I just want to say off the bat (get it?) that I love football. Love it. Especially during the season when it’s a near guarantee my beloved New York Giants will be playing every weekend. The Super Bowl is cool too. Even if I have no real dog in the fight, like this year. Super Bowl Sunday is a great excuse to lounge and eat food that’s bad for you, instead of getting ready for the workweek.
Then there’s the other thing.
Once you hit Super Bowl Sunday (and Daytona week), you know IT’S ONLY TWO WEEKS TIL PITCHERS AND CATCHERS REPORT! Yeah, I’m just a little pumped up. It was an exciting offseason and all, and I’m waiting to see how the fantasy baseball players I have kept will look for 2009, along with preparing for a league draft we have every year where we fill out the rest of our rosters.
Starting last year, I now participate in two leagues.
One is “continuous”, meaning we keep a certain amount of players on our roster year to year. It’s very competitive, and certain teams (including mine, The Scorpions) have belonged since it started in the late 80’s/early 90’s. I have a hard time winning in that league. We were a finalist once, in 2001. Many of the owners draft players who have barely graduated high school! I just don’t have time to reasearch that much. I’m a good “dumpster bin” hunter though. I’ve made some great waiver wire picks over the years, including my favorite, John Papelbon.
The other league is one I joined with the help of a photographer here at WFSB named Nate. It is not continuous. You draft a whole new team every year. It’s managed by Yahoo. I was a finalist in that league last year, and hope to do even better in 2009.
Super Bowl Sunday can’t come soon enough!
