“In anticipation of the Rams’ 2014 regular-season schedule release, we are excited to offer fans the unique opportunity to win $100,000,” team vice president of marketing Brian Killingsworth said in a statement. “We challenge our fans to accurately predict all 17 weeks of the team’s regular-season schedule and win the cash prize.”
And with that statement the St. Louis Rams set off a firestorm of acronyms…LOL, WTF, SMH, LMAO but a simple WOW will suffice. Is this what the world is coming to? What’s next, a reality show where wanna-be chefs get screamed and yelled at by a famous chef just to make a decent living? Oh wait…
Not only do you have to guess the games, you have to get lucky and predict opponent each week’s, location, the exact date of the game and the date of the team’s bye week. If that wasn’t enough if there happens to be a tie the winner will be decided by a 10-question trivia contest.
But it’s actually a very simple calculation.
You know the majority of the games are played on Sunday, right. Byes don’t start until Week Four and end in Week 12. Week 17 must be a divisional NFC West game. So here’s the formula: get the square root of PI, add the one, carry the nine, multiply the first 5 prime numbers, divide the product and here’s what my winning result.
WEEK 1 at Washington Redskins
WEEK 2 vs Denver Broncos
WEEK 3 vs Arizona Cardinals
WEEK 4 at Philadelphia Eagles
WEEK 5 vs San Francisco 49ers (Thursday Night Game)
WEEK 6 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
WEEK 7 vs Minnesota Vikings
WEEK 8 BYE
WEEK 9 at Seattle Seahawks
WEEK 10 at Arizona Cardinals
WEEK 11 vs New York Giants
WEEK 12 vs Oakland Raiders
WEEK 13 at Kansas City Chiefs
WEEK 14 vs Dallas Cowboys
WEEK 15 at San Diego Chargers
WEEK 16 vs Seattle Seahawks
WEEK 17 at San Francisco 49ers
Get your entry in because the contest ends on May 1, 2014. Good luck…to me!
