Welcome back. Here's your new name.

Here ye, here ye!

From henceforth, you all shall be called:

• Rod Jerks
• Juan Coconuts
• William Fredricks (aka JoJo)
• Ned Titwarmer
• Rick Dallas
• Ike Crabs
• Kenny Hana
• Andy Crapswell
• Marcus Whitebread
• NooShoo Gow

If you were just reading these, you might think we all worked for Brazzers.

If you either don't like your name, or would like to submit an additional nickname to someone else above, fire away. But unless otherwise noted, these are who we are. 

Last year's blogs are all gone. They don't exist. Didn't happen. You can find them with the Gophers 1996 Final Four banner.

A few other notes:

• Season starts tomorrow. 
• Leaguesafe has been renewed. Please make your payments promptly. Due date is 9/18/12. If you have any issues with paying, let me know. Do not wait until the last day.
• Yahoo! offers a Fantasy League Pickem this year (it's listed on the main BOTT league page on the far right). This is not a NFL games pickem, just picking our games against each other. Kind of fun. I encourage you all to submit these prior to tomorrow. If you wait longer, my guess is you'll be forfeiting all your picks this week.
• As far as NFL pickem goes, I've abandoned the idea due to lack of interest. Andy, I'm game if you want to do your usual crap pickem with me and Ned, but I ain't setting it up.
• Did we ever decide what to do with the extra $40 this year? If not, I'll stick with last year's plan: Biggest Blowout (to the winner of said blowout) and Narrowest Loss (to the loser of said loss).

I think that's everything noteworthy.

Good luck to you all. As of today, we all still have hope.