The 2011 Heath Ledger Celebrity Death Pool

Since the New Year has come and the Old Year has died, it's time to do two things. First, let's rehash/recap last year's Heath Ledger Death Pool results.

As you will see, last year's draft and results weren't quite as exciting as the epic 2009 Celebrity Death Pool, but we definitely had some sweet, sweet action.

This year's Celebrity Death Pool featured just three correct Death picks shared by four people. In a tie for third place was Bagel and myself, as we successfully picked George Steinbrenner and tied with 20 points (George was 80; 100-80 is 20 points. See how that works?).

In second place, we have my brother David. In addition to me still owing him a check for $68 for the You're Wasting Your Time MLB Four Team Draft brought to you by FranchiseFantasySports.com, David also managed to pick Dennis Hopper and nabbed 26 points (on the account he was 74 years young when he died). Outstanding pick, David. However, it wasn't good enough to de-throne the King of Coffins, the Damsel of Death, Jonnie "Don't Make Me Put You On My List" Karp.

Jonnie Karp, the winner of the 2009 Death Pool with an astounding 3 correct picks out of 10 for 116 points, successfully picked Gary Coleman in 2010 and because Gary Coleman died when he was just 42 years old, Jonnie wins the 1 death tie breaker with 58 points.

Well done, Jonnie, this one's for you:




Awesome. And on that note, let's kickoff the 2011 You're Wasting Your Time Heath Ledger Celebrity Death Pool!

The rules are as always, you pick 10 celebrities (they can be athletes, politicians, movie/TV stars, basically anyone famous). When one of your celebrities dies, you get credit for the death. Then, we take the perished celebrity's age, subtract it from 100 and you get a number of points for the death. In the even of a tie in the number of deaths (like the 2010 results) we'll go to the points for the tiebreaker. The person with the most deaths and then the most points (in the even of a tie) will be declared champion!

Easy enough, no? Alrighty, let's begin. Here's my list of 10 celebrities I think have a chance at perishing. Please post your list in the comment section of this blog.

1) Michael Douglas- This year's low hanging fruit.
2) Larry King- Lot's of people die shortly after they retire, because what the hell are they going to do if they don't work? I doubt I'll have this problem. I've got lots of things I plan on doing once I don't have work effing everything up.
3) Artie Lang- Rumor had it we were real close this year to this one paying off. He's back on the list.
4) Dick Clark- Appy Dew Ear!
5) Kirk Douglas- I may need a death to pad the stats. I'll only get 5 points for him, but still...a death is a death.
6) Zsa Zsa Gabor- I can't believe she's still alive, so she's on the list.
7) Aretha Franklin- I love the Snickers commercials, but she is obese and old. Never a good combo.
8) Betty White- you know she's the last surviving Golden Girl?
9) Osama Bin Laden- one can hope, right? It's the feel good pick of the Pool.
10) Randy Quaid- I hope that Eddie pulls out of the death spiral he's in. However, should he perish, I am looking forward to all of the Eddie clips they'll play on the news.

Ok, so that's my list. What's yours? Put it in the comments section and we'll update this all year long.

Now, some Entertainment for when you're pondering your 10. This is apparently real. This would have been embarrassing in the 80's. I'm not sure what there excuse is for 2011.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1945331

"Facebook that! Now, put that on your mother effin Wall":
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1945330

Would you like to see a dirty weather woman? Of course you would:
http://FunnyOrDie.com/m/5331

This headline cracked me up. "Daniel Snyder's Talks About His Biggest Mistake". Oh, ok, that narrows it down. Is it Haynesworth? Archuletta? The $500 million team that went .500? Was it firing Schottenheimer for Spurrier? Was it letting Spurrier bring back his college team for an NFL reunion/beat down? Was it pricing fans out of a shitty stadium? Was it callously treating the Turk brothers when one of them was dying? Was it shamelessly promoting the death of Sean Taylor by displaying his locker at Fed Ex stadium? Was it lying about the waiting list? Was it suing fans who could no longer afford to see your shitty team? Even though your team sucks? The suspense! I can't wait to find out Snyder's one, biggest mistake:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/thehuddle/post/2011/01/daniel-snyder-talks-about-biggest-mistake-as-redskins-owner/1

Alright, everyone. That's it. Have a good weekend. Go Pats (for 4 Team Draft purposes only).