IWS #226 - Are you ready for some Stupid?; Results now posted!

[Butter]

Short turnaround for this one, responses due 11 AM Friday, September 5th.

The Rules

The rules are the same as previous FOFC “I’m With Stupid" Contests, as set forth by the game's, and indeed our very community's, most cherished and beloved progenitors and inspirational leaders, and also QuikSand. May we never lose our commitment to reverently speak their names and heartily toast their greatness.

The object of this contest is to answer the questions posted, and to provide the most common answer among those submitted. For each question, your score will be equal to the number of people who submitted that response. Your score for the contest will be the product of your individual question scores. For the mathematically challenged, product means they are multiplied together, not added. Highest score wins.

Collaboration of any kind is strictly forbidden. No posting your answers to this board, nor sharing them by e-mail or in any other way with other potential contestants. There are no prizes other than everlasting glory and total consciousness on your deathbed, so the need to cheat shouldn't be an issue.

All determinations of "matches" and anything else requiring even the most trivial degree of judgment fall to that of the sole administrator of this round of the game. You can reduce the need for doubt and judgment by properly spelling your submissions, being clear, and that sort of thing. My decisions are final and utterly inarguable, no exceptions. I summarily reject any suggestion of this structure as evidence of any personal character flaw.

Any references that are unclear to you, due to language or geography, should be understood to be authored from the perspective of an English-speaking American. However...

Your answers do not necessarily have to be correct in order to score points. If I ask "Who will win the Big Ten this year?" and you answer "Michigan State" along with 9 other people, you each score 10 points, even though the correct answer is "Ohio State"

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Hall of Heroes


Abe Sargent - IWS#49, IWS#149
Ahbrady - IWS#15, IWS#41, IWS#85, IWS#100
Airhog - IWS#1
Albionmoonlight - IWS#30, IWS#50, IWS#101, IWS#127, IWS#146, IWS#190, IWS#200, IWS#210
Archer219 - IWS#18, IWS#100
Arctus – IWS#135
Ardent Enthusiast - IWS#6
Atatange1 - IWS#79
Autumn - IWS #207
Barkeep49 - IWS#62, IWS#100, IWS#117
bbor - IWS#23, IWS#26
Bearcat729 - IWS#82, IWS#93
bhlloy - IWS#179
BishopMVP - IWS#36
Blade - IWS#13
BrianD - IWS#106
britrock88 - IWS#185, IWS#193, IWS#215, IWS#222
Bryce - IWS#40, IWS#53
Buccaneer - IWS#47
Butter_of_69 - IWS#128, IWS#144, IWS#158, IWS#176, IWS#225
Bsak16 - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#17
cartman - IWS#48, IWS#100
Celeval - IWS#146
Chief Rum - IWS#45, IWS#56, IWS#95
Claphamsa - IWS#184
CMP - IWS#171
Coffee Warlord - IWS#176
ColtCrazy - IWS#178
Cornhuskerly - IWS#46
Crim - IWS#57
Cringer - IWS#155, IWS#158
Cthomer5000 - IWS#54, IWS#75
CU Tiger - IWS#152, IWS#179
cuervo72 - IWS#27, IWS#38, IWS#191, IWS#211
DanGarion – IWS#100, IWS#122, IWS#178
Danny - IWS#54
Dodgerchick - IWS#177
Desert Dweller - IWS#6
Desnudo - IWS#88, IWS#120, IWS#137, IWS#199
Digamma - IWS#14, IWS#92, IWS#185, IWS#190, IWS#192, IWS#198
DougW #219
DukeRulesMAB - IWS#76
Dutch - IWS#90, IWS#189
EagleFan - IWS#41
Farrah Whitworth-Rahn - IWS#126
flere-imsaho - IWS#214, IWS#216
Frozenrope - IWS#86
George W Bush - IWS#80, IWS#84
Glengoyne - IWS#71
gold101 - IWS#63
GoSeahawks - IWS#64, IWS#131
gstelmack - IWS#116
Hammer755 - IWS#38
HeavyReign - IWS#23
Henry296 - IWS#12
Honolulu_Blue - IWS#129, IWS#144
Hoopsguy - IWS#170, IWS#174, IWS#181
HornedFrogPurple - IWS#10
jbergey22 - IWS#172, IWS#187
JeeberD - IWS#44, IWS#52, IWS#61, IWS#87, IWS#91, IWS#110, IWS#138, IWS#141
Jesse Ewiak – IWS#100
Joe Canadian - IWS#29
John Lynch - IWS#10
Karlifornia - IWS#81, IWS#97, IWS#99, IWS#124, IWS#134, IWS#158, IWS#161, IWS#172
kcchief19 - IWS#195
kingfc22- IWS#75, IWS#123, IWS#140, IWS#151
kurtism - IWS#79
KWhit - IWS#142, IWS#147, IWS#150, IWS#164
Lathum - IWS#182, IWS#206, IWS#212
lighhousekeeper - IWS#125
lurker - IWS#158
Logan – IWS#100, IWS#186
Maple Leafs - IWS#34, IWS#84, IWS#94, IWS#113, IWS#118, IWS#139, IWS#168
Marmel - IWS#8, IWS#211
Masked - IWS#22, IWS#30, IWS#31, IWS#33, IWS#100
MattJones4Heisman - IWS#157
mauboy1 - IWS#77
MIJB#19 - IWS#59, IWS#69, IWS#117, IWS#194
Msf518 - IWS#11, IWS#15, IWS#35, IWS#39, IWS#100
Neuqua - IWS#19
Nilodor - IWS#208, IWS#217
nol - IWS#213, IWS#220
NoMyths - IWS#46
Noop - IWS#46
Nothingman - IWS#6, IWS#45
ntndeacon - IWS#81
Oliegirl - IWS#72, IWS#81
PackerFanatic - IWS#130
Panerd - IWS#3, IWS#84, IWS#89, IWS#107, IWS#120, IWS#133, IWS#190, IWS #201
PineTar - IWS#108
Pjstp20 - IWS#42
Primelord - IWS#11
PurdueBrad - IWS#173, IWS#197, IWS #205
Pyser - IWS#85, IWS#163, IWS#180, IWS#197
QuikSand - IWS#9, IWS#16, IWS#18, IWS#24, IWS#32, IWS#58, IWS#66, IWS#70, IWS#73, IWS#78, IWS#83, IWS#93, IWS#100, IWS#103, IWS#111, IWS#132, IWS#156, IWS#165, IWS#169, IWS#179, IWS#202, IWS#224
Qwikshot - IWS#5
Radii – IWS#100, IWS#106, IWS#208
Raiders Army - IWS#154, IWS#179
Ramzavail - IWS#53
Raven Hawk - IWS#68, IWS#96
RendeR - IWS#6
RGunner - IWS#121
rkmsuf - IWS#145
RonnieDobbs - IWS#37
RPI-Fan - IWS#9, IWS#182, IWS#203
sabotai - IWS#143
Samdari - IWS#21
ScottVib - IWS#9
Solecismic - IWS#83
spleen1015 - IWS#98, IWS#196
SplitPersonality1 - IWS#4, IWS#104
Sterlingice - IWS#28, IWS#31, IWS#35, IWS#51, IWS#183, IWS#197
stevebollea - IWS#169
stevew- IWS#159, IWS#164 #204
Subby - IWS#107, IWS#110, IWS#112
Sublime 2 - IWS#25, IWS#134, IWS#148, IWS#161, IWS#179, IWS#188
Suburban Rhythm - IWS#221
Suicane75 - IWS#109
Swaggs - IWS#2, IWS#35
Tarcone - IWS#162
Tasan - IWS#65
TazFTW - IWS#153
ThunderingHERD - IWS#114, IWS#119, IWS#122
Timmae - IWS#115, IWS #224
Toddzilla - IWS#167
Tredwel - IWS#6, IWS#9, IWS#20, IWS#43, IWS#67, IWS#84
TRO - IWS#7, IWS#9, IWS#12, IWS#85, IWS#102, IWS#109, IWS#209
tucker342 - IWS#60
tyketime - IWS#175, IWS#178
Umbrella - IWS#218
Vince - IWS#37, IWS#46, IWS#62
wademoore - IWS#166
Wbatl1 – IWS#105, IWS#136
Whar - IWS#75
Wheels - IWS#55
WSUCougar – IWS#105

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IWS #226

It's NFL time, so time for some football questions.


1. Which new rule will have the most impact to the 2014 NFL Season?

2. Which team will finish with the worst record?

3. Which RB will finish with the most rushing yards?

4. Who will win Offensive Rookie of the Year?

5. Name a city that has never hosted the Super Bowl that should.

6. Name a common mascot to other sports teams that is not used or represented by a team in the NFL.

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There you have it. PM your responses to me, with something sufficiently clear in the title.

Contest closes 11 AM Eastern, Friday September 5th.

So don't screw around and read it and forget to submit, because this is a less than 2 day turnaround. I don't find that letting it linger for a week is really any more suitable to gaining more responses.

Please help with the "snet" and other suitably amusing response-bumps to help keep the contest in mind.

[timmae]

seemed to easy... I know there are a few stumbles in there! Thanks butter!!

[ColtCrazy]

I agree…seems like some answers would be obvious, but some not as much.

[britrock88]

setn

[Butter]

13 entries so far... I feel like someone is going to swoop in with a late entry and take it down.

Why not you?

[B & B]

I don't always enter the IWS contests,
but when I do, I do not win.

[lighthousekeeper]

To showcase how little I follow football, my responses this time will be done with no aid from internet searching or asking others for assistance.

[Alf]

ouchie, entered...

[Butter]

Getting close to 20. Let's keep 'em coming...

[kingfc22]

snet

[Butter]

Just need 2 more to hit 20. You know you've got the answers to this one nailed... or do you?

[MIJB#19]

in before the lock!

[Butter]

38 minutes to get a couple more to bump us up near 30 participants.

[Butter]

It's results time, and I'm not doing a brand new thread so there:

1. Which new rule will have the most impact to the 2014 NFL Season?

I decided to lump a bunch of results of "defensive holding" and similar responses all into the "Illegal Contact" umbrella.

Illegal Contact - 15
Unsportsmanlike conduct for goalpost dunk - 4
Low Blocks - 2
Domestic Violence, Trash Talk, Replay Fumbles - 1


2. Which team will finish with the worst record?

Jacksonville - 12
Oakland - 6
Cleveland - 3
Buffalo, Seattle (at this point, I knew this guy was going for the single, but it didn't work out), NY Jets - 1


3. Which RB will finish with the most rushing yards?

Adrian Peterson - 17
LeSean McCoy - 3
Jamaal Charles, Bishop Sankey, Emmitt Smith, Ray Rice - 1


4. Who will win Offensive Rookie of the Year?

Thought Johnny Football or one of the other QBs would be the winner, but I was wrong... a late wave for Sammy Watkins won the day.

Sammy Watkins - 6
Blake Bortles - 5
Brandin Cooks - 4
Johnny Manziel - 3
Bishop Sankey - 2
Derek Carr - 2
Peyton Manning, Michael Sam - 1


5. Name a city that has never hosted the Super Bowl that should.

Las Vegas - 7
Chicago - 4
Washington DC - 2
San Francisco - 2
Seattle, Honolulu, Denver, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Charlotte, Miami, Buffalo - 1



6. Name a common mascot to other sports teams that is not used or represented by a team in the NFL.

Tigers - 9
Bulldogs - 6
Wildcats - 4
Knights, Warriors, Reptile, Dog, Cats - 1


I don't always enter the IWS contests,
but when I do, I do not win.

You were ahead until this morning....

To showcase how little I follow football, my responses this time will be done with no aid from internet searching or asking others for assistance.

Showcased. Observe the finishers:


Jacksonville Jagwires (statistically zero percent)

lighthousekeeper - 12
tarcone - 15


Cleveland Browns (less than 1 percent)

QuikSand - 1440
ColtCrazy - 2520
PurdueBrad - 4320
Desnudo - 4896
flere-imsaho - 7650
Toddzilla - 9180
claphamsa - 9792


Tennessee Titans (1 to 10 percent)

kingfc22 - 12240
nol - 21420
timmae - 22032
Warhammer - 22032
Umbrella - 22680
Alf - 24300
britrock88 - 36720
StLee - 36720
Suburban Rhythm - 48960
MIJB#19 - 58752


Cincinnati Bengals (10-25 percent)

korme - 128520


San Francisco 49ers (25-50 percent)

kcchief19 - 330480
albionmoonlight - 385560
B & B - 578340


Seattle Seahawks (Winner!)

CU Tiger - 1156680... 100% achieved!


Congrats to CU Tiger, who won the day by propelling Sammy Watkins to #1 Offensive ROY and also answering Tigers to the Mascot question!

You win IWS#227... good luck!

[claphamsa]

I thought about putting Tigers...but you know, Bengals and all.

[claphamsa]

and while it wont matter.... wild cats and cat should be combined as well as bulldog and dog.

[korme]

Coincidence that I got my own Bengals 5th place category? I think not... well done sir.

[Umbrella]

Jamaal Charles eliminated me? I thought there would be more fantasy football players answering this.

[nol]

Damn, eliminated for having the only correct answer to the first question. I also switched to Bulldogs from Tigers because of the Bengals. Should've strapped on my Stupid helmet more tightly.

[Butter]

and while it wont matter.... wild cats and cat should be combined as well as bulldog and dog.

No they shouldn't. Might I refer you to the IWS rules?

Then can you show me where "dog" and "cat" are "common mascots" as the question asked? I'm guessing not.

[lighthousekeeper]

i answered all questions to the best of my ability, and still scored lower than someone who was trying to get a 1. yes, michael sam is the only rookie i know.

:cool:


related: when i read "are you ready for some stupid?" my first instinct was to sing it to the tune of "do you want to build a snowman?" rather than pick up the bocephian reference.

[korme]

and while it wont matter.... wild cats and cat should be combined as well as bulldog and dog.

That would also imply that Wildcats, Bobcats, Bearcats are all one and the same.

[CU Tiger]

Sweet!
A win and two Clemson references from a game directed by a board member I once met at a Clemson game...

Awesome give me some time to put this together and I will throw a new one up!

[MIJB#19]

Congrats, CU Tiger.

I feared the Jimmy Graham rule would not be the #1 answer, but also felt I had to go with it anyway and hoped it had a shot at being in the running (which it sort of was).

[timmae]

Fun stuff... The rules tripped me up... Oh well, good win cu!

[tarcone]

I was playing stupid. I admit it. I figured stupid would have a hard time.

[StLee]

It wasn't going to make a difference in the end to my result because of my other answers, but I didn't put "Tigers" specifically because the wording seemed to eliminate it from contention: "not used or represented." The tiger stripes on the Bengals (tiger) seems to definitively represent a tiger.

[timmae]

Stupid definately outstupided you!

[Desnudo]

No one else wants to go to Hawaii for a Super Bowl? You so stupid,