Parts Unknown (DP--Disassociated Press): The conclusion of the 13th annual Bookie Challenge competition ended as expected and anticipated, with a climactic finish that ranked as one of the best and most dramatic in the history of the Bookie Challenge. Heading into last weekend's final handicapping outing of the season, the so-called "Handicapping Death-Duel in Vegas" to decide this year's overall Bookie Challenge championship and the runner-up to this year's eventual champion was mainly going to come down to a handicapping battle of attrition among four handicappers, Driveline (30pts), 7mick7 (29pts), jcvike28 (28pts), and the Biased Nihilist (26pts). And although this year's defending champion Driveline headed into the grande finale with narrow leads over the other three formidable front-runners, it was 7mick7 who held an ace up his sleeve, in the form of possibly winning 10 bonus points from his preseason selection of this year's Super Bowl winner, of whom he chose the Kansas City Chiefs, and stood to significantly benefit from the "trump" card if indeed the Chiefs went on to capture this year's Super Bowl title. Contrarily, Driveline, jcvke, and the Nihilist did not have any preseason Super Bowl selections still in play, and so all three were banking on a San Francisco victory in this year's Super Bowl and all three were also needing to produce respectively high-scoring Super Bowl rounds to possibly win this year's Bookie Challenge championship. But to reiterate, the hopes for the three former Bookie Challenge champions, meaning Driveline, the Biased Nihilist, and jcvike, to win this year's overall title all hinged on a 49ers' victory over the Chiefs.

But as crazy as it sounds, the highly anticipated showdown among Driveline, 7mick7, jcvike, and the Biased Nihilist got off to a perplexing start even before the Super Bowl got underway after jcvike missed the posting deadline for the big game and inexplicably failed to post any of his Super Bowl selections. Consequently, in the aftermath of jcvike's monumental posting blunder, the top three remaining contenders for the 13th annual Bookie Challenge championship must have each breathed a huge sigh of relief after seeing jcvike get taken out of the mix and enabling the remaining front-runners to deal with one less handicapping obstacle that could possibly derail their championship hopes. Additionally, jcvike's unexpected exit from this year's most critical handicapping weekend guaranteed that a possible "rematch" between jcvike and 7mick7 was not going to happen. To better explain it, entering this past weekend there existed many different handicapping outcomes that involved the four key front-runners in which they might have been exclusively paired off to battle it out for the overall Bookie Challenge championship. For example, maybe toward the end of the Super Bowl, jcvike and 7mick7 were having bad rounds and Driveline and the Nihilist were the only two still left in serious contention to win the overall title at the end of the Super Bowl, or maybe Driveline and 7mick7 were still in contention to win the title at the end of the Super Bowl, and so on.

Another matchup for one of those Super-Bowl-ending scenarios could have been a handicapping duel between 7mick7 and jcvike, and if such a showdown did take place, it would have turned into the "rematch" that was alluded to above. To break it down even further, back in the playoffs of Challenge year #7, jcvike held slim leads over 7mick7 in the two playoff rounds before that year's Super Bowl rounds, of which each lead back then by jcvike over 7mick7 both consisted of three points, a 18-15 second-round lead and a 24-21 third-round lead. Ultimately, jcvike defeated 7mick7 for that year's Bookie Challenge championship, but the manner in which jcvike won that year's overall title over 7mick7 turned out be the most convoluted and strangest finish to a Bookie Challenge competition (for more details, read the WHO'S HOT segment of this week's weekly review). With the aforementioned being kept in mind, because jcvike failed to show up for this year's Super Bowl round, the interesting "rematch" that could have taken place at the end of this year's competition never came to fruition.What did take place, however, turned out to be a thrilling and nail-biting humdinger. Before the kickoff of the Super Bowl, a good omen arose for the Biased Nihilist as he correctly pegged the coin toss for the Super Bowl, of which was heads (worth one point) and of which both 7mick7 and Driveline failed to correctly predict. The good omen for the Biased Nihilist got even better for him after Christian McCaffrey scored the game's first touchdown with 4:23 left to play before the half. McCaffrey caught a razzle-dazzle trick pass from WR Jauan Jennings and then scampered 21 yards to the end zone to give the 49ers a 10-0 lead. More importantly for the Nihilist, he nailed down three important propositional points for correctly predicting McCaffrey to be the player to score the game's first touchdown. What's more, the Nihilist had also selected the 49ers to score the longest TD of the game and that it would be a 37-yard score. At the time McCaffrey scored the 21-yard TD, the Nihilist stood to win three more propositional points for coming closest to predicting the game's longest TD. In fact, McCaffrey's 21-yard TD did hold up for the rest of the game and the Nihilist did win the three prop points. In the meanwhile, while the Nihilist had racked up seven solid prop points by halftime, 7mick7 had only scored two prop points (predicted SF to commit 1st turnover of game) and Driveline was completely bombing out with his propositional selections. In fact, the only propositional selection that Driveline was looking good with was his selection for the game's combined scoring total to stay under 47½ points, of which the prop pick was good for three points if the game's total did stay under. However, the Nihilist had also selected the game to stay under, so Driveline was not going to make any ground on the Nihilist with the over/under selection. Contrarily, 7mick7 had taken the game to go over, and as a result, his hopes to win his first-ever Bookie Challenge championship were starting to slowly fade away.

As the game meandered and inched its way to its clsoing stages, it became obvious that the Corozal Kid (aka the Nihilist) was doing what he had to do in this year's Super Bowl round and was coming increasingly closer to winning his fourth Bookie Challenge championship. What was also clear as the game got closer to the end of regulation was that Driveline was not going to outscore the Nihilist with the remaining propositional selections left to be won in the Super Bowl, and therefore, the suspenseful finish to win this year's overall Bookie Challenge championship was going to come down to just two handicappers, the Biased Nihilist and 7mick7. However, two drives by the 49ers in the 4th quarter started to give the Nihilist causes for concern. The first situation came with 11:22 left to play in reguation. With the 49ers trailing 13-10 late in the 3rd quarter, they started a time-consuming drive that covered 75 yards, chewed up over six minutes, and ended with Brock Purdy connecting with Jauan Jennings for a 10-yard TD pass. But the 49ers missed the extra point, so instead of going up by four points, the 49ers concluded their TD drive with just a three-point lead. The three point lead played an instrumental role in the game as it allowed the Chiefs to twice tie the game with field goals in the closing stages of regulation, instead of forcing the Chiefs to go for a TD on at least one of their drives. The second situation that gave the Nihilist a bad taste in his mouth was when the 49ers drive stalled on the Chiefs' 35-yard line with just under two minutes left to play in regulation. The 49ers had faced a 3rd-and-5 and a 3rd-down conversion at that point of the game would have probably allowed the 49ers to run out the clock and kick the game-winning field goal. In other words, the Nihilist could have won the overall Bookie Challenge championship had the 49ers made that crucial 3rd-and-5 conversion. Instead, the game went into overtime.

After the coin toss to start the overtime session, the Nihilist was still very optimistic about winning the overall Bookie Challenge title, especially after the 49ers won the coin toss and elected to receive the kick and take the first possession of the overtime period. The 49ers then proceeded to go on another time-consuming drive that consisted of 13 plays, lasted over seven minutes, and reached the Chiefs' 9-yard-line, where they faced a 3rd-and-4. But again, much to the chagrin of the Nihilist, the 49ers failed to convert another critical 3rd down that could have changed the dynamics of the Super Bowl, and settled for a field goal and a 22-19 lead. Still, the Nihilist didn't lose hope, because even he knew that anything could happen for him to win the Bookie Challenge championship, as in a KC fumble, or interception, or even a turnover on downs. Instead, Patrick Mahomes started to engineer another one of his patented come-from-behind drives, and once again pulling it off in a Super Bowl. As the Chiefs methodically came up with one big play after another and slowly but surely drove down the field, even converting a 4th-and-1 along the way, everyone in the Challenge competition knew that both 7mick7 and the Biased Nihilist were on pins-and-needles, and if not sitting at the edge of their sofas, they were most certainly pacing back and forth in front of their big-screen TVs. The Nihilist was so nervous that he was almost sure he faintly heard Hank Stram babbling from heaven..."Just keep matriculating the ball down the field, boys." And that's what the Chiefs precisely did, as in they got to the 3-yard line, where they had one more shot at the end zone to win the game, or at least kick a field goal if they misfired and send the game into a second overtime.

They say that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But after Mecole Hardman caught a 3-yard TD pass from Patrick Mahomes and 7mick7 was screaming in delight at the top of his lungs from his home in Naugatuck, Connecticut, nothing can have been further from the truth because what happened in Vegas played out on the Irish Hustler's big screen in his home. In the end, when it was all said and done, the overall Bookie Challenge championship for the 13th annual competition was decided at the end of an overtime, with two handicappers battling it out, with three seconds left, and it ultimately ended with a new Bookie Challenge Champion taking it to the house--7mick7.

Interestingly, before Hardman caught the electrifying game-winning TD, the Biased Nihilist was poised to end the Super Bowl round as the competition's leading scorer, of which his final tally could have ended with at least 13 points and maybe more. However, only three handicappers had chosen KC to cover the spread--7mick7, Blitzkrieg, and DawgPound--and of course, two of them, 7mick7 and Blitzkrieg, stood to each win 10 Super-Bowl bonus points for KC winning the NFL title. And after KC covered the spread and also won the game straight up, both 7mick7 and Blitzkrieg turned out to be the top-two leading scorers for the Super Bowl round, with each handicapper concluding the round with respective tallies of 20 points each. The Biased Nihilist and DawgPound terminated their respective outings for the final round with the second highest scoring totals after each produced 13 points apiece in the grand finale. However, the 13th annual competition ended its season with a strange scoring twist to its final round. In a handicapping competition that was chock full of many handicapping coincidences, the Challenge field was treated to one final coincidence after 7mick7 and Blitzkrieg each finished their respective Super Bowl rounds with identical statistical lines. Specifically, both tallied four points for selecting KC as the game's pointspread winner, both won two propositional points for correctly selecting KC to finish the game with the most offensive yards, both won two propositional points for correctly selecting SF to commit the game's first turnover, both won two propositional points for correctly selecting Patrick Mahomes to win the game's MVP, and finally, both won 10 Super-Bowl bonus points for correctly predicting KC in the preseason to win this year's Super Bowl.

In the case of Blitzkrieg, he subsequently rattled off a spirited rally to end his postseason after he accrued 35 overall points for this year's playoffs and finished in 4th place in this year's final playoff point standings, finishing only behind 7mick7 (49pts), the Biased Nihilist (39pts), and Driveline (35pts). Unfortunately for Blitzkrieg, because of his lowly playoff qualification, that of a lowly at-large participant, he couldn't muster enough points throughout the first-three rounds of this year's playoffs for his note-worthy, 20-point Super Bowl round to salvage his overall handicapping campaign. Also worth pointing out was the gutsy performance by this year's defending champion Driveline, who finished in 3rd place in this year's final playoff point standings. It has been well documented that Driveline was attempting to become only the second participant in the history of the Bookie Challenge, apart from the Biased Nihilist, to win consecutive Bookie Challenge championships. But that hope was dealt a devastating blow after both of his preseason Super Bowl selections, meaning his matchup pick of Buffalo to play Philadelphia in this year's Super Bowl and his pick of Philadelphia to win this year's Super Bowl, were both eliminated early in this year's postseason, of which the eliminations left Driveline with no chance to win any bonus points off his preseason selections. In retrospect, there is an old saying that came to bite Driveline in the ass in this year's competition, of which the saying goes like this: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." In last year's competition, Driveline won 15 total preseason Super Bowl points for having correctly chosen Kansas City to beat Philadelphia in last year's Super Bowl, of which the the bonus points allowed him to win last year's overall Bookie Challenge in runaway fashion. Then, in Challenge year #9, Driveline had chosen the Chiefs to win that year's Super Bowl, of which the Chiefs did win it and the 10 bonus points that Driveline subsequently received is what ultimately put him over the top to win that year's overall Bookie Challenge championship, and he won it in a stunningly dramatic upset. So why Driveline failed to chose his bread-and-butter Super-Bowl pick this season was quite the surprise. Regardless, after making an epic comeback in this year's Hail Mary divisional race to win a consecutive divisional title for the first-ever time in his Challenge career, the Fisher of Winners has proven that he is an elite handicapper of the competition, and it would not be an understatement to say he is presently right up there with the Biased Nihilist for being the best handicappers of the Bookie Challenge competition.

Speaking of the Nihilist, he too, just as Driveline did, made an extraordinary comeback in his respective divisional race, the Corozal Division, and eventually won the division's championship. But the Nihilist went one better than Driveline and took his bid to win this year's overall Bookie Challenge championship right down to the wire, and went as far as being just three seconds removed from winning this year's overall Bookie Challenge championship. To say the least, he gave 7mick7 all he could handle and almost denied the Irish Hustler his first-ever Bookie Challenge championship. And although the Nihilist fell short of capturing an unprecedented fourth Bookie Challenge championship, he just couldn't stop destiny, and ultimately it was 7mick7 who had a date with destiny in this year's Bookie Challenge competition. Regardless, even though the Nihilist had to settle for the second-place prize of this year's Latinum jackpot for being the runner-up to 7mick7 for this year's overall title, he did set another all-time record after he pocketed this year's second-place prize of $100 from the Latinum jackpot. In doing as much, he became the all-time leader for banking the highest amount of cash earnings in the history of the competition after he ran his career earnings to a grand total of $1175. Without a doubt, winning a $100 did manage to subdue some of the sting of losing the overall championship to 7mick7, but losing both the overall championship and the better cash prize of $420 still left a bad taste in the mouth of the Nihilist, not to forget the major disappointment he was overwhelmed with at the end of the competition, of which is a disappointment that's going to probably take the entire length of the upcoming off-season to completely shake off. However, regardless of the disappointment, the Nihilist has to be the good sport and tip his hat to 7mick7, who more than deserves the accolades for grinding it out and winning his first-ever Bookie Challenge championship and also his first-ever share of a Latinum jackpot.

All in all, the 13th annual Bookie Challenge competition played out just like all the previous 12 competitions played out before it, meaning that each previous competition had its own unique handicapping idiosyncrasies, had its own surprising handicapping performances, had its own one-of-a-kind divisional races, had its own dramas and excitements, had its own distinctive postseasons, and not to be outdone, the 13th annual competition followed suit this season with a competition that had its own and different brand of a handicapping campaign. But the 13th annual competition was unparalleled in one aspect. There were so many intriguing handicapping performances by the unlikeliest of handicappers that it was extremely difficult to decide as to who really foot the bill for being this year's best feel-good story. Initially it was catman23 who got the nod for the year's feel-good story after he started this year's competition by piecing together his best-ever handicapping season of his Challenge career. He dominated the competition by maintaining the overall lead in the point standings for the first-six weeks of the season and was leading the race to become the number-one top seed at this year's divisional seeding that was going to take place at the conclusion of week #8. However, catman was overtaken by Theopholis for the overall lead of the competition after week #7 was handicapped, and after Theo went on to capture this year's number-one top seed at this year's divisional seeding, he suddenly became the year's feel-good story over catman23. But in a major surprise, rookie Vikings17 took over the recognition for being the year's feel-good story over Theopholis after it became apparent that he was going to become the first rookie in the history of the Bookie Challenge to win a regular-season championship. Interestingly, however, at around the time Vikings17 was edging closer to winning the regular-season championship, three other handicappers started to get considered for the year's feel-good story. One of those three handicappers was 7mick7, who was having his best-ever handicapping season of his Challenge career, while the other two handicappers making their respective cases for the year's feel-good story were the Biased Nihilist and Driveline, of whom both were added to the mix for the year's best feel-good story after both handicappers made unbelievable and record-setting comebacks within their respective divisional races, of which both handicappers subsequently won their respective divisional titles. Then there was this year's defending Bookie Challenge champion Driveline, who made a serious bid to be this year's best feel-good story after he took the overall lead of the playoff point standings for the second and third rounds of this year's postseason. What's more, he was attempting to become only the second handicapper in the history of the competition to win consecutive Bookie Challenge championships.

Of course, as is quite obvious by now, this year's best feel-good story belonged to 7mick7 after he snatched this year's overall Bookie Challenge championship in a highly suspenseful manner. Moreover, winning the overall Bookie Challenge championship for the first time in his Challenge career made 7mick7's feel-good story that much better. To begin with, it can't be reiterated enough times how winning an overall Bookie Challenge championship is an extremely difficult feat to accomplish. Just to put it in its proper perspective, just to show how really hard it is to seize an overall championship, consider the following: Out of the 13 Bookie Challenge competitions that have now been handicapped, 46 overall contestants have tried out their respective handicapping wares in the Bookie Challenge competitions. However, out of the 13 Bookie Challenge championships that have been won, there have been only eight different handicappers who have won overall championships, and three of those handicappers--the Biased Nihilist (3x), Tony Soprano (3x), and Driveline (2x)--have accounted for winning eight of the 13 Bookie Challenge championships that have been won, which means five different handicappers won overall titles just one time each, of whom are jcvike28, dbucc, Bomber7, LtFrankDrebben, and now 7mick7. With all the aforementioned in mind, what 7mick7 pulled off this season was quite remarkable, for the list of participants who have nailed down overall championships is a short list, a very short list, and so the Irish Hustler has to be proud of himself for finally having made the grade, for finally having that breakthrough season and for finally being able to bask in the glory of winning an overall Bookie Challenge championship. He can now walk down those imaginary hallowed halls of the Bookie Challenge competition that lead to a special place, a "Ring of Honor" for better words, where he'll get to join the group of the league's elite handicappers, or better known as...the Bookie Challenge champions.

• 13TH ANNUAL CHALLENGE FIELD ENDS ITS COMBINED REGULAR SEASON AND POSTSEASON OF HANDICAPPING WITH ONE OF ITS BEST STATISTICAL LINES IN THE HISTORY OF ITS COMPETITIONS: After this year's Challenge field got off to its worst-ever start to a competition in the history of the Bookie Challenge, it admirably rebounded to end its 13th overall competition with some of its best statistical numbers in its history. To start off with, this year's field registered an overall best-bet tally of 322-305-14 after handicapping this year's combined regular season and postseason, of which the winning best-bet season factored out to an overall .514 winning percentage of its best bets. The .514 winning percentage was the 3rd best in the history of the Bookie Challenge's 13 years, with the top-best being a .549 winning percentage (Challenge yr#5: 504-414-33) and the second-best being a .522 winning percentage (Yr#2: 342-313-33). The 818 total points this year's field accrued was its highest point total since Challenge year #9 (957 pts), but it was its highest ever point total by a Challenge field starting a competition with a membership roster of 15 or less participants. Other impressive statistical achievements by this year's field included registering the lowest all-time amount of golden goose eggs for an entire single season (combined regular season and postseason), of which this year's field set the all-time record after it laid three golden goose eggs for this year's entire competition. In addition, this year's field also registered the 2nd-lowest all-time amount of goose eggs, of which the overall 47 goose eggs was just five goose eggs shy of the all-time lowest total of 42 goose eggs that the Challenge field laid for the combined regular season and postseason of Challenge year #10. And lastly, this year's field scored the 2nd-highest amount of propositional points for handicapping a combined regular season and postseason, of which this year's overall tally of 201 prop points ranked second only to the all-time high of the 241 prop points that was amassed by the field from Challenge year #9. All in all, as hard as it is to believe, this year's Challenge field put up some of the better statistics in the history of the Bookie Challenge.

What's needed now is an historical review of 7mick7's first-nine handicapping seasons, which excludes two consecutive seasons, Challenge years' #9 and #10, in which the Irish Hustler took a hiatus from the competition. The recap of those aforementioned seasons is needed so as to give this year's final WHO'S-HOT HANDICAPPER his proper dues. To start off with, eight of his first-nine seasons were total disasters for 7mick7, so much so that he entered this year's competition with the second-worst all-time best-bet record among the active hanbdicappers who qualify for all-time records. Specifically, 7mick7 accrued a lowly best-bet record of 199-233-9, of which factored out to a shameful .461 winning percentage. Additionally, apart from Challenge year #7, when 7mick7 had his only good year of handicapping before this year's competition, the Irish Hustler had qualified as a lowly at-large participant in four out of his previous nine seasons of handicapping the competition. Over those previous nine seasons, 7mick7 produced only two regular seasons in which he had a winning best-bet season. 7mick7 was so snake-bitten and had so many streaks of bad luck that he often proclaimed himself as "the Mush" of the Bookie Challenge competition. However, he did have one reamarkable season, Challenge year #7, in which he produced career highs for most points (62pts) and for most 6-point parlay hits (4 in all). More importantly, he won his first and only divisional title until this season, when he knocked down the Red Zone divisional championship. In the postseason of Challenge year #7, 7mick7 and jcvike were set to duel it out for that year's overall Bookie Challenge championship, but tradegy would strike 7mick7 early in the week that led up to that year's Super Bowl Sunday, of which the tragedy was the sudden death of his father. As it turned out, a memorial service was held for his father on the very afteroon of the Super Bowl game. Subsequently, a highly distraught and despondent 7mick7 tried to submit his Super Bowl picks later that day, but he was so emotionally detached and had such a heavy heart that he just missed submitting his Super Bowl selections before the game's posting deadline. To add salt to the wound, his disqualified picks turned out to be good enough to win that year's Bookie Challenge championship over jcvike28.

But this year's competition, 7mick7's 10th overall, turned out to be, by far, the Irish Hustler's best-ever Bookie Challenge handicapping campaign of his Challenge career. As this season got deeper and deeper into the 13th annual competition, signs that 7mick7 was starting to manufacture a special handicapping season started to emerge. At the end of this year's regular season and at the conclusion of this year's divisional races, the Irish Hustler had rattled off career highs for most regular-season points tallied (48 pts), most 6-point parlay hits (5 in all), miost weeks won (2), and most parlay wins within his combined parlay combinations for the regular season, of which the 37 parlay wins broke 1947Lifer's previous all-time regular-season record of 34 overall parlay wins. In addition, as it concerned handicapping this year's postseason, 7mick7 also produced career highs for most points accrued (49pts), top best-bet record (9-4-0/.652 win%), most points for exact-score hits (2pts), and most propositional points tallied (26 pts). After doing the combined math for handicapping this year's regular season and postseason, the Irish Hustler had indeed produced his best-ever statistical line of his Challenge career for one entire year of handicapping a Bookie Challenge competition. Plainly and simply, his overall numbers for the entire 13th annual competition leave no doubt that 7mick7 finally had his breakthrough season of his Challenge career, as is plainly obvious by the following overall stats for the 13th annual competition: Most points scored (97pts), most 6-point parlay hits (5), most weeks won (3), most exact-score points (3pts), most parlay wins within his combined parlay combinations on the season (42 parlays for combined regular season and postseason, of which the 42 parlay wins broke LtFrankdrebben's previous all-time record of 40 overall parlay wins), and lastly, for the most propositional points amassed (27 prop pts in all). For the record, before this year's competition, the most propositional points 7mick7 had previously tallied for handicapping one competition was 11 propositional points, of which he accomplished the tally in last year's handicapping campaign.

Finally, when it comes to comparing the near-miss of 7mick7 winning the overall Bookie Challenge championship back in Challenge year #7 to this season in which 7mick7 corraled his first-ever overall championship, there needs to be pointed out two relevations that have come to light in regards to the strange peculiarities that concerns the conclusions of those two seasons. The first one concerns the coincidental role reversal that has come to differentiate the culmimations of those two specific seasons. Strictly speaking, the final showdown between jcvike28 and 7mick7 in Challenge year #7's Super Bowl never did materialize because 7mick7 essentially handed that year's overall Bookie Challenge championship after he missed that's year's posting deadline for that year's Super Bowl round. Conversely, it was 7mick7 who won this season's Bookie Challenge championship after jcvike was the one who failed to post his picks for this year's final round after he missed posting them before this year's posting deadline. But above all, back in the final round of Challenge year #7, 7mick7 would have loved nothing better than to have ended his heartrending season by giving his beloved father a going-away gift by winning that year's overall Bookie Challenge championship in his honor. Of course, we all know that it never came to pass, and as such, 7mick7 was left with some unfinished business that has more than likely haunted him for years and years afterward. But at long last, after winning the overall Bookie Challenge championship in this year's 13th annual competition, 7mick7 was able to peer up to heaven and tell Marvin McCarthy..."Dad, I know it's been six long years in coming, but here's the overall championship I wanted to honor you with ever since the Sunday of your memorial service in February of 2018." And when thinking about it, there can have been no better ending to the 13th annual Bookie Challenge competition than to see 7mick7's handicapping season end in a cleansing redemption that had his father smiling down from heaven with all sorts of pride in his son for having pulled off a job well done.

If Theopholis' handicapping season couldn't take another turn for the worse, as it did after seizing this year's overall number-one top seed at this year's divisional seeding, and as it did slowly but progressively after he painstakingly saw his divisional lead get away from him toward the end of the regular season, this past weekend, in his final outing of this year's competition, or this past weekend's Super Bowl round, Theo's once promising handicapping campaign hit rock bottom after he became the first and only handicapper in this year's playoffs to plop down a goose egg. Not for nothing, but it's not easy to goose egg a Super Bowl round when considering the amount of selections, 12 in all, that are required to submit in the grand finale, not to forget the bevy of points that can be scored. And yet, Theopholis did just that, missed every single selection for this year's Super Bowl round and failed to register nary a point for his outing. But if anyone wants to go out on a limb and just chalk up Theo's scoreless outing from this past weekend as a matter of him being just downright unlucky--you had better think again. The goose egg just so happened to be Theo's 6th all-time for handicapping the Challenge's postseasons. The thing is, he entered this year's competition as the all-time leader for the most goose eggs laid in the history of the Challenge's playoffs, of which his deplorable tally was five goose eggs before he entered this year's competition. Now he can add another goose egg to his dispiriting goose-egg total. And guess what? With now six all-time goose eggs laid in the Challenge's postseasons--THEOPHOLIS IS STILL THE ALL-TIME LEADER FOR ACCRUING THE MOST GOOSE EGGS IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOKIE CHALLENGE'S PLAYOFFS! But hey, good news! When it comes to laying golden goose eggs in a postseason, out of the presently active participants in the competition, Theo has managed to avoid being the only one who has laid a golden goose egg in the Challenge postseasons, of whom that exclusive dishonor belongs to moemonie. Granted, it's a small consolation for Theopholis, but at least it's a consolation that Theo can appreciate after the bitter ending to his 10th Bookie Challenge season.