When Princeton played Rutgers in 1867, they didn’t even have a real ball. They just had Rupert.

Rupert was a four-pound pit bull that belonged to one of the students. He was beloved, really. But hey, kids gotta play, and so Rupert was beaten to death outside of the Princeton bookstore, right before being stuffed and lateraled into puppy immortality.

Our site’s first cracks at maintaining our own suicide pool have run with similar, bloody results. That said, we managed to find a single survivor to take our $100 prize. And that survivor was PARTYJIHAD from the Welker’s Spheres. His prize is waiting, and we’ll send it out as soon as he gets in touch with me via email.

Congrats, and thanks to all that took part.

Okay, for that weird sub-section of people who have somehow had the patience and insanity to follow the Byzantine maze of KSK’s suicide pools this season: make your picks here.  Everyone else: move along, nothing to see here.

PICK HERE. Later, we’ll have a complete listing of who’s still in. But you can get your picks in now if you don’t feel like waiting. Consider last week a “bye” week. I don’t know a fairer way to handle that. My b.

We’re down to 20, and this week’s matchups should ensure that Week 16 won’t be a repeat of last week’s snoozefest of everyone picking Philadelphia over Cleveland (save a few brave souls). This week, Cleveland plays the hapless Bengals, in a game that you’d wanna say “somebody has to win,” but the Bengals have blown that theory to shit.
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PICK HERE. If you’re one of the 22 survivors of the SuperPool, come on in. (more…)

Punter’s the one usually in charge of the suicide picks, so I don’t really know how this works.  But if you’ve survived so far, you know what’s going on.  Get your picks in now and Punter will sort out the survivors.

Raiders-Chargers game is off-limits as soon as the game kicks off.

PICK HERE if you’re competing in the KSK Suicide Superpool and your pick was successful last week. Yeah, this pool is about as well-organized as FEMA, but look on the bright side–YOUR TAX DOLLARS ARE NOT AT WORK HERE. And there’s still $100 on the line for the winner. This may go all the way down to the wire. 

I need your pool name, your original group name, and your winner for this week. Except for your pick last week, every team is available to you. Yes, it’s bullshit, but it’s the only fair way to do it with the system we have here. Sorry that you got stuck in the BCS of suicide pools. But be grateful you’re still in the hunt.  (more…)

If you’ve survived your suicide pool up to this point, you need to identify yourself in this thread and make your pick for this week in the comments. This is the superpool. We ask that you not comment unless you are picking a game for this week. If you don’t think you should be in here, you shouldn’t. Just go away.

As for your suicides…the slate is clean. You have all 32 teams at your disposal. So get to it. Questions can be posed and will be answered here, and we’ll get a complete list of the remaining survivors verified and posted next week, but for now, it’s time to do what you do.

Good luck.

So we’re finally updating the suicide pools for everyone paying attention. And we have instructions for those that have won their respective pools, so put down the Cheetos and pay attention.

IF YOU HAVE ALREADY WON YOUR POOL: Check the list after the jump and make sure your info is on the list. If it’s not, you need to email me.

IF YOU ARE STILL COMPETING IN YOUR POOL: Continue to make your picks on Yahoo! for this week. And make sure your group is on the list below. If it’s not, you need to email me.

We’ll have an update next week on where you’ll pick. It’s not exactly fair that some guys have already won their pool and still have a couple extra teams at their disposal. Next week, we’ll be starting a superpool with the remaining survivors and roll everything back so that all 32 teams will be back on the table. Yeah, it’s cumbersome and shitty, but it is fair. We’ll go into the playoffs if we have to. (more…)

Remember those suicide pools? We’ll have an update tomorrow. Promise.