Gentlemen,
I mentioned/whined about this last season, but I'm not going to be able to complete the Monday Updates going forward...at least not as you know them. Life is just too busy these days and although I do enjoy writing them, being a dad/husband/employee/student has forced me to sacrifice a number of hobbies I enjoy*.
So similar to last year, I'm proposing a solution that involves sort of a Utopian, "let's all pitch-in to make this work for everyone" approach: the blog should be written and maintained by all of us.
The Monday Update could actually become a series of updates, each written by a different league member. Some of it could already be easily handed out:
- Whitebread would handle the Gopher Update. Titwarmer can jump in once hockey season rolls around.
- Crapswell could easily handle the Team Names section. It's been about thing he's passionately cared about for the past few seasons, so now with this newfound sense of FF direction (i.e. not being pisspants, blackout drunk at the draft) he could do wonders.
- Sidenote: Yahoo!, despite absolutely shitting all over their website design, now offers polls when you post a message board. Could be easily managed there.
- I'd be ok still handling the box score breakdown of all the matchups. That'd be something easy to complete, and honestly that's where the original emailed Updates began. Then Kenni Hana got all pissy about people swearing.
- We'd still need a Vikings breakdown each week. If only to countdown the days until we can hopefully draft Teddy Bridgewater, who I'm sure Gow considers 3rd Round at best.
- Hell, if Gow wanted to post a Browns Update, I'd read it and comment on it.
We can make this blog anything we want it to be. And by "we", I mean YOU. Up until this point, it's only been what I wanted it to be. I want that to change.
Gents, chime in here and let me know your thoughts. I haven't invested 2 seconds of time to researching how to add authors to the blog, but I'm fairly sure it's simple. And I'd like to add each and every one of you.
*I used to jerk off so much more. I'm too tired these days...
(single teardrop falls)
The (Abridged) Games
As a reminder, here's our league:
- Rod Jerks
- Ned Titwarmer
- Dick Dallus
- Ike Crabs
- Andy Crapswell
- NooShoo Gow
- Marcus Whitebread
- Bill "JoJo" Fredricks
- Juan Coconuts
- Kenni Hana
Titwarmer absolutely destroyed Jerks. Zach Sudfeld and Lamar Miller both fucked me in the ass and I hope they die in a fire. And Ridley can join them after the season, but I need him until then. Yahoo! says I have 2% chance on winning still (down 38 with McCoy tonight). Fuck you, Yahoo. Your new site is ass.
Crabs will defeat Dallus, who is out of players. Crabs still has HOU kicker (too lazy to look up dumbfuck's name) and Dallus will easily be Biggest Loser this week (121 points!).
Crapswell will beat (and likely clobber) Gowser. Andy is winning and still has a bunch of guys playing tonight. Gow is done and will spend the evening contemplating spending $42 on Dez Bryant.
Fredricks is going to blow out Whitebread's Lechtastic team. Both have players left to play, but only Bill's are any good. Bill is probably the favorite for the Points Bonus this week.
Coconuts and Kenni are knotted up in a tight one (and that in no way is meant to be an inuendo). Kenni is leading by about 2 points, while Coconuts has Ryan Mathews to play. The combo of Coconuts/Mathews is preventing me from making this a lock for Juan. Too much MNF history...
Tonight
Y'all gotta get your shit together.
I'm not making it tonight, but our watering hole has been bulldozed, and we still don't have a central destination locked up, and kickoff is less than 2 hours away.
Promise I will be there next week. Wherever we go needs to have better-than-average TV views (which is why I lean no for Bulldog) and solid wings. I'd prefer a place that plays the TV aloud through the speakers, but I realize there aren't as many places that do that these days.
Someone suggested a rotation, and I think that is a good plan. The only issue will be making the call each week for where we go. Who has last say? I'd love ideas about how to do this.
Anyway, I'll miss you guys tonight. And more importantly, we are all going to miss Sally's this entire year.
Come home soon, sweet sweet squirrel.
Enjoy the games, boys.
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