Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Are You Ready For Some (Fantasy) Football?
It’s Year 3 of my fantasy football life. Every year I learn more and more, and I finally recognize most of the players’ names (heh, Craphonso Thorpe), except for your average defensive lineman. Even though SL was obsessed with defense, I mostly don’t care about what’s going on on the line after the snap. I want to follow the ball. Even though I only have one player (Ronnie Brown) in Thursday’s game, I’m pretty excited about football season starting. I have a doctor’s appointment across town, which means picking up Popeye’s on the way home. Unfortunately, since Popeye’s is so far away, it’s only a special occasion meal. Sure, sure, you might think that eating at a five star restaurant is something for a special occasion, but that’s probably why you’re not me. Ugh, I’d have to get dressed up for that.
I suppose I should finally get to my book review - Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie by Mark St. Amant. It was an entertaining and an educational (well, for me) story of one guy’s dream to win his fantasy football league. Luckily for him, he’s a writer, so even though he quit his advertising job to work on his fantasy football game full-time, he was still able to cash in on it with a book. And a good book it was. Read it to find out the answer to the all-important question - does devoting your life to winning your league help you actually win that league? Whether or not he wins, it was an interesting journey. One of the surprises of a super competitive league he observed was that one of the members is Cenk Uygur from The Huffington Post. This was written before HuffPo existed and Cenk was a radio talk show host. His website is http://www.theyoungturks.com - and in some weird synchronicity thing, I was just reading his profile on The Young Turks site, which I’ve never been to before and he mentions “Favorite Product: Popeye’s Chicken”. Weird, no?
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