You know how Hank Williams, Jr. comes screaming at us every Monday night, rhetorically asking if "we are ready for football?" Well, I am almost always ready to watch regular season games, any time, any place (sorry, but pre-season is as interesting to me as the Pro Bowl).
And, somehow this year the draft really sneaked up on me. Not that I did not organize our Kathy League Gifford draft (with the help of Todd Zola and Brian Walton, to be sure), which is actually scheduled for this very evening.
After a week in the Redwoods playing rock'n'roll all day, you would think my Fantasy Football Guide 2007 would be dog-eared from the perusing I gave it during quiet time. But, the truth is though I not only brought a copy for me, but one for my friend Jeremy Steinkohler who runs Jeremy's Jawbreakers in League Gifford, and despite the fact that Jeremy's wife Michele deemed the mag "porn," planned to talk strategy.
But, well, so much for the best laid plans of mice and men as now, with the draft just over 24 hours away, it is bullet-hitting-bone time.
Last year I did manage a playoff spot, largely thanks to first-pick Ladanian Tomlinson and the last place 2005 finish that allowed me to cop LT.
But, I also grabbed Michael Vick in the fifth round, and Vince Young in the 15th so going into the draft, over the summer, I was feeling good. That is, or should I say was, because of two things.
First, we changed the rules to force playing two QBs each week and with Young and Vick in tow, that put me in a good spot.
Second, I did not anticipate Vick's world ironically turning dog-eat-dog as it did.
The reality is I think I need to take a new tack in League Gifford, for my team in that league is called Lawrceny, and that suggests that miscreants like Vick are naturals for my team.
When you realize that I also have Pacman Jones on my roster, you get how steeped in the unacceptable my team was.
But, now is the time for a clean slate. No more prison garb, just good all American players who at worst simply want to dance in the end zone.
Although, I am seriously considering changing my team name, unless I can sneak all the sleepers past my opponents tonight. Then Lawrceny becomes apros pos.