One thing I love about the fall…
August 24th, 2007
Just last Sunday night, fourteen hard-core intercessors gathered at the Blanc Spot and spent the evening engaged in rigorous warfare over selecting 182 participants of the National Football League.
That’s right - we had our annual fantasy football draft.
It’s something that we’ve been doing annually now for five years running. We started years ago with myself, Joel Sorge, Nate Rogers, Brent Steeno, Aaron Walsh, Tommy Hood, Jeremiah Gim, Clay Edwards, Kyle Scott, Zack Hensley, Nate Mosack, and someone else whose name will come to me sometime later. I’d hate to be that guy. We crammed into the little Onething Internship office on a Friday night and spent hours picking key football guys that would allow us to exert major dominance over our fellow brothers. Zack picked the Tampa Bay defense in the first round. We still bring that debacle up every year. If you ever have been involved with Fantasy Football, you know why.
Last year a bunch of first-timers jumped in due to the absence of many of the long-timers. All 12 guys came back this year, and we added two more for good measure. Shawn Blanc, our host and keeper of the entry fee, put that entry fee to brilliant use with food that destroyed every football gathering I’ve ever attended. Shawn is my new draft-hosting hero. This year, Jared Diehl (for those of you that follow the Ruckus Journal) joined and Nate Rogers re-joined. Jared, at my suggestion, mostly yelled “David Beckham! Bla-ow!” loudly and randomly every once in awhile to keep us on our toes.
The Daywatch Division is represented by Wes Martin, myself, Joel Sorge, Brent Steeno, Nate Rogers, Ian Rutherford, and the aforementioned Shawn Blanc. TheNightwatch Division sports Zack Hensley, Kyle Gebhart, the ever-dangerous Jared Diehl, Sutton Miller, Jason Wenth, Ben Wood, and Jonathan Ramos. The fact that half those guys aren’t even on the Nightwatch doesn’t really phase us one bit. We do have a good percentage of our IHOP-KC wordcasting community represented, however. So I’ll be sure to let you know how completely I dominate them all.
In case you’re interested - which I can’t imagine you would either be a.) interested or b.) still reading at this point - but if you made it this far, than you may want to know a few facts about our little league:
1. This year’s defending champ is Wes Martin; he took the crown from the surprising Jason Wenth who came out of nowhere the year before. Jason, of course, dethroned the fantasy football maestro, the one and only, well, me.
2. Zack Hensley has never won. Never. He came closest last year, and then disintegrated down the stretch faster than Fred Taylor’s hamstrings.
3. It is fairly certain that I will regain my crown this year. That statement may mean absolutely nothing to most of you, but I tell you that it means almost nothing to me. So there.
I’ll throw updates out there for the interested every so often. You can check out our league here.
David
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7 Comments Add your own
1. Shawn Blanc | August 24th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
I doesn’t feel fair to smack-talk because I laughed throught that entire post. And I don’t usually laugh when I’m the only one in the room.
2. Zack Hensley | August 25th, 2007 at 3:50 am
Fred Taylors hamstrings!?!?!? Pretty accurate comparison actually. Though I would have chosen the ‘03 Chiefs: Hot all season then get punked in the first round by the Colts. But this year is different, The Flying Monks = domination. So I therefore pick myself as the sleeper winner this year… not because I think I’ll win, but simply because I’m in a position to do so… everyone thinks they’ll win. Plus What you don’t know is every night while your sleeping i sit at your station in the prayer room. So even if you win and I don’t at least I got that going for me…
3. David | August 28th, 2007 at 7:00 am
Small victories, Zack - small victories.
4. George | August 29th, 2007 at 4:44 am
As one who used to play fantasy football with David Sliker, learn this well… When David Sliker says he should win, you should listen. There’s a trophy out my way that should have his name on it, except that the guy who should have done that is so bitter than he refused to put the name “Orient Express” on it. I can only offer my compassion to the other thirteen guys, because Dave will make you think you have a shot all year… when you don’t.
Seriously, when you have LT as the cornerstone in a 14-team league (and so teams will naturally not have much depth), and you surround him with McNabb, Randy Moss (a bit overrated but he’ll still produce), and the Bears defense (I know defense doesn’t win championships, but they are far and away the best), it’s looking bleak. What were the rest of you doing that night?
Two other teams look close to the top. Captain Rookie has two solid running backs (I’m higher on DeAngelo Williams than most), Reggie Wayne, and Tom Brady. The Helen Kellers actually look and sound very good, though the news on Torry Holt hasn’t been promising.
Have fun fighting it out.
5. David | August 29th, 2007 at 6:24 am
Holy COW I miss George Reuter Fantasy Sports Commentary (all rights reserved)!
Break down our teams! Break down our teams!
Okay, that sounded a bit desperate - um, if you want, you can comment on some of our other “contenders”.
David
6. Just in case you wanted t&hellip | August 29th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
[…] I used to use yahoo sports but then I realized how much better nfl.com is. Little did I know that IHOP has a fantasy league. Maybe when I get back to ZHOP I can start a league. Anyway with all that said here’s my […]
7. Zack Hensley | August 30th, 2007 at 5:30 am
yeah comment on how bad my team is… I didn’t even get ranked in the strong team polls… right now the only hope I got is that steeno doesn’t win.
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