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2008 college football bowl contest
Okay. So as many of you know, I like sports. And I also like nerdery. So what better than to combine sports and nerdery??!? It is the annual bowl contest sponsored by pro-football-reference.com. Here is the contest page (picks due this Saturday before the first game) as well as last year’s contest and their NFL…
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Fantasy Football update
So, to all negative 5 people besides me that care about my fantasy football team, I thought I would update you on how things went yesterday after my dilemma . Addai and Jacobs in fact did not play. Sproles received 3.38 points, and Morris got 4.30. Larry Johnson for some odd reason THREW a touchdown…
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Turkey Croquet
Family and Friends: I would like to invite you to the inaugural 1st Annual Miller Family Thanksgiving Croquet game. I apologize for the short notice and I’m sure it is only this lack of appropriate notice that will prevent you from dropping everything and making it to Cincinnati for this amazing experience and not piddling…
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Dear NFL Network: SHOW THE FREAKIN GAME!!!!
So last night I was watching the Browns game on websites of questionable legality. That is one advantage of the fall baby – I take the first turn of the night by having him sleep on my chest while I watch football. Works at least 2 or 3 nights of a week! So anyways, I…
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Fantasy Football shenanigans
So I am in a fantasy football league. This league is with several people that I was on my mission with and is run by my ex-mission president (who runs 3 or 4 such leagues with different ex-missionaries). We have been playing since 2000 and it’s a lot of fun. We play in Yahoo –…
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An NFL contest
So I enjoy sports, and I enjoy numbers. So if you enjoy neither of those things, this may be a blog post you should just go ahead and skip. If only I could make this post about maps too then it would be like the pefect post. Anyways, the folks over at pro-football-reference.com are sponsoring…
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Allstate Alumni Kicking Challenge
More thoughts on the BCS championship game. As I mentioned over there in that post, I didn’t watch very much of the game but at one point I turned it on and it was halftime so I saw the “Allstate Alumni Kicking Challenge”. In case you missed it, there were two kickers playing – one…
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College Football
So last night was the big bad Bowl Championship Series National Championship game. Long title, huh? Wait, I think I missed a “Presented by Allstate” or a “dot com” or a “your mom” Anyway, it was LSU vs. Ohio State. I have to say I am not a big Ohio State fan, but I marginally…