****Note to everyone – there are two ways to play fantasy football.  Most go “head-to-head” where two people pair off and try to win.  To have fun with this one, we’re doing a points league so we are all trying to kick each others asses at the same time.  It’ll be easier for me to follow in order to teach you and a hell of a lot easier for all of us (and the world) to make fun of each other (nicely). ****

It’s game day!  The first day of football season has arrived and with it the kick off of our fantasy football season!  YES!  Get it ON, bitches!  WOO!

Okay, so for those of you who don’t want to learn or give a shit about football, this might bore the hell out of you but you don’t have to be involved in my league to learn and enjoy what’s going to happen.

Because my slacker-ass started so late, I only have one league in training and I’m going to use that league to teach those involved and all of you at the same time (to the best of my ability) about why football is the greatest fucking sport on earth and how playing fantasy football can help you learn not only the sport and the game (fantasy football), but it will also give you a reason to not just watch your home team.  Playing fantasy football gives you a reason to watch all the various games because you might have a QB (that’s QUARTERBACK – See?  Already training!) that’s playing and you want to watch the game to see how he does because you’re really hoping to crush your opponent that week.

Here is the team list.  From this point forward, I will be referring to all of the individuals playing by their team name.  I will ABSOLUTELY make fun of everyone (including myself) and I encourage the team members to use their team name when commenting below on all football related posts (I’ll have the team list up on every post so we know who’s talking about who) and be sure to smack talk the shit out of each other. We could do it on the fantasy football page but no one ever looks at that smack talk board (from my past FF experiences) so I say we all talk shit in the comments whenever I write something about the games.

It will also allow others who are reading and playing vicariously through us to talk shit about all of us, too.

I’m awesome, in case you haven’t figured that out.

Now, here’s where the team needs some info.  All of you have your teams set up.  You all have players listed.  Here is a picture of my team.  It lists who i have, their position, what team they are playing and when the game is -

As you can see, it has all the players listed just randomly up there.  You are going to want to move your shit around.  You need to fill all the spots up with who you want to play and bench the guys you don’t want for the week.  First game starts tonight, so get all your shit straight now.  If you don’t want them to play, bench them (BN).  When it comes time to bye weeks (teams take a week off, so you might not have a defense that week), you’ll have to look at the wire to see who’s available and make trades.  We’ll worry about that later.  This is what you need to know now -

It’s simple to move your guys around.  When you click on your team, the image above will show up.  All you have to do to move a guy is simply drag him and drop him to where you want him.  Take a look at all of your players.  You’re going to just need to click on the notes next to a player to see what’s going on with them.  If there’s an envelope next to them, it means there’s news.  If there’s a little star, you absolutely want to know what’s going on.  Here’s an example-

Just clicking on that envelope tells me what Favre’s deal is and actually recommends what they think you can do.  You can follow that or just screw around and see for yourself.  Do some research.  Take a look at who your competition has and take a look at available players that are still out there.  For all I know, you might want to drop someone completely and get a new guy.  It’s easy to do.  Ask me in the comment section here so I can answer it for everyone.

It’s really fucking easy and a ton of fucking fun so just take a look, play with your guys and ask any questions on this post.  You can also email me at Julie at momspective.com and I’ll address your question back to you via email and I’ll also address it in my next football post.  I’ll be dedicating one post a week to it and I’ll probably randomly mention things and I’ll email you when you need to pop over to read my shit because what the hell, I’m funny so you may as well read everything as far as I’m concerned.

Now take a look, get your team ready to play and just watch as you go.  They have free live tracking so you can see who you’re up against and who’s in the lead as the weekend progresses.  Good luck!

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