GAME DAY!: Fantasy Football Draft

While I consider myself a well-rounded girl, there are some things I simply am not. I'm not very athletic. I'm not a seafood lover. I'm not a short hair gal. I'm not a pro sports fan...

Or am I?

While my heart lies (and I feel will always lie) with college sports (Carolina football kicks off in t minus 11 days - be still my heart), pro football may be sneaking its way in my life. And as usual, we can thank TJ for this.

Y'all obviously know about my ~~like~~ love for T.J. Yates. I've said it ~~once~~ a million times and I'll say it again - T.J. Yates made me the college football fan that I am today. And now he's making me an NFL fan... sort of.

My allegiance is, of course, with college football and the most beautiful university in the country, BUT since T.J. is now in the NFL, I have the desire to follow pro sports. Enter "Yaters Gonna Yate."

Yaters Gonna Yate is the name of the fantasy football team my dad and I drafted last night. The draft was incredibly fun/stressful! It went much faster than I thought and since I don't know a ton of NFL players, many decisions were made based upon "Oh, he's cute" or "Look at his smile! Let's draft him."

Well, the plan was to draft T.J. with the last pick in the draft (the other teams aren't exactly fighting over him), but somehow we miscounted and only had one pick left when we thought we had two!! We had to get a kicker because we hadn't gotten one yet, so this morning, as soon as we were allowed to add/drop players, I made this little change.

Pending Add/Drops
Date & Time	Team	Add Player	Current Player	Status	Comment	Action
08/23/11 08:56 am ET	Yaters Gonna Yate	Yates, T.J QB HOU	Crabtree, Michael WR SF	Pending	Will be processed Wednesday morning (8/24)	Withdraw

Thank goodness. I don't think you understand the level of stress I had at our miscalculation last night.

So here is our team (substitute TJ for Crabtree).

layer	Opp.	Weather	Bye	Avg	Proj	Own %	Start %	Status
Manning, Peyton QB IND	@HOU	Dome Sun 1:00pm	11	0.0	352.4	99	96
Green-Ellis, BenJarvus RB NE	@MIA	Dome Mon 7:00pm	7	0.0	149.0	97	72
Rice, Ray RB BAL	PIT	Sun 1:00pm	5	0.0	228.6	99	95
Harvin, Percy WR MIN	@SD	Dome Sun 4:15pm	9	0.0	126.8	96	38
Nicks, Hakeem WR NYG	@WAS	Sun 4:15pm	7	0.0	189.0	98	61
Rice, Sidney WR SEA	@SF	Sun 4:15pm	6	0.0	121.0	87	31
Olsen, Greg TE CAR	@ARI	Sun 4:15pm	9	0.0	82.0	59	26
Barth, Connor K TB	DET	Sun 1:00pm	8	0.0	108.1	7	3
Giants DST	@WAS	Sun 4:15pm	7	0.0	149.3	93	68

Addai, Joseph RB IND	@HOU	Dome Sun 1:00pm	11	0.0	140.2	89	20
Spiller, C.J. RB BUF	@KC	Sun 1:00pm	7	0.0	89.2	43	2
Amendola, Danny WR STL	PHI	Sun 1:00pm	5	0.0	103.2	59	21
Crabtree, Michael WR SF	SEA	Sun 4:15pm	7	0.0	102.8	89	41
Gonzalez, Tony TE ATL	@CHI	Sun 1:00pm	8	0.0	107.8	95	74
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