Hey Stakers!

 

Week 8 of the NFL season is upon us, and while it’s a bit of a quiet few days in terms of marquee matchups, we’ve still got some good stuff.

 

There’s also some funny synchronicity (isn’t that a great word?) this week: Not only are Houston (Astros) and Philadelphia (Phillies) still duking it out in the World Series, Houston (Texans) and Philadelphia (Eagles) are also duking it out on Thursday Night Football.

 

I don’t know about y’all, but I’ve seen enough of what Thursday football looks like this year. I’ll be watching the World Series — watching the cheaters lose to a weak NL East team for the third time in four years would be nothing less than h-y-s-t-e-r-i-c-a-l

 

Let’s cap it off with the college football GAME OF THE YEAR so far! #1 vs. #2 is always a special occasion, and the last two times we’ve seen it during the regular season have been absolute classics between the same two teams, although in different ways: there was Joe Burrow’s 46-41 dismantling of the Alabama defense in 2019 just after LSU took the #1 mantle, and almost a decade before that there was the all-time great defensive battle between A.J. McCarron and a Trent Richardson-Eddie Lacy led-backfield against Jordan Jefferson’s LSU team — yes, that’s Justin’s brother — that ended with a 9-6 Alabama win in overtime. May we get another classic like that one, except maybe with some touchdowns scored this time.

 

What’s the point of all this? Check out our How To Play page for full details, but it’s simple: create content, predict correctly, and win an NFT!

 

Here are the games we’ll be highlighting this week: