Football, RSS, and other stuff

So I'm still watching football, surprise, surprise. But with most anything, I know I'll drop it quickly if I really become convinced it's too screwed up. The thing that keeps me watching most is that my wife and 2 year old daughter are into it. So Sunday just becomes a family day on the couch, something I can live with since it's the most time I sit in front of a TV.

I've also been enjoying fantasy football allot. This is my first year, and even though it's been a big learning year, it's been fun. Laura did great in the draft and even though most of her team is Pittsburgh based, she has allot of other hot players like Westbrook. Now if she'd only stop whining because she got 100 points instead of the 120 or so she could have gotten.

Other than that, I've been trying to find a RSS reader that really suits my needs. I tried bloglines because someone said it lets them read their bloglines on different OSes and from different places. I like that idea because I constantly read blogs at work during lunch and at home. Unfortunately, with bloglines it's not good for when you have 120 posts you want to get through 20 at a time. It marks them all as read, or all unread, but you can't easily unmark the ones you read. So I'll have to switch. Maybe I'll try Google's reader again, and if not I'll probably try to find a web based reader I can install. Worst case I'll write one in PHP or maybe I'll brush up on my OO Perl.

Other than that things are good. I should probably be more productive with my off-work time. Fantasy football has been eating allot of my time because I haven't liked who I have. Some picks I made like Tatum Bell are panning out nicely. Some other positions like tight ends I'm trading every week to try to get someone who can get me some points. At least Housh is back in at WR since Santana Moss seems to be suffering with other targets on his team.. Part of the problem was that our league went from 4-12 teams the day we started which I didn't expect, so the number of players I set up in the auto draft wasn't right. Oh well. At least I got the bears defense ;-) and they look like they may have what it takes to go all the way. This week should be a real good test, I'm looking forward to it. Now if the league would just let football be what it should be instead of a flag fest.

Football just might be done for me.

Generally I've liked football allot. It's got a good mix of different personalities that have to work together. I've been doing some fantasy stuff this week too which has mixed it up. But I just can't stand unjust messed up calls, and there are too much. A baseball fan who I'm good friends with says that's just a part of every sport, but if it really is, then I just don't need to waste my time watching it. Anyways this is what I sent to the NFL today.

I was really close to getting your NFL package and a Hughes Satellite setup, but there's just too much BS calling in this game. I just saw the bad offensive pass interference call on the Giants receiver in the last 5 minutes. C'mon, this is right where we left off with the playoffs last year and good defensive coverage getting called and other BS junk. And Pittsburgh's game on Thursday had some BS as well. (A bad pass interference call to make up for a missed one?) Whatever, this game COULD be the best, but there's just too much crap. Trying to hype up the offense and hype out the fans? Oh well, I guess if you can't figure a way to fix it, then I don't need to buy any gear, support any of your advertising or buy any tickets to go to a game.

CYA NFL, it was almost fun.

Robert