office football pool

[kjc0123]

What is 'office football pool'?

[Ouisch]

Someone in the office makes up a grid, with one set of numbers running down along the left margin, and another set running across the top. He then sell each square on the grid for a set price (say, $5 per square). The winner is whomever has their name in the square whose numbers correspond with the winning score of that pool's football game (set in advance - the pool is for the Raiders versus the Steelers, or whatever). Usually the winnings are split 50/50 - 50% of the total collected goes to the winner, and the other 50% to the guy who organized the pool.