Good Day Grover Pickers,It’s twilight for football season. The darkness of February-August isn’t quite over us, but it’s settling in. First, we shall enjoy a brilliant sunset including two college championship games and a four more delightful NFL playoff matchups. Even though there is this one more week to pick, it does not take a …
Category Archives: Football Picks
Gerrymandering For Fun and Money: A Plan for College Football Realignment, the Betterment of Mankind, and Piles of Cash.
December 18, 2019 Good Day Grover Pickers, Today I will outsource a major portion of this blog post, make fun of the Dallas Cowboys and present the final college football realignment plan we will ever need. Enjoy! First, college bowl season begins at 2pm on Friday with the Bahamas Bowl where Buffalo meets Charlotte. Congrats …
Hope + Change = Failure
December 12, 2019 Good Day Grover Pickers, It’s evaluation season, a time when all the teams not in playoff contention will mull new ways to use their outsized expectations to mismanage their organization. It’s also coach season, a time when the owners and boosters of college and pro teams fly around the country on private …
Your Name Is In The Grover Picks Blog!
December 5, 2019 Later in this post I will mention every single Grover Picker by name and explain to you exactly who each and every Grove Picker is. First, I’m required to provide a minimum offering of Grover Picks branded football-like content. The Panthers fired Ron Rivera. Today the Panthers are further from, not closer …
Turkeyball
November 27, 2019 Happy Thanksgiving! Let the feast and the football begin! THURSDAYMACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE The Commissioner’s peer, a gentleman known as Mr. Language Person, annually reminds us all that this is NOT the Macy’s Day Parade. Please remember to include the holiday, Thanksgiving, when referring to the parade. OLE MISS AT MISSISSIPPI STATE …
Thorough Atonement Mad Libs
November 20, 2019 The Commissioner has failed you and now…. atonement. There was no Grover Picks blog post last week, the second miss of the season. Where was the breakdown of the Texas State Fair menu? Has anybody checked on the quality of applicants or price of attendance at SMU lately? I, your Commissioner, The …
Grover Goats
November 7, 2019 Today I’m perched on a fence overlooking a pasture full of goats. This is a farm somewhere on Johns Island near Charleston, South Carolina. There are 19 goats. They run from tan to black. These are domestic goats, not mountain goats. All they need is grass and air for peak joy and …
Truth and Candy
October 31, 2019 Happy Halloween. I, The Commissioner, shall now set the internet right by publishing the one blog post anywhere that contains facts and only facts, truth where there are only misrepresentations, and honesty on a platform reserved for lies. In a world where human frailty succumbs too often to vitriol, bitterness, and self-loathing …
When The Commissioner Was Traded to the Bert and Ernie Picks
October 22, 2019The trade deadline is next Tuesday, October 29, but teams are already shuffling players. And your Commissioner, The Commissioner, is not immune, especially since I have an expiring contract at the end of the season. So, after all the years as Grover Picks Commissioner, I was traded last weekend to Bert and Ernie Picks …
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Please Make It All Better
October 15, 2019 Good Day Grover Pickers, Everything is bad. Everything. And if it’s not bad, it’s new, which is the same as bad. And if it’s not bad, or new, then it’s the same ole, same ole, which is bad. What we need, when everything is bad and new and the same are solutions. …
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