Ravings of a Mad Man: vol. 5.31(Better Late than Never?)

Ravings of a Mad Man: vol. 5.31

It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid then open it and remove all doubt

-Mark Twain

Every year it happens and every year we wait until it does. The NFL season is upon us and so let the Sunday cheering begin. Now there are two reasons to cheer on Sunday. NFL season and Sunday also has the moment that is the longest period until the next time you go to church. You know that moment when you get home take off your church clothes put on you "reflection" clothes that is a good time of the week. I find that participating side games help magnify my attention on the NFL season. I used to be a big Cowboys fan but now it seems that I don't cheer for any team. Knowing this I have always tried to play fantasy football so I have somebody to cheer for on Sunday rather than just picking a team because their uniforms are prettier than the other teams. In addition to that this year I will be sending out, for the next 17 weeks, the weekly NFL schedule. You as a reader have the opportunity to pick who you think will win each of the games. Then at the end of season a winner will be given a major award (Not a leg lamp, but it could be an arm lamp or some other lesser body part). So make you selections wisely and you will win. As I wrote this I and an epiphany, I can make church more exciting if I start a Fantasy Church Team. The players you pick could be awarded points if they teach a lesson or if they make a comment. Please note that stupid comments or comments off topic are like fumbles or interceptions (negative points). Oh man the possibilities are endless with a fantasy church team. I bet a good fantasy church team could score upwards of 200 points per week. I know who would be on my team in my ward I also know some people that would be on my avoid list because they could really get a lot of negative points. I think that I am onto something here I will begin writing letters to HQ to get this added to the church's website. Or maybe the individual ward website should just have their own league page. I also think that this will help the patrons of the church because they would be able see the points they get for the comments they make. It is going to make church awesome. Please note this Church Fantasy League (CFL) is not limited to Mormons other churches can play but the scoring would have to be a little bit different.

Trivia Time: The Trivia Time for the next 17 weeks will be the NFL weekly game challenge as previously described. All you have to do is download the week's schedule then highlight the team you want to win then email it back to me. I will post the weekly top five in the email and the complete standings on my blog.

As mentioned previously I no longer have a team to cheer for so I told my boss, who is from Detroit, that I would cheer for his team the Lions. As I looked at the NFL schedule I realized that the Lions could potentially have another season where they don't win any games. So I am cheering for two things this year. First I don't ever want to see a team always lose so I will cheer for them to win. Second if the Lions don't have any wins and they don't beat the Rams in like week 5 then I am cheering for them to not win a game at all. That means they would be 2 – 30 over the last two seasons and 2 – 46 over the last 3 seasons. My boss says the Lions are never good because The Ford's just use it as a tax right off. I asked him, "What is a tax right off?" He responded, "You know they just right it off, all the big companies do."

Have a good week I know I will

Eric Jones

www.oprahismymom.blogspot.com