Okay this is the narrowed field of 16.

Here's what's going on. Help Maddog pick his favorite NFL team.

Please answer all 8 questions by picking one team or the other. You can pick your favorite of the two, or pick the one that you think best fits me, or even pick the one you'd like to stick me with so you can laugh all season long. It's up to you but I love you for taking the time to help me out.

There is no seeding. I've randomly drawn their positions. Any ties will be decided by a simple coin toss.

The first round of voting starts today and ends at midnight (PST) on Sunday 7/16.
Round 2 will begin on Monday 7/17.
Round 3 will begin on Monday 7/24.
And the final round will start on Monday 7/31.

On August 6th, if all goes according to plan, I'll have my favorite NFL team thanks to you guys!

If you'd like to be in the drawing for one of the 4 Outsports.com T-shirts, please post something after you vote. It can be as simple as "I voted". That way your name will be in the drawing for this week.

Your name can be in the drawing 5 times (1 for the nomination week and 1 for each of the 4 voting weeks) although you can only win one shirt.

Disclaimer: This contest is of my own volition and Outsports.com is not responsible for any of it's content or responsible for rewarding prizes. This is all Maddog's crazy idea!

[ July 10, 2006, 12:31 PM: Message edited by: Maddog ]

Thanks Maddog! I can hardly wait for the "Help Maddog Choose His Underwear" contest!!

I voted. I'm an XXL for when you order my T-shirt.

Love it! I'm predicting the Bengals will be the dark-horse winner when all is said and done. I hope you look good in orange!!

LOL...I don't know about that Eddie. If I held that contest it would actually force me to start wearing some. wink

Thanks Cyd! I actually think the Bengals in their all black with a few Orange stripes is one of the hottest uniforms out there. They even make Carson Palmer look hot and that ain't easy.

Dammit! I can't rig the voting????

Just trying to help my team win SOMETHING!

sigh...okay,maybe we can choose a tie,instead!I did have a hunch that you went "commando"

[ July 10, 2006, 02:45 PM: Message edited by: eddiec. ]

I voted, Maddog. And I didn't know you like to freeball wink . I must remember that for future reference. Anyone want to go with me to San Francisco?

There was no place to vote for the Giants. I thought you wanted to be with a winner, baby......

Sorry MM. Believe it or not it was the Giants that I removed to make room for Thomas' nomination of the Saints yesterday. I figured I had one Manning and one NY team in the mix...didn't need the Giants.

Sorry about that.

The #1 pick in 2007?

I'll have to take whatever I can get.....

Wishing for the days of Wide Right and Thurman Thomas fumbling all over the field and losing his helmet....

...or a rumbling, stumbing, Leon Lett to chase

First of all I want to thank the 25 people who voted. I was gonna cancel this insane idea if I didn't get more than 10 votes. Luckily, thanks to you guys, I don't have to. You all are as insane as I am and that's pretty scary.

With three days left to go, it looks like the Jets, Pats, Panthers, Seahawks, Colts and Bengals are gonna make it through with tight races between Steelers/Chargers and Bucs/49ers.

However with 3 days left and some races being only a vote apart the elite eight is still totally in flux.

Thanks again and please be sure to leave some kind of posting if you'd like to be in the drawing for an Outsports T-shirt!

Prizes? We get prizes?

Prizes! I'm in on prizes! What can I say, I'm cheap.

I am one of the 25 voters and obviously, my vote
is to say that you should pick the Seahawks. They are not the most popular team so if you travel anywhere expect in the PNW, you will stand out by wearing the lovely Seahawks apparel.

Besides, I'm a fan so that should be reason enough on why you should root for the Seahawks. Think of it as my reward for all the work that I do on the KOTH competition or the Cha Cha reports. wink

Dawggonit, Maddog. It looks like you're still going to end up with the best teams in the NFL. You're going to have a lot of happy Sundays in front of you, my friend. Some of these teams appeared to benefit from a West Coast bias because the competition for the remaining two spots shouldn't be that tight. I voted for the Bolts because I had to. I'm now a fan for life; they made the city of New Orleans very happy when they sent us Drew Brees and Reggie Bush. And if they sent us Donnie Edwards as well, I'd throw in a life time supply of crawfish and gumbo too. But the Steelers would win 9 of 10 against the Bolts. Phillip Rivers is no Drew Brees. And the Bucs would do the same to the 49ers; they have better talent and a better coach.

Will you be starting up any more contests? Since it's obvious the Saints will never win a Super Bowl, or even play in one, and I'm cool with that, I'd like to see them win something, anything; and I don't care what. How about the best NFL helmet? We might be able to make the playoffs in that one.

P.S. How could you be allergic to crawfish? I don't know anyone who is. Maybe you just used the wrong seasoning and that's what making you sick? You don't know what you're missing.

[ July 16, 2006, 06:52 PM: Message edited by: Thomas ]

Sorry about that Thomas. The Saints are going to be very fun to watch and I wouldn't count them out at all. They really have gotten all the pieces there and I meant what I said about the passion of the city. New Orleans feels like they have something to prove and I wouldn't be shocked at all if they made the playoffs this year.

The allergic thing is weird. I grew up lower income and had never had shrimp until a wrestling tournament my Junior year in High School. We stopped at a Red Lobster, I had one bite of shrimp and fell down in a fetal position until the paramedics came. They only time since then was in Los Angeles I went to a cheap Chinese restaurant and got some fried rice that for some reason had a little shrimp juice in it. After two bites my throat swelled up and I could barely breathe. It's very strange.

I'm allerigic to pot too.

So much for my semi-charmed life...right?

Oh well, off to post the final 8 teams!