Football Challenge

FIFTH ANNUAL EAST MOLINE-SILVIS

ROTARY FOOTBALL CHALLENGE 2007

RULES:

Pick one team each week to WIN. No point spreads are involved. A tie will be considered a victory for both teams.
A team can only be picked once during the 2007 season.
If your weekly pick is correct, you continue play in the 1st Chance Club. If your pick is incorrect, you move into the 2nd Chance club. After your 2nd incorrect pick, you are out of the Rotary Football Challenge.
Payout: 1st Chance Club winner - $500 --- 2nd Chance Club winner - $250. NEW FOR 2007 - UNDEFEATED BONUS AWARD - $250 If a player(s) completes the 17 week season with 100% correct picks and is NOT the winner of the 1st Chance Club due to the tiebreaker rule (Rule #5), that player or players will earn/split the $250 undefeated bonus award.
Tiebreaker: Points are assigned to each NFL team based on their pre-season power ratings by CBS Sportsline.com. These power ratings, listed below, will not change for the purposes of our football challenge. Each correct pick earns you the points assigned to that team. These points are accumulated for TIE BREAKER purposes only.
All picks must be E-mailed prior to the start of that week’s set of games. If there are Thursday, Friday, or Saturday games, we will allow you to pick a Sunday game if your date and time stamp indicates the message was sent prior to the start of the Sunday games. We strongly suggest that you send a copy of your E-Mail to a friend to help verify when you send your picks to us.
Picks not received, duplicate picks, or picks received late will automatically receive the home team for the MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL game. If there are multiple games on Monday, the last starting time will be the home game. Please monitor the NFL schedule as games are subject to change. If we become aware of a change in schedule, comments will be posted in the weekly report to players
Entry fee is $25 payable to the East Moline-Silvis Rotary Club. Payment can be mailed to Dr. Armon Bert, 813 1 st Ave, Silvis, IL 61282 or given in person to Dr. Bert, Dr. Greg Solis, or Mark Judy. Payment must be received prior to the start of play .

The East Moline-Silvis Rotary Club conducts this football challenge to fund general club activities and projects our club undertakes. You DO NOT have to be a member to participate. Check our website for more information on our club and activities. Join us at our weekly meeting! The website is: emsilrotary.org and our E-Mail address is nfl@emsilrotary.org. Use the E-Mail to submit your picks and our website to check your weekly results versus other players. Results are normally posted by Tuesday at 5 pm weekly. Players do not have access to other player’s picks until we post the results. If there are problems or complaints, bring them to our attention as soon as possible and we’ll do our best to address the problem. However, we do have the final authority for all decisions.

POWER RANKINGS

1. Indianapolis Colts	9. Dallas Cowboys	17. St. Louis Rams	25.Tampa Bay Buccs
2. New England Patriots	10.Cincinnati Bengals	18.Atlanta Falcons	26.Kansas City Chiefs
3. San Diego Chargers	11.Pittsburgh Steelers	19.San Francisco 49ers	27.Detroit Lions
4. Denver Broncos	12.Jacksonville Jaquars	20.Buffalo Bills	28.Washington Redskins
5. Chicago Bears	13.Arizona Cardinals	21.Carolina Panthers	29.Tennessee Titans
6. Baltimore Ravens	14.New York Giants	22.Green Bay Packers	30.Houston Texans
7. New Orleans Saints	15.Seattle Seahawks	23.Minnesota Vikings	31.Oakland Raiders
8. Philadelphia Eagles	16.New York Jets	24.Miami Dolphins	32.Clevland Browns