Jan. 5, 2016Posted by NawFuL
With the 2015 Gehlke Bros. Football championship mathematically decided a week ago, there was nothing to play for in Week 17 but pride. In the case of the Senior Bro, it was an opportunity to finish another successful season in a victory flourish. For the Junior Bro, it was one more chance to flirt with fate as he threw power rankings and logic out the window to let his right brain walk on the wild side of football prognostication.
And for one bizarre Sunday in January, nonconformity prevailed.
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Dec. 29, 2015Posted by NawFuL
The Gehlke Bros. Football season still has a week remaining, but as for the Surfy Trophy, that's been decided. For the third time in as many years, the Senior Bro will get to hoist the golden statuette high in victory after mathematically clinching the championship in a Week 16 rout. It is the first time since GBF took to the Internet in 1998 that Glenn has won back-to-back-to-back titles, and it is the second straight year that he has locked things up before the final week of the season.
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Dec. 21, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Many weeks it's difficult to make heads or tails of the NawFuL schedule, so when someone tries to do it literally — by the flip of a coin — there's bound to be plenty of excitement. Finding himself down by the equivalent of three touchdowns and a pair of field goals with less than a quarter to play and staring at fourth and long, the Junior Bro resorted to the Gehlke Bros. Football equivalent of a fake punt in Week 15. The problem with such trick plays is that they frequently don't work.
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Dec. 15, 2015Posted by NawFuL
When things are going right, even your most mediocre performance can be a success. That was the case in Week 14 for the Senior Bro, who despite missing the mark on a bunch of Sunday games still managed to notch another winning week on what appears to be another championship drive.
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Dec. 7, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Is the fat lady singing? She is if you ask the Junior Bro, who was burned not once but twice in three days by the NawFuL's penchant for buzzer-beaters. Coming off last Monday's "kick-six" loss in Cleveland, Sean saw another certain win go south Thursday when a penalty on what should have been the game's final play gave Green Bay one last chance for a Hail Mary pass that beat Detroit, 27-23. It was an improbable start to Week 13 that also marked the first time since Week 9 that Glenn had correctly picked a Thursday night game, and the first time since Week 2 that he had gone to Sunday with an advantage in the weekly splits.
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Dec. 1, 2015Posted by NawFuL
If there is one week on the NawFuL schedule that promises a feast of football follies, it has to be Thanksgiving weekend. With a trio of matchups on Thursday and a return to a full course menu of 16 games for the first time since the bye weeks began in early October, anything can and in this case did happen.
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Nov. 24, 2015Posted by NawFuL
There often comes a point in a Gehlke Bros. Football season when it is less important to win the week than it is to not lose it, and that is where the Senior Bro finds himself as we head into the home stretch of the 2015 campaign.
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Nov. 17, 2015Posted by NawFuL
You can count on a week like this one coming along every season or two, when the NawFuL universe falls into a black hole (we don't mean the one in Oakland's coliseum) and the laws of football prognostication no longer apply. Such was Week 10, in which 11 of the 14 games were won by the visiting team, and several of the huge favorites fell to generally weaker opponents. Bring on the carnage, Gehlke Bros. Football style.
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Nov. 10, 2015Posted by NawFuL
On the shortest week of the season, with just 13 games to entertain us, the Gehlke Bros. managed to find five splits. That would be a lot in any week, but given that the Senior Bro was in total agreement with the general public and that upsets are a guarantee every week, it was a question of whether the Junior Bro could successfully figure out where to abandon the conventional wisdom and march to his own drumbeat of victory.
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Nov. 3, 2015Posted by NawFuL
When things are going your way, even your bad days can end up good. That is what happened to the Senior Bro in Week 8, after getting things off to a disastrous start with a game that was just about over even before the Gehlke Bros. had woken up for their Sunday morning phone call.
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Oct. 27, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Occasionally it's not so much a question of picking the right teams as it is of avoiding the wrong teams. That was very much the case in Week 7 of the Gehlke Bros. Football season. With 14 games on the line as the bye weeks continued, there were few games that on paper appeared to offer high split potential. That was reflected in the general agreement across the board, with the Bros and the Chaos Kid picking unanimously in 10 of the games.
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Oct. 20, 2015Posted by NawFuL
It was Sean who celebrated his 40th birthday over the weekend, but Glenn appeared to be the one receiving the presents during a Week 6 rout that saw the Senior Bro reestablish a 6-game lead in the hunt for the Surfy trophy.
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Oct. 12, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Pittsburgh's last-second game-winning touchdown at San Diego may have provided a thrilling conclusion to Week 5, but it was a handful of notable upsets and some proficient picking by the Chaos Kid that provided the real excitement in another bye-shortened schedule. And as the dust settles, it looks like everything has changed in the Gehlke Bros. Football standings.
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Oct. 5, 2015Posted by NawFuL
It took four weeks to do it, but the Junior Bro finally figured out how to gain ground in the Surfy standings for the first time this season, capturing the sole split game up for grabs on Sunday. On the first of the bye weeks which saw mostly clear-cut favorites on the abbreviated schedule, Sean found fortune in a divisional rivalry between a pair of NFC East foes.
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Sept. 28, 2015Posted by NawFuL
The Bros found themselves traveling in opposite directions in Week 3, both geographically and in the Surfy standings. While Glenn hit the pavement for a vacation trip to Washington and Oregon, Sean took in the tufas of California’s Mono Lake during a weekend camping excursion. And just as most pro football teams prefer the friendly confines of their own stadium, the Junior Bro might be happy to leave the road behind.
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Sept. 21, 2015Posted by NawFuL
After stumbling through opening week, the Junior Bro looked to turn things around in Week 2 starting with the Thursday night game between the Broncos and Chiefs. Peyton Manning and Co. had looked vulnerable in their narrow victory over Baltimore, while Alex Smith seemed to have Kansas City pointed in the right direction after a dominant performance over Houston. Perhaps their home opener would be their best chance to shake off a 1-12 record against Manning and their longtime division rivals. Except that fate had other ideas. After scoring what looked like a game-winning touchdown with barely 2 minutes left in the game, the Chiefs crumbled. Manning drove the Broncos 80 yards to tie it, then on the following drive the Chiefs fumbled close to their goal line and the Broncos scooped it up for the game-winning score, 31-24.
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Sept. 15, 2015Posted by NawFuL
The Gehlke Bros. got right down to business in Week 1, notching eight splits to open a season for the first time ever. It was the most opening week splits since 2011, and the largest number of splits in any weekend since the infamous "quarter-toss" predictions that resulted in 12 splits the final day of the 2010 season. But no matter how you choose to look at it, it was a terrific way to begin the season for the Senior Bro, who finds himself 4 games up in his quest for a third straight Surfy Trophy.
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Sept. 6, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Welcome to our new and improved season page. Here you will find an archive of all the week-by-week results of the 2015 Gehlke Bros. Football Picks season. Each post will feature a preview of that week's summary, along with a link to the full report and the weekly picks results grid. Of course, you can always access a particular week from the column at the right side of this page. Be sure to keep an eye on the overall standings graphic at the top right column on this page, which will be updated each week through the end of the season, when we crown the overall champion along with the winner of the 2015 Surphy Trophy.
Sept. 6, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Our new website is mostly functional. Today you will discover that we uploaded the new season pages that include our redesigned weekly picks grid, and in the upper right corner of every page you will find a graphic showing the overall standings. Dig our cool new mugshots! That graphic will change every week and has some little red and green arrows that we'll deploy periodically to show who's moving up and down the standings. We still have some work to do on the "About us" and "Past seasons" sections. The season kicks off in four days, so we'll have to hustle to get it all finished. Thanks for putting up with our dust!
August 27, 2015Posted by NawFuL
Welcome back, football fans! Our gridiron heroes are getting ready to clash once more, and while they practice for what promises to be another exciting season, the Gehlke Bros. are dusting off the old website in preparation for more prognosticating action. Yeah, things look pretty plain at the moment, but don't worry. We've got a new look in the works with a couple of new features that we'll unveil fully in the days ahead. Stay tuned!
