Tom Spell beats Tony Pope, earns $50 gift card to Wild Wings
Tom Spell, a lifelong resident of Hanahan, is this week’s Pig Skin Pick ‘Em Challenge winner. He had the best record of all our readers, at 8-4, and beat Tony Pope of State Farm (7-5) to earn a $50 gift card to Wild Wings. Tom, who has been married to Molly for over 25 years, has two daughters, a Hanahan High School graduate and a Hanahan senior. Employed at Parker Hannifin, he enjoys volunteering at Hanahan football games and track meets and likes the contest because it includes local teams.
All our sponsors and most of our readers picked the local high school teams (BE and Hanahan) to win; but both teams lost in the first round of the playoffs. And, very few sponsors or readers expected Miami to beat Philadelphia in the NFL.
Each week from now until the Super Bowl, readers will be given the opportunity to “Beat the Sponsor” and to win great prizes. We will email a link to the survey each Tuesday evening via our “Coming This Week” eblast and we will also put the URL link on our Facebook page and here in the paper, and on the bottom banner on our website, www.thednaielislandnews.com. To be eligible to win, you must select your entries online by noon on Friday. There is no cost to enter. If you’d like to be added to our eblast, please send your email address to sdetar@thedanielislandnews.com.
You can also enter by going to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XJ9SVNQ to fill out your ballot or by dropping a paper ballot to our office by noon on Friday.
Each week, we will also include a running win-loss record for each of our sponsor and the paper will donate $500 to the charity of choice of the sponsor who has the best overall win-loss record at the end of the season.
The new sponsor standings are very close, with only one win separating first and second place. First place – Steve Meyer and Jeff Burton of UBS (84-29); second place - Dave Williams of 843 Health Marketplace (83-30); third place – tie Dr. Estes of Southern Orthopedics and Phil Bowman, sportswriter for The Daniel Island News (77-36); fifth place –Tony Pope of State Farm (76-39); sixth place – Helen Girly Brown (73-40); seventh place – Cara Schaafsma of Irongate Realty (69-44); and, eighth place, the employees of the Daniel Island Grille (62-51).