The Anticipation is Exciting

• Author: BallGirl
• Filed under: Fantasy Football
• Date: Oct 19,2008

Last week was a dud for my fantasy football team. I was traveling and accidentally forgot to pull an injured player. Woops! So I am hoping to make a comeback this week. All week long I have been checking in on my players and daydreaming about a win. Will this be the week that Big Ben lives up to his name and hype? A girl can dream. Will my Panthers running back duo find a way to drive through the Saints’ defense? I can hope!

What’s most exciting this week is the anticipation. Every week is a new week. It doesn’t matter what happened last week. This week is a clean slate. The anticipation grows as Sunday afternoon gets closer. As I take a shower and put on my gameday gear, I feel a little tingle of excitement about what the day might bring. Will this week bring an explosion of points from my wide receivers? We’ll know in just a few short hours.

And So It Starts…

• Author: Guinness618
• Filed under: Fantasy Football
• Date: Aug 26,2008

I had heard the rumors around the office and each morning I opened my mailbox, waiting for the email I knew was inevitable.  My stomach was in knots, my palms sweating, my bowels shaken.  There was no getting out of it…

Fantasy Football was starting. 

I was hired last October and so missed being able to play (darn!).  This year, however, I got the invitation.  THE INVITATION.

Problem is, I don’t know anything about football, let alone the fantasy part.  No, that’s not true.  I know that Brett Favre still looked hot, even wearing the God-awful braces on his teeth.  I know that the New England Patriots quarterback, whats-his-face Tom somebody, had a baby with Bridget Moynahan (love her) but broke up with her mid-pregancy and started dating Giselle Bundchen  who was with Leonardo DiCaprio for such a long time!  They were a cute couple, but I think he’s taking the whole Howard Hughes thing a little seriously.  And did you see him new girlfriend.  OMG!  What kind of name is Bar?

OH!  Sorry, I have digressed.

On the rare occasion I do watch with my husband, I pick my favored team by the colors on their uniform or who’s got the nicest butts (overall).  Big surprise, I don’t win a lot of times.

To be quite honest, I really don’t care about fantasy football.  But that fantasy pigskin that could help my career.  I am hoping that if I make a good enough showing, actually look like I know what I am doing, my boss just might start calling me the correct name.  He won the league thingy last year which asks the question:  Do you through a game to let your boss win?  Are their etiquette rules to this whole thing? 

Yesterday, I enlisted the help of a new friend to be my ghost coach.  From what I have read, he’s really into this whole thing, and I am not above slipping him some cash or freshly baked brownies to help me pull this thing off.

Next post:  Naming my team

Fantasy Football The Season Has Started

• Author: BallGirl
• Filed under: Fantasy Football
• Date: Aug 24,2008

Fantasy Football season has started! After weeks (okay, hours) of prepping for my draft, I am fairly happy with my team. The best part about a fantasy football draft is that although you know going into it that it is pretty much a crap shoot, you still feel compelled to come up with a “strategy.”

My strategy used to involve never picking players that I didn’t like personally or players that played for teams that I didn’t like. For the first time ever, I strayed from my usual. I actually drafted the Cryboy defense, a Raisins tight end, and the NE Cheaters’ running back. For the first time ever I also did not draft my favorite all-time player, Hines Ward. I decided that I need to start separating my personal feelings from my feelings of needing to dominate my FF league.

We’ll see how it works out. In a league off almost all men, they will be surprised if I come out with a winning record lest a playoff spot. If I don’t dazzle them with my play, I’ll distract them with dirty talk. Either way, they’ll invite me back next year.