JOURNAL STAFF
High school football has officially kicked off!
It’s going to be more exciting, week after week, since you can win $250 by picking the winning teams.
Fans have until next Thursday afternoon at 4 to enter the Week One Shreveport-Bossier Journal High School Football Pick ‘Em Contest. Anyone has the chance to win a $250 prize as the week’s top predictor of local prep football games.
The contests will be conducted weekly during the 10-game high school football season. There is no entry charge, just like there is no cost to subscribe to the Shreveport-Bossier Journal.
Participation is very simple for anyone able to access this link:
The Pick ‘Em portal opens to a menu of game-by-game matchups, with an easy click to pick winning teams for each contest. Two local games will be used as tiebreakers, with participants predicting the total points scored in those games.
It takes 20-30 seconds to sign up and not much longer than that to make your picks.
Entries are open now for the first week’s contest picking the winners from local games on Sept. 1 and 2.
Each week, the entries will remain open until 4 p.m. on the first playing date that week (usually Thursday).
One person will win each week’s $250 prize, to be announced in the Journal early the following week as the subsequent Pick ‘Em Contest launches. All contest decisions by SBJ management are final.
Every participant will receive a FREE subscription to the Journal, if you’re not already signed up for the easily-navigated, convenient 6:55 a.m. daily e-mail.
A panel of Journal writers and local celebrities will also pick the games each week, but won’t be eligible to win the cash prizes. Their individual picks will NOT be publicized, just the week’s final win-loss results and the season’s record for each picker.
It will be fun for participants to compare their weekly records to stellar local sportswriters including Teddy Allen, Jerry Byrd Jr., Lee Hiller, Roy Lang III, John James Marshall, Harriet Prothro Penrod and Tony Taglavore. The celebrity picker panel will be revealed next week – with some of Shreveport-Bossier’s best known folks aiming to out-rank the experts, and each other, each week.
Enjoy it all, for FREE, and enter each week’s contest. You could collect $250, maybe more than once!