September 23, 2007

Football season is in full swing. Two weeks are in the books, and the third is nearly complete, which means that the yearly tradition, fantasy football, is as frustrating as ever. If you don't know fantasy football, unlike any other fantasy sports game it has higher highs and lower lows. At this point, those of you who do not play fantasy sports are saying to yourself, "how can you get so emotional over a silly game about football players on different teams?" I was anticipating your question. In fantasy football, you are the head coach. You plan your players based on who their real team is playing that week. You make trade, drop players, add new ones, and angst over which players will get you team the most points that week. When Sunday comes, and unless you have the football package on your satellite TV, you are limited to watching, at most two games at 1pm and two games at 4pm (and sometimes only one 4pm game). So, if your team isn't local and doesn't get any air time in your local area, it doesn't matter, you can still get excited about any game you watch because you have players playing in that game. Fantasy football makes every game, every week relevant, not just you favorite team's. So when your favorite team has a horrible day (which mine usually does - Cleveland Browns) you still have the excitement of your fantasy team performing well. On the other hand, when your fantasy team doesn't do well, it is even more heartbreaking because of all the time and energy spent on putting together the best team for that day. The football fan have more invested each week in football than in the past. Needless to say, I wouldn't be writing about this if I had made the correct choices for my players this week. My best players are, of course, on the bench. Grrrr.

Yesterday was as busy as I anticipated and we did not get home until after 11pm. We were all exhausted but we managed to go to the Hibernian to listen to the band play. Michelle agreed, they weren't very good. We missed their first set, but the second set we could have done without. Apparently, Evan wasn't too thrilled either, he slept through the second set.

Despite how tired we were at the end of it all, it was a nice day. We hung out with Michelle's co-worker/friend Nicole, her husband John, and her sister, Danielle, as well as our friend Rebecca from New Hampshire. That was a nice treat, she was down here in North Carolina to sing in a concert.

Today was a pretty laid back day. We went to breakfast at Brig's and then I went over to Mercer and Keith's and played a little Dungeons and Dragons but mostly watched football, and complained about my fantasy football team.