The Meatball Brothers could barely sleep the final weeks of Circa Survivor, the richest NFL handicapping contest ever with a guaranteed prize of $14.3 million.
“Honest to god, for the last two weeks, we’ve slept maybe two hours a night,” said Paul Czyz, 55, one of six members of the Meatball Brothers team in the $1,000-entry contest.
Neither could Harvard graduates Brian Wood and Zheng Fan, who teamed up on the Dream Stakes entry.
“It’s literally so much stress,” said Wood, 38. “I didn’t sleep well the past few weeks.”
Fan, 37, had a full head of hair before sweating out several close calls in the contest, in which entrants pick one straight-up NFL winner each week — including separate weeks for Thanksgiving and Christmas — but can use each team only once.
