This time of the year, most of us are busy trying to figure out the difference between the 58th best RB and the 59th best RB in college football.  A few hours earlier, you made that tough decision on who was the 59th best RB.

Pre-draft Fantasy Football is really fun, but at times can be quite stressful…especially when that “other vocation” (a.k.a “work”) interferes with your fantasy pursuit….

“Boss, I will get back to the Gold Brick account in a few minutes…I have to do a quick analysis of the Tebow project…”

Pray your boss is not a Florida State Seminole….or the commissioner of your fantasy league.

So, take a few minutes…relax…and enjoy this quick excerpt.  Think of it as the condensed form of the Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader for the Fantasy Player.  However, you do not need to sit on the throne with your laptop or notebook while reading.

Because, you have always wondered if that ref viewing the instant replay video is really watching the replay…or his favorite porn flick…

Two new college stadiums open up this fall.  Minnesota will unveil its new, on-campus facility, TCFBank Stadium (artist’s rendition, thanks gophers.com), on September 12 when they host Air Force.  After nearly thirty seasons playing in the HHH Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis, the Gophers move back on campus, and back outdoors.  The new smaller venue should give the Gophers an advantage, especially late in the season….because by October 1st everyone wants to go inside in Minnesota.  Wouldn’t you just love to have the hot chocolate concession at TCF Bank Stadium?  Or the Jack Daniel’s concession…

Also joining the new stadium ranks, Akron will open the new on-campus Infocision Stadium on September 12, when the Zips host Morgan State.  Akron built the new facility to replace the aging, off-campus Rubber Bowl…and, to try to increase the attendance figures for Zips football games with an on-campus facility.  Having been to the Rubber Bowl a few times, I will miss the ancient relic….even with its on-field stadium lights (yes, on-field)….but, oh man, the Rubber Bowl was so sturdy it could survive a direct nuke attack.  Congrats to Akron for coming up with a new stadium, however, the name “Infocision” sounds like they had to “take a little tip off the top” after they finished.

Speaking of Akron….I know someone who once was their famed Zippy The Kangaroo mascot (Zippy, left, thanks gozips.com). Do not know why I shared that with you, but thought it was interesting.  By the way, how many college mascots, or former mascots, do you know?  Have you ever seen one of those mascots be-headed?  Oh, I mean, with their mascot head off…whatever…

Although I wanted to divert your attention away from Fantasy Football, there is this fantasy-related article that just about sums up what people show up at every fantasy draft.  From the gang at The Mac Bros., we bring you the “Eight Personalities That Show Up At Every Draft”.   Click the link below for the article:

Eight Personalities At Every Fantasy Football Draft

What is so funny about this article (which has been mentioned on ESPN Radio and the website Fark.com) is that not only these people have shown up at your draft every year….most of us, ourselves, have been guilty of displaying at least one of these personalities at every draft (“The Agonist”, thanks The Mac Bros.)  It is wholly possible that most fantasy players are suffering from multiple personalities on draft day…maybe even full-blown schizophrenia. At least I did not pick a kicker in the third round of a draft many years ago.  Wait, it was me who picked that kicker in the third round.  At least I did not pick Maurice Clarrett when he was a sophomore.  Or when he was a junior….

By the way, a former co-worker once told me the best excuse ever heard for someone failing to show up for a fantasy draft.  At one of his drafts, someone did not show up because he forgot his “cousins were getting married” and was in the wedding party. No kidding.

I did not ask if the guy was the bridesmaid, groomsman, or both.  Or, if his name was Bluth…

You figure something like that…that person  would have known about it well in advance.  And, also, would have come up with something else to tell his fellow fantasy players.  It is no fun to be the butt of fantasy jokes until the apocalypse hits.

Let’s hope everything goes well with your fantasy draft and fantasy team in 2009.  You can now return to your work….

Related posts:

1. THE GAMES EVERY FANTASY PLAYER SHOULD WATCH – September 2009
2. Fantasy College Football Invitational: Expert League Draft Results
3. STADIUM EFFECTS
4. 2009 College Fantasy RB Sleepers/Busts
5. 2008 Fantasy College Blitz Owner’s Playbook

Tags: fantasy strategy, Tim Tebow