Monday Morning Quarterbacking

Dear DC,

It’s great to be back with you after a short blogging retirement that was brought on by a sudden onset of thinking that anything that was happening in life wasn’t really worth writing about. But, I am back in action now and trying to make a little fun out of the ordinary and mundane.

I am participating in my very first Fantasy Football League. For those who know me, I enjoy sports a lot…but not enough to really know anything about the players or teams. Unless, of course, we are talking about the Utah Jazz, then I know a bit more. When it comes to the NFL, I’m sad to say that I really don’t know much, other than the names of the star quarterbacks, but placing them with the correct team might be a bit of a challenge. Going into this Fantasy Football League, I thought I would have to know everything there is, about every player, in order to make a good decision on who to pick on draft day. Well, the draft was Monday night, and I knew just as much then as I did on the day that I said “sure, I’ll play….football is the one with the oval shaped ball right?”

It really isn’t that hard with limited knowledge. All you do is just pick the best player available based on their ranking, and hope that they don’t get injured in the first week of the season. And if that doesn’t work, there is always the strategy of picking the player based on how cool or not so cool their name sounds. And, by so doing, I got a pretty good team if I do say so myself. Not the greatest, but not the worst possible either.

I’ve decided that trying to learn everything about all the players and all the stats, and all the rules would just take up too much time in my life. I’m not going to bother with that. Mostly because I just don’t really care about how well my quarterback did two years ago, and who he was traded to in 1997. I just care about if the guy scores points right now.

I am disappointed to find out that Fantasy Football does not include players like dwarfs, elves, warriors, or sorcerers, seeing as how every other game that has the word “fantasy” in it has had all those characters. But hey, quarterbacks, running backs, and tight ends are cool too.

With fantasy football love,

Kyle