Man Crush Watch: Fantasy Football 2008

The 2008 NFL season is underway and it will be really hard to beat the way the 2007 season ended. If I was an asshole, I would use the next couple of lines to make fun of how Tom Brady is gone for the season and say that it is payback for all the times the Pats ran up the score last year, but I am more mature than that. Besides, we have more important things to talk about, like my fantasy football teams and how many of my football man crushes I was able to acquire.

I am in three fantasy leagues this year, and I have some good news to report. I was able to draft number one man crush, Adrian Peterson, in two of my leagues! In my Fraternity league, which I don't play for money, but carries the most bragging rights, I also picked up first-tier man crush candidates Brandon Jacobs and as well as second tier man crush Donovan McNabb. This team is actually pretty good, and I think I have a good chance of winning.

In B-side's league I have Peterson as well as Plaxico Burress and McNabb. His league is always wide open, so I have a good shot here as well.

That brings me to my third league, which is a pay league that I won last year, and the results are not so great. First of all, no man crushes except for LJ Smith, but as a back-up tight-end, he is not going to affect my outcome very much. In this league, it looks like my decision to believe Seattle's offense could make Matt Hasselback a decent play is really going to bite me in the ass. I have Clinton Portis and Maurice Jones-Drew, but I am going to have a tough time repeating.