Whaddya say, Jackets?

Only one of these guys is your defending BAN Fantasy Football League champion:
It's that time again, for a 7th year of BAN fantasy football. We reviewed the history of the league ever-so-briefly below, now it's time for what you really came to see: This year's sign-up info.

Yahoo! is improved, so it allowed us to set the rules exactly as they were last year with no digging for old sheets of paper by yours truly. We will do an automatic draft as we often do, unless we can whip together sentiment for a online draft. Automatic means as soon as we have a set number of owners and everyone has their pre-rankings how they like 'em, I give Yahoo! the OK, and it runs our draft in the following 24 hours.

The league is open to BAN members first and foremost. We had three non-BAN owners last year, and while they're always good to fill out the league if we have an odd number (my brother will be on call for that again this year, if needed), we want to make sure we can get all the fellas a spot in the league before we start inviting other people.

Spread the word if need be.

The sign-up info is:
League ID: 460477
League password: 4life

Website is fantasysports.yahoo.com. If you've never done this before or need an invite, send me an e-mail at MikeTalib@comcast.net, and I'll get you an invite where you can follow the links to sign up.

I look forward to beating you all again this year. I dug in the crates and found an old Sub Zero Nasty signature design for my post-championship unis:

P.S. For you BAN historians out there, remember that the internet is a wonderful place. Visit http://web.archive.org/, punch in www.nasty4life.net, and see what you find.

Now you know how the guv'mint be checkin' in on us.

-- Timb. Stomp Nasty

Let's get ready for some football

In the next day or so, I will be posting information on how to join the BAN Fantasy Football League, now in its 7th year. We'll be on Yahoo! again, and we'll try to open it up to BAN members first before we fill out with friends and family.

In the meantime, I thought you'd all enjoy a brief history of BAN fantasy league champions.

Year 6, 2005, 12 teams, Yahoo!: Beige Wundruhs (Keith McMillan); 2nd place, Minnie Bs (Bryan Lewis)
Year 5, 2004, 12 teams, Yahoo!: HeadCrushers (Chad Burns); 2nd place, Minnie Bs (Bryan Lewis)
Year 4, 2003, 10 teams, Yahoo!: Minnie Bs (Bryan Lewis); 2nd place, HeadCrushers (Chad Burns)
Year 3, 2002, 10 teams, Yahoo!: NOVA Ballas (John Boamah); 2nd place, Springers (Francel Smith)
Year 2, 2001, 8 teams on CBSSportsline: Minnie Bs (Bryan Lewis) -- B-Luv won it with a dummy team he didn't even draft, defeating The Show (Bailey Martin) in the final.
Year 1, 1997, 8 teams scored by hand: No championship game played, but Night & Day (was this BJ & Cain's team, or was that Fudge Ripple) had the best record (8-3) going into the playoffs.

There's more where that came from if y'all care ... all-time owner/franchise records, best team names in history, or something.

As soon as I set up the league, I'll be in contact. (as if anyone is reading the blog just salivating in anticipation)