finally: ben hits on the passing of thousand year old claude levi-strauss

Former NFL safety---and 2008 alumnus of the Don Knotts Deadie Draft--- Orlando Thomas dead at 37 of Lou Gehrig's disease.

Soupy Sales dead at 83

Captain Lou Albano bites it at the ripe age of 76.

ok, seeing as its almost the middle of october, i guess now would be a good time to officially announce the 2008 award winners. they are as follows:



    1. The Celebrity Death Pool Don Knotts Memorial Trophy (a.k.a. “the Deadie”) – $235.00
Ben: Miyagi's Marauders

 
   2. The “We Drank The Kool-Aid” award (award for most deaths: 1st place team is exempt from this award) - $40.00
Mattie: The Out of Timers - 6 stiffs
 

   3. The “He’s Not Gonna Be In The Sequel” award (award for 1st overall death scored in the season) - $30.00
Fuck Keith: Worm Food All-Stars - Sir Edmund Hillary
 

   4. *The Steve Irwin Memorial Award (award for craziest death) - $10.00
held over to 2009
 

   5. *The “Too Soon” award (award for the person whose passing was the saddest to see) - $10.00
Ben: Miyagi's Marauders - George Carlin
 

   6. *The “See you in Hell” award (award is the exact opposite of the previous award) - $10.00
Matt: The Out-Of-Timers - Jesse Helms
 

   7. The “We Hardly Knew Ye” award (award for youngest person in the league passing away) - $7.00
Ben: Jeff Healey - 41
 

   8. *The “Red-Shirted Star Trek Guy” award (award for the most obscure person who passed away) – $7.00
Fuck Wride: Celebrity Coffin Jockeys - Clay Felker
 

   9. *The “Don’t Fear the Reaper” award (award for the person who really should’ve passed away but managed to hang on for another year) - $5.00
Matt: The Out-Of-Timers - Fidel Castro
 


  10. The “Last Man Not Standing” award (award for the last pick passing away before the draft of the next year’s teams) - $5.00
Ben: Deep Throat
 

  11. The “Trail of Tears” award (award for the team with the fewest points) $1.00 Sacajawea coin
Tie- BobDad: Byzantine Jihad
and Haut: Date with Elvis


starting next year, due to the fact that these awards are a pain in the ass (although great in concept) i vote to hand out prize money according to final standings. we can do it where everyone gets money, or the top x amount of teams get money...let me know what you think

Matt: i will give you both yours and Wrides money when you come into town next week. Hauts too if youre going to see him at any point. Ben, come pick yours up. keith, yours has been used to pay for this current season.

also, there are still a few of you whom i need money from for this year. i will post the list later

We probably should have had columnist and former Nixon speechwriter William Saffire, dead at 79.

Huge shake-up today as Keith vaults from 12th place to 3rd place with the passing of his game-breaker Susan Atkins.

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary died today. Nobody had her, but she was at the top of at least a few lists for December.

Pat, you will be missed. Sorry you got The Swayz and died.

Patrick Swayze dead. A commanding lead for Christina.

Chuck, who was your gamebreaker? It's not clear on the online roster. If you doubled up on Kennedy, you could be just one point out of first place.

Two in one day: In addition to Ted Kennedy passing in the early morning hours, legendary Vanity Fair journalist Dominic Dunne has died of bladder cancer at age 83. Dunne was a member of Uncle Harry's Marshmallow Tree of Death, vaulting that team from lowly 12th place all the way up to 6th place. And Kennedy's passing moves the Doomsday Machine into 3rd place with 4 points! This race is heating up!

seeing as how the website is being updated...can I finally have my team name? - Doomsday Machine - Thanks :P

First pick of the draft...wow!

Ted Kennedy dead at 77