Fantasy Football Update ...

Okay kids, the fantasy draft is on Thursday at 7:30 pm Central Time! I hope you have you have been watching ALL of the pre-season games on the NFL Network (we’re getting a free preview of it here, I don’t normally have that channel) and have evaluated all the players.

The draft room will be open at 7:00 pm and the draft begins promptly at 7:30. I recommend getting there a few minutes early to make sure you’re not having any Java troubles. I’ve been told that the draft doesn’t work well if you are using AOL as your browser or whatever. It should work just fine in the latest version of Firefox and I.E. though.

If you want, you can log in and be in the draft room and click the little “away” box, and the system will auto-pick your team. That way you can be there to watch the draft and make fun of whomever gets stuck with Larry Johnson this year. It will probably be me, despite the fact that I have him ranked 736 out of 255 players. I had LJ last year and by the third game I was hoping he’d get hit by a bus on his way to practice cause he was a protected player which meant I couldn’t drop him.

So, is everyone ready?

Who is your #1 QB?


And no, Matt-Man Frank Gifford is not available in this draft. ;-)


How bout RB?


Or WR?



I’m still not completely sure who I like. I’m probably going to do the auto pick anyway. So, we’ll see who I get. It doesn’t really matter because I plan on making about 200 personnel moves throughout the season anyway.

But, I do think that right now it looks like this chick is going to be captain of the cheerleading squad...




In college news I saw that the AP, USA Today and Sports Illustrated all have Georgia ranked #1 to start the season. Pffffft ... please. I haven’t completed my pre-season rankings, but I do know I don’t have Georgia #1. They aren’t even going to with their freaking division in the SEC. Florida is going to do that.

Next week will be college season preview and prediction time.

Football Wednesday!

The blog league is set! We are ready to go. Here’s the lineup....

Top Division:

1. Deatheaters ................... Me!
2. Amazon Gargoyles ....... Dana
3. The Snarkers ................. WNG
4. Youse Guys ................... Dianne
5. Corky’s Crew ................ Captain Corky
6. The Crushers ................. Karen
7. Oxidents Happen ........... Tali

Bottom Division:

1. New York Rockers ........ Rockdog
2. Bagwine Boners ............ Matt-Man
3. Sin City NE ................... NE*
4. Emmeline’s Harem ....... Emmeline
5. Bronx Bombers ............. Bond
6. The Texas Tamales ....... Kat**
7. ????????? ...................... M***


*NE’s blog is private. Why? I don’t know.
**Kat doesn’t have a blog, but she is on Blogtalk Radio. And she’s cool.
*** M will set up her team whenever she feels like it I guess. ;-)
BTW, my apologies to M for not putting her blog Rumblings and Bumblings on the “Hot Babes” list yesterday. She definitely belongs on THAT list!

Ok, so now it’s time to get busy! I will be sending out an email reminding everyone to rank his/her players and all that cool stuff.

To rank your players simply go to the league page and then click on the “draft” tab.


Then click on “rank players.”


If you want to just use Flea Flicker’s player rankings, just click “save” and you’re ready. If you want to change the rankings up then you can click and drag players or search for them and add them that way.


Again, the live draft is on Thursday August 21, at 7:30 PM CENTRAL. If that doesn’t work out for you the computer will auto pick for you from your player ranking list.

If you do plan on being there for the live draft (and even if you are there you can still do the auto pick by clicking the “away” box or just letting your 1:30 expire without picking and it will pick for you) and plan on picking your team yourself then I HIGHLY recommend you going through a few mock drafts. Just to be sure that you are comfortable with the way the draft works.

The “Mock Draft” tab is on the main page when you log in.



Now, a lot of people think that the pre-season is boring. But, right now is an important time folks. There are a lot of questions that need to be answered like ....

1. Will Peyton Manning’s knee be 100% by the time the season opens.

2. Is it worth it to draft Steven Smith and just bench him during his two game suspension or should you wait and hope that he’s available after week two?

3. Ditto for Brandon Marshall.

4. Is Tony Romo going to be too distracted by Jessica Simpson dancing nekkid for him on webcam to study the playbook?

5. Is Barack Obama Aaron Rodgers ready to lead?

6. Will ESPN set up a special Twitter so they can update us on Brett Favre’s every move?

“6:15 AM Favre’s alarm goes off”
“6:17 AM Brett is having sex with his wife.”
“6:17:30 AM Brett is getting in the shower.”

7. Has Matt Leinart really decided that football is as important to him as knocking up volleyball players and partying with underage chicks?

8. Will Darren McFadden be the stud everyone thinks he will be in Oakland?

9. Will Reggie Bush be so distracted by Kim Kardashian’s ass and the fact that her sister Kourtney is actually the hottest Kardasian, that he doesn’t study the playbook enough?

10. Should I draft the Buccaneers Cheerleaders?


See there are a lots of important things to worry about in pre-season.