Buddy Wayne's Ideal World: NFL "survivor" league, part 4

This is part one of my blog "doubleheader" for the week. It is a continuation of the 32-person contest among my favorite people, real and imagined, in a made-up contest for a VIP trip to Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona, courtesy of NFL On Location.

After the games of the third week, the field is down to three contestants, all of whom have been given a twist worthy of reality television. Here's the explanation: At the start of the season, contestants were assigned a team to follow for the entire season and they advanced if those teams continued to win. It has worked well to this point, but now the open dates begin (and will continue right until Thanksgiving). Two of the three remaining "survivors" - Brittany Raylene (Bengals) and Billie Barefoot (Cardinals) - have teams that are not playing this week. To ensure competitive integrity, they will be asked to continue play with another team that has been eliminated. And to be completely fair, Deb Holmes (Eagles) also must change teams.

So what new teams did they choose? Each arrived with new teams in three very different ways:

Holmes chose the Chiefs because current head coach Andy Reid was the Eagles' head coach from 1998 to 2012. Reid has more victories than any other coach in Eagles' history and has one of their two Super Bowl appearances. The Chiefs will host the Patriots this coming Monday night.
Brittany originally wanted the Broncos (husband's team), but the Broncos have a bye too. In desperation, she turned to Facebook and held an option among her friends. They were asked to pick among the 25 other available teams and bid for Brittany's use of that team with the highest bidder winning. Krista Bamburg Ribble won with a bid of $35,000; she selected the Saints, which was her team at the start of the contest. So that will be Brittany's team this week as they travel to Arlington, TX to take on the Cowboys. (Ironically, Britney Spears, the fallen pop star who caused me to create the Brittany Raylene [Spears] character in response, grew up in Kentwood, LA, about a hour's drive from the Saints' home field in New Orleans.)
After a brief flirtation with the Cowboys (he went to graduate school in Dallas), Billie the chiropractor decided to go with the Chargers. Why? He had narrowed his choices down to the three teams the Cards have beaten this season - Chargers, Giants, and 49ers in that order. For advice, he then called a talk show and spoke to co-host Ron Wolfley, who also analyzes Cards games on the radio. Wolfley wanted Billie to pick San Diego since Wolfley thought that was the best chance to win among the three. Billie accepted, so now he will root for the Chargers this coming Sunday in their home game against the Jaguars.

There are plenty of scenarios this weekend. Consider those involving Holmes:

If the Chiefs win, Holmes is guaranteed no worse than advancing to week 5. With both Chargers and Saints losses, Holmes is off to Arizona. If one of them also wins but not the other, Holmes and the other winner move on for one more week; they would then have to choose between their old teams and their new ones.
If the Chiefs lose, Holmes is out unless both other teams lose; in that case, the contest resets and continues into week 5, and all three players get their old teams back. If only one of the Chargers and Saints win as well, Billie or Brittany are Arizona-bound. With both wins and a Chiefs loss, Billie and Brittany continue in the game with the same option as above.

Finally, here are the latest eliminations, all on Sep. 21: