FINALLY!!!

Yes, football fans, your long, tedious nightmare is over.
The National Football League players and owners figured out that they needed each other, after all. As a result, we will have a full NFL season this fall. We will have all our preseason games except the Hall of Fame Game. We will have a full off-season of signings, trades and cuts squeezed into a period of about six days. (Hope you can speed read.)
And we will have a full slate of fantasy football. Details on that will come in a future post.
Every football fan who heard about the agreement probably felt, for at least a moment, like setting off fireworks or cracking open the champagne. But then you realize something. This wasn't a grand or noble achievement. This wasn't the curing of polio or Apollo 11 or the death of Osama bin Laden. This is a deal that the players and owners could have reached months ago, saving the fans a lot of indigestion in the process.
And in the end, we, the fans, will do what we always do in these situations. We will take these players and teams back as if nothing ever happened. There will be no serious boycotts or strikes or pie-throwing campaigns on our part. The players won't pay a real price for this. Neither will the owners. The Pro Football Hall of Fame (beneficiary of the only canceled game) and a lot of laid-off workers, none of whom ever made it onto a fantasy squad, are the only ones who will pay a legitimate price for what happened over the past few months.
We're just happy to have football again.
The first preseason game isn't for a couple of weeks, but we have a NASCAR race this weekend. And we have a lineup to fill for the People's Pitstop. If you haven't done so already, take a moment now to vote for the drivers you think we should use at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Thanks.
We'll be back with more fantasy news as soon as we can get it.