Expert Fantasy Football Mock Draft Panel Announced - By Robot
July 20, 2009 by Garp
Filed under Blog, Fantasy Football, Hobbies, Video
We’re too busy to make the announcement ourselves, so we got a robot to do it.
Hopefully he can take the Longhorns all the way to the Super Bowl
“Five-star recruit Garrett Gilbert made official what he promised last year at this time – the Cavaliers quarterback signed with Texas. Gilbert broke Graham Harrell’s passing record for yards in a career with 12,533 in helping Lake Travis win back-to-back state championships. Gilbert comes from a football family – his dad is former NFL quarterback Gale Gilbert, the only player in NFL history to go to be a member of five straight Super Bowl teams in the ‘90s. He is one of the nation’s best prospects – and widely considered the biggest signee of the Longhorns 2009 class.”–keyetv.com
With this signing, the Texas Longhorns put themselves in a position to compete for the Super Bowl in one to two years. This kid is THAT good.
Taking Back Valentine’s: Gifts for the Alpha Male Football Lover
Ladies do not fret. Despite the fact that we have taken back Valentine’s and you are therefor expected to buy US gifts this year, we are here to help. No matter what type of man you are devoted to - Health Lover, Music Lover, Movie Lover, Food Lover, Beer Lover, Football Lover, or Fitness Lover, we have the perfect gift suggestions for you from men who exemplify what it means to be a man - whatever they love.
Alpha Male Football Lover Marc Faletti is one of the Fantasy Football geniuses at FootballGuys.com and Draftguys.com and is the founder of E2ECreative.com, specializing in “the production of creative content for next-generation distribution.” Although we haven’t announced it formally yet, Marc will be one of the Fantasy Football experts on the panel of the Fantasy Football Mock Draft at this year’s Texas Testosterone Festival. We asked Marc for the five gifts he is wishing for this Valentine’s.
“People say football isn’t romantic. Those people obviously aren’t football lovers — if they were, they’d know how many times the game makes your heart skip a beat, how easily it can make you hug complete strangers (of either gender), and how much it hurts when it’s gone.
Valentine’s Day falls after the close of the NFL and college seasons of football, but true fans never stop thinking about the game. If you want to win the heart of a football lover on V-Day, try one of these made-to-please gifts:
5. The Jersey
A staple of any football fan, the NFL jersey is the adult equivalent of underoos. On Sundays, men turn into boys and dress up like their favorite heroes while they run around on a sugar and/or beer binge and tear up the house with their friends. If this sounds like fun, ask your significant other’s friend about his favorite team and player, then find (or make) that jersey at the NFL Shop.
Sure, the season may be over, but Valentine’s Day is smack dab in the middle of the NFL draft build-up. Most football lovers are either dying to know where their favorite college players are going to play in the pros and/or which players their favorite NFL teams ought to select in April. Transform your football lover into the smartest draftnik amongst his friends by ordering him a copy of GM Jr., the best draft guide on the planet by Sporting News expert and former NFL scout Russ Lande.
Texas Stadium is no more. In its stead towers the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium, which will probably be renamed as Liposuction and Botox Associates Stadium or some such thing by the time the season starts. Whatever they finally christen it, this megaplex will be the most opulent stadium ever built by humans, and your football lover will need to see it first-hand. Grab a couple tickets and make a weekend of it.
2. The Watch
Our cell phones tell time, so the only reason to wear a watch is because it’s cool or makes a statement. All Longhorn fans will drool over the finest piece of men’s jewelry ever crafted for them: The Tag Heur Longhorn Watch. It’s simple, it’s elegant, and it’ll make your football lover look classy. For most of us, that’s a rare feat.
Only one team wins the Super Bowl every year. Odds are, your football lover’s team wasn’t that one… and he probably cried like a baby about it. Show him you care by giving him the gift that keeps on giving – a tissue box featuring his favorite team. Every time his QB lobs an INT or his defense gives up another easy touchdown, he’ll remember you care as he dabs his eyes and blows his nose on your thoughtfulness.”
Bigger is Better
“In light of the new football size, coaches for both the Steelers and Cardinals are advising their players to wear gloves, carry the ball with both arms at all times, and lift with their legs and not their backs when recovering fumbles.”–theonion.com
Certainly will make the game more interesting. Let’s be honest, though. Do the Cardinals need any more challenges in this game?
Now you can have your game and eat it too
“Here at HolyTaco, we’re big sports fans. And we’re also big fans of eating piles of snack foods while we watch said sports. So, in honor of the Super Bowl and our need to cram our faces full of processed foods with funny names, we created this football stadium made entirely out of snack foods.”
The best touch is the blimp; a summer sausage in the shape of a football. How they got it into the shape of a football, we can only guess they inflated it with some kind of cheese or beer.
Superbowl? What Superbowl? Ah… Senior Bowl.
For the more forward-thinking football fans who have already checked out of this year’s playoffs (read as: fantasy footballers, Dallas Cowboys fans, anyone within the Detroit Lions’ negative energy field) there is a new website on the web just for you. Draftguys.com (a sister site to our buddies over at Footballguys.com) has just launched and their second video is the Senior Bowl Day 1 Preview featuring highlights of the two-hand touch variety.
Take a look at the draft picks for next season, and maybe get an edge for your own fantasy draft, by watching the Preview video and visiting both Draftguys.com and Footballguys.com regularly.
Losers and tigers and bears, oh my
“A loss would install the Lions in their very own NFL Hall of Shame as the league’s first team to go 0-16 in a season. They’re already the first to go 0-15. A win, of course, would be better, allowing Detroit the dubious distinction of becoming the ninth franchise to finish a season 1-15.”–ESPN.
At least they still have cheerleaders worth watching on the field. They’re arguably more organized and definitely more athletic (-looking).
