I honestly can’t thank you all enough for bearing with me this year. It is never lost on me how special it is that you take time each week to play this game just for the sake of hanging out an enjoying Football together.
My favorite way to show my gratitude on this site? Competing that nets out in a charitable donation, duh. So here’s how it’s gonna work this year. I’m going to put up a Twitter poll Wednesday morning. For every point earned for a correct pick or confidence multiplier this week, I’ll match it with $1 (based on our normal weekly output this should be a meaningful sum). Then I’ll donate to each charity in proportion to the Twitter poll results.
Sound good? Ok here is a quick note on the charities:
I picked four of my favorites and made sure to vet them using Charitynavigator.org, Guidestar.org, and givewell.org (of course I am going to overdo it, this means a TON to me).
Here’s what I have come up with:
Allows us to fund teacher’s specific efforts to enrich their student’s learning experiences. You actually read and choose which teachers and projects get funded. Of course I love education-based efforts… my mom was a teacher after all!
Allows us to fund service dogs and their training to help veterans and active-duty military. Dogs AND patriotism, love that combo!
3. Stjude.org
Allows us to help fund pediatric cancer care to families who qualify so they don’t have to pay. I ran the St. Jude’s marathon (in Memphis) and this organization is now stuck with me.
Allows us to help fund meals for kids and families. My heart.
I can’t wait to see how this nets out. Oh and make sure your picks are extra on point, because it’s for an even better cause this week. Also remember that confidence picks for the market and total are now worth +1.5 if correct but only -1 if you get them wrong. Confidence for which team wins (without considering the market) are still +1 and -1.
Last note… There will be some exciting news coming up about where this is headed, hint: updates for the playoffs.
Happy Thanksgiving!