Is there anything more enjoyable than bonding over football with loved ones while winning some cash?
People get to do exactly that every week with our free-to-play FOX Super 6 contest.
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With opportunities to win thousands of dollars, the Super 6 game gives fans a new reason to get excited about sports.
The contest — which has been live since the beginning of the 2023 NFL season — has already given away a ton of cash.
This season alone, more than $79,000 in cash and prizes have been awarded.
Let’s take a look at a few of our recent winners.
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Cheesehead takes the Week 1 Wheel
Megan from Indiana kicked off the 2024 football season with some cash in her pocket, winning in NFL Week 1.
And using her winnings for travel is the name of her game.
“I’m not sure where we’re going yet, but we have a lot to check off from our bucket list,” the Green Bay Packers fan told us.
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She also explained that her husband’s love for football helped her get into winners’ circle.
“My husband is a huge NFL fan, so I’ve been watching all day Sundays, Monday and Thursday nights for the last four years, and I’ve become a fan, too.
“Then, I pick based off what I’ve watched in the most recent games.”
Megan, whose favorite player is Jordan Love, looking forward to her squad having a successful 2024.
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“I’m optimistic that this is going to be a great year for the Pack. And Love is just getting started.”
NFL Week 1 winner Megan (pictured with husband) said she’s ‘optimistic’ about the Packers’ season
The Saint goes Cashing In
“I was surprised. I thought they had made a mistake.” That’s what Ba from Mississippi said after finding out she won the FOX Super 6 NFL Week 2 contest.
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As a matter of fact, her family was also in disbelief.
“They didn’t believe me; they told me it was a lie,” she laughed.
When it comes to strategy, the New Orleans Saints fan said she doesn’t have one.
“I just read the questions and watch the previous games of each team and players [listed in the contest].
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Saints fan Ba won the Super 6 NFL Week 2 contest
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including college football. So it was only fitting that the college football Week 3 winner hailed from the Lone Star State.
Jeff from Weatherford revealed that he just “picks the best players and teams, with a little luck” when he makes his Super 6 selections.
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And although the retiree makes his home in Texas, the team that has his heart is several hundred miles away.
“My favorite team is Colorado. Favorite players are [Sheduer and Shilo] Sanders.”
Jeffrey from Texas all smiles after winning the college football Week 3 contest
Welcome, Rookie
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Paul from Maryland is somewhat of a Super 6 newbie. When he hit the college football Week 5 jackpot, he’d only been playing the game for three weeks.
“I just follow my gut,” Paul said about how he made his picks. “And sometimes my son gives me some tips.”
Speaking of his son, he plans to spend his prize on buying his son’s first car.
“I was super shocked. I couldn’t believe I actually won. And my family and friends had a similar reaction. Just lots of excitement.”
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Here’s a summary of question analytics across the NFL & College Football Super 6 contests over the first five weeks.
Paul wants to use his prize toward a new car for his son
Perfect, Hardest, Easiest
Every week, the contest challenges its participants with fun, knowledge-oriented questions. We dug into the data to highlight a few nuggets from the first few weeks of the college football and NFL seasons.
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Number of perfect entries Across both the NFL and college football contests, there have been a total of two perfect entries. Both came in the NFL contest — one during Week 1 and one during Week 5.
Overall hardest (most incorrect) question through the first five weeks College football Week 6, Question No. 2: “Order the teams by who will score the MOST POINTS (highest to lowest):” with only 0.16% of entries correctly ordering them correctly as: Texas Tech Red Raiders > Arizona Wildcats > Arkansas Razorbacks > Tennessee Volunteers, driven by the Arkansas upset of Tennessee
Overall hardest (most incorrect) non-ranker question through the first five weeks College football Week 3, Question No. 3: “Who will have the most RUSHING YARDS?,” with only 8.88% of entries correctly selecting RJ Harvey
Overall hardest (most incorrect) non-ranker NFL question through the first five weeks NFL Week 3, Question No. 5: “Which team will have the MOST TOTAL YARDS from scrimmage?,” with only 13.39% of entries correctly selecting the Eagles.
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Overall easiest (most correct) question through the first five weeks College football Week 5, Question No. 6: “What will be the outcome of this game? Colorado Buffaloes: Win, or lose by 15 points or fewer or UCF Knights: Win by 16 points or more,” with 82.96% of entries correctly picking Colorado.
Biggest upset on Question No. 6 to pick the outcome of the Featured Game of the Week NFL Week 5, Question No. 6: “What will be the outcome of this game? Arizona Cardinals (15 pts): Win, Tie, or Lose by 7 points or fewer or San Francisco 49ers (15 pts): Win by 8 or more points,” with only 25.21% of entries correctly picking the Cardinals.
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“He lacks some game time, but that is normal,” Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola said Friday. “He is feeling very well, doing well, has good sensations and has trained very well this (international) break with us. He is ready.”
Adams was limited to three EPL games last season because of a hamstring injury that sidelined him from Sept. 27 until March 13. He returned for two matches, then didn’t play for Bournemouth after March 30 because of back spasms.
The 25-year-old Adams played a full game for the U.S. when it was eliminated from the Copa América with a 1-0 group stage loss to Uruguay on July 1 and had back surgery days later.
Ronnie Gibbons, pictured here in 2001, says she was assaulted by Al Fayed when she was 20
Former Fulham Ladies captain Ronnie Gibbons alleges she was “groped” on two occasions by the football club’s late owner Mohamed Al Fayed.
The former Harrods boss tried to “forcefully” kiss her at his department store in 2000, when she was 20, she told The Athletic website.
“Speaking my truth and finally telling my story will hopefully help me heal and be rid of the shame, embarrassment and pain I have carried for years,” she said.
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Lawyers from the Justice for Harrods Survivors group said they were representing four former players of the club.
Fulham FC told the BBC it was trying to establish whether anyone at the club “had been impacted” by Al Fayed.
“The club is profoundly troubled to learn of the experiences told today by former Women’s Team captain, Ronnie Gibbons,” Fulham said.
“She has our deepest empathy and support.”
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Al Fayed owned Fulham between 1997 and 2013.
In 2000, Fulham’s women’s team – known at the time as Fulham Ladies – became the first female football team in Europe to turn professional.
Gibbons, who was captain at the time, said she was driven to Harrods by club staff. Once at the luxury department store, she said she was left alone with Al Fayed, who was then in his 70s.
“He pulled me in close and tried to kiss me on the mouth,” she said of their first meeting.
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“He had his arms holding my arms, like at my side, so I couldn’t push him away or anything like that. It was a real kind of control stance, like ‘I’m dominating you’.
“I was just like, ‘What do I do here?’ I just felt like a huge responsibility on my shoulders at that point because we’d just turned professional.”
Gibbons said that Al Fayed tried to forcefully kiss her again: “He even may have stuck his tongue on me or something. I just remember feeling sick, just really physically feeling sick, when I left there.”
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Allegations against Mohamed Al Fayed stretch back to 1977
Later that summer, she said a member of staff told her she had been summoned to Harrods again by Al Fayed.
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In the interview with The Athletic, she recalled: “This time he groped me. As he was saying goodbye, he was sort of grabbing me, trying to sort of hold on to me and kiss me. He was like, ‘You’re not scared are you? You don’t need to be scared, I’m not going to do anything like that, you’re very precious, you’re a very special girl’.”
Fulham FC told the BBC: “We unequivocally condemn all forms of abuse. We remain in the process of establishing whether anyone at the Club is or would have been impacted by Mohamed Al Fayed in any manner as described in recent reports.”
The allegations follow a BBC documentary and podcast, containing testimony from former Harrods employees who said the billionaire sexually assaulted or raped them.
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Since the documentary first aired in September, a further 65 women have contacted the BBC saying they were abused by Al Fayed, with allegations stretching beyond Harrods and as far back as 1977.
‘Extra precautions’
Last month, the former manager of Fulham’s women’s team Gaute Haugenes told the BBC that extra precautions had been put in place to protect female players from Al Fayed.
Haugenes, who managed the team from 2001 to 2003, said members of staff became aware that the late billionaire “liked young, blonde girls”.
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Gibbons was reported to be angered by these comments.
Speaking to the BBC on Friday, Haugenes, who is Norwegian, said he could completely understand her frustration.
“All I can say is I am really sorry for saying something that could have put more wood on the fire. I honestly thought we protected the players,” he said.
“I knew that he liked Ronnie because all the girls, they joked about it. But I thought he was an old man, she was a young woman. I was 30 at the time, I didn’t think people his age were thinking about sex.
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“I might have been naive, it might have been some of the language barriers that I didn’t pick up details in their joking.”
He added that he had not been aware she had been told to go to Harrods.
Asked whether club staff could have done more, he said it was difficult to know what could have been done differently.
“But you should have had a system that picked up things like that,” he said. “It was before I was a manager that she went there.”
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He added: “It is sad to hear she had those kind of experiences as a professional player.”
The CEO of Women in Football (WIF) told the BBC there are “significant challenges” in the female football environment.
“It brings to the fore the prevalence of power in balances and the risk towards women in the industry working both on and off the pitch,” Yvonne Harrison said.
“For players it is really important that they are protected, they are safeguarded and that their voices are first and foremost listened to – and that is the same off the pitch as well.”
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The Justice for Harrods Survivors group said the abuse Gibbons had endured from Al Fayed was “yet another horrible example of the monstrous abuse aided and abetted by the businesses he owned”.
They added: “We salute our client’s bravery and are proud to advocate for Ronnie and others at Fulham who are searching for justice. We will do whatever we can to lift the lid on abuse, no matter where it was perpetrated, or who it was perpetrated by, including any enablers of Al-Fayed’s abhorrent behaviour.”
A spokesperson for Harrods said it was “utterly appalled” by the allegations of abuse perpetrated by Al Fayed.
It said: “These were the actions of an individual who was intent on abusing his power wherever he operated and we condemn them in the strongest terms.
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“We also acknowledge that during this time his victims were failed and for this we sincerely apologise.”
Gianni Infantino says player welfare “remains a priority” for Fifa despite the top European leagues and players’ union Fifpro filing a legal complaint to the European Commission.
World football’s governing body has been accused of abusing a dominant position under EU competition law by failing to properly consult over the international fixture calendar, which included the introduction of a new 32-team Club World Cup next summer.
Unions and clubs said Fifa has harmed the economic interests of leagues and jeopardised player welfare through its “unilateral” approach.
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Fifa chief Infantino posted a photo of himself on Instagram, external meeting David Aganzo, the president of the Spanish union AFE, in Miami.
Underneath it he wrote “Fifa continues to work with player bodies to ensure player welfare remains a priority. I look forward to continue working with David and everyone at AFE to achieve this goal”.
World players’ union Fifpro declined to comment, but sources told the PA news agency that Aganzo’s meeting with Infantino was a personal one.
In September, Manchester City and Spain midfielder Rodri joined a growing chorus of voices in the game who suggested players were “close” to going on strike if their concerns on the congested calendar were not heard.
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Fifpro lodged the complaint to the European Commission on Monday alongside European Leagues, which represents 39 leagues – including the English Premier League – and 1,130 clubs across 33 countries.
A separate legal challenge has also been submitted the Belgian courts. In that case, the unions want the European Court of Justice to rule whether Fifa’s actions breach the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
The scheduling of the Club World Cup in the United States is regarded as the tipping point in sparking the call for action as it will not finish until 13 July, leaving little time for an off-season break before preparations for domestic campaigns begin.
Fifa insisted the calendar agreement was the result of extensive consultation, and has accused leagues of hypocrisy because many of them, including the Premier League, have scheduled pre-season events of their own.
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The first six games of the season for the Dallas Cowboys have felt more like six years. They’ve seen their Super Bowl dreams deteriorate. They’ve seen all their old problems resurface. They’ve even lost all three of their games at home.
And boy, do they ever need their bye week after their humiliating, 47-9 loss to the Detroit Lions last Sunday. They are beaten, bruised and their egos are battered. It is the perfect time for a rest.
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But as they take their break, there’s no avoiding how bad the start to their season has been at times. Even their 3-0 start on the road has been propped up by games against the Browns (1-5) and Giants (2-4). It’s not all terrible. They are a .500 team and they’re only one game back in the NFC East race.
It just hasn’t been the championship-caliber start they expected in a season when their owner promised they were “all in.”
So, as the Cowboys take stock of where they are, FOX Sports NFL writers David Helman and Ralph Vacchiano will do that too, turning this week’s Cowboys corner into a not-quite-midseason report card. Here are the grades for some key people and the team overall:
Head Coach Mike McCarthy
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Helman: I’ve been a longtime defender of McCarthy, because he’s brought a level of stability to Dallas that the organization hadn’t seen in decades. You can scoff at the playoff failures all you want, but 2021-23 was the first time the Cowboys had strung together three consecutive playoff appearances since they were winning championships in the 90s.
With all of that said, I’m just not sure what I’m supposed to defend six weeks into 2024. This team looks mostly abysmal on both sides of the ball, and a lot of that lies at McCarthy’s feet. He certainly deserves some blame for a shaky offensive performance, as he is in his second year as the playcaller. Everything looks hard for that unit. The Cowboys can’t run the ball, their receivers can’t generate separation and they can’t convert in the red zone. There are no “easy” buttons in this offense. Some of that might be on the front office for failing to upgrade the personnel, but a good playcaller can negate some of that. McCarthy has not.
McCarthy might not oversee the Dallas defense on a day-to-day level, but as the head coach, he still bears some responsibility for that side of the ball — which, yikes.
All in all, I’ll give McCarthy credit that the team is 3-3, and the Cowboys have managed to outplay some of the manageable teams on their schedule. That’s not the expectation or the standard in Dallas, though.
Vacchiano: The bar for the Cowboys quarterback is high because he’s got MVP talent. But he’s really treading a dangerous line this season because he knows he has to carry his one-dimensional team and he really doesn’t have a great array of weapons. The result is that he tends to force throws at times, which is a big reason why he’s got six interceptions so far and nearly had a few more.
To be fair, he kind of has to force some of those throws. He needs to make things happen, because no one else on offense will. And the defenses are just waiting for him, because they certainly don’t respect the Dallas run game. But unfortunately for Prescott, he needs to recapture his MVP form for the Cowboys to be any good. That means he has to do better than the eight touchdown passes he’s thrown in his six starts, and cut down on his interceptions since he’s on pace for what would be a ridiculous (and career-high) 17. The turnovers, especially, have to stop, regardless of the circumstances.
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Grade: B
Owner/GM Jerry Jones
Vacchiano: He already got an F for the offseason when he passed on all the available running backs (including Derrick Henry, who got just $9 million guaranteed from Baltimore). Now he’s passed on available receivers like Davante Adams (traded to the Jets) and old friend Amari Cooper (traded to the Bills). Meanwhile, he continues to make the laughable excuse that they don’t have the salary cap room to add any outside help.
He does get credit for locking up Prescott and wide receiver CeeDee Lamb to long-term contract extensions and for his plan to lock up Micah Parsons in the offseason. That’s great for the future, but what about the now? Maybe he’ll wake up before the trading deadline. But for now, the only good thing Jones has done to help his team is not panic. He could become reactionary and fire McCarthy or something. But he at least is smart enough to recognize they’re just one game back in the NFC East and the division and conference are very ripe for the taking. He just has to do something to help them take it.
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Grade: D
Offense
Vacchiano: The Cowboys have the NFL’s 14th-ranked offense, and it’s only that high because of Prescott and Lamb. There is nothing else they have going for them. They are arguably the most one-dimensional team in the NFL. That is going to be a huge problem for them going forward.
Granted, Prescott and Lamb are good enough to carry this offense a long way, especially if they get hot. But the offensive line is starting to show cracks, and that really won’t help a rushing attack that ranks dead last in the NFL, generating just 77.2 yards per game. That’s pathetic, but not surprising considering the Cowboys decided pairing Rico Dowdle with whatever is left of Ezekiel Elliott was somehow a good idea.
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If they don’t develop (or find) a running game or at least a second option in the passing game, they are doomed to have a middling offense all year.
Grade: B-
Mike McCarthy responds to ‘soft’ label for Cowboys following blowout loss to Lions
Defense
Helman: I’m going to give Mike Zimmer some credit for the factors here that are outside his control. For starters, injuries have been a real thing. Zimmer has yet to have both of his primary corners, Trevon Diggs and DaRon Bland, available together for a game. That matters for the type of defenses he likes to run. Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence have both also been out now for two weeks, which makes life tough on the pass rush. Eric Kendricks also sat out of the debacle against Detroit.
That stuff does matter. It’s not a good enough of an excuse, though — not considering the depth of ineptitude we’ve seen to this point. The Cowboys were mostly healthy in Week 2 when the Saints ran over them to the tune of 190 yards, and it’s been that bad ever since. Consider this fun stat: In their three losses, their opponents have had 31 total possessions. They’ve scored on 20 of those 31 possessions, which means the Cowboys are allowing points 65% of the time their opponent touches the ball. The Saints and Lions both scored on every possession of the first half! Even if the Dallas offense was playing well, it’d be impossible to win games playing that way. They’re the worst run defense in the league and their pass defense doesn’t do much to offset that issue. It’s a brutal combination. They aren’t even getting takeaways to offset these problems, with just five on the year.
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I’m not convinced it’s all Zimmer’s fault between injuries and a lack of personnel, but he also knew what he signed up for when he agreed to join on with a front office that doesn’t spend in free agency and a head coach who is in the last year of his contract. Even with all the variables, this level of execution just isn’t good enough from an NFL defense.
Grade: F
Special Teams
Helman: Finally, something encouraging.
It might not count for much with all of the other issues, but Brandon Aubrey can officially stake his claim as the best kicker in football. The guy has been on an absolute heater, leading the league with 17 made field goals and just two misses on the year. Roughly half of those attempts have come from beyond 50 yards, with a mind-bending long of 65. It speaks to the Cowboys’ ineptitude on offense that Aubrey is routinely kicking from beyond the 35-yard line — but at least he’s justifying those decisions.
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Aubrey’s ability to hit kicks from the logo means Bryan Anger hasn’t had to do as much work. The Cowboys’ punter has just 17 attempts this year, which is one of the lower totals in the league.
Add in the fact that KaVontae Turpin has been one of the league’s most dangerous returners in both the kick and punt game, and this is pretty much the only aspect of this Cowboys team worth feeling good about.
Vacchiano: A 3-3 record is OK. Being one game out of the division lead is OK, especially with 11 games still to go. In fact, for the most part, the Cowboys’ start to this season has been generally OK.
The problem is that they set their own bar higher than just OK. It’s not OK that they are so up and down in a year when they were so convinced that they had enough to make a Super Bowl run that they sat out the free-agent market. It’s not OK that coming off three straight 12-win seasons they somehow have to go 9-2 the rest of the way to do it again. And it’s not OK that they are 0-3 at home and two of the losses were by a combined score of 91-28. In fact, all three would have been blowouts if they hadn’t mounted a furious and futile late rally against the Ravens.
If they were a team starting over, or a perennial loser like the Jets, then sure, they could pop the champagne over this and get a mediocre grade. But the standard, as they say, is the standard. And they’re not meeting it right now.
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Grade: C
Helman: The record says they’re mediocre, but man this is one of the worst 3-3 teams I can remember watching. To illustrate my point, here’s a fun stat: there are four other 3-3 teams in the NFL right now. Those four teams have point differentials of +32, +16, 0 and -4. The Cowboys’ point differential is -42. They’re escaping by an average margin of 8 points in their wins and getting run out of the building by an average of 22 points in their losses.
So, to Ralph’s point, they’re certainly not meeting the expectation of reaching the playoffs and going beyond. But in addition, they just don’t look like a quality football team right now. Even their wins haven’t been something to get excited about.
The one bright spot is that they’ve done enough to stay in the conversation. They’re .500 and they do have a 1-0 record in the division, which isn’t a terrible place to be. But it’s going to take some serious soul-searching to right the ship. After this week off, it’s back-to-back road trips to San Francisco and Atlanta, followed by home games against Houston and Philadelphia. Then, another road trip to face the upstart Commanders. The next five opponents currently have a combined record of 19-10, and the Cowboys will be lucky to be favored in one of those games. The season’s not over, but it’s on the ropes.
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Grade: D
David Helman covers the NFL for FOX Sports and hosts the NFL on FOX podcast. He previously spent nine seasons covering the Cowboys for the team’s official website. In 2018, he won a regional Emmy for his role in producing “Dak Prescott: A Family Reunion” about the quarterback’s time at Mississippi State. Follow him on Twitter at @davidhelman_.
Ralph Vacchiano is an NFL Reporter for FOX Sports. He spent the previous six years covering the Giants and Jets for SNY TV in New York, and before that, 16 years covering the Giants and the NFL for the New York Daily News. Follow him Twitter at @RalphVacchiano.
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