Join The Industry’s Trash-Talkingest Football League
It’s fantasy football time again, and this year, we’re expanding the Industry Know-Nothings League (IKNFL) to a whopping 26 people. That’s 260 fingers worth of trash-talking… or trash-typing, as it were. The good news is that we have exactly ONE spot up for grabs, and now is your chance to win it. First there are some things you should know about the league:
- Don’t join if you don’t know football. We already have one of those and it’s a bit aggravating to hear cries of desperation throughout the entire season, and even during the draft.
- This is a $40 buy-in league with weekly payouts and end-of-the-year payouts, so please make sure your religion doesn’t frown on gambling before joining.
- We draft offensive and defensive players and the scoring is fairly normalized so that every player on the field can make an impact.
- We will be drafting live, online, in a couple of weeks.
So there you have it. If you’d like to claim the final spot, you need only do one thing: Write a haiku about Croftie (pictured to the right), who was the winner of last year’s league. Post your haikus in the comments. The league will pick a winner on Wednesday, August 9th.
UPDATE: Despite a collection of some of the worst haikus ever written, the league has spoken. Welcome Dan Rubin! Welcome to your doom… (cue Altered Best sound effects)
Thank you to everyone who submitted a haiku. I’m sure we’ll have a spot or two left next year.
My vote for special consideration will be given to the potential owner who purchases the most crap from IconBuffet.
Oh no you didn’t! You will pay, my friend.
Jesus.
Oh no you didn’t
I will have you by the balls
You will pay, my friend
I don’t know anything about football. Count me out. :)
am i really cool
in pottery barn milieu?
in spite of the blue
newsvine employees
may not be eligible
to participate
My triumphs run.
In the year to come.
I crush you.
The Kraft as Croft —
Champions wear blue.
Pain, so good.
You know what everyone, don’t join. I’m going to take your $40 anyway. You’d be better off going to the movies, getting popcorn you normally don’t buy because it’s too expensive, and enjoying your two hours alone than getting dragged all over the field.
Oh, and if you join this league, then you should definitely try to draft Robert Mathis as soon as possible.
Right, so with Sean in the league we’re all supposed to cower from his daunting intellect and pasty noodle arms.
One would have thought you would have learned the simple lesson of how much crap that ESPN flash application is by now. In fact, I think that drafting app was the basis for Nielsen’s Flash is 99% Bad article, even though Nielsen wrote that article some six friggin years prior to that draft application’s existence.
Can we please just do an email draft? I’d really prefer to prove how little I know about the game with a starting lineup that I at least picked myself.
And spare me the traffic. I’d prefer to see you spend your precious time making sure stories like this one stop appearing as Top Seeds on Newsvine fer crissake.
Also…in case anyone who is even thinking about joining the IKNFL, be sure to listen to this. It’ll give you a taste of what you can expect.
Croftie is top dog
Fantasy football champion:
Makes Davidson cry.
Andrei bashes Flash
Drafting tool and Jakob Nielsen
Plus Newsvine’s Top Seeds.
IKNFL
Lets leaders in the field of web
Avoid doing work.
I don’t know football
Either, so count me out. I just
Can’t resist haikus!
Django Django Boobs.
Django Django Boobs Django.
Django Django Free.
I also know little of this sport which you call football.
The Champ stares me down
Stroking his chinny chin chin
Too bad I’ll pwn him
I work from home and I’m not too ashamed to say I mainline the NFL Network during the season. Bring it on!
OK, you asked for it. Let’s just keep in mind that you should let me in no matter what, because I’m, well, cool… and some of these aren’t about Croftie, but I had to post them anyway :)
#1
Mine is the best hai-
ku you’ll ever see about
Croft of Django
#2
Football and standards,
What a wonderful pairing;
Promise I won’t win…
#3
Didier played once;
Didn’t know football at all,
thought it was soccer.
#4
Jeff Croft loves football
just enough to bet on it;
He won’t win this year.
#5
Feel my haiku-fu,
Stronger than any other;
Croft: you’re going down this time.
#6
This haiku would be
prettier with sIFR but
comments don’t allow
#7
Jeff Croft won last year;
Davidson wasn’t happy.
This time, gloves are off.
Oh crap, #5 my count was off. Proofread, damnit!
#5 (revised)
Feel my haiku-fu,
Stronger than any other;
Croft: you’re going down.
And to make up for my faux-pas:
#8 (bonus)
Haiku is simple:
Five, seven, five is the way;
Guess I can’t count properly anymore…
#1
Haiku this is not
Croft prefers accuracy
It’s called Senryu
#2
When thinking about
Prosperity in life’s game
always choose football
Stick to web design
Django can’t pick draft picks
well, not yet at least
You pleebs ain’t ever gonna pass with this nerdy crap. Here’s how it works:
I’ve got a secret.
My balls are breathing freely!
Let’s hug it out, bitch.
Crap, it’s jan-go, not d-jan-go, huh? Let’s try this.
Stick to web design
Django can’t choose your draft picks
well, not yet at least
Ah, good point Matt — thus, here’s a needed revision:
#1 (revised)
Mine is the best hai-
ku you’ll ever see about
Sir Croft of Django
Hmm.. Dan, you may be considered like those Italian footy teams and start with negative points due to your association with Didier. I’d pump out more Haikooos to get outta the hole if I were you…
Meh, a double post for clarity: “you may be handled like one of those match fixing Italian footy teams“
Touché, Mike.
#9 (Didier special)
Mike thinks Didier’s
a factor in this contest;
Italians be damned
Between his tech toys
and flaunting flickr honeys
Croft found time to win?
IKNFL
The pigskin challenge is on
Man I love football
On Messr Croft:
sweater of triumph now the blue garb of defeat jeff is going downOn the inevitable:
here's my forty bucks as the Bus said to the 'hawks your arses are mineCoftie was crafty
While adorned in Charger blue.
Kicker, he picks first
I hear Billy Cundiff is due for a breakout year. Better grab him early…
OK, I’ll try to sneak one more in before ‘the drop’… though I just know someone’s building a Croft Haiku Automatic Comment Poster that’ll be up and running right before you guys vote…
Final Offer
My haiku skills wane
As the deadline looms closer;
Blue sweater haunts me…
Dan is lucky I ruled myself out by admitting my ignorance of the foozeball, because my Haiku kicked ass — in an accurate sort of way.
;)
What no one realizes is how unlucky I am to have been selected…
I do. =)