Patti beats Noell in the NFL Championship round

Patti Bianco, a retired court reporter from Rhode Island, is this week’s winner of the Football Pick ‘Em. She was one of three contestants to have five correct picks in the NFL Championship round and she won by a tiebreaker.

Patti and her husband moved to Daniel Island almost six years ago. She explained how she makes her picks, “I am legally blind so my husband has to read to me the competing teams of the week and he will also provide the leading passers, rushers and receivers from both teams from which I would choose. I guess sometimes winning is by pure luck than having in-depth knowledge of statistics.”

This is Super Bowl week and the last opportunity for readers to “Beat the Sponsor” and to win a great prize. We will email a link to the survey each week via a Daniel Island News eblast and we also put the URL link on our Facebook page and here in the paper. 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.

To enter, go to surveymonkey.com/r/HHG8K6S.

Each week, we will also include a running win-loss record for each of our sponsors 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. This is the last week that the sponsors have to unseat sponsor Brad Rose, who has been at the top of the leadership board for several weeks. Rosie Stieby and Tom Werner are in a close second and third place

This week you compete against the leader, Brad Rose of Palmetto Custom Carts, for an opportunity to win a $50 gift certificate to Vespa.