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As with every year, thanks Hooper!

Thanks Hoop. I miss ya bro.

Picked the wrong team to start the year, again. Nice to know some things never change.

me too. I thought Carolina would win by 7+

GMdawg wins week one with 10 correct picks.

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Congrats Bud!

congrats GM!

Thanks guys

Spectre with 11 wins takes week 2.

GMdawg is on top of the leaderboard with a one game lead

Congrats Spectre

way to go spec

Congrats Spectre!

I had a terrible week, one of my worst ever.

Congrats Spectre.

LADawg takes week three with ten wins.

Top Of The Leaderboard

• GMDawg 26
• LADawg 25
• DIEHARD 24
• Hooper 23
• DoverDawg 23
• GratefulDawg 23
• JulesDawg 23
• M. Dwight 23
• Spectre 23

way to go LA

Congrats LA good job bro.

Congrats LA!

M. Dwight takes week four with 10 wins, beating out DIEHARD & CaptCleveland on the MNF tiebreaker.

We have a new leader...


Top Of The Leaderboard

• DIEHARD 34
• M.Dwight 33
• CaptCleveland 32
• LADawg 32
• GratefulDawg 31
• J. Mennel 31
• GMdawg 30
• JulesDawg 30
• Spectre 30

Hey.. that's me! Woohoo!

Well then congrats to you.

way to go bro

Oh sure your ThatGuy Congrats bud

I've peaked.

I stink.

Congrats! I didn't know who the hell that was! lol

Well forget what you saw

Week Five Winner

Dawg Michelle

with 10 wins


Top Of The Leaderboard

• DIEHARD 41
• J.Mennel 40
• CaptCleveland 39
• GMdawg 39
• GratefulDawg 39
• That Guy 39

Congrats Michelle

way to go michelle

Congrats Michelle

Congrats Michelle!

Thanks guys. Luck of the quick picks an hour before the game!

Week Six Winner

Flap
with 12 wins,

Top Of The Leaderboard

• DIEHARD 50
• J Mennel 49
• GratefulDawg 47
• JulesDawg 47
• Pit DAWG 47
• gobrowns 47

Good job Flap

Thanks!

Making my picks and then changing them to the other one appears to be a good plan!

I should have gone with that plan last week.

Congrats Flap.


At this point I am willing to try anything so I might try that this week. I think the only people below me are the ones who missed a week or two.

Congrats Flap!

Week Seven Winner

Hooper

with 11 wins.

Top Of The Leaderboard

• DIEHARD 58
• J Mennel 57
• gobrowns 56
• CaptCleveland 55
• JulesDawg 55

Congrats Hooper!

Congrats Buddy. Good job

Way to go Hooper!

I finally had a decent week.

way to go hoop

Congrats Bud!

J/C
I was a day late and a dollar short this year.

I have been a week late and $100 short for the better part of 100 years.

LOL! Tell me something I don't know?

I grabbed your butt the last time we hugged

Week Eight Winner

J Mennel

We have a new leader..

Top Of The Leaderboard

• J Mennel 67
• DIEHARD 66
• gobrowns 64
• CaptCleveland 63
• JulesDawg 63
• Hooper 60
• Pit DAWG 60

Congrats J

Remember when I was in 2nd place?

That was fun.

I have no idea who that is, but congrats anyway!

haha x2

Thanks - been playing this thing for like 5 years... Never been in the top ten...

Week 9 Winner

Pincushion

MNF tiebreaker

DIEHARD takes back the top spot

Top Of The Leaderboard

• DIEHARD 75
• Mennel 74
• gobrowns 72
• CaptCleveland 71
• JulesDawg 71
• Flap 67
• TomFran 67
• Tulsa 67

I think I've gotten worse, literally every week..

Picking against the spread is kind of tough. I lost last nights game by .5 points of the 6.5 line. Those Vegas boys know their stuff.

I am almost in FIRST woohoo yea baby, eat that......opps damn dyslexia

2016: Year of the unlikely.

Week 10 Winner

TomFran

with 8 wins.


Top Of The Leaderboard

• J. Mennel 81
• DIEHARD 79
• gobrowns 78
• CaptCleveland 77
• JulesDawg 76
• TomFran 75
• Hooper 74
• Tulsa 74

Congrats Tom

wtg tom

I forgot.

Way to go Tom!

Week 11 Winner

LADawg & JulesDawg

with 10 wins beating out bigdatut on MNF tiebreaker.

Top Of The Leaderboard

• J Mennel 88
• DIEHARD 87
• JulesDawg 86
• gobrowns 86
• CaptCleveland 85
• Tulsa 83
• LADawg 82
• TomFran 81

Congrats to both of you.

+1

way to go guys!

Congrats!

She cheated.

You didn't need to say that. To most it was clear.

J/C...

I understand that this could end in a thud and I'm clearly jinxing myself, but I went 3-0 on Thursday, 8-0 in the early games and am right now 3-0 for the 4pm games...

Right now, as I type, I am the smartest man alive. lol.

Aaaaaand Oakland just gave up a touchdown and I'm in the red, lol.

Week 12 Winner

bigdatut

with 14 wins.

New Leader...

• CaptCleveland 97
• JulesDawg 96
• J Mennel 95
• bigdatut 95
• gobrowns 95
• DIEHARD 93

Congrats buddy

wtg bud

Congrats Bud!

[Week 13 Winner

bigdadat

with 10 wins, beating out DIEHARD & Dawg Michelle on MNF tiebreaker.


Top Of Leaderboard

• CaptCleveland 106
• bigdatut 105
• DIEHARD 103
• Mennel 103
• JulesDawg 102
• gobrowns 101

Two in a row, congrats bigdatut.

Maybe he should change his name to kingdatut?

Congrats Bigdatut!


I stink so bad this year that even though I got 10 wins this week I didn't even get mentioned.

Hooper must've had a tough night with that update!

Thank you thank you...

I'm on a nice roll. hope it continues.

Week 14 Winner

bigdattut
with 11 wims beating out JulesDawg
on MNF tiebreaker.

A tie on Top Of The Leaderboard

• CaptCleveland 116
• bigdatut 116
• JulesDawg 113
• DIEHARD 112
• gobrowns 111

Rollin, rollin, rollin, keep them doogies rollin

Congrats bro

kingdatut

You should get with Swish and celebrate with a reefer for your threefer.

lol

Week 15 Winner

CaptCleveland

with 11 wins.

CaptCleveland One Game Lead

• CaptCleveland 127
• bigdatut 126
• DIEHARD 121
• JulesDawg 120
• gobrowns119

Here's how my season is going.

Try not to land on me when you reach the bottom. I have been feeding down here at the bottom all year.

Week Sixteen Winner

GratefulDawg

with 9 wins, beating out JulesDawg, DIEHARD & Tulsa on MNF tiebreaker.


Coming Down To The Wire..

• CaptCleveland 135
• bigdatut 134
• DIEHARD 130
• JulesDawg 129

way to go GD

comes down to the final week again

It's the fiiiinal countdown...

Good luck to those still in the mix on this final day!

Unless the top 7 players pick all losers today, I'll have to try and find my nirvana in a top ten finish.

CaptCleveland 2016 Champion



Past Winnners-Gallery Of Champions

Really enjoyed participating in this group full of passionate Cleveland fans. I got lucky this year and hope some of this luck will transfer to the Browns. Go Cleveland and Go Browns!

Congrats

Congrats to you!

Really wish I had a do-over on my Rams, Dolphins and Chargers picks today

I finally won a week this season.

When I looked at the standings around 4:00 bigdatut was in the lead. I guess he didn't do well in the late games

Congrats CaptCleveland!

Are you the original Hooper?



Remember me?

I'm the erstwhile connecticutdawg.

Dawg Talk Island

I took the above picture in ~ 2000?

Congrats Captain Cleveland, well done!!!

Congrats CAptCleveland you kicked all of our asses this year. Good job bro

Hooper is the ONE and ONLY Hooper from 2000 bro. God I missed the island this year and all the people who gathered there over the years

Thanks GM

Odd, I was just reading Hooper's old posts.

He was a regular poster on all the forums up to ~ 5 years ago. The Cavs, music, politics, college football, NASCAR, The Indians...

Since then, he has only posted the "Dawg Talkers Pick'ems" in the Gaming forum.

And all business, no chit chat.

That's it. Just the thread for the "Pick'ems during every football season. For 5 years. Nothing else.

I just don't understand.

I suppose some day a Ph.D. candidate will do their doctoral thesis on social media behavior.

Can't speak for Hooper but, personally as someone who goes way back on these boards, I don't post much here anymore because I simply don't like it anywhere near as much as I used to. The board AND the Browns. Sure, I still love the Browns, but about 6-7 years ago something just snapped and I'm nowhere nearly invested in them as I used to be.

As for the board - I don't like the tone, I don't care for a lot of the people and I loathe a lot of the subject matter. I post in the general sports forum for the most part and read through the rest a couple times a week, but that's enough.

Oh well, back to your regularly scheduled programming...

From Hooper's Gallery of Champions:



Hey, I went down to visit dunedindawg (and the Dunedindawgs Club for a Browns game) in December 2001 (after I got laid-off from my job which ended when the Twin Towers came down in September 2001).

(The police openly carried M16s in the Tampa airport.)



dunedin was the president of the Dunedin Browns Backers Club.

Here he is with his girlfriend and friend. (~ 14 years ago)


It's pronounced Do-Need-IN (not Dune-Din)

He briefly started a Browns Message Board ~ 2002 (after posters started leaving the official board). I think it was too much work.

Looks like he never made it here to DawgTalkers.

What a super guy and group. (He's a big athletic guy!)

There were about forty members at the club. (and I was the guest of honor)(no, really)

Congratulations CaptCleveland!! It was a fun year!