August 20, 2019 Good Day Grover Pickers, As the day dawns with the first single ray of the sun splashing on the leaves of the tallest tree, so does another season of football arrive. The first light is merely a hint at the full day’s sun to come, but it is real light. The night is …
Author Archives: The Commissioner
Grover Picks End of Year Double Issue- Football in Fort Wayne
December 19, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, Your Commissioner finds himself on the road once more, so you are reading LIVE as I’m writing from the Brass Iguana Lounge at the Ramada Inn in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This is a Very Special Grover Picks Double Issue! We have games going on as I type and …
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Meyer and the Mall
December 7, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, Sorry I’m late. I got stuck in a line at Forever 21. But now… From a two-top table above a plate of America’s best Sbarro Pizza and overlooking the rollercoasters at the Mall of America in Minneapolis… This is your Commissioner. What have I done? I‘ve come to …
The Barleycorn Chronicles
November 14, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, The days for the Grand K are done. Wither the chain gang? Grand K is a metal rod that is the definition of a kilogram. All other kilograms are measured against this one rod, which is stored in a vault at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures …
2nd Graders and Old Movies
November 8, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, Welcome to a special Thursday Morning Edition of the Regular Tuesday Night and Occasional Wednesday Morning Grover Picks Screed of Football Thought. If you have ever read an entire one of these missives you may not believe that sometimes The Commissioner has nothing to say. So, it took …
We’ll Be Lurking For You…
October 31, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, And Happy Halloween. Today’s word is ‘Masquerade’, as in, people or teams trying to appear as something they are not or to at least be scary. WHAT WE KNOW The current Florida State Seminoles are merely masquerading as “Florida State Seminoles”. What a treat they gave Clemson. The …
The Runs, The Hots, and the Ol’ Crimson Homecoming
October 17, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, It’s a short slate this week, only 25 picks. This is partly because your Commissioner was out of commission for a while earlier Tuesday for a colonoscopy. For those of you under 50, this is a ‘medical’ procedure where, apparently, they use a tiny camera to take pictures …
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Not Enough Sousaphones for the Guest Students
October 3, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, Last week your Commissioner was alerted to an important and heavily researched newspaper article in the USA Today, America’s leading news source based on our collective attention spans. This article listed the top collegiate marching bands in “America”, where “America” is defined as Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, …
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Booger, Joe Moorhead and the Dakota Marker Trophy
September 25, 2018 Good Day Grover Pickers, It is I, your Commissioner, the current leader of the season long Grover Picks, and Great Declarer of Truths, Innuendos, and Idiocy With Scant Forethought. If you, Dear Picker, have wavered in your trust of The Commissioner’s grand, weekly proclamations, then fear not! You are forgiven your doubt …
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A Simple Request For Santa
December 20, 2017 Good Day Grover Pickers, You may now make picks for this week AND next week, through the New Years bowl games. There will be no Commissioner email next week as I have volunteered for a post-Christmas sanitation engineering job scooping reindeer poop off the homes of the less fortunate in southwest Ukraine. …
