The rules are simple. Every Saturday a football (NFL) geocache will be released somewhere in North County. Anyone finding it between now and the kickoff of Thursday night's game can choose an offense and a defense from this week's NFL games. Your score for this week will be the number of points your offense scores minus the amount of points your defense surrenders. The scoring period for week sixteen is from 5:30 PM, the Thursday night game of December 22 through the Monday night football game of December 26. Every offense and defense chosen must be unique. First-to-Find has choice of any offense and defense (even from the same team), second to find has second choice, and so on. The cache hiders are also playing, so that person will select fifth each week. Scoring is cumulative and at the end of the season the cacher with the highest score will be crowned North County Gridiron Cacher Ultimate Uber Supreme. Of course, participation in the contest is optional, so you can still log the cache even if you want to sit on the sidelines
Update on the season score will be posted with each new cache.
The most fun games for me have always been the ones played in horrible weather. I remember as a kid living in the bay area, looking forward to Minnesota Viking games on TV and watching them bring the big jet engines out to thaw the field before game time. Too bad they play in a dome now. The famous playoff game that cost the Chargers their first shot at the Super Bowl in 1981, now dubbed the Freezer Bowl in Cincinnati with the wind chill factor dropping into 50 below zero. Another one for the history books was Thanksgiving day in 1993 between the Dolphins and Cowboys, the snow covered the field and the Cowboys screwed up and gave away the game. Fun stuff. As I write this, it is about to rain and the forecast is for almost an inch of it right up until this is scheduled to release, so I moved the hide to keep you from getting muddy feet. Cheers!