Welcome
to
the
2026 
pool!
We have no Canadians in the 2026 pool but the flag remains as a decades-long shout-out to Darcy and Jeff. Let me know if anyone else is playing from outside the USA.
Welcome to our 37th season of Frest's "Ex-CSC & Friends" Football pool!
This year we are doing everything from this site. Total control wrestled back from cbssports.com and hopefully it will be more fun as we go through the season, enjoying the enhancements ChatGPT has helped us integrate into this ancient website.
Season and Week-by-Week results are always posted here. Click those hyperlinks for the details.
Click here for the 2025 playoff and payouts schedule (9 additional participants this season = higher weekly payouts for top 3!).
The Participants page has been updated now that we are rolling along with the 2025 season! Have found at least a corporate website photo for all our rookies, but if anyone wants a refresh on their picture in the Participants section, send in a new one. Some of your pictures are 20+ years old at this point, too.
Now that ALL our checks and e-payments are in, any good check memo subject lines, PayPal/Venmo comments or even Apple Pay quips will get added to the "Check please!" page... and that was finally done while I was preparing for our playoffs!
2025 Results:
| 2025 Season Champion | SQUIG |
| 2025 Season Runner-up | Patty |
| 2025 Third Place | Lisa C. |
| 2025 Best Record No Money Won 50% Refund | Mike R. |
| 2025 Playoff Champion (technically 2026) | Ed E. |
| 2025 Playoff Runner-up (technically 2026) | Mosko |
| 2025 Playoff Third Place (technically 2026) | Jack L. |
Football Pool Records in the "Hall of Fame... and Shame":
| Most Season Championship Titles: | 3 - Lisa Ceddia, Tony Costello |
| Most Playoff Championship Titles: | 3 - Scott Munro |
| Lifetime Earnings Leader: | TBD $$ |
| Most wins in a season: | Kraig Ravioli (155 - best in 17 week season) - 2019, Adam (170 in 18 Weeks) - 2024 |
| Least wins in a season, no weeks missed: | Cathy Mancino (103) in 2006 |
| Most wins, one week: | Frest (16) - 2013 Season - Week 17 (First PERFECT WEEK in pool history.) |
| Least wins, one week (all picks entered): | Scott Welt (0) - Week 2, 2010 Season, Spooky (0) - Week 2, 2007 Season |
| Most $ won in regular season (before final payout): | AJ (2022 - $550) |
| Best record, no money won: | Joann M. (2019: 148 wins / 17-Week season), Luke Ceddia (2024: 157 Wins / 18-Weeks) |
| Most (weekly) wins, one regular season: | AJ & Scott M. (2022 - 3 outright wins for each of them) |
| Perfect Weeks in FBP History: | Frest (16-0, Week 17 of 2013), Alex (14-0, Week 9 of 2023) |
Delta Football Pool Records (1996 - 2009):
| Most Season Championship Titles: | 3 - Jennifer Barnes (2002, 2006, 2008) |
| Most wins in a season: | 152 - John Grieco (1999), Jennifer Barnes (2006) |
| Most losses in a season: | 2002 - Anthony Costello (148) |
| Best record (season): | 1999 - John Grieco (152-96, .613 winning percentage) |
| Worst record (season): | 1996 - Kathy M. (94-146, .391 winning percentage) |
| Most wins, one week: | 2002 - Nicole S. (15) |
| Least wins, one week: | 2009 - Mark H., 2002 - Greg F., Bruce H.; 2001 - Pat B.; 1999 - AJ (1) |
| Most $ won in regular season: | 2008 - Carol Schreiber - $340 |
| Best record, no money won: | 1998 - Forrest (133-106, .556 winning percentage) |
| Worst record, no money won: | 2004 - Jim Casey (117-139, .457 winning percentage) |
| Most weekly wins, one regular season: | 2008 - Carol Schreiber (4) |
| Most weekly losses, one regular season: | 1996 - Chet Maz (5) |
Notable FBP get-togethers:
December 2023:
The latest gathering of FBP participants, including (from L-R): Linda (who used to write the checks for Matteo's entry fees), Renee (who used to write the checks for Ed E's entry fees), Ed E, Frest, Steve M (not in pool), Mosko, NanFan, Matteo and Scott M.
December 2022:
Seven members of the FBP were among the ex-CSCers who gathered for a holiday lunch in December. Not quite an all-time record but close.
Back row - Scott M, Matteo, Steve (not in pool), NanFan, Frest, Kris, Ed E, Deb (not in pool)
Front row - Sonal (not in pool), Steve "Mosko"
August 2022:
One of the newest members of the pool (FoJo) caught up with one of our original members (Lisa F) this summer during a FBP gathering in Boston:
December 2018:
More long-time pool members at perhaps the largest gathering of FBP participants (outside of a Shue or Pawelkiwicz/Ceddia family holiday or wedding gathering, I guess):
That's Steve "Cranjis McBasketball" Moskowitz, Kris, Frest, Nancy (a.k.a."NanFan", "No Legs Fantuzzi"), Matteo, Scott M. and Mike M across the back there, with two non-pool ex-CSC folks (Sonal and Steve in positions 6 and 7 from the left). Brian B. was also at this lunch so we had 8 FBP participants in one place, which I've now established as the record to beat at any (and all) future gatherings! Oh wait... Tim L. took the picture so that makes 9. (Ed E. was there too but he is on sabbatical from the FBP this year so I can't include him in the official headcount.)
August 2018: Long-time pool members Fitz, Lisa F. and Frest gathered with 2018 rookie Mike McCarthy at a brewery in Massachusetts to discuss pre-season action:
April 2014: Another great get-together of current and former FBP participants in Boston (Julie Y., Lisa F., Jeremy M, and Forrest):
1-6-07: Big historic football pool happenings occurred during the Cowboys/Seahawks game. Click the thumbnail below to see the gathering that occurred Saturday night in Boston. Yep, that's right - it's Lisa, Jack "Chad Sexington" & Frest in a bar right by Fenway! Loads of fun to meet them in person for the first time!
That was a great night - little did I know the foreshadowing involved, as Jack's first comment upon seeing the photo was related to the stains on his shirt and how "once you have kids you forever have evidence of their meals on all of your clothes". Within a few years of that 2007 picture, I was consistently sporting the "Bateman Blotches" on my shirts!
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