If you lost in your NFL survivor pool (in case you don’t know what that is: you enter a pool of contestants who pick one outright winner per week and can’t use that team again the rest of the season; the overall winner “survives” when everyone else is eliminated) this weekend, you already know about what an awful Sunday it was for entrants.
Perhaps if you picked the Baltimore Ravens to run all over the Cincinnati Bengals, you survived.
But let’s review: the Kansas City Chiefs had Patrick Mahomes return and lost to the Tennessee Titans. The New Orleans Saints put up a whole nine points against the woeful Atlanta Falcons defense. The Miami Dolphins won their second straight game (!) in a victory over the Indianapolis Colts, who were without their starting QB. You could even throw in the Pittsburgh Steelers defeating the Los Angeles Rams.
That was bad news for anyone who picked those favorites:
Just over 11,000 started in the 2019 NFL Mega Survivor Pool.
While an unprecedented ~2000 made it to Week 10… ~95% of those who remained went down this week (with two games to go).
Your author included. pic.twitter.com/k7kLCYXsEr
— Chris Long (@ChrisLongKSTP) November 11, 2019
We had a survivor pool at work and I was in the final four. I took the Saints as a no-brainer, sure bet for this week. pic.twitter.com/T6hFJMJy34
— Lexi Del Duke (@lexidelduke) November 10, 2019
And just like that, 93% of our #SurvivorPool (including me) have been eliminated. Thank you #Saints and #Colts 🙄 pic.twitter.com/5iwJUYoKAu
— Jack Phan (@JackPhan) November 11, 2019
Survivor Pools pic.twitter.com/14QFEeBFCI
— Peter Butera (@PeterButera3) November 11, 2019
Survivor Pool results lol pic.twitter.com/dDU7VzDnfO
— Raider Jesse (@EdmontonRaider) November 11, 2019
My survivor pool ended in a 26-way (!) tie after today’s craziness. Everyone left had the Saints, Colts, Rams or Chiefs.
If only I’d held onto the Ravens.
— Tim Fiorvanti (@tim00) November 11, 2019
Quite a debate underway as my survivor pool goes from 22 to 0 thanks to the Saints and Colts…
— Ben Fischer (@BenFischerSBJ) November 11, 2019
If Carolina comes back to beat GB, my Survivor pool goes from 19 to 0. Don’t think I’ve ever seen a 19-way split before.
— Lou DiPietro (@LouDiPietroYES) November 11, 2019
The Falcons leaned into it:
RT if we ruined your survivor pool 🙃
— Atlanta Falcons (@AtlantaFalcons) November 10, 2019
Brutal.
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