The magazines are just about shredded from flipping them from cover to cover in search of my perfect running back. My fingers might have developed some new type of carpal tunnel syndrome after hours spent typing away online weeding through quarterbacks. My dome piece is pounding from racking my brain about whether to take two RBs first or a RB and a WR. All of this pain for what, you may ask? It’s all for the glory and bragging rights among my fellow office brethren.
Fantasy football is here.
Yes, I may be a fierce sports aficionado and makeup artist at night but 40 long hours a week I spend selling my soul to Corporate America. Luckily one thing all of us office drones have in common though, is our love of the pigskin. Good old American football.
My league is small being that there are only 6 souls brave enough to risk their sports knowledge reputation and $20 entry fee to hopefully come out on top of the dog pile at the end of the season. I’m the lone female in my league and I’m going to do my best to represent for the fairer gender and tonight the games begin.
After work today we’ll indulge in a few adult beverages at happy hour and do some final last minute draft strategizing for a couple hours. And yes, it’s that serious. 6:30 P.M. kicks off our live fantasy draft in one of our conference rooms that are supposed to be used for actual work instead of fantasy football. Because our league is so small, (we’re the only normal people in the office who actually enjoy normal things such as football), we’re having double the amount of players as a normal league. 30 players per team. Let me reiterate. 30 PLAYERS PER TEAM. Can we say epic?
I’ll be picking with the 6th and 7th picks as we do the usual snake formation for drafting. I’m looking at taking two RBs in a row or a RB and a WR with my first two picks. Based on my draft position I’m thinking about trying to land Frank Gore and Andre Johnson. I might piggyback Johnson with Matt Schaub if I can snag him in a later round as well.
Unfortunately I likely won’t be picking too many of my beloved New York Giants this draft and I’m strongly considering taking the Cowboys’ defense. That was painful to type. We’ll see what this fantasy season has for the Manningham and Cheese team.
GAME ON.
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