After qualifying for the Bookie Challenge postseason as a lowly "at-large participant" for five-straight seasons (Challenge years' #4 thru #10), Theopholis enters this year's competition with two-straight playoff qualifications as a divisional wild card. Sure, it's a far cry from his only playoff qualification as a divisional champion back in Challenge year #5, or his sophomore year of his Challenge career, when he chalked up 45 regular-season points and won the Rogue Scholar divisional title. More remarkably, in his spectacular season of Challenge year #5, Theo recorded four 6-point parlay winners in that year's regular season, but three of those were unleashed in three consecutive weekends (weeks' #4, #5, & #6), of which the otherwordly achievement still stands today as an all-time Bookie Challenge record. Of course, the bane of the league's most eccentric handicapper has been that Theopholis has yet to register a season in which he has fully participated in a competition, meaning him not missing a single weekend posting his weekly set of picks. Speaking of which, this opening weekly review cannot fail to mention the most comedic excuse that Theo ever posited for missing a weekend of picks, of which was that he had to attend a "gay, Scottish wedding". Ha! He'll never live that one down! And so it goes with Theo as he sets sail for a new Bookie Challenge season...of which...it's time to cue the opening lines of a well-known oldie..."Seventy-three men sailed up from the San Francisco Bay. Got off the ship, and here's what they had to say...'We're callin' everyone to ride along to another shore. We can laugh our lives away and be free once more'...Ride, captain ride upon your mystery ship...."