FF Playoff Draft Sheet

[Ellis Dee]

Sorry for the intrusion, but I just need a place to temporarily host a spreadsheet for use in a playoff draft. By "temporary" I mean around an hour. Thanks for the indulgence.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

I feel so used.

[homer13j]

What’s that? Uh... Playoffs? Don’t talk about... playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs?

[Ellis Dee]

heh. Draft is finished so I nixed the attachment. Just for closure, here are the draft results: (no bench and no free agency; everyone starts. Once your guy's team is eliminated, that's a hole on your roster for the rest of the playoffs.)

Ellis Dee
QB Aaron Rodgers
RB Marion Barber
RB Kevin Faulk
WR Vincent Jackson
WR Sidney Rice
WR Julian Edelman
TE Brent Celek
K Garrett Hartley
DEF Jets

SenorBeef
QB Drew Brees
RB Cedric Benson
RB Pierre Thomas
WR Randy Moss
WR Marques Colston
WR Donald Driver
TE Jason Witten
K Stephen Gostkowski
DEF Cowboys

Hamlet
QB Peyton Manning
RB Adrian Peterson
RB Ryan Grant
WR Reggie Wayne
WR Greg Jennings
WR Chad Ochocinco
TE Antonio Gates
K Nate Kaeding
DEF Packers

RNATB
QB Tom Brady
RB Ray Rice
RB Thomas Jones
WR Larry FitzGerald
WR DeSean Jackson
WR Robert Meachem
TE Dallas Clark
K Jay Feely
DEF Bengals

dalej42
QB Tony Romo
RB LaDainian Tomlinson
RB Beanie Wells
WR Miles Austin
WR Anquan Boldin
WR Steve Breaston
TE Visanthe Shiancoe
K Neil Rackers
DEF Chargers

Omniscient
QB Philip Rivers
RB Joseph Addai
RB Willis McGahee
WR Derrick Mason
WR Pierre Garcon
WR Percy Harvin
TE Jermichael Finley
K Ryan Longwell
DEF Colts

[zaza]

This isn't Fantasy Football. It's Fantasy American Football, aka FAF.

[Ellis Dee]

You mean Association Football? That's known as soccer in countries that have real football, like Canada, Australia and the US.

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Host it on Google docs.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

You mean Association Football? That's known as soccer in countries that have real football, like Canada, Australia and the US.

Ah No !!

Its known as Football in hundreds of countries apart from Canada, Australia and the US where they have strange games that have nothing to do with football and where the players foot and ball rarely come in contact with each other !

Football is a game with where you kick a ball around a field attempting to get it into your oppositions net. The kicking the ball bit is very important as that is were the name come from, as in kicking the ball with your foot !!!

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

I'm bored. Someone do something entertaining.

[Ellis Dee]

The kicking the ball bit is very important as that is were the name come from, as in kicking the ball with your foot !!!

The "foot" part of football means "on foot" as opposed to mounted on horseback, ala polo.

And why should I, as a native English speaker, care about the opinions of ESL'ers regarding my native tongue? They are simply wrong. It would be like me trying to explain to the French that they were misusing a French word. This kind of arrogance displayed by the rest of the world's soccer fans puts the stereotypical American arrogance to shame.

[zaza]

When I have the opportunity to tell the French that they are doing something wrong, particularly with regard to their own language, I am all over it.

The same goes for Americans.

Next time I'm stateside, I'm going to re-annex the place in the name of Her Majesty.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

And why should I, as a native English speaker, care about the opinions of ESL'ers regarding my native tongue?

Can i ask who you are referring to here ? i hope it's not me as coming form England, i like to think that English is my first language.

[abhijit]

Host it on Google docs.

www.zoho.com is another place where you can host it.

[Ellis Dee]

Can i ask who you are referring to here ? i hope it's not me as coming form England, i like to think that English is my first language.

Odd, then, that you don't recognize the word soccer, it being a British word and all.

It would be just as foolish for Brits to complain bitterly when an American refers to himself as a Yank, with the Brit loudly proclaiming "You're not a Yank, you're an American!"

All it does it highlight the ignorance of the Brit. Maybe if you guys ever created a real football game like most of your former Empire did you wouldn't be so insecure about the word soccer.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

Odd, then, that you don't recognize the word soccer, it being a British word and all.

It would be just as foolish for Brits to complain bitterly when an American refers to himself as a Yank, with the Brit loudly proclaiming "You're not a Yank, you're an American!"

All it does it highlight the ignorance of the Brit. Maybe if you guys ever created a real football game like most of your former Empire did you wouldn't be so insecure about the word soccer.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Odd, then, that you don't recognize the word soccer, it being a British word and all.

I recognise the word, and i recognise it as the word that countries that don't play Football very well use to describe Football !

Let me explain a little further, imagine you went to Canada and you found that instead of calling American Football, Football or American Football they instead called it something else like Throw-Egg ! (There was an excellent post by one member on this forum in fact explaining why American Football should actually be known as - ThrowEgg), my post was just a reaction to that and i was attempting to humourus !!

It would be just as foolish for Brits to complain bitterly when an American refers to himself as a Yank, with the Brit loudly proclaiming "You're not a Yank, you're an American!"

You can call yourself whatever you want, but you wont find anyone British that refers to football as Soccer unless they have been living outside the country too long !

All it does it highlight the ignorance of the Brit. Maybe if you guys ever created a real football game like most of your former Empire did you wouldn't be so insecure about the word soccer.

Do tell me, what constitutes a proper football game ?

Also i would like to hear about these so called football type games created by our former empire. I would be really interested if you could name 1 other than American Football (which is derived from Rugby anyway).

What i find funny is that actually i am more of Rugby fan than football and if you have ever seen a game of rugby, apart from that fact that you cant through the ball forward (think lots of laterals) it actually has some similarities to American Football !

[homer13j]

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[abhijit]

homer,
I see you got the multi-quote thingy figured out.

[Ellis Dee]

Let me explain a little further, imagine you went to Canada and you found that instead of calling American Football, Football or American Football they instead called it something else like Throw-Egg ! (There was an excellent post by one member on this forum in fact explaining why American Football should actually be known as - ThrowEgg), my post was just a reaction to that and i was attempting to humourus !!

I wouldn't care a whit. I certainly wouldn't feel insecure about it, as so many Brits are. (Ably demonstrated by you.)

Also i would like to hear about these so called football type games created by our former empire. I would be really interested if you could name 1 other than American Football (which is derived from Rugby anyway).

The NFL, the Canadian Football League, and Australian Rules Football. That's three countries that created their own, "real" football as defined by me.

What i find funny is that actually i am more of Rugby fan than football and if you have ever seen a game of rugby, apart from that fact that you cant through the ball forward (think lots of laterals) it actually has some similarities to American Football !

Rugby's pretty good. Those guys are definitely nuts enough to count as real football. None of that rolling around on the ground pretending that you've been mortally wounded that's so prevalent in soccer.

The reason soccer fans get so insecure is that ALL football including rugby was originally derived from soccer. That's why there is so much resistance to change in the sport. Everytime someone makes a change, they realize a few more changes would make it even better and then blammo you have a whole different sport that only bears the most trivial semblance to soccer. And then those new sports immediately and forever become much more popular than soccer in those countries. So yeah, I get the insecurity. I just find it funny.

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

@NeedSomeAnswers:

[NeedSomeAnswers]

I certainly wouldn't feel insecure about it, as so many Brits are. (Ably demonstrated by you.)

If you had actually read what i said, you would see that i was attempting to be funny (my sarcasm obviously went straight over your head), Do you have problem with British people by the way ?

The NFL, the Canadian Football League, and Australian Rules Football. That's three countries that created their own, "real" football as defined by me.

I said apart from American Football, Canadian Football is another form of Gridiron as well, and as For Aussie Rules well that is basically Gaelic Football they robbed it from the Irish, as it's almost exactly the same game. There are very few truly new games created anymore.

Rugby's pretty good. Those guys are definitely nuts enough to count as real football. None of that rolling around on the ground pretending that you've been mortally wounded that's so prevalent in soccer.

Yep i have to agree, Rugby in my opinion is one of the best game on the planet. I used to play them game for about 20 years until injuries forced me to retire myself !

The reason soccer fans get so insecure is that ALL football including rugby was originally derived from soccer.

I like Football, Rugby in fact most sports i have no insecurities about any of them ! I have to say though i don't get Baseball, i tried to watch a game once on TV and it bored me to hell !

And then those new sports immediately and forever become much more popular than soccer in those countries.

I thought that i had heard somewhere that Football (or soccer if you want to call it that) is the fastest growing Sport in the US.

[dbasnett]

See Etymology here Wiki. My son loves 'football', I think mostly because his wife is from Rome. For me it is like watching golf, mostly boring and then someone does something marvelous, simply MahVelous. Give me the NFL any day.

[Shaggy Hiker]

The reason soccer fans get so insecure is that ALL football including rugby was originally derived from soccer. That's why there is so much resistance to change in the sport. Everytime someone makes a change, they realize a few more changes would make it even better and then blammo you have a whole different sport that only bears the most trivial semblance to soccer. And then those new sports immediately and forever become much more popular than soccer in those countries. So yeah, I get the insecurity. I just find it funny.

That is one of the weirdest statements I have seen on this site. Care to back it up with some stats? I can't decide which half I find more suspect, the part that all football derived from soccer or the part where the new sport immediately became more popular.

By the way, the 'fastest growing sport' can be a mirage. When you start from a low enough level, even a modest net increase in numbers is a substantial percent increase.

[kregg]

YAAAAAAAY!!! Mark Gambo is back, but he's changed his name! Which is quite matching since I'd have to be on LSD (Ellis Dee) to agree with his posts!

Let the games begin!!

The reason soccer fans get so insecure is that ALL football including rugby was originally derived from soccer. That's why there is so much resistance to change in the sport. Everytime someone makes a change, they realize a few more changes would make it even better and then blammo you have a whole different sport that only bears the most trivial semblance to soccer. And then those new sports immediately and forever become much more popular than soccer in those countries. So yeah, I get the insecurity. I just find it funny.

Did you know American football was derived from a competition where two people would snort strings of spaghetti until they had reached a point where they thought they were macho? Those shoulderpads? The plates they used to serve the spaghetti on. Then they span on their heads and with this they realised they could actually copy the Brits with their rugby and call it football.

It's totally true too. You can thank me later.

I'm bored. Someone do something entertaining.

[Spoo]

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Let me explain a little further, imagine you went to Canada
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Why on earth would anyone want to do that?

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

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Let me explain a little further, imagine that I finally shut up and stopped making a fool of myself.
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Why on earth would anyone want to do that?

No no, read it again. I'm fully supportive of this scenario.

[kregg]

You never told me if you stopped being bored...

[NeedSomeAnswers]

No no, read it again. I'm fully supportive of this scenario.

Cretin !

[MaximilianMayrhofer]

You never told me if you stopped being bored...

[homer13j]

Did you know American football was derived from a competition where two people would snort strings of spaghetti until they had reached a point where they thought they were macho? Those shoulderpads? The plates they used to serve the spaghetti on. Then they span on their heads and with this they realised they could actually copy the Brits with their rugby and call it football.

It's totally true too. You can thank me later.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's an uninspired LOLcat. If I were doing it, and if I had any artistic talent (which I don't), I would have photoshopped in a little altar, possibly with a dead mouse on it, and added the caption "HEAR ME, DARK LORD!"