As you consider what to do with our lineup and how to vote in our poll on abandoned fantasy football teams, here are some links worthy of your clicking time.
Pay attention to that waiver wire. There will be a quiz. A North Carolina high school teacher named Michael Williams has won the Economic Educator of the Year Award from the North Carolina Council on Economic Education. His innovation: having students draft and track a fantasy football team to learn about supply and demand. (Assist to a fellow WordPress blogger, Gold and the Game, for finding this story.)
Can I nominate Matt Forte? For you fantasy players who think you couldn't pick a good team if your life were riding on the outcome, here's a Yahoo! list of the biggest draft busts of the past decade. The moral: Highly paid professionals can't get it right, either. The difference between you and the GMs who made these picks: They get cushy jobs after they fail. You just get laughed at by your closest friends.
You just traded Gonzalez for Cutler? Go to your room! Another fellow WordPress blogger, Jonathan's World (heads up: the site's artwork isn't exactly safe for work) offers an interesting post on whether children should play fantasy football. My opinion: Let them play. If we don't come up with creative ways to get kids interested in football, we may lose an entire generation in places like Cleveland.
Warning: This post has more than 140 characters. The Wall Street Journal (yes, the Wall Street-freaking Journal, the place that uses drawings instead of photos) has an article about how the National Football League has been changed by the invention of Twitter.
For example, there's the Larry Johnson saga. "Had Twitter not existed, or had the Chiefs forbade their players from tweeting, Mr. Johnson most likely would have awakened today as the Chiefs' all-time leading rusher, and still been owned in most leagues."
We'll be back tomorrow with some visual aids.
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Some Pre-Thanksgiving Reading
Here are some links to peruse while you consider what to do with our lineup for our upcoming matchup against the Hawaiian Surfriders.
Champ, why don't you stop talking for a while? In his always-essential "Monday Morning Quarterback," Peter King alerted football fans to a tweet he got Monday morning from our very own Chad Ochocinco:
"Good morning to all, top of the morning on this awesome football Sunday ALI-HOLMES=OCHO CINCO-NNAMDI'' I damn sure ain't HOLMES either.''
In case you missed yesterday's post, Chad got only 6 fantasy points Sunday and was kept out of the end zone by Nnamdi Asomugha and the rest of the Oakland Raiders.
Maybe Chad knew he was headed for a mediocre fantasy football performance. After all, Larry Holmes beat Muhammad Ali.
Cause for alarm. The New York Jets had to know they would need all the help they could get facing the New England Patriots in Foxboro. What they got instead was dragged out of their hotel rooms early Sunday morning when someone pulled a false fire alarm.
Once again, this is something that one of the pregame television shows could have flagged before fantasy players set their rosters. (And you can't argue that the networks didn't know about this. Players were sending out tweets starting practically the moment it happened.) Seriously, if you had known that the Jets were being pulled out of their beds that late, would you have started any of them?
The only Jet I would have started in those circumstances is Joe Namath, since he would have just been getting back to the hotel at that time, anyway.
Well, there's a switch. Unless you live in Buffalo or Jacksonville or had players from the Bills or Jaguars in your fantasy lineups, you probably did not see Eric Wood of the Buffalo Bills break his leg and end his season. That's because CBS decided that the injury was too gruesome to show in a replay. (If you want to see it for yourself, you can click here.)
It's interesting that CBS made that decision about that injury. Those of us old enough to remember Joe Theismann as something other than a TV personality remember how his playing career ended. When the Washington Redskins were playing the New York Giants on Monday night, Lawrence Taylor sacked Theismann and broke his leg in a way that probably still send chills down Joe's spine when he thinks about it. However, no one felt any qualms about replaying the hit immediately afterward or in the days, months and years that followed.
(You can see Taylor's hit, and a replay of it, by clicking here.)
We'll be back tomorrow with an early edition of the Landshark Maniacs predictions.
Champ, why don't you stop talking for a while? In his always-essential "Monday Morning Quarterback," Peter King alerted football fans to a tweet he got Monday morning from our very own Chad Ochocinco:
"Good morning to all, top of the morning on this awesome football Sunday ALI-HOLMES=OCHO CINCO-NNAMDI'' I damn sure ain't HOLMES either.''
In case you missed yesterday's post, Chad got only 6 fantasy points Sunday and was kept out of the end zone by Nnamdi Asomugha and the rest of the Oakland Raiders.
Maybe Chad knew he was headed for a mediocre fantasy football performance. After all, Larry Holmes beat Muhammad Ali.
Cause for alarm. The New York Jets had to know they would need all the help they could get facing the New England Patriots in Foxboro. What they got instead was dragged out of their hotel rooms early Sunday morning when someone pulled a false fire alarm.
Once again, this is something that one of the pregame television shows could have flagged before fantasy players set their rosters. (And you can't argue that the networks didn't know about this. Players were sending out tweets starting practically the moment it happened.) Seriously, if you had known that the Jets were being pulled out of their beds that late, would you have started any of them?
The only Jet I would have started in those circumstances is Joe Namath, since he would have just been getting back to the hotel at that time, anyway.
Well, there's a switch. Unless you live in Buffalo or Jacksonville or had players from the Bills or Jaguars in your fantasy lineups, you probably did not see Eric Wood of the Buffalo Bills break his leg and end his season. That's because CBS decided that the injury was too gruesome to show in a replay. (If you want to see it for yourself, you can click here.)
It's interesting that CBS made that decision about that injury. Those of us old enough to remember Joe Theismann as something other than a TV personality remember how his playing career ended. When the Washington Redskins were playing the New York Giants on Monday night, Lawrence Taylor sacked Theismann and broke his leg in a way that probably still send chills down Joe's spine when he thinks about it. However, no one felt any qualms about replaying the hit immediately afterward or in the days, months and years that followed.
(You can see Taylor's hit, and a replay of it, by clicking here.)
We'll be back tomorrow with an early edition of the Landshark Maniacs predictions.
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