Playoffs baby! My prediction: Pats and Packers for the SuperBowl.
BTW speaking of football, I'm sure you are curious to know about my fantasy football team. Well seeing as how it's been over for way over a month and I didn't want to bore you. I didn't fare well this year. I did make it to the playoffs by a lucky break but then lost the first game. Yeah nothing to write home about.
A few funny things I wanted to mention about the quips of my children.
I was getting BB dressed this morning and had him take his shirt off while I was in another room getting or doing whatever. BB yells "Mommy come look at this, come quick." I go to look and he's showing me his little boy nips on his chest. "What is that mommy?" "That's your boy nips silly." "I don't like them, take them off!" I couldn't help to laugh at him.
We made our morning jont to the House of Wal this morning. I try to go at a prime time when the rest of the world should be doing something else, like attending church. Yeah I know. Anyway were in the health and beauty aisle and just happen to be passing by the Trojans which are conveniently placed near the female products. I don't know what WB saw that fascinated him, cause last I checked Trojans didn't have cartoon characters on them. He just grabbed a box off the shelf asking me "What are these?!" "Put those back dude!" Needless to say I'm always glad we hit the House of Wal at prime time.
Showing posts with label fantasy football. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy football. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 12, 2007
Drum Roll Please....
I said can I get a drum roll please?
Anyways I'm sure you all are just holding your breath anxiously awaiting my decision on the team name. Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions. I would thank all of you personally but that would takehours minutes to do. I do thank you and you and you for your suggestions. But I decided to go out on my own as I should have done in the first place. I did enjoy your suggestions.
Are you ready? Don't get to excited as I'd hate for you to pop a blood vessel.
Ok here it goes. The Schaubberry Shortcakes.
I know what your thinking, What The? I promise this will be the last post about FF for a very long time.
Now for a little background info on the name. My hubby is a big Houston Texans fan. He's been one since it's inception. As his loving wife, I have to be the shoulder he cries on when the going ain't going so well. The Texans this year fired their quarterback well simply because he really sucked. They hired Matt Schaub who was a backup quarterback to somebody I can't remember, ( see I told you I only pretend to know what I'm talking about) anyway the Texans hired him and now he's the main guy.
The name just really hit me over the head as I was watching the pregame last night. So in honor of my hubby and to rib him in the spot he's most sensitive..his Texans. It's girly and footbally all wrapped in one. Which is what I wanted.
Thanks for playing along.
Anyways I'm sure you all are just holding your breath anxiously awaiting my decision on the team name. Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions. I would thank all of you personally but that would take
Are you ready? Don't get to excited as I'd hate for you to pop a blood vessel.
Ok here it goes. The Schaubberry Shortcakes.
I know what your thinking, What The? I promise this will be the last post about FF for a very long time.
Now for a little background info on the name. My hubby is a big Houston Texans fan. He's been one since it's inception. As his loving wife, I have to be the shoulder he cries on when the going ain't going so well. The Texans this year fired their quarterback well simply because he really sucked. They hired Matt Schaub who was a backup quarterback to somebody I can't remember, ( see I told you I only pretend to know what I'm talking about) anyway the Texans hired him and now he's the main guy.
The name just really hit me over the head as I was watching the pregame last night. So in honor of my hubby and to rib him in the spot he's most sensitive..his Texans. It's girly and footbally all wrapped in one. Which is what I wanted.
Thanks for playing along.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
My Apologies!
For some reason I assumed that everyone on the planet knew what exactly Fantasy Football is. Obviously I was wrong. So I feel it my duty to explain it to you the way I know how. Just because I've played for 5 years does not make me an expert in any way shape or form. I just like to pretend like I know what I'm doing.
First of all you join a league of about 10 or so guys who really think they know what their doing even more than you. That's the genius of all this, cause half of the guys really don't have a clue any more than you do. Don't tell them I told you that.
Secondly and the most fun of all is the draft. If your not familiar with what a draft is, it's basically like picking teams at kick ball back in elementary school, but your the team captain and your picking some highly paid professionals. The "Commissioner" (that's the dude in charge of the league) draws every ones name to see what order we pick in the draft. So if your first than you get the best pick. If your last you get last pick. But being last is not always a bad thing as you come back up rotation you get two picks and then second to last picks and so on, til your back to number 1. Then number 1 picks twice and you do it all over again. You follow? You do this for 14 plus rounds. The first 3-5 rounds are critial as this is where everyone gets all the top players. Stay with me now I'll explain about the players in a sec. As you get to the last rounds your pretty much getting the sucky players, but they are primarily for backups. You use a back up when one of your top players gets hurt or they are on a bye. If you ever wonder why a grown man is crying when a top player gets hurt, it's cause they were probably on his fantasy team and his back up is probably some 3rd string high school quarterback.
Every league is different on what required players they must have. Our league sticks with the typical standard. 1 quarterback, 2 running backs, 2 wide receivers, 1 tight end, 1 kicker, 1 defense. All these players are picked from various teams. Some people like to pick a quarterback/wide receiver on the same team to kind of get double points. I don't like doing that, but that's just me. Now each player gets a certain amount of points for so many yards they've threw/ran/caught with the ball. They then get 6 points for every touchdown plus how ever many yards. "Hey you in back, no sleeping during class." Normally the standard is 25yards=1 point. So if for example Peyton Manning threw the ball to Marvin Harrison for 25 yards and Harrison made a touchdown. Peyton and Marvin would get 7 points each.Since Peyton threw the ball he gets the points also. Now in most cases you will not have both Marvin and Peyton both on your league. If you do then bravo to you for being so lucky. The great thing about the scoring is you don't have to keep up, the league website does it for you. Also you don't have to score a touch down to get your yardage points. If Peyton threw the ball to Marvin and Marvin got tackled both would still get 1 point. Since Peyton has a rocket arm he can usually score a good 15 points just on yardage. However if Peyton were to be intercepted, he would lose 2 points. The defense of the other team(whoever by chance has that team) would then gain 2 points.
Basically we've gone over picking your players, and how the scoring is done, any questions? It's really pretty simple. The most important thing is studying what players you want to pick and when to pick them. Most people pick a running back or quarterback in the first couple of rounds as they are the higher scorers and the good ones go really fast. If you were to pick a kicker in the first round you'd be shunned from the league. Another reason you want to "study" your players is to know who is actually playing/injured or even worse retired. Last year a dude on my league picked Marshall Faulk in one of the first rounds and had no clue that he was retired. The guys on our league are pretty nice enough to give you a heads up that someone is hurt. Cause sometimes you just don't, and it's hard to keep up. NO ONE told this poor dude that Marshall was retired. Instead we all tried very hard from containing ourselves from busting out laughing. Were all good sports like that. The website like CBSSportsline is always good about providing up to date info on players and stats. So it makes it pretty easy. Just in case you were a little intimidated by that keeping up with players part.
Once the draft is done your then set to go head to head against the other dudes in the league. Your following your score and your opponents score. The fun part is your not just following one NFL team, your following several. That my girlfriends, is why most men want the Sunday Ticket. So they can flip around to watch their "players" play. They probably could care less about the Bengals despite the fact that your dude has Chad Johnson on his team. At the end of the season before the real play offs, the FF playoffs begin. At this point it's no more mister nice guy/girl and the trash talk is on.
I have been very fortunate to make it to the play offs and so close to making it to the final 4. My poor hubs didn't even make it to the play offs last year. Sorry hon I'm really hoping for you this year. I honestly can tell you how nerve racking it can be watching your scores and your players. Your begging the quarterback to pass the ball to your dude. Yes you will be yelling at the T.V. saying your dude was wide open, or RUN baby RUN!
Playing FF has pretty much saved my marriage during football season. We bond like never before and share a commonality other than kids, work, and Mythbusters.
Class dismissed. There will be a quiz later.
BTW! I forgot to mention the most important part in all of this...the money!!! There is quite a substantial amount of money to be won for the Super Bowl winner. Sorry gals there is no ring involved for the champion.
First of all you join a league of about 10 or so guys who really think they know what their doing even more than you. That's the genius of all this, cause half of the guys really don't have a clue any more than you do. Don't tell them I told you that.
Secondly and the most fun of all is the draft. If your not familiar with what a draft is, it's basically like picking teams at kick ball back in elementary school, but your the team captain and your picking some highly paid professionals. The "Commissioner" (that's the dude in charge of the league) draws every ones name to see what order we pick in the draft. So if your first than you get the best pick. If your last you get last pick. But being last is not always a bad thing as you come back up rotation you get two picks and then second to last picks and so on, til your back to number 1. Then number 1 picks twice and you do it all over again. You follow? You do this for 14 plus rounds. The first 3-5 rounds are critial as this is where everyone gets all the top players. Stay with me now I'll explain about the players in a sec. As you get to the last rounds your pretty much getting the sucky players, but they are primarily for backups. You use a back up when one of your top players gets hurt or they are on a bye. If you ever wonder why a grown man is crying when a top player gets hurt, it's cause they were probably on his fantasy team and his back up is probably some 3rd string high school quarterback.
Every league is different on what required players they must have. Our league sticks with the typical standard. 1 quarterback, 2 running backs, 2 wide receivers, 1 tight end, 1 kicker, 1 defense. All these players are picked from various teams. Some people like to pick a quarterback/wide receiver on the same team to kind of get double points. I don't like doing that, but that's just me. Now each player gets a certain amount of points for so many yards they've threw/ran/caught with the ball. They then get 6 points for every touchdown plus how ever many yards. "Hey you in back, no sleeping during class." Normally the standard is 25yards=1 point. So if for example Peyton Manning threw the ball to Marvin Harrison for 25 yards and Harrison made a touchdown. Peyton and Marvin would get 7 points each.Since Peyton threw the ball he gets the points also. Now in most cases you will not have both Marvin and Peyton both on your league. If you do then bravo to you for being so lucky. The great thing about the scoring is you don't have to keep up, the league website does it for you. Also you don't have to score a touch down to get your yardage points. If Peyton threw the ball to Marvin and Marvin got tackled both would still get 1 point. Since Peyton has a rocket arm he can usually score a good 15 points just on yardage. However if Peyton were to be intercepted, he would lose 2 points. The defense of the other team(whoever by chance has that team) would then gain 2 points.
Basically we've gone over picking your players, and how the scoring is done, any questions? It's really pretty simple. The most important thing is studying what players you want to pick and when to pick them. Most people pick a running back or quarterback in the first couple of rounds as they are the higher scorers and the good ones go really fast. If you were to pick a kicker in the first round you'd be shunned from the league. Another reason you want to "study" your players is to know who is actually playing/injured or even worse retired. Last year a dude on my league picked Marshall Faulk in one of the first rounds and had no clue that he was retired. The guys on our league are pretty nice enough to give you a heads up that someone is hurt. Cause sometimes you just don't, and it's hard to keep up. NO ONE told this poor dude that Marshall was retired. Instead we all tried very hard from containing ourselves from busting out laughing. Were all good sports like that. The website like CBSSportsline is always good about providing up to date info on players and stats. So it makes it pretty easy. Just in case you were a little intimidated by that keeping up with players part.
Once the draft is done your then set to go head to head against the other dudes in the league. Your following your score and your opponents score. The fun part is your not just following one NFL team, your following several. That my girlfriends, is why most men want the Sunday Ticket. So they can flip around to watch their "players" play. They probably could care less about the Bengals despite the fact that your dude has Chad Johnson on his team. At the end of the season before the real play offs, the FF playoffs begin. At this point it's no more mister nice guy/girl and the trash talk is on.
I have been very fortunate to make it to the play offs and so close to making it to the final 4. My poor hubs didn't even make it to the play offs last year. Sorry hon I'm really hoping for you this year. I honestly can tell you how nerve racking it can be watching your scores and your players. Your begging the quarterback to pass the ball to your dude. Yes you will be yelling at the T.V. saying your dude was wide open, or RUN baby RUN!
Playing FF has pretty much saved my marriage during football season. We bond like never before and share a commonality other than kids, work, and Mythbusters.
Class dismissed. There will be a quiz later.
BTW! I forgot to mention the most important part in all of this...the money!!! There is quite a substantial amount of money to be won for the Super Bowl winner. Sorry gals there is no ring involved for the champion.
Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Fantasy Football Time
I've been playing Fantasy Football with the guys at the office going on 5 years. I love playing and it's actually something the hubs and I enjoy doing together. The kids are somewhat ignored during football time, so we started including them in on the fun by putting them in a free league so we all can root for our teams together.
Last year I was right up there near the championship but missed it by that much. Along with the trash talk, and the draft is the team name. I love to come up with something spiffy for my name. Some years were better than others. This year I have decided to leave it to you guys. All 3 of ya. Leave a comment on this post what you think my Fantasy Football team name should be and the best one will be the winner. I haven't decided yet if I will give away a prize. You have until next Friday to come up with a name. So tell your uncles, cousins, neighbors, whoever and tell them to stop by and leave a comment.
Here are some of the names I have had to give you an idea of what I'm looking for.
-Victorious Secret- This was my best name and for some reason the guys got a kick out it to.
-Screaming Banchees-
-T Roses- It was really stupid all I remember is that it had a rose in it.
I like a feminine kick the guys butts kind of name. Most years I was the only girl playing but this year we have two other girls playing so I want a real girl power kind of name. Keep it some what clean of course.
***Updated***
First off I thought my graphic I made really looked crappy. Sorry if someone liked..yeah right.
Last year I was right up there near the championship but missed it by that much. Along with the trash talk, and the draft is the team name. I love to come up with something spiffy for my name. Some years were better than others. This year I have decided to leave it to you guys. All 3 of ya. Leave a comment on this post what you think my Fantasy Football team name should be and the best one will be the winner. I haven't decided yet if I will give away a prize. You have until next Friday to come up with a name. So tell your uncles, cousins, neighbors, whoever and tell them to stop by and leave a comment.
Here are some of the names I have had to give you an idea of what I'm looking for.
-Victorious Secret- This was my best name and for some reason the guys got a kick out it to.
-Screaming Banchees-
-T Roses- It was really stupid all I remember is that it had a rose in it.
I like a feminine kick the guys butts kind of name. Most years I was the only girl playing but this year we have two other girls playing so I want a real girl power kind of name. Keep it some what clean of course.
***Updated***
First off I thought my graphic I made really looked crappy. Sorry if someone liked..yeah right.
Secondly I was probably to ambitious thinking more than 3 people would comment. I love my peeps, I love that I'm the little independent "store" blogger compared to the "Wal-Mart" bloggers out there. So I decdided instead of a contest just tell me which FF team I should pick from the ones that I have thought of. Unless you guys think of an awesome one feel free to share it to.
Here are the ones I've thought of so far. I'll add some more as I think of them.
-Bahama Momma's or BM's for short.
-Victorious Secret
-Psychotic Mom Scoring (PMS), or something with PMS for the abbreviation.
-Teflon and the Non Stick Pans- I found this one and it cracked me up.
-Aunt Florence's Navy
-Martha's Good Thing
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