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I know this is a basketball website/blog, but I can’t help myself. The football season starts today and how great is fantasy football? There is nothing better than sitting  in front of your TV on a lazy Sunday, not caring one iota about the score, but just cheering for your fantasy running back to get the ball on every down–even if it is 4th and 15. I am so obsessed that I would rather own the jersey of my fantasy #1 pick than my favorite player on my favorite team. Granted, my favorite team is the Dolphins and the only jersey I would get is OL Jake Long, but still I think you get my point.

I want to talk about my own fantasy football experiences and in particular my family league. The group consists of my dad, my brothers, one uncle and my cousins. In all, there are 10 players and the trash talking has been going on since the season ended last year. I must say that of all the participants I think my Dad is the most into it.

For who knows how long before the draft, my Dad was in full research mode. He was reading every Internet site, watching games, taking notes, and asking thousands of questions. I think his notebook was full by the time we got to the draft. It was like watching John Nash trying to crack the impossible code.

Last Saturday we had the draft. Shortly before picking, I wanted to walk my Dad through the ins and outs of the website in order for him to familiarize himself with how the draft works on these new things called computers and the Internet. My Dad had never done a live draft before, but he had only had autopicked (I know, I know autopicking is the worse. Unfortunately, we have a communist dictator as commish and threatened him with our coupe to overthrow his position to get it changed).

My Dad is not the most computer savvy man in the world and I wanted to stress the importance that there is only one minute between picks and that he needed to move quickly and be on top of the ball. My Dad’s response,

“Jaime, I was in the front office of the NBA and have gone through more draft years than years you are old. One minute between picks? We only had two minutes in between picks in the second round of the NBA drafts. I think I will be more than fine.”

In all, I think he did pretty well, not better than my team of course. However, I thought I would like to test his draft skills in fantasy versus his drafting skills in the NBA. Below, I have outlined his fantasy players drafted on Saturday and the draft picks he made in the NBA. Granted, the picks in the NBA were not all made at his sole discretion, but he did have a large say in all of them. You be the judge.

10 man league and the 5th pick. Start 1 OB, 1 RB, 1 RB/WR, 2 WR, 1 TE, 1 DEF, 1K

Indianola Boxers

QB-Tony Romo RB-Steven Jackson RB/WR-Edgerrin James WR-Braylon Edwards WR-Calvin Johnson TE-Witten DEF-Packers K-Brown BEN-LenDale White BEN-DeSean Jackson BEN-Jake Delhomme IR-Steve Smith BEN-Kenny Watson BEN-Isaac Bruce

Draft Picks- Since there were 7 rounds in the 80’s, I will only give you first and second rounders.

1982- Clark Kellogg 8th

1987- Reggie Miller 11th, Brian Rowsom 34th

1988- Rik Smits 2nd

1989- George McCloud 7th

1990- Antonio Davis 45th, Kenny Williams 46th

1991- Dale Davis 11th, Sean Green 41

1992 - Malik Sealy 14th

1993 - Scott Haskin 14th, Thomas Hill 39th, Spencer Dunkley 51st

1994 - Eric Piatkowski 15th, William Njoku 41st, Damon Bailey 44th

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