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 …

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 …

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 …