Fantasy Football Anyone?

[beezee05]

Hi All,
With the NFL season a couple of weeks away, I thought I'd throw out the idea of a Montreal Forum/All Habs Fantasy Football league exclusively for members of the All Habs community. That's the only requirement.  

Here is some information - maybe a little bit too much but you'll get the idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_football_%28American%29#Team_rosters

The first "count me in" replies received will have priority in the event of overwhelming interest.
Hope to hear from you. It's a lot of fun.

Brian

[All Habs]

Great idea Brian! Count me in. 

[FlyersRule]

Yes please!!!

[beezee05]

Excellent Amy and Rick.

[Abraxas]

I'm in too!.....

[DudMcManus]

Yes, please!

[stevo]

Hey Beezee, how does it work with regards to people making their picks? 
I guess what i mean is i'm used to doing these types of pools with everyone around a big table making picks 1 after the other, how would we do this online?  Curious
Thanks

[beezee05]

Hi Stevo,
It's fairly simple, common and extremely popular.
What I would suggest is give it a try.
Go to:
http://football.cbssports.com/splash/football/spln/single/free?ttag=ffbf10_on_all_cspt_glbnav_0001
You can do a mock draft or 2. This is just for fun. Were going for a high fun (lots) to cost (free) ratio and get the All Habs network distracted from any possible anxt related to our hockey team.

Brian

[HabsFanFromNL]

Haven't done a football draft before, but was looking into it.  I'd be interested.

[skcBRUINSfan40]

no one hurt me! I'm just here to play fantasy football. flyersrule and all_habs sent me.

[beezee05]

Gang,
Please send me your email addresses to bcclarke at sympatico dot ca?
I'll send out the invites.

Brian/beezee05

[stevo]

Brian, i tried to join the league but got the following message:

Per the rules of this game, residents of your home state are not eligible to participate. Please click on BACK below to return to the game selection page where you may choose another game that may be available in your area.

Any way we can work around it?

[beezee05]

Hi Steve,
I wonder if it's the good old "except for residents of Quebec" legalese kicking in.
http://freemeeting.2.football.cbssports.com/meeting/rules

We can find a way around it if it is just in your case. Is it possible that no one in QC can play on CBS Sportsline?
This never occurred to me. If anything I would have thought that you could play but not be eligible for prizes.
If this is the case we may have to move over to Yahoo.

Let me find out if anyone else has tried and had the same result.

Brian

[beezee05]

Gang,
Due to Quebec being excluded on CBSSportsline.com. I'll be moving the league to Yahoo.

Sorry for the confusion and inconvenience.

Invites to those who have provided email addresses will go out tonight.

Brian

[stevo]

Alright!