Annoucning the Pairings

September 28,2023 Good Day Grover Pickers, I hope you enjoyed last week’s AI generated blog. I won’t be doing that anymore. Not since I discovered the AI generated Jerry Jones exhibit at AT&T Stadium. You can pay actual money to sit in a room and ask a hologram Jerry Jones questions and, using AI, “Jerry” …

You Are Underestimating How Much This Matters

September 1, 2021 Good Day Grover Pickers! Lee Corso made college football predictions last Saturday while sitting between Kirk Herbstreit and Reece Davis  on the Gameday set for the first time since 2019.  I’ll give you a moment for the chills to subside as the realization grows on you.  Football games are back!  How ‘back’ …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Grover Picks Podcast with Al Weaver

You see him on the picks as AKWEAV, he’s Al Weaver. On his delightful podcast episode we talk about the Pony Express, vandalizing the 1958 Rose Bowl (see below), hating Kansas, JFK in Dallas, Texas A&M Game Day, Fran Tarkenton, Billy Simms, All those 2000 Hurricanes, The Big 7, 8, 12, Rocky Top, The best …

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 …

Left Guards Prefer Boucaniere

September 24, 2019  Good Day Grover Pickers,  HERE’S WHAT’S GOODMahomes, Minshew, UCLA once again for a minute. Maybe also LSU. And Appalachian State.  HERE’S WHAT’S BADArkansas, The ACC except Clemson, Every Team In Tennessee except Memphis, whining about officials.  PLEASE CONSIDER:NFL coaches have complained that holding is not called enough. NFL officials started calling more holding …