Wednesday Culminates with 2nd Annual AC Fantasy Football Draft

Wednesday was quite the day. I got up at 4 AM and did three freelance projects, including a story for New York Mets Daily that has ended up nearly tripling the site's previous high in page views.

Then I took my son to kindergarten, had breakfast and took my daughter to the zoo. It was a great day for the rhinos. We were about 15 feet away from four rhinos, who usually hang out at the far end of their little preserve.

Came home and wrote a football preview for the Guilford College Quakers, which ran in today's edition of the News and Record.

As luck would have it, this was the day my mother-in-law came over for dinner, so had to cook that. I've said it before, but my second mom is the nicest woman on the planet. I've got a few things to bitch and moan about, but she is not one of them.

Then it was get the kids to bed and go to sleep, right? Wrong. I closed the night with two fantasy drafts, including the second edition of the Associated Content Fantasy Football League.

Once again, we have 10 owners in the league and all of them are writers here at the site and most of them will be familiar to those of you who read and comment on articles here in the sports section.

Let's meet the owners!

Carol Bengle-Gilbert will be managing the Scoundrels. Appropriately enough, she ended up with the player formerly known as Chad Johnson on her team. Perhaps she won't be thrown by his name change to Chad Ocho Cinco. He wears uniform number 85 and obviously can't get enough of it. Good luck with him, Carol.

Jeff Gorman will be managing Best Clowns in Town. Jeff returns for his second season and he is set to prove to the good people in Jacksonville that a championship team can feature David Garrard as its quarterback.

Mike Grisso will be managing Orange Eyes. I have no idea what his team name means but I'm confident that it was destiny that he ended up with Ricky Williams on his team. The post-game parties should be great.

Lee Andrew Henderson will be managing EvilMidninghtBombers for the 2nd season. After the year they had in 2007, you would've thought a name change would be in store. But we're all happy that he upgraded from Frank Gore to Brian Westbrook.

Brian Joura will be managing Go Deep. The defending champion would like to point out that until he's bounced from the playoffs (if he makes the playoffs) that he's the defending champion and that everyone should refer to him as the defending champion even if all my guys will be on the injured list, which we can rename the defending champion list.

Nick Meyer will be managing Mark May is a Tool. Now I need to search the archives and see what Mr. May said about Michigan. It must have been so upsetting as to have kept Nick, a returning veteran from 2007, from getting a quality running back. Oh well, maybe Jonathan Stewart will end up the guy in Carolina.

Tyler Mills will be managing Bud Grant Legend. Now, if you want me to say good things about you, there's no better way than to reference the leader of the Purple People Eaters-era Vikings. If only Bud was still the coach. I have no doubt he'd be better than the guy who looks like a serial killer who's running the team today. Maybe Tyler can call Bud Grant for some advice on this team.

Mo Morrissey will be managing Broad Squabblers. Mo's got a nice group of starters but that bench looks thinner than Kate Moss on a hunger strike. At least there should be no squabbling among the team for starting jobs.

Chad Parsons will be managing C.A. All-Stars for the 2nd season. You can tell the veteran owners because they're not afraid to try out a new strategy trying to get an edge on the competition. This year Chad decided there was no need for a tight end and opted not to draft one. No guts, no glory I always say.

Zac Wassink will be managing DSRL Champion in his second season with the league. No truth to the rumors that DSRL stands for Dominican Summer Rehab League and that's why we haven't seen Zac on AC much the past few months. There's also no truth to the rumors that Willie Parker is going to get over his fear of the end zone this season.

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Like last year, this is a free league with the caveat that those who finish out of the playoffs (the bottom four teams) have to write an article for the site explaining to the world why they are so bad at fantasy football. Here's Mr. Henderson's article from 2007.

Good luck to everyone I'm not playing this week!