From mike missenelli to sarah palin
Mike Missenelli, provocative sports talk personality on 950ESPN radio, will be hosting an on air FFB league. He has directed anyone in his rapidly expanding radio audience to email if interested in joining this select league. That would be a total hoot! It surely would be entertaining. I’m not sure Mikey Miss would be the most benevolent of FFB Commish’s, but he’d sure make it fun and games! I have already forwarded my electronic shout-out to MikeMiss@950ESPN.com. to try my luck. If anyone out there is interested, fly out an email to Mike. I’m sure he will unveil a degenerate, eclectic group of team owners….novices need not apply. Would all-world FFB naysayer Howard Eskin ever go there? Eskin just wouldn’t get it….
My tough league of friends recently held our 10th annual FFB draft. With this year’s 5th pick, I had some serious head-scratching to do. And, I had to think fast! When you’re on the clock, the barbs come fast and furious! The four picks before me were the predictable running backs LT, Adrian Peterson, Brian Westbrook and Steven Jackson. When I selected Buffalo’s Marshawn Lynch at #5, our 2008 insult season officially got underway. I won’t bore you with why I took the 2nd year RB out of Cal, other than an understanding that he will touch the ball about 10 times more per game than he accomplished in his successful 2007 rookie campaign. Buffalo also faces a much softer schedule of defenses against the run than Joseph Addai will with the Indy Colts. Also, Marshawn will get more passes out of the backfield this year. At Cal he was a solid receiver as well. And, besides, I cringe at the injury history of Frank Gore, Clinton Portis, Larry Johnson, the other backs that were picked shortly after me, even Joseph Addai. OK., so I bored you. I flip-flopped…It’s not life, it’s not politics, it’s just FFB…
Did anyone of you out there totally steal the QB who led the entire NFL with 21 TD's in the 2nd half of 2007, in your 14th ROUND?? That QB wasn’t Tom Brady, it wasn’t Drew Brees, it wasn’t Peyton Manning. It was Kurt Warner, who was just named by Arizona Coach Ken Whisenant, as the opening day starter. ( Matt Leinart went 4 rounds earlier). Warner carried me to my Championship after I picked him up in week #9 last year. Maybe my league isn’t so tough after all. I was going to wait a round, but I was afraid he’d be swooped up as a hand cuff to Leinart. QB’s in my draft went surprisingly fast. Brady, Romo, Manning, Brees, and head-scratcher Carson Palmer were gone before the 3rd round.. Who’s Palmer going to get the ball to? Arnold Palmer?
I’m elated with Kurt Warner again at round #14.…it only has an upside.
Wow! A RB who was in the top 25 in most FFB circles, has been sadly terminated. The Cincy Bengals saved some coin by parting ways with Rudi Johnson.( a bad year for Rudi’s). Johnson, the #1 RB on the Bengals preseason depth chart, is looking for a job. This paves the way for injury prone Chris Perry , and Kenny Watson. The feeling here, it will be Watson by mid-season. Both were picked in my league, neither will be very valuable. Nor will Rudi Johnson.
I know this isn’t FFB, but I just can’t help myself...Sarah Palin?? A self-professed “hockey mom,“ a heart beat away from the top office of the free world? The future “face” of the Republican Party? On just one meeting with John McCain? Oh, to be a fly on that wall! Is it just me, or will she need to score a hat trick every hour, 24/7 until the election? Could there ever be more of a microscope placed on anyone? Is this historical or is it just hysterical? Or, just plain sad. My brain now has more than 18 million cracks in it, my glass ceiling about to explode! I have listened to her speak thrice now.. I hear similar talent at my Lower Providence township meetings. Her voice might just bring Iran to it’s knees, though… John McCain will be swept under the rug by all of her attention. Abraham Lincoln must to be doing some serious somersaults in his grave. I better go , before I get in trouble. Toodles!
My tough league of friends recently held our 10th annual FFB draft. With this year’s 5th pick, I had some serious head-scratching to do. And, I had to think fast! When you’re on the clock, the barbs come fast and furious! The four picks before me were the predictable running backs LT, Adrian Peterson, Brian Westbrook and Steven Jackson. When I selected Buffalo’s Marshawn Lynch at #5, our 2008 insult season officially got underway. I won’t bore you with why I took the 2nd year RB out of Cal, other than an understanding that he will touch the ball about 10 times more per game than he accomplished in his successful 2007 rookie campaign. Buffalo also faces a much softer schedule of defenses against the run than Joseph Addai will with the Indy Colts. Also, Marshawn will get more passes out of the backfield this year. At Cal he was a solid receiver as well. And, besides, I cringe at the injury history of Frank Gore, Clinton Portis, Larry Johnson, the other backs that were picked shortly after me, even Joseph Addai. OK., so I bored you. I flip-flopped…It’s not life, it’s not politics, it’s just FFB…
Did anyone of you out there totally steal the QB who led the entire NFL with 21 TD's in the 2nd half of 2007, in your 14th ROUND?? That QB wasn’t Tom Brady, it wasn’t Drew Brees, it wasn’t Peyton Manning. It was Kurt Warner, who was just named by Arizona Coach Ken Whisenant, as the opening day starter. ( Matt Leinart went 4 rounds earlier). Warner carried me to my Championship after I picked him up in week #9 last year. Maybe my league isn’t so tough after all. I was going to wait a round, but I was afraid he’d be swooped up as a hand cuff to Leinart. QB’s in my draft went surprisingly fast. Brady, Romo, Manning, Brees, and head-scratcher Carson Palmer were gone before the 3rd round.. Who’s Palmer going to get the ball to? Arnold Palmer?
I’m elated with Kurt Warner again at round #14.…it only has an upside.
Wow! A RB who was in the top 25 in most FFB circles, has been sadly terminated. The Cincy Bengals saved some coin by parting ways with Rudi Johnson.( a bad year for Rudi’s). Johnson, the #1 RB on the Bengals preseason depth chart, is looking for a job. This paves the way for injury prone Chris Perry , and Kenny Watson. The feeling here, it will be Watson by mid-season. Both were picked in my league, neither will be very valuable. Nor will Rudi Johnson.
I know this isn’t FFB, but I just can’t help myself...Sarah Palin?? A self-professed “hockey mom,“ a heart beat away from the top office of the free world? The future “face” of the Republican Party? On just one meeting with John McCain? Oh, to be a fly on that wall! Is it just me, or will she need to score a hat trick every hour, 24/7 until the election? Could there ever be more of a microscope placed on anyone? Is this historical or is it just hysterical? Or, just plain sad. My brain now has more than 18 million cracks in it, my glass ceiling about to explode! I have listened to her speak thrice now.. I hear similar talent at my Lower Providence township meetings. Her voice might just bring Iran to it’s knees, though… John McCain will be swept under the rug by all of her attention. Abraham Lincoln must to be doing some serious somersaults in his grave. I better go , before I get in trouble. Toodles!
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