Fantasy Football

I actually never thought I'd get in to this little pasttime, but dammit I love it!!! I remember a group of ex-Coworkers back Home that I used to compete against. We'd go to a local eatery armed with printouts of player rankings, etc and have a "live" draft. We even did it via IM one time. If you don't know what Fantasy Football is, it's an online game where you can either create a private league for you and friends or join a public league with everyone across the Country. In these leagues you play the part of the General Manager/Headcoach of a football team. Available to you are all of the actual players on the current NFL rosters. You have a computerized draft, or you do a live draft, then before the games are played you shuffle your final starting line-up around. You can trade with other "owners" or go after Free Agents (the list of players that aren't currently assigned to someone in your leagues team). Then if that player actually plays, you score points based on the players actual performance. You are pitted against another "owner" weekly and the "owner" with the most points wins. There are many places you can go online to set leagues up and play. The majority of them are free. Yahoo Sports has one which I've used in the past, and the one we are using this year is from ESPN. You know this thing is popular when every Football wrap up show has a "Fantasy" segment where the Sports Analysts give you recommendations on who to drop, who to keep, and who to go and pick up for your team. Gotta love it. You should try it some time.