Gazette Football Contest winners garner recognition

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Another year and another Gazette Football Contest gone by.
Several individuals and businesses across the area produced their picks for 13 weeks to try and become the prognositcator of the year for high school, college and professional football. Each week a combination of all three levels of gridiron play were placed in the hands of these businesses and made available to the public so that they may try to pick the most correct number of games.
This contest season for individuals was the closest on record in the last five years, with that contest coming down to an extra week of picks to determine the winner. Three of the contestants, Perry Vidrine, Donald Sam and Hank Lafleur were all tied when the final results were totaled after week 13.
Those three individuals were given the opportunity to choose from games that included the FBS Conference Championships. After the dust had settled, Vidrine was declared the winner based on the most correct picks in week 14. That left Lafleur in second place and Sam in third. Jody Fontenot was fourth.
On the business side, Brown’s Furniture slipped past Bon Aimee for first place. Farm Bureau was a close third, while T & J Ford finished fourth.
The Gazette office competition, Becky Nelson pulled away after week one and never looked back to lock up first place. Richard Guillory and Managing Editor Elizabeth West finished second, while publisher Garland Foreman was fourth.