September 22, 2020 We, The Grover Pickers, thank the Sun Belt Conference for all they have done for us lo these many days. The directional schools in states we rarely visit played football and it sustained us. These mighty teams, when the entire offensive line wasn’t quarantined, made us all believe in the little guy …
Category Archives: Football Picks
Is Your Coach a Bozo, a Guy Named Earl, or in the Sun Belt?
Good Day Grover Pickers, Welcome to week 2-ish of the Covid Football Season. UPDATE: The Sun Belt Conference is the best conference in the land, replacing th SEC, which is winless so far this season. Last week the Sun Belt dominated the Big12. Louisiana beat a ranked Iowa State. Arkansas Stat beat Kansas State. Coastal …
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Football is Back!
September 9, 2020 From a weak wifi connection in a Wal Mart parking lot somewhere near Mount Pleasant, SC… Welcome back, FOOTBALL! Goodbye Sunday afternoon hikes and Saturday afternoon lawn mowing. No, I’m not available to get on a Zoom call on Thursday nights. No, I’m not available to binge a Netflix romcom on Monday …
The Covid Kickoff
Good Day Grover Pickers, The Grover Picks return this Thursday night, covid not withstanding. Here are your Pre-Season Top 13 Thoughts, Explanations and Solutions, which may take until Thursday to finish reading. 13- Hard Knocks- No program has ever made football more boring than this season of HBO’s covid drenched ‘Hard Knocks’ following the Rams …
It’s Football-ish Season, For Now!
July 29, 2020Good Day Grover Pickers, If you are reading this, we may not have any time left. Football season started yesterday with all the NFL teams reporting to camp. It could end anytime due to the Covid-19 Corona Virus, or, as Bomani Jones calls it, “Cooties”. So, The Commissioner, Your Commissioner, has moved up …
2020 Pandemic Draft Preview
April 22, 2020 Good Day Grover Pickers, It’s faux-football time in America! NFL Draft Week. A time when college football fans and pro football fans all come together for one socially distant party to talk about 6 guys we’ve heard of and 252 guys we’ve never heard of, but are SURE will be the guy …
SHERISH95 is the Grover Picks Champion and Super Genius of the Year.
Good Day Grover Pickers, SHERISH95 is the Grover Picks Champion and Super Genius of the Year. SHERISH95 took the lead in early October and never lost it. Box scores are old news for SHERISH95. It didn’t matter if it was the inevitable end of a last minute Philip Rivers’ drive or an underdog like Georgia …
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Football Twilight and Racy Photos!
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 …
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 …
