book is simply fantastic; my own review of the work is forthcoming. 

Season: Darrell Royal autographed football.

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Any member?

Is there a league buy in? And can any member join?

"Like I said, I'm going to bleed orange until the day I die." -V.Y.

by 4th and 5 on Aug 25, 2008 11:58 AM CDT   0 recs

No buy in

Anyone can join

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Aug 25, 2008 12:00 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Thanks! nt.

"Like I said, I'm going to bleed orange until the day I die." -V.Y.

by 4th and 5 on Aug 25, 2008 12:03 PM CDT   0 recs

Perfect.

This is great; I just signing onto BON to posted a FanShot today asking if anyone wanted to start a pick ’em.

It's a Horns' world. Even Aggies play hoops with a burnt orange ball.
Is it football season YET?

by Speedway on Aug 25, 2008 12:26 PM CDT   0 recs

PB

How much for the football right now???

"Nobody leaves this field until we beat the hell out of them".................... L.J."Louis"Jordan in 1913 before kickoff of the Texas/ou game.

by ouALWAYSsux on Aug 25, 2008 12:52 PM CDT   0 recs

Priceless!

(It retails at around $150)

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Aug 25, 2008 12:58 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

LOL

"Nobody leaves this field until we beat the hell out of them".................... L.J."Louis"Jordan in 1913 before kickoff of the Texas/ou game.

by ouALWAYSsux on Aug 25, 2008 2:18 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

is it just me???

are there no games to pick? I don’t see anything like that…

by Pflash on Aug 25, 2008 4:04 PM CDT   0 recs

Click on

“Your Picks” on the left side of the page. Help menu also available there.

There are still a bunch of us playing over at the ESPiN Pick ’em Contest. PB was right, what could be more compelling than picking Syracuse vs Northwestern?

Good luck, BONers!

by horndude on Aug 25, 2008 4:56 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Any clue as to the password?

The 2007 BON pick ‘em password of “texasfight” doesn’t work at ESPN. Any hints?

by bellhalla on Aug 29, 2008 6:25 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Never mind

Just saw the link (and password) above…

by bellhalla on Aug 29, 2008 4:32 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

yahoo

Why are we using the yahoo version vs. espn? I’m not a huge fan of not being able to drag and drop.

by whoopspat on Aug 27, 2008 8:03 PM CDT   0 recs

nevermind

Just saw your reasoning. Fine by me.

by whoopspat on Aug 27, 2008 8:04 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Yeah

The big thing is I can choose my own games with this portal. Which I prefer.

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Aug 27, 2008 9:02 PM CDT to parent up   0 recs

Anybody else having problems?

I’m on a Mac using Safari. I can login and select games, but when I submit, I get a weird error. Guess I’m out for this year, then…

by bellhalla on Aug 29, 2008 6:00 AM CDT   0 recs

I emailed the FOP guys

I’ll let you know what I find out

--PB--

by PB @ BON on Aug 29, 2008 8:05 AM CDT to parent up   0 recs

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