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Nicole Mo.
Out of Control
Posted by: jmike811_DEP at 4:49PM EST on November 30, 2007
Hopefully you've all enjoyed the "
College Football Fiesta
" on
AtlantaFalcons.com
.
Now I think it's time you get a little insight on how
Matt Moore
, "Falcon Al" Daniel and I go about getting these selections together on a weekly basis.
Ever hear of "creating a monster?"
It all started way back at the beginning of the season around a conference room table.
Hey! Let's do college picks each week! We can get head shots of guys, us and a cheerleader (maybe Freddie Falcon, too) and we'll all pick college games! It will be great!
OK, maybe we weren't that excited. But an idea was born and you have to respect that.
It started off simple -- Todd McClure, DeAngelo Hall, Michael Jenkins and Ovie Mughelli. We'd get their thoughts on each week's game and I'd load it into the site.
Now you get your first lesson in an NFL locker room -- not a lot of privacy.
Week 1...
It was like the first day back to school after Christmas break and we had the newest, coolest toy in the entire fifth grade.
Joe Horn led the charge.
Can I get in on that?
Sure, Joe!
Roddy, you want to play?
How about...
And so it began.
Getting picks now is a cross between lion taming and balancing a check book. Just take a look at what Al created to keep up with everyone's status (because what's a game if you can't brag about your success).
Since more people wanted to jump on board after the start date, we needed to shift to winning percentage to give guys an idea of how they've done week to week.
SAMPLE PICK SHEET:
The three of us now have to take the sheets into the locker room (on a time schedule) and get game selections between bouts of trash talking and college stories.
When that's done, we can do the easy part -- building the page.
I hope you get an idea of how complicated this can be.
You may have read Matt's blog recently about how Horn reached us via phone to get his selections in.
Devotion.
I'm not complaining.
Actually, I'm ranting mostly at how successful this little game has become at getting laughs in the locker room and a little rivalry going, especially between Matt and
Cheerleader Nicole Mo
, who has a slim, two-game lead as we enter the final week.
So, there you have it.
How football becomes accounting and accounting becomes, well, even less fun.
I never thought I'd be so glad to see college football season end.
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