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Season 8, Week 15

            Greetings everyone! Welcome to Week 15!!! December 10 was a great day in the NFL. LT got his TD record (and yes, I did hear the call on the San Diego Chargers Radio Network) and Tom Brady and the Patriots were shutout in Miami. Colts couldn’t handle Jacksonville. Tennessee has now won 4 in a row! Be careful when you do your picks this time of year. You never know what will happen in the NFL. Here’s Week 15:

SF @ SEA (Thursday; NFLN, TSN)

DAL @ ATL (Saturday; NFLN, TSN)

CLE @ BAL (CBS)

DET @ GB (Fox)

HOU @ NE (CBS)

JAX @ TN (CBS)

MIA @ BUF (CBS)

NYJ @ MN (CBS)

PIT @ CAR (CBS)

TB @ CHI (Fox)

WAS @ NO (Fox)

DEN @ AZ (CBS)

PHI @ NYG (Fox)

STL @ OAK (Fox)

KC @ SD (NBC, TSN)

CIN @ IND (ESPN, TSN)

DEADLINE: E-mail & Myspace: Thursday & Saturday games: Thursday, December 14 @ 7:55PM (ET). Sunday & Monday games: Sunday, December 17 @ 12:55PM (ET).

Yahoo! Pick’em: Thursday, December 14 @ 7:55PM (ET)

Local Listings (All times ET):

Thursday, 12/14:

8PM: NFL: SF @ SEA (NFLN, TSN)

Saturday, 12/16:

8PM: NFL: DAL @ ATL (NFLN, TSN)

Sunday, 12/17:

1PM: NFL: NYJ @ MN (2N)

1PM: NFL: HOU @ NE (3V, 4, 5M, 8M, 12, 13M, 62V, 67)

1PM: NFL: TBA (3, 6A, 18M, 22M, 23A, 23M, 44V, 61, 64)

4PM: Patriots 5^th Quarter (4)

4PM: NFL: PHI @ NYG (5N, 18M, 22M, 23A, 23M, 25, 44V, 61, 64)

4PM: Jets Postgame (SNY)

8:15PM: NFL: KC @ SD (2M, 4N, 5V, 6M, 7, 10, 13A, 22, 30, 31V, TSN)

Monday, 12/18:

8:30PM: NFL: CIN @ IND (ESPN, TSN)

NEWS:

1. Beat Mike now has a phone line through AIM Phoneline. So, for any reason that your computer is not working, you can still play. Just call (407) 232-2995 or (703) 740-0821 and leave me a message with your picks. 

2. Teams in blue-gray have been eliminated from NFL playoff contention.

3. For the NFL game channel listings, you can go to www.sirius.com. NASCAR radio is now on Sirius channel 128. The channel will debut in January 2007.

4. Make sure you get your Sirius Satellite Radio to listen to your favorite NFL team (except Titans) and college football team anywhere in the country.

5. Make sure you get your Sirius Satellite Radio for your friends and family this holiday season.

6. Want a free week of camping? If you join NAFCA between now and May 2007, you and I would be entered to win a free week of camping. At the 2007 spring safari in Greenfield, if your name is drawn, you win a free week of camping at the NAFCAree. When you send the application, my name (Mike DiMauro) must be on there also. You can get the application to join at www.nafca.org.

7. Make sure you watch the Thursday & Saturday night football games on the NFL Network.

8. The BMN College Bowl Challenge newsletter will be sent either on December 12 or 13.

9. Week 15’s flex game is San Diego @ Kansas City at 8:15PM. There are no flex games on Week 16 and Week 17’s will be TBA.

10. Standings will be sent on December 12 or 13. Week 16 newsletter will be sent on either December 18 or 19.

11. BMN Playoffs: Those that are in the top 16 plus those who are outside the top 16 that are 20 points behind the leader by Week 17 will make the playoffs. Then, it would be everyone that makes it in would play the first two rounds, and then they would be eliminated. The final four would continue to try to be the final 2 and the final 2 will have a chance at the championship. Starting with the Week 14 standings, I will post those people who have been eliminated from playoff contention.

12. The newsletter will be in red for Week 15, green in week 16, and blue for week 17 for the holidays of Christmas and New Year’s.

Have a fun Week 15!