{"id":54479,"date":"2011-08-02T02:34:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/54479\/friendbursty-football-ramadan\/"},"modified":"2011-08-02T02:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T06:34:19","slug":"friendbursty-football-ramadan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/54479\/friendbursty-football-ramadan\/","title":{"rendered":"FriendBursty Football & Ramadan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Are you ready for some FriendBursty Football?\u00a0 I\u2019m re-announcing Geko\u2019s creation of a Fantasy Football League just for us FriendBursters.\u00a0 It\u2019s over on Yahoo, and I invite anyone and everyone reading this blog to come and join the league!\u00a0 It\u2019s fun!\u00a0 And there is a prize for the winner!!!<\/font><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve never played fantasy football, it is really quite a simple concept and doesn\u2019t really have that much to do with fantasy.\u00a0 It\u2019s not about orcs, trolls and elves out there on the gridiron.\u00a0 Then again, we have a few trolls here, and I encourage you to play anyways.\"\" Each of us \u201cdrafts\u201d a team, either through pre-ranking the available players or through the live draft which will be held the Saturday before the league starts\u2026 although I\u2019m 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.<\/font><\/p>\n

Each week, you\u2019re matched up against another player\u2019s team.\u00a0 If one of your players does something good, like scoree a touchdown, your team gets points.\u00a0 Whoever has the most points at the end of the Monday night football, wins.\u00a0 It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n

There is a little optional work involved.\u00a0 Your teams starters and roster are not set in stone.\u00a0 For example, if one of your starters has a bye week, you\u2019ll want to bench him\u00a0 Injuries happen.\u00a0 Unknown players come out of nowhere to have productive seasons.\u00a0 We can even trade players.<\/p>\n

\"\"What you\u2019ll need to play:<\/strong>
\n1. A computer with an internet connection.\u00a0 If you\u2019re reading this, you\u2019ve got that.
\n2. An interest in football.
\n3. A Yahoo! ID<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have this third one, go to my.yahoo.com and create one.<\/p>\n

What you won\u2019t<\/strong><\/em> need to play:
\n1. A lot of knowledge about football<\/strong>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve 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.
\n2.\u00a0 Time.\u00a0 Again, any tinkering you do to your team after it has been drafted is entirely optional.\u00a0 In fact, I would encourage people to play the game half-heartedly.\u00a0 More chance I will win!<\/p>\n

How to sign up:<\/strong>
\n1. Once you\u2019ve got your my.yahoo.com page, click on \u201csports\u201d, then \u201cfantasy sports\u201d\u2026
\n2. Click on \u201cFantasy Football 2011\u201d
\n3. Click \u201cJoin custom league\u201d
\n4. Our League ID is:\u00a0 292576<\/strong> The password is \u201cdashboard\u201d.
\n5.\u00a0 Pick a team name, colors and you can even upload a pic if you want.<\/p>\n

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Lastly, I am going to offer up a special prize for whoever wins the league championship.\u00a0 I will create an original song about whatever you want.\u00a0 It can be whatever.\u00a0 Humanity\u2019s struggle to overcome political oppression.\u00a0 Lima Beans.\u00a0 Your beloved Aunt Harriet. Your favorite football team.\u00a0 Just name it, I\u2019ll write a song about it, create a video and put it up on YouTube. <\/font><\/p>\n

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\n\"\"Happy Ramadan to all my Moslem friends!\u00a0 Today marked the beginning of Islam\u2019s Holy Month of fasting (it just so happened to fall on the 1st of the month, being based on a lunar calendar, the \u201cmonth\u201d of Ramadan changes every year).<\/font><\/p>\n

I lived for a couple years in a Moslem country, so I got see first hand what this holy month is all about.\u00a0 Well, I didn\u2019t 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.\u00a0 I slept through that part.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 While I lived with a Moslem family as a teenager, they made me lunch which I ate all by myself every day during Ramadan.<\/font><\/p>\n

When the sun went down, a somewhat more cranky family (low blood sugar?) got together to eat a hearty evening meal.<\/p>\n

Now, in the country I lived in, Ramadan\u2019s requirements were kind of like Jews keeping a strict kosher or Catholics not eating meat on Fridays:\u00a0 not everyone went along with it, and you weren\u2019t necessarily going to go to Hell to you broke your Ramadan fast.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Certainly a lot of cigarette smokers found it easier not to eat than to forgo the addiction of nicotine.<\/p>\n

\"\"There is a mosque here in Seattle I pass everyday on the way home from work.\u00a0 Tonight, there was a very big crowd filing out as I rode by on my bicycle.\u00a0 It got me thinking about Ramadan and latitude.\u00a0 In the tropics, the sun rises at 6 AM and sets at 6 PM, all year long.\u00a0 Right now, it gets light here in Seattle at 5:30 AM and doesn\u2019t get dark until 9:30.\u00a0\u00a0 In a couple years, when Ramadan\u2019s backwards march through the true calendar will have it occurring in late June.\u00a0 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?\u00a0 There aren\u2019t A LOT of Moslems in the Land of the Midnight Sun, but I\u2019m sure there are a few?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure Mohammed (blessed be his name) would understand.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll finish tonight\u2019s blog with a song.\u00a0 One by one of my favorite Moslems, Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens). <\/font><\/p>\n

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