It was interesting to see that Sandy, SABRMatt, Grizzle and Cool Papa, among others, are football-downloaded.  :- )  In that case, how many of you weaklings would be up for a football fantasy league?

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Played one NFL fantasy league.  Long enough ago that Terrell Davis was as no-brainer at #1 as, say, that Viking running back is nowadays.

Signed up for a random public league, got slotted at the #1 overall (which is always a big thrill), and of course grabbed TD.  At the end of the second, Steve Young was miraculously still available, so grabbed him... slap me silly.  My first NFL fantasy league and ten minutes in, I'm guaranteed a championship.

That was the year that TD and Steve Young suffered catastrophic injuries like in weeks 1-2...

Since then we've deduced that depth is a bit more of an issue on a football fantasy roster than it is in baseball.  Well, unless your baseball roster includes a bunch of imports from the NL Central, of course.

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Seattle Sports Insider comes up like #10 on a Google search for "Seattle Sports," kind of cool considering that it was launched like twelve days ago :- ) and is networked into some football sites already...

12-second highway scan:  SSI to include (1) a variety of contributors on the front page, plus (2) Seahawks, Huskies, Sounders and other stuff, with the Mariners the pivot pole around which the community revolves...

Got to keep the important things in life first, but still, after you've taken 26 Caribbean cruises, one to the Mediterranean isn't a bad change of pace...

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Cool Papa's last post, a month or two ago, drew tremendous traffic and Matty's stuff is popular too... we encourage front-page posts by anybody who feels their material is strong enough ... if you'd dare to launch an MC thread, you can dare to launch an SSI article...

Throughout the offseason, Dr. D will (likely) continue to firehose far more Mariners stuff than anybody wants, needs or ever axed for ... but Seahawk brownie bits will be mixed into the Vanilla Bean while they're rollin'.  

As a general principle, Dr. D will try to have a Mariners article published alongside, on any particular day that he has a Seahawks article up ... so the M's-only amigos need not fear infomercial-saturation when clicking over to wallow in Doug Fister's latest heroic exploits... scroll past the Aaron Curry pics if the M's 1-9 rotation depth chart is what is on your mind...

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So.

Who is going to commish a football league?   And are enough volunteers going to sound off, that we can get a giant 16-team cage match going alongside-or-with the standard 10- or 12-teamer?

Yahoo has a fairly robust free site, with pre-ranked position slots and yadda yadda.  But if any of you guys are actually good at football, you've gotta know of a free site that's better?

I'm clear this Saturday for a draft.  Or next.   Or every day until the first bye week.  Bring it.

Cheers,

Dr D