Here’s your chance to ‘Sack Schultz!’ Just pick the winners
A few weeks ago an editor informed me that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and ajc.com were going to start a contest in which readers would have a chance to pick college football games against me.
Two questions immediately came to mind:
1) Do I need to buy the prizes?
2) Am I supposed to lose on purpose?
My financial analyst predicts you have no hope to beat me. But you can still win by being second best.
Because, really: You’re going to pick college football games against me?
And what next? Perhaps a times-table contest against Stephen Hawking?
OK, seriously, here’s how it works:
The contest is called “Sack Schultz,” I suppose because they are words so often spoken in editorial meetings. This does not have any connection with my Weekend Predictions (which is scheduled to begin again next week, pending conditioning drills).
The “Sack Schultz” contest is pretty simple. Go to this website: ajc.com/go/sack-schultz. Register, providing your name, address and a private telephone number so that I can phone you in the middle of the night to mock your selections.
Every week, you’ll find a new slate of games. Just pick the winners. No need to worry about point spreads. The contest begins the first week of the college football season. The local contest runs through Nov. 21 and the national contest through Nov. 27.The deadline for making your picks is listed next to the game (generally it’s a couple of hours before kickoff).
There will be three categories of winners:
♦ The reader picking the most winners nationally every week will win a “Fathead” of their choice. (Note: I checked and there is a “Brett Favre” available. It’s just like the real life version — one dimensional. Personally, I would opt for “SpongeBob” or one of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.
♦ The reader who can outpick me over the season will win two tickets to the Georgia-Georgia Tech game in Athens.
♦ Those picking the most winners nationally, during the season, will win a 37-inch HDTV.
Yes, this is a national contest. Sack Schultz Enterprises — I just wanted to see how that looked — is partnering with a company that stages this contest with several media outlets around the country. Because of that, we don’t pick the games and we can’t guarantee every SEC and ACC game will be on the menu. (You will notice that the Dogs and Jackets are not among the games in the first week, but there’s not much of a challenge in picking winners against Louisiana-Lafayette and South Carolina State, anyway.)
I’ll have a contest update every week online in Weekend Predictions.
So sign up and start picking. And just remember: second place isn’t so bad.
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ONLY
August 27th, 2010
12:53 pm
What is the “real” reason Washaun ran?? Do you suppose there was something illegal on him or in the car????
Johnny Mofo Cockrin
August 27th, 2010
1:03 pm
Police have no…. you must have graduated from the law school there in Athens or you watch too much TV. You are wrong. That is public property. He also had a a failure to appear, which is why his license was suspended. They can safely assume that he drove the car in off of the highway because the security people saw him do it. He’ll get some sort of plea and get it swept under the rug.
Johnny Mofo Cockrin
August 27th, 2010
1:05 pm
GlacialSpeed – well don’t enter the contest if you don’t like the prize dummy.
Old Gold
August 27th, 2010
1:08 pm
If you’re not a Tech or Georgia fan….you need to leave the state! Delta is ready when you are!
Coach or not Meyers
August 27th, 2010
1:11 pm
Wish they would name something for me! I need a statue like Saban!
coach joe
August 27th, 2010
1:13 pm
what ever you break the law you get punished athlete or not the rule remain the same how come everytime a uga athlete gets in trubble bulldog fans think it ok to brake the rulz but someone out side of uga needs to be tarred and feathered. yall r a bunch of hippos
Stan
August 27th, 2010
1:13 pm
Jeff – why can’t i post?
Abdullah the Bitcher
August 27th, 2010
1:18 pm
Go ahead and send me the prizes.
@ ONLY
August 27th, 2010
1:40 pm
Is your real name Nancy Grace?
74 Dawg
August 27th, 2010
1:42 pm
Jeff, I like the black and white photo with the Yarmulke and no glasses. You should replace your regular photo with it. Also, who is the AJC leader in the annual Jerk Johnson contest this fall and what is the prize?
Joey
August 27th, 2010
2:04 pm
Come on Jeff, you know you’ve got you a Favre “Fathead” in your mancave.
TXDawg
August 27th, 2010
2:07 pm
I’m in Jeff!
I already have a “real life” Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader so I’ll just settle for the 37″ HDTV.
Tide Rising
August 27th, 2010
2:07 pm
Jeff,
Count me in but I really wish you would add in point spreads. It makes it more challenging and really does separate amateurs who just pick favorites every week from people who can really pick em based on point spreads.
Michael
August 27th, 2010
2:29 pm
that would be fun BUT any site that ask you for your name, address and birthdate to register that IS NOT a secure site IS NOT the place to be…. WATCH OUT.
NCBravesFan
August 27th, 2010
2:42 pm
“Sack Schultz?” Does the Hot Phone Sex Princess know about this?
#1 BAMA FAN
August 27th, 2010
2:43 pm
I miss “Leonard’s Losers” but I guess I will play.RTR
Spike
August 27th, 2010
2:48 pm
I doubt the Tech–georgia game will be sold out.
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August 27th, 2010
3:11 pm
[...] ♦ Contest unveiled: Here’s your chance to ‘Sack Schultz’: Just pick the winners [...]
ATLAUB
August 27th, 2010
3:13 pm
I still have a mug from the I Beat Bisher days, and even a few of the really old “Super Picker” t-shirts from my young years. Need a good prize Jeff that will be relevant 25 years later.
Ted M
August 27th, 2010
3:17 pm
Jeff,
If I make my picks now can I change them sometime before game time?
Bubba
August 27th, 2010
4:31 pm
What a dork.
Ryan
August 27th, 2010
4:50 pm
Jeff,
You say this is a national contest, but the rules specifcy must be a Georgia resident – can you confirm?
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:02 pm
Ryan — Great question. This is the answer I got from the contest gurus. The TV and Fatheads are open to anybody (national). But to win the Georgia-Tech tickets, you must be a resident of Georgia. Just passing along the info.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:04 pm
Sunny Purdue — And you’re favorite team would be — wait, don’t tell me: Purdue?
saintsfan
August 27th, 2010
5:05 pm
all you want to be jailhouse lawyers, if an accident is reported the 911 is called the police will respond and do a private property or regular accident report. If the driver is intoxicated or has a suspended license an arrest can be made. stop pretending to know the law and just read the statute.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:07 pm
Glacialspeed — True, but it’s a college football picks contest and Tech-Georgia tickets probably rate a little higher than Georgia State-North Carolina Central.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:09 pm
Robodawg — Hey, here’s a dollar. Go buy a joke. (I’ll be looking for you at contest time.)
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:10 pm
Walkeska Dawg — Wow, that thing must be worth at least $2.50 by now.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:10 pm
Delbert D. — Yeah, cool hat, huh?
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:11 pm
Washaun Ealey — OK. THAT was funny.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:17 pm
Buzzfan — I’ll see what I can do about the voicemail name. And maybe the hair extensions.
Jordan
August 27th, 2010
5:20 pm
So every reader who outpicks you gets tickets to the UGA/GT game?! I’m confused.
SWAT Native
August 27th, 2010
5:24 pm
Jeff,
I’m going to make you put that finger down (in the photo on the front page).
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:25 pm
Joey — You caught me. I do have a Favre “Fathead.” It’s my dart board.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:26 pm
Tide Rising — Point spreads definitely more challenging (I pick against spread in Weekend Predictions) but this is how it is for now.
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:27 pm
NCBravesFan — We’ll have to check. Haven’t heard from HPSP for a while.
Vikki Locke
August 27th, 2010
5:30 pm
First!
Jeff Schultz
August 27th, 2010
5:34 pm
Vikki — you never could count.
DAWG07
August 27th, 2010
5:39 pm
GO DAWGS.
bowman
August 27th, 2010
6:51 pm
You misspoke (miswrote?), Jeff. “The reader who can outpick me over the season will win two tickets to the Georgia-Georgia Tech game in Athens.”
It should be “the readers…” except that the winner(s) are likely to fill the stadium, thus frustrating those who spent thousands of dollars to buy what they thought were season tickets.
c u in athens,
bowman
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Shaquandralishanickra
August 27th, 2010
8:06 pm
I’m all in baby! Bring on the frogs, hawgs, dawgs, volunteers, tigers, bears, little green leprechauns, gators, tornadoes, hurricanes, green waves, crimson tides, directional schools, and all you fools, cause Shaquandralishanickra is gunna win it all. Peace, out!
fred garvin
August 27th, 2010
8:43 pm
Jeff, I think the fact that I chose to enroll at Penn State in fall of 1986 (and witness the beat-down of the prison-striped hurricane team that was all talk in Tempe at the Fiesta Bowl—I hope you are reading this, Michael Irvin, that is unless a tutor took your tests for you!!!)
Toccoadawg
August 28th, 2010
2:38 am
youre going down baldy
Not Disappointed
August 28th, 2010
10:16 am
You can call anytime accept sun down Friday. Rere want allow me to answer the phone. Oh well. “You’re going down Shultzie!”
Big Whoops Dawg Fan
August 28th, 2010
1:03 pm
Sorry, but I’m going to be hanging out in the locker room to see if Washaun can pass the football after he swallows it.
Loiusinannnnnna Joke U
August 28th, 2010
5:53 pm
You better watch out for our high powered, high octane offense. Man, im glad Ealey isn’t playing, as you will need him to beat us. I think we are ranked like 999 in SOS and havent won a game of any importance in 50 years. Woof Woof Woof MEOW!
Reality Hurts:
August 28th, 2010
5:54 pm
Jeff,
Question for you! If UGA believes their team is so good, why don’t they play a harder schedule? Just curious, as last year they did and you saw what happened. 8-5 doesnt make the mutts happy.
Thanks,
Reality Hurts
Layfeyette Freight Train:
August 28th, 2010
5:55 pm
Go…………………Louisinanananananananan LOL! Can your players jump one of ours? LOL!
Chuck
August 29th, 2010
9:02 am
Hey Jeff—Nice picture on the “Sack Schultz” front page. Is that wardrobe from the Jethro Bodine collection?
Chuck
August 29th, 2010
9:49 am
All you “Beat Bisher” guys think you go way back, but try to top this. I once had a date with “Coach Friday.” Unfortunately, even though she got ‘blitzed’, it didn’t result in a ’sack.’