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 …
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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. …
Hired. Fired. Benched. Talibed. And a Badger.
November 30, 2017 Good Day Grover Pickers, Some advice for football teams and fans for the coming penultimate weekend of college football and merely the next fascinating week of NFL. The advice falls into four categories: Hire. Fire. Bench. Talib. The first three are common. The fourth, “Talib”, refers to the actions of vagabond defensive …
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I Already Miss Butch Jones, How About You?
October 18, 2017 Good Day Grover Pickers, If you don’t have anything nice to say, say it in a picks column. Chiefs v Raiders The Chiefs lead the all-time series 62-52-2. They first met as Chiefs and Raiders in 1963. The Chiefs won 7 of last 8. The Chiefs beat the Raiders in the last …
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