Journal Entry from a NFL Fantasy Football Newbie Part 2

Blog Journal Entry from a Fantasy Football Newbie Part 2

I left off my last journal entry from a fantasy football newbie by saying I'd discovered how to pre-rank players without using the drag-and-drop feature. From there I refused to say what kind of team I drafted.

With that nice little recap done, I will continue. I was doing this late at night alongside my friend. Online, of course. My friend, I will admit, knows very little about football, thus, I wasn't surprised that she knew even less than I did about the whole fantasy football process. (If my friend should read this, I offer forgiveness. But you know it's the truth!)

Eventually my friend called it a night and said she would complete the rankings later. I, on the other hand, kept plodding on, determined to get at least something done. I think I must have put about fifty or sixty players in a list before I finally pushed back my keyboard and said "enough!"

To speed things along, since I'm sure this is all so very entertaining, (note friendly sarcasm) I never went back to my pre-ranked players list to fix or tweak it. Our league drafted the next week, and I had the fifth pick. My friend, as it turns out, never did complete her pre-ranked players list, therefore she was unfortunately excluded from participating in this year's fantasy football league.

Well, in my opinion, I think it's probably for the best that my friend made that crucial mistake. I know football, having sat beside my family for years watching the 49ers play back in the 1990s. Even to me, who knows football, had a doozy of a time getting in synch with all the rules and...other things.

Once our league drafted, I went home and sort of pushed it to the back of my mind. I told myself, wait till the Thursday when the Green Bay Packers and New Orleans Saints play. Yes, I realized that I made a mistake doing it. Fantasy football is about keeping on your toes. About having your ear constantly to the ground to hear all the latest news, gossip, rumors, injury reports and so on.

Fortunately, when opening weekend came, I scrambled to drop deadwood from my starting line-up and bench. Luckily, there were still a few second-stringers available for me to pick up. I waved good-bye to the back-up to the back-up quarterback who was sitting on my bench and I said hello to Alex Smith. Yes, I will say that much. At the time, it wasn't a hot choice, but there wasn't much left to choose from.

I will conclude this part two of a Journal Entry from a Fantasy Football Newbie. Look for part three soon. If you've stuck with me this far, I will say that the next entry or two...or three...should prove far more entertaining. Now I'm going to get into explicit details of my first weekend of fantasy football. And what happened when I discovered that just because the season started, doesn't mean you couldn't still join a Yahoo fantasy football public league...

I will end with a Youtube video. I'd hoped to save it for another blog post, but if you've kept reading this far, you deserve a reward. This is an old Snickers commercial. My brother reminded me about it one day when we were reminiscing about old, funny commercials. Personally, I think it's one of the damn funniest commercials I've ever seen. Definitely in my top ten, that's for sure!

Batman snickers ad - YouTube

A funny Youtube video for NFL fantasy football fans

I know I have a part two coming of my adventures into fantasy football-land, but today I'm rather busy. And since I'd like to keep the attention of the one or two people visiting my blog, here's a youtube video I found that I hope will bring you some laughs.

I Suck At Fantasy Football - YouTube
(Clicking link will open it in a new window.)

Note: If you're like me and always suspicious of clicking links, go to google and type in "youtube" and "funny fantasy football". It's entitled "I Suck at Fantasy Football".

Being that I simply googled this, if you're a fantasy football as well as a youtube fan, there's a strong possibility that you've already seen it. However, bear with me. :)

Naturally, since I am blind, I can't see anything going on in the video. I do hope if there's anything inappropriate, someone will kindly let me know. In the meantime, enjoy the song and the dialogue, because if you're a fantasy football newb like myself, you can totally appreciate it! Then again, if you're not a newb, you can get a good chuckle from it.

P.S. Take note of the first two lines of the man's song. Let's just say I know exactly what he's talking about and leave it at that...