FriendBursty Football & Ramadan
Are you ready for some FriendBursty Football? I’m re-announcing Geko’s creation of a Fantasy Football League just for us FriendBursters. It’s over on Yahoo, and I invite anyone and everyone reading this blog to come and join the league! It’s fun! And there is a prize for the winner!!!
If you’ve never played fantasy football, it is really quite a simple concept and doesn’t really have that much to do with fantasy. It’s not about orcs, trolls and elves out there on the gridiron. Then again, we have a few trolls here, and I encourage you to play anyways.
Each of us “drafts” a team, either through pre-ranking the available players or through the live draft which will be held the Saturday before the league starts… although I’m going to ask Geko to change that to Friday night because I often get Fridays off and I for sure will be working on any given Saturday.
Each week, you’re matched up against another player’s team. If one of your players does something good, like scoree a touchdown, your team gets points. Whoever has the most points at the end of the Monday night football, wins. It’s that simple.
There is a little optional work involved. Your teams starters and roster are not set in stone. For example, if one of your starters has a bye week, you’ll want to bench him Injuries happen. Unknown players come out of nowhere to have productive seasons. We can even trade players.
What you’ll need to play:
1. A computer with an internet connection. If you’re reading this, you’ve got that.
2. An interest in football.
3. A Yahoo! ID. If you don’t have this third one, go to my.yahoo.com and create one.
What you won’t need to play:
1. A lot of knowledge about football. I’ve played fantasy football in a work/office setting a couple times and there has always been that one female secretary or office assistant who, mostly by chance, ended up with an awesome team that kicks ass, much to the frustration of the male office workers who spend hours every week looking at miniscule statistics like how Hines Ward plays on the road in west coast late starting games.
2. Time. Again, any tinkering you do to your team after it has been drafted is entirely optional. In fact, I would encourage people to play the game half-heartedly. More chance I will win!
How to sign up:
1. Once you’ve got your my.yahoo.com page, click on “sports”, then “fantasy sports”…
2. Click on “Fantasy Football 2011”
3. Click “Join custom league”
4. Our League ID is: 292576 The password is “dashboard”.
5. Pick a team name, colors and you can even upload a pic if you want.
Lastly, I am going to offer up a special prize for whoever wins the league championship. I will create an original song about whatever you want. It can be whatever. Humanity’s struggle to overcome political oppression. Lima Beans. Your beloved Aunt Harriet. Your favorite football team. Just name it, I’ll write a song about it, create a video and put it up on YouTube.
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Happy Ramadan to all my Moslem friends! Today marked the beginning of Islam’s Holy Month of fasting (it just so happened to fall on the 1st of the month, being based on a lunar calendar, the “month” of Ramadan changes every year).
I lived for a couple years in a Moslem country, so I got see first hand what this holy month is all about. Well, I didn’t see the first part of what changes during this month, namely when people wake up a 5 in the morning to have a big meal before the sun rises. I slept through that part. Once the sun is up, no eating, drinking, smoking, having sex or even thinking about sex is allowed (I guess that would exclude masturbating too, but that was never specifically mentioned). While I lived with a Moslem family as a teenager, they made me lunch which I ate all by myself every day during Ramadan.
When the sun went down, a somewhat more cranky family (low blood sugar?) got together to eat a hearty evening meal.
Now, in the country I lived in, Ramadan’s requirements were kind of like Jews keeping a strict kosher or Catholics not eating meat on Fridays: not everyone went along with it, and you weren’t necessarily going to go to Hell to you broke your Ramadan fast. If you worked hard labor in the tropical sun, no one would blame you for needing a glass of water in the middle of the day. Certainly a lot of cigarette smokers found it easier not to eat than to forgo the addiction of nicotine.
There is a mosque here in Seattle I pass everyday on the way home from work. Tonight, there was a very big crowd filing out as I rode by on my bicycle. It got me thinking about Ramadan and latitude. In the tropics, the sun rises at 6 AM and sets at 6 PM, all year long. Right now, it gets light here in Seattle at 5:30 AM and doesn’t get dark until 9:30. In a couple years, when Ramadan’s backwards march through the true calendar will have it occurring in late June. What do Moslems in Fairbanks, Trondheim or Saint Petersburg (three of biggest towns at or near the Arctic circle) do when Ramadan occurs when the sun never sets? There aren’t A LOT of Moslems in the Land of the Midnight Sun, but I’m sure there are a few?
I’m sure Mohammed (blessed be his name) would understand.
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We’ll finish tonight’s blog with a song. One by one of my favorite Moslems, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens).
I’m here for the friendly & busty football.
Anyway, is that you in that Packer uniform? Yowza! Hot doggity! I knew there was a good reason I liked you.
Here you go J….
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Let me know if there is anything else you need for this week,i’ll do my best….lololol :groovy:
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LATER…
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attaboy Joko, I knew you were a commish for a reason
the draft date can be changed to any date…you can change it as well. I had to put A date down to make the league.
Bets ya’all cain’t figer out which team is mine.
I was just talking the other day with a friend who came back from Dubai after living there for 3 years..and she told me the Ramadan was horror she even took a penalty for smoking in her car.A couple of british tourists having sex on the beach was jailed… 😯 And yeah, a whole month on juice only.Everything censored on TV…(from a film of 1h and 45minutes she could only see the uncut scenes that lasted 20 minutes)and even at 50 -60 degrees C…full body coverage was encouraged even for non-muslims/other nationalities.
Hell.