Helloooooo, Football Fans!
Welcome to the NEW! IMPROVED! (and downsized) FFL Herald,
found this year in Keese's Korner.
You may be all wondering why the old Herald is no longer.
Well, there are a few reasons.
The That Reporter travelling storyline was wearing a bit thin,
the stats part of the issue is now to be found on the web page,
and Rimma has bid 'dosvidanya' to us all, so even that column
is out!
Also, by having this on the website, we are guaranteed an
audience at least a little bit larger than 12.
So, what do we have to look forward to? Mostly my ramblings,
of course. Anyone is invited to submit articles,
pictures, trash talk, LOGOS, or whatever, so don't be shy.
The CyberCops will, for example, have a guest 'Cop of the Week'.
With that out of the way, here's the current news/gossip:
The draft picking order was taken on August 11th at the Plainsboro cafeteria. The Knish put all twelve
team names in the hat which looked suspiciously like a brown paper bag. We picked teams from last to first and,
yours truly was last! All the while, Dave kept muttering 'I don't want to be first, I don't want to be first', but true to
form he stepped in it again! He also claimed he wouldn't pick
Brett Favre....
Soon the trash talk started flying (which of course is pretty
dumb since no one even had a team yet).
Next item was Viper #1, Ray Delany who is quoted in the
guestbook as saying 'you bet your ass I'm in this year' -
but Dave CORRECTLY predicted he would fold. And, sure enough,
he dropped out, citing work and travel as the reason.
The rest of the league, of course, got a good laugh at this
one. Except, of course, for Frank and Chris, as this allowed them to
enter the league. Tentatively called 'The Manila Maulers',
they embarked on a crash-course stadium building effort
and renamed themselves 'The Nighthawks'. I would have
called them 'cannon fodder', but I won't 'cause I was once a
rookie, too.
Note to Matt - my team name is NOT the 'Yes Dears' - I'll
remember that!
On to draft night, September 1st.
Which brings us to The Terminators, supposedly owned by Mike
Gephart whenever he is in town. Since Mike also had work &
travel problems but couldn't bear the humiliation of dropping
out, we all planned the chat room solution to this problem.
Only problem was, on draft night, we found out that 'Yahoo chat
rooms suck'! - so we did the beeper/phone thing and it
amazingly worked out really well. Thanks Mike for dialing so
quickly, and hope your sushi was good!
The Pounders of Pocono were at the baseball playoffs on draft
night so the envelope method was used to choose that team -
and we learned two things:
1) - reading an envelope was easier than thinking
2) - Ernie got a surprisingly good team
3) - at least a few owners want to use this method next year
(ok, ok, that's 3 things)
Now for those who were at draft night
- We had a few name changes:
Angry Amoebas morphed into The Savage Squirrels
Big Galoots enrolled to become Cyber Cops
Americaz Team was fed to The Sharks
Flaming Dingos converted to The Flaming Pagans
Editors note:Flaming Pagans may be the Paranormal Paramecium.
Levittown Lizzards get flattened into Crunch
Culture Shock downsized into just Shock
and, of course, the Vipers are dead,
long live the Nighthawks
- Fun and frivolity
Ellen only laughed a drink out of her nose once
Pizza woman driver got lost at Burger King
John's FFL program with the cool announcer voice is great (even Mike in LA agrees)
Someone peed in the closet (just kidding - I think)
Now we know that Phyllis is Csaba's secret co-owner and translator.
- Amazing stuff
Paul (5th pick) got Terrell Davis!
Paul was able to get away long enough to be there.
Ellen broke the nail on her middle finger and kept showing us
(that is why you were doing that, Ellen, wasn't it?)
and the MOST amazing thing:
We went thru all 16 rounds and ended by 11pm!!!!
current rumors:
Frank and Chris are already planning their SuperBowl party
Ernie is pulling rank (to no avail) in order to get a win
- we just smile and say, OK, ha, ha, ha
Csaba claims the UBR in his team stands for "U B Repeats".
Cyber Cops guest cop of the week:
CARTMAN!
Get your lineups in, folks, before Saturday midnight, and check to be sure that your
players are healthy before finalizing everything.
You won't be the first player to play a player that doesn't play, and you won't play in the playoffs if you play like that! (like that one?)
Watch for updates after the first week's games and mail
me any gossip/trash to include for next time.
KEESE