Football Season is Here

And with the arrival of football season comes another season of fantasy football. I am playing again this year in a league that Ernie runs on Yahoo. My team’s statistics will be shown at left. Being the competitor that I am, I am hoping to win the league championship so that I can finally win a fantasy trophy for my fantasy trophy case. It kills me that I have yet to win such a prize.

As I write this post, it is rivalry week in our league. I am playing Ernie, we have another husband/wife matchup, a best friend matchup, a roommates matchup, and then the matchup pitting Ernie’s dad against Ernie’s friend. They don’t really have a rivalry, but we’ve declared one for them in order to keep with the theme. My team looks on pace to win handily, but I’m not counting my chickens yet. Keep checking back to see how I do.

Cheerleader Sophia

Recently Sophia found her pom-pons in her toy box and started “cheering” with them. We kept trying to get her to say “Go Seahawks!” but she refused. What does she cheer for? “Go Movies!” I guess she likes watching movies more than she likes watching football. Ernie is working on changing her mind…

Football Season is Here!

Ernie has always been a football fan. He has many fond memories of spending Saturdays and Sundays watching football with his dad. In fact, back in the day when college bowl games were all played on January 1st, they would program the TV to show only those channels that were showing a football game. But I digress…

Unlike many wives I know, I embrace football season. I know enough about it to follow a game and understand what’s going on. Okay, I’ll NEVER understand why any team runs the ball up the middle, but I understand the rest. (Seriously, do they not see the big pile of guys in the middle that will inevitably stop all forward progress of the ball? Am I the only one who sees this coming?) What’s more, is that it is actually FUN to sit down and watch a game or two with Ernie.

I’ve gotten the fever so bad that I even have a fantasy football team. It all started by default last year, when Ernie’s league needed one more team in order to do a live draft, literally at the last minute. He originally thought he would run both teams, but I objected. I was not about to let him sully my good reputation with a (possibly) mediocre fantasy team. No, if that team was going down, it was going to be of MY doing, not his. Well, I made it to the playoffs – I beat out a few boys to get there! Now I’m hooked, and I have a team again this year. (Please see my team's record on the left.) I still don’t know who most of my players are, but I’m trying. I don’t think I’ll ever get to the point where I do research or participate in a live draft (Yahoo does a fine job in my opinion) but it is still fun.

With participating in fantasy football and March Madness pools, I think I have a shot at Best Sports Wife Ever. I think if I could just get into mixed martial arts I’d definitely win, but I’m just not that dedicated.