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Season 8, Week 16

Christmas Week

            Greetings everyone! Welcome to Week 16!!! MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HANUKKAH!!!! It’s the most wonderful time of the year!!! The playoff pictures are getting focused and the MFL playoffs will move into round 2! The Agawam/FH Campers are in good shape and they could win this week and have a chance to play in Vermont for the second round of the playoffs and the first time in franchise history. Here’s Week 16:

MN @ GB (Thursday; NFLN, TSN)

KC @ OAK (Saturday; NFLN, TSN)

BAL @ PIT (CBS)

CAR @ ATL (Fox)

CHI @ DET (Fox)

IND @ HOU (CBS)

NE @ JAX (CBS)

NO @ NYG (Fox)

TB @ CLE (Fox)

TN @ BUF (CBS)

WAS @ STL (Fox)

AZ @ SF (Fox)

CIN @ DEN (CBS)

SD @ SEA (CBS)

PHI @ DAL (Christmas; NBC, TSN)

NYJ @ MIA (Christmas; ESPN, TSN)

DEADLINE: E-mail & Myspace: Thursday & Saturday games: Thursday, December 21 @ 7:55PM (ET). Sunday & Monday games: Sunday, December 24 @ 12:55PM (ET).

Yahoo! Pick’em: Thursday, December 21 @ 7:55PM (ET)

Local Listings (All times ET):

Tuesday, 12/19:

8PM: Poinsettia Bowl (ESPN2)

Thursday, 12/21:

8PM: Las Vegas Bowl (ESPN)

8PM: NFL: MN @ GB (NFLN, TSN)

Friday, 12/22:

8PM: New Orleans Bowl (ESPN2)

Saturday, 12/23:

1PM: PapaJohns.com Bowl (ESPN)

4:30PM: New Mexico Bowl (ESPN)

8PM: Armed Forces Bowl (ESPN)

8PM: NFL: KC @ OAK (NFLN, TSN)

Sunday, 12/24:

1PM: NFL: NE @ JAX (3, 3V, 4, 5M, 6A, 8M, 12, 13M, 62V, 67)

1PM: NFL: NO @ NYG (5N, 18M, 22M, 23A, 23M, 44V, 61, 64)

4PM: NFL: CIN @ DEN or SD @ SEA (2N, 3, 3V, 4, 5M, 6A, 8M, 12, 13M, 62V, 67)

4PM: NFL: AZ @ SF (25)

4PM: Patriots 5^th Quarter (38)

8PM: Hawaii Bowl (ESPN)

Monday, 12/25:

5PM: NFL: PHI @ DAL (2M, 4N, 5V, 6M, 7, 10, 13A, 22, 30, 31V, TSN)

8:30PM: NFL: NYJ @ MIA (9N, ESPN, TSN)

11:30PM: Jets Postgame (SNY)

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 plum have been eliminated from NFL playoff contention and teams in brown have clinched a playoff spot or their division.

3. You can catch all of the MFL action on http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=75366.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

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

9. Deadline for the BMN Bowl Challenge is Tuesday at 7:55PM (ET).

10. Week 17’s flex game will be TBA and played at 8:15PM. There are no flex games on Week 16.

11. Standings will be sent on December 19. Week 17 newsletter will be sent on either December 25 or 26 (closer to Dec. 26 because I need to know the flex games before I send out the newsletter).

12. 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 4 would move onto week 3 of the playoffs. Everyone else 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.

13. 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 16!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Mike