Fantasy Football Rules

As promised, there will always be fantasy football updates here. This one is courtesy of Melanie.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8477146. The rules are below, but the description is key. Check the link for more info.

1. Avoid picking a terribly cheesy team name
2. Get on your commissioner's good side
3. Whatever you do, do not give up on the season until it's all over
4. Keep track of the waiver wire
5. Don't pay much attention to the "fantasy football experts" on TV
6. Write at least one clever message board post per week
7. Don't draft too many guys from your favorite NFL team
8. Don't blabber all day at work about your fantasy team
9. Don't wear the jersey of your first-round pick to the sports bar
10. Never refer to yourself in the third person or by your first name and the word "man" attached to it

If I were the Jim Rome of banking, I'd say "Rack Em!"

My buddy Eric posted this on his blog recently and it was too good not to share. I can't count how many times you here this and want to just tell them this same thing.

There's only one rule if you overdraw your checking account . . . .

DON'T COME IN TO MY BRANCH AND TELL ME THAT I OVERDREW IT!!!!! I don't have the capacity to write a check for you at the liquour store when you don't have any funds in your account. I also don't have the pleasure of eating out at 5 different fast food restaraunts per day like you do......somehow, when you spend more money than you have you overdraw YOUR OWN account, I'm not the culprit so please refrain from using phrases such as: "You overdrew my account" or "You bounced my check to my mortgage company and now I have all of these problems because of you!" :-) I only return your item when you have no money. I know, I know.....it's hard to understand. You had $20 in your account and you spent $1,387.57.....go figure! You were close. Only $1,367.57 off!

Anyway, that's about all I have to say about that . . . .

"Rack em!"

Austin Collie

4th and 19? No problem. It seems to be a
habit for Utah to let BYU find open grass at
the end of the game now.

I wish I could claim writing this article but I didn't, and that's fine because I would never make the claim he makes about the "requisite two-year mission". But that's okay cuz I like the rest of the article. It can be found here (http://www.fantasycollegeblitz.com/player-spotlight-austin-collie-byu-wr/) but I wanted to post it directly here.

It would be one of the worst puns of all time to say that BYU WR Austin Collie (right, ICON SMI) is a man on a mission, but it looks true to me this year. Collie has taken a circuitous route to play major college football (at least for those outside Provo) and looks ready to be a top 20 fantasy WR in 2008.

First, the requisite background - Collie was the Mountain West Conference (MWC) Rookie of the Year way back in 2004 (caught 8 TDs from John Beck ), then did the requisite two-year mission that all LDS Cougars are asked to do, he just got assigned to Argentina.
In 2007 he returned out of shape , so you didn’t notice him until November when he ripped off 100+ yards in five of the last six including the bowl game win over UCLA - give him a pass as he was getting reacquainted to football plus was working with a brand-new starter at QB in Max Hall .

2008 sets up much better…

The BYU offense is loaded not just with QB Hall but also one of the best young RBs in the game in sophomore Harvey Unga and another in a line of excellent TE Dennis Pitta , so there will be few times that Collie will see the double team. Hall should have plenty of time behind one of the largest and best offensive lines not just in the MWC but in the country -given time for Collie to get behind some DBs I also expect his YPC to be even better than the 16.9 from last year.
Add to that a very weak first six games and Collie should help any fantasy team get out of the gates quickly:

Aug 30 - Northern Iowa
Sep 6 - at Washington
Sep 13 - UCLA
Sep 20 - Wyoming
Oct 3 - at Utah State
Oct 11 - New Mexico (HC)

Now that he is back in the rhythm of the game and Max Hall enters his second year at the helm I expect a huge junior year of double-digit TDs and 1000+ yards. The first run through of my wide receiver cheatsheet has him at #20, and with a bullet.



Here is one more article on Collie. Yeah, I'm psyched for the season. http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695269025,00.html

Harvey Unga

http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=2486

The article is not as interesting as Max Hall's, but Hall is the QB so that is to be expected. Besides, it doesn't appear that Unga ever tried to hit someone with his carrying arm. Doesn't matter; he's a stud and he's going to carry us to V I C T O R Y this season.

Max Hall

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/sports/ncaafootball/24byu.html?_r=3&scp=1&sq=max%20hall&st=cse&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Check out the article. If this kid truly only took 4 games to get comfortable playing D I football and we're 10-0 since, this season really will be a great season. Once he can pick up those weak side and safety blitzes, he's gonna be awesome! Yeah, Saturday can't come soon enough.

Reasons to be a BYU fan

MAX HALL, JUNIOR QB
PRESEASON HEISMAN, ALL
AMERICAN, AND DAVEY
O'BRIEN WATCH

HARVEY UNGA, SOPH RB
PRESEASON ALL AMERICAN
AND DOAK WALKER AWARD
WATCH

AUSTIN COLLIE, JUNIOR WR
PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN,
OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE
YEAR WATCH

BRONCO MENDENHALL,
4TH YEAR COACH

WE PLAY HERE



THE HAKA



HARLINE IS STILL OPEN



2007 MWC CHAMPS



2008 - THE QUEST FOR
PERFECTION

1 Week, 2 Days, and 5 Hours and Counting

Back to back undefeated conference seasons. The nation's longest current win streak. Pre-season Coaches and AP rankings of 17 and 16 respectively. A pretty good schedule (too bad most of the exciting games will happen away from LaVell Edwards Stadium.) And the potential to match up for a season finale against a rival with as much potential to be unbeaten and ranked (as long as they can get by Michigan.) The excitement is mounting. The best part, the tickets showed up in the mail this past week. Yeah, I'm excited!

Don't forget to come back and check out the Utah Joke of the Day on my sidebar.

This should be good

When I started this blog, I did it so that I could rant and rave about whatever I wanted to since Melanie didn't want me to do it on our blog. I only ever intended to really go on about sports and such. But I've neglected my writing responsibilities for lack of anything important to talk about. I mean, who cares about baseball until October anyway?

Yeah, I could start in about the Olympics. I've enjoyed them immensely, even the gymnastics and the sychronized diving - I mean, how anyone can flip on a four inch wide beam or dive the exact same dive in unison with another human being is beyond me. But what would I really discuss that hasn't already been discuss ad nauseum on countless blogs and ESPN pages? Michael Phelps and his quest for 8? The cheating Chinese gymnasts? The Spanish National Teams posing with “Chinese Eyes?”

I could, but that'd be boring. No, I prefer to focus on something much closer to home. BYU football. Two weeks from tomorrow I'll be sitting here:



First time ever as a season ticket holder, headlined by UCLA coming to town (I won't even start on the fact that Ben Olson won't be in uniform for me to boo his traitorous, crybaby backside with his latest excuse.)

Its in this vein that I have started my Utah joke of the day (and thanks also goes to a push from a poor, misguided friend who claims to be a Utah fan. I just had to defend my team.) Check the sidebar from now on to see the latest and best Utah jokes. And if you have any you want to see on here, leave me a message and I'll be happy to put them up on the sidebar.