Best Time of Year: dirty-dawg 2015!!

by: Sugar (August 16, 2015)

We start this season on a sad note as we just lost one of our charter dirty-dawg members on August 5th. Lloyd Hopwood, an original dirty-dawger and one of the funniest guys we know passed away on August 5th due to COPD. Lloyd was a hard-core Texas Aggie and played every week of every dirty-dawg CFCC since its inception in 1999. Lloyd was famous for asking me about half-way through each season, "who is the sadistic SOB in charge of picking these CFCC games?" forgetting that it was usually me picking the games. Or maybe he didn't forget?? In any event, dirty-dawg won't be the same without Lloyd and we dedicate this season to our friend and fellow dirty-dawger...rest in peace Lloyd!!

For those of you hoping that we would not be running dirty-dawg this year because we are late getting started, I am here to personally disappoint you! We are back and better, or at least the same as, ever. This is the 17th consecutive year of dirty-dawg.com on-line and we plan to continue with our 1999 look and functionality...so enjoy! This will be the second year of the College Football Playoff, after what most college football fans considered a success in the inaugral year of 2014. TCU and Baylor fans can skip the previous sentence. Less successful was dirty-dawg's new scoring schema for the playoffs which, unintentionally, allowed a bunch of losers to get big points on the championship game by picking Alabama to win it all, instead of Ohio State. This screw-up did not affect the eventual champions, but sure made some other dirty-dawgs a little "hot under the collar" shall we say. Hopefully a few months has calmed those folks down and they will be back for us to make amends with a better playoff scoring system this year. More on that as the season unfolds (which will also give our massively parralled computers time to evaluate the screw-up potential for this year!)

As always, dirty-dawg's College Football Confidence Contest (CFCC) will kick-off with Week 1 on Labor Day Weekend. Actually, the season kicks off the Thursday before Labor Day Weekend and continues through Labor Day night with several great match-ups. So we will break protocol and actually play the games on Thursday night for Week 1 (similar to what we do Thanksgiving Week). There will then be 12 additional weeks, before we pause for the Bowl Games and Playoff Games, culminating with the National Championship game. For those of you that enjoy real torture, the NFL regular season kicks off on September 13th (again, there is a game on Thursday that we don't care about) and that season runs for, wait for it, 17 weeks. We think the Super Bowl is sometime in March. Anyway, Week 1 of the Professional Football Confidence contest (PFCC) will start on Sunday, September 13.

So, if you are a current member, now is the time to recruit some fresh meat for the 2015 beat-downs. You know, we don't advertise so all new players are strictly word of mouth and by recommendation. We like it that way. Keeps the riff-raff out. Everybody knows somebody(s) who think they know football and it's fun to describe how easy the contest works to them to build their confidence and then experience the satisfaction as you scroll further and further down the standings to find their name after Week 1! If it wasn't for the fresh meat, we wouldn't have those experiences. So, get after it and recruit your favorite sports know-it-alls for dirty-dawg.

It is also time to start building groups for the upcoming seasons. In 2014, long-time group Bucknutz took home the CFCC group honors, riding "Urban Renewal" to victory. In other news, Soggy Bottom Boys, for the umpteenth time, won PFCC group play. Who will stop them this year?? Remember, to have an active group, you have to have at least 5 players. You then have approximately half of each season to finalize your groups before we head into the home stretch. You can create and join groups under the Main Menu drop-down above.

There you have it. The best time of the year is about to begin and we'll be working behind the scenes to get the rest of this low-budget operation working in time for CFCC Week 1. If you have any questions or complaints, just click on Contact Us on the menu bar above and we might get back with you. Thanks for playing.