yay!!!

Mikki and I are going to ruin youse!

Is that Theismann on the ground? I'm afraid to click...

@Doug
Yes. Yes it is.

AWESOME!

Dream on BA, I'm in it to win it. @2 Yes, yes it is. Don't click and especially don't watch the reverse angle camera. Football player origami is never pretty.

I remember watching that play live like it was yesterday... I was 13 years old, a Redskins fan.

The beginning of the Jay Schroeder era!

Fag that I am, the Tight Ends, Taints, and Guns have an immediate appeal.

Football, you say?

Oh, Marge. You made me miss Joe Theismann.

So are we PopTart. Our greatest joy as a couple and a team is crushing spirits.

Those are all fine, fine names. My fantasy Premiership team names never seem good enough...

That's because we keep choosing real football teams (aka soccer).

Prepare to be pwned, Slogger nerds! The Taints are not taking prisoners!

I think it's so cute when the straighter Stranger staff members get all butch on us by posting some boring sports shit that 98% of the average Slog reader could care less about...

@8 Bring it, sister. The only thing you'll be crushing is the mint for your juleps.

@9 Abby, I totally struggled with a team name. I didn't want to be mocked as a fantasy football "differently abled person" because I gave my team a stupid name. I figured with this crowd, asses are always a good bet...

Michael,

Someone has to stop the gay conspiracy.

I think its funny when gays complain about sports existing at all and even possibly being talked about as if gays aren't allowed to have an interest in sports.

@10: it's still a fantasy team, so it's not like it's just Arsenal wholesale. In fact, I can't just do that- I'm limited to three Arsenals on the game I play. The rest are made up of other players from other teams, and I'm trying to make myself be less emotional about it (last season I wouldn't buy players on teams I hated, which was rather limiting). My team name is Landwehr SV, which was last year's team name because I was in Berlin when I started it, but I couldn't think of a better one this year so I didn't change it.

@ 14) I'm doing jazz hands at you right now.

Im getting the feeling that both Abby and WiS suffer from some kind of inferiority complex that comes with watching soccer and thusly feel compelled to post about soccer in a football post.

@18 - No doubt. They should take the off-topic posts about their fake-injury riddled "sport" elsewhere.

BA, the only inferiority complex I have in regards to my chosen spectator sport is that I can't think up a good fantasy team name. And then I had to explain to WiS that yes, this is still a problem even if the fantasy team "plays" the kind of football where you use your feet.

I guess one could still call a team the Taints, though, if you were a Southhampton fan I guess. Or a Portsmouth fan, more likely.

AHAHAHAHAHAH! Southhampton! I get it!

My fantasy football team's name this year will be Mission of Tuzla

I will make a deal with the (male)mo's. You don't talk about wanting to bang the football players and I won't talk about my vagina licking techniques. Let us hetro's and FF friendly Mo's enjoy ourselves. Believe it or not, people who enjoy the opposite sex actually read The Stranger.

Jonah-I think the prize for the winner should be a ring.

A cock ring.

That would be a fitting prize for this league.

@18 - I think you mean we, like most of the world, assume you're talking about football, not the american "football" game .... and given our local sports choices, it's not like "soccer" isn't growing by leaps and head-butting bounds.

It's funny that Favre is on Madden 09 because when a player appears on the cover it usually signals that that player will either have a bad year or suffer an injury or embarrassment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_curse#Madden_Curse

It's funny that Favre is on Madden 09 because when a player appears on the cover it usually signals that that player will either have a bad year or suffer an injury or embarrassment:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madden_curse#Madden_Curse

@24 - You'd think that the video of Theisman getting his leg snapped would clarify that for you, Will.

Besides, since you are in the United States, football means football, not soccer.

And, this "growing by leaps and head-butting bounds" sport that you speak of is indeed growing locally in the form of MLS (not MLF).

You aren't in most the world. If i lived in a place where the nomenclature for football was "handmelon" then i would call it "handmelon". But you want to feel like you're one upping everyone every time you post about soccer in a football thread as if that gives you super elite culture points among displaced europeans living here. it doesnt, and youre never going to convince anyone here that soccer has anything better to offer than football.

See, this is what happens when you start talking to Arsenal fans.

@28: I've always liked 'helmetball' as a pejorative, but maybe I'll switch to 'handmelon.' It makes me giggle.

And @27: your sport's not the only one with legs getting snapped.

But it's true that the vast majority of professional soccer players can climb a set of stairs when they retire, unlike NFLers. And the average lifespan of soccer midfielders isn't in the mid-50s, like it is for gridiron linemen. Nothing tops the NFL for stupid brutality. It's the perfect American sport: stylized warfare for a populace that regards torture as amusement.

I like the name of the team "tight ends" so that's who Ima rootin' for. the taints was a close second. . .but the TE's usually have the hot bods! (Yum Yum TO!)
When do we find out the teams players?