Are You Ready for Some Football!?

This afternoon, the defending Superbowl Champ New York Giants host (Colt Brennan and) the Washington Redskins, a game that will kick off the 2008 NFL Football Season. Seventeen plus weeks of beer drinking, score checking, and overall lazy unproductive Sundays are on the horizon. Caaaaaaan yoooooouuuuu dig it?

I can almost hear the collecting groans from wives and girlfriends across the country, as their significant other morphs into a pizza eating, tv watching fatty in front of their eyes!

And even though I still maintain that baseball is the greatest sport on earth (yes I’m one of the few), followed closely by MMA, and then basketball… football has found a soft spot in my heart. I could care less about rivalries or which teams perform well or even who will win the Super Bowl. For me, it’s all about who’s on my Fantasy Team(s)! As long as they stay healthy and perform, I’m G double O D good!

Here’s whatcho boy got. Whatchu t’ink?

Friends’ League
QB Donovan McNabb
QB Marc Bulger
WR Andre Johnson
WR Torry Holt
WR Brandon Marshall
WR Bryant Johnson
WR Derrick Mason
RB Brian Westbrook
RB Larry Johnson
RB Jonathan Stewart
RB Ronnie Brown
RB Ahmad Bradshaw
RB Warrick Dunn
TE Tony Gonzalez
K Shayne Graham
DEF Jacksonville
D Jonathan Vilma
DB Roman Harper

Work League
QB Marc Bulger
QB Jake Delhomme
QB J.T. O’Sullivan
WR Andre Johnson
WR Chad Johnson
WR Steve Smith
WR Bryant Johnson
RB Brian Westbrook
RB Frank Gore
RB Thomas Jones
RB Chris Perry
RB Rudi Johnson
RB Maurice Morris
RB DeShaun Foster
TE Todd Heap
TE Randy McMichael
TE Greg Olsen
K Neil Rackers
K Rian Lindell
DEF Minnesota
DEF Tennessee
DEF Arizona
DEF Carolina
DEF Houston

Talk to me!
* Are you looking forward to this NFL season?
* How do you think Colt will do if given the chance to start?
* How’d you do in your fantasy draft?
* How do you think I did?
* Who’s your favorite NFL team?
* Who’s your favorite NFL player?
* How are you gonna spend your Sundays?

NFL Football: Washington Redskins at New York Giants From Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. @ 1PM on KHNL Digital Channel 0008 or HD KHNL Channel 1008

Fantasy Football Draft Results

So we’re 4 picks away from completing our Fantasy Football Draft for this year.

Hallelujah!

There are 10 of us and it’s taking painfully loooong.

Since we couldn’t find a good time when all of us could meet up for a live, draft party, we decided to do the ol’ standy, the convenient method of drafting electronically. This year’s product of choice: a spreadsheet in Google Docs (where you can trash talk/chat right in the spreadsheet window… priceless!). Trouble is, many of us work or have a life on the weekends, so you end up getting lost in the draft process. The call or text message from the person drafting before you inevitably comes, and is followed by a “Wait what? What happened? Who got picked after me?”

This rigamarole repeats itself 18 times until the completion of the draft.

After my last pick, there was a defensive run in the 13th and 14th rounds: Brian Urlacher, David Harris, DeMeco Ryans, Kerry Rhodes, Jon Beason, Gibril Wilson, Tampa Bay, Seattle, Bob Sanders, and Kirk Morrison. I’ve always been a defense shmefense kinda guy once the top tier dudes are gone, so I went Warrick Dunn.

Stop laughing.

I figgah since my last 4 picks will be D, D, D, K (as it is every year), I might as well fill my last bench spot with a make or break type. Dunn’s back in Tampa Bay where he was a quality fantasy back, so perhaps something magical (or miraculous) will happen? 😛

Here’s a breakdown of how my 2008 draft turned out so far. Gimme some feedback on my team. Be honest. Lemme have it. I can take it. I’m a man. But I won’t mind compliments either. Holla atcho boy!

(In a QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, Flex, Flex, Flex, TE, K, DEF, D, DB scenario)

QB
Donovan McNabb
Marc Bulger

RB
Brian Westbrook
Larry Johnson
Jonathan Stewart
Ronnie Brown
Ahmad Bradshaw
Warrick Dunn

WR
Andre Johnson
Torry Holt
Brandon Marshall
Bryant Johnson
Derrick Mason

TE
Tony Gonzalez

K
???

DEF
???

D
???

DB
???

P.S. I wouldn’t mind your choices for sleepers this year either… 🙂