For the last several years, I’ve tried to enter as many FREE football contests as possible.  Many of these contests have weekly prizes and season-long prizes.  Often it can be a war of attrition to just get your entries in each week for each contest.  But hey, free to enter is still free…and someone is has to win…might as well be me!

Just for all of my fans, I’m going to list out all of the free contests I know about in one place.  Then don’t forget to save this page in your favorites!.  This way each person (including yours truly) can click the link to make their contest selections for the week.   Along with each contest, I will be giving some comments about each.  Many of the contests are run by offshore sportsbooks hoping to get you wagering with them.    

Best of luck this year...may you win the big-prize!   Now, onto the contests…

• Fantasy Sharks – Swim with the Sharks Contest
  http://www.fantasysharks.com/apps/Swim/swimweeklyenter.php
  $500 prize to StarsCollect

• Fantasy Sharks – Pick ‘em Contest
  (Coming next week)
  $500 prize to StarsCollect

• ESPN’s Pigskin Pick’em
  http://games.espn.go.com/pigskin/frontpage
  Simple, Easy Contest.  But, ESPN is popular so there will be many entires.

• ESPN’s Gridiron Challenge
  http://games.espn.go.com/gridiron/frontpage
  Another simple ESPN contest

• Maxim‘s Football Challenge http://football.maximonline.com/nflchallenge/register.asp 
  Nice scenery…

• SportBetting.com Gridiron Pick’em
  http://contest.sportsbetting.com/cgi-bin/real-b03_sportsbetting/home.cgi 
  Good Contest, easy

• Vegas Insider
  http://www.vegasinsider.com/u/contests/thc/2003/thc.htm 
  Solid Company

• Sportsbook.com Pick 6
  http://www.sportsbook.com/contest/pick6.html 
  Fun Contest

• BetWWTS
  http://www.betswwts.com/index.asp 
  *Look for FREE NFL Handicapping Contest, never tried this one before

• Covers.com
  http://www.covers.com/index.asp 
  *Contests should be live, soon…

• FreeSportsMonitor
  http://www.freesportsmonitor.com/index.php3 
  *Not sure how this works…

• SportsWireOnline
  http://www.sportswireonline.com/contest.html 
  *Might be up soon

If you know of any good NFL contests, please email me a link (vinnie@fantasysharks.com), and we can add them.  The sooner the better as the NFL season starts in about a week or so, and most contests are season long.  So, don’t delay you need to get in from the start!.