Are you ready for fantasy football?

I’ll be popping in with occasional stray fantasy football opinions this year, so it seemed worth an introduction that pretends to double as my qualifications. I’ve played fantasy football since somewhere around 1998 – Gus Frerotte was my first ever fantasy quarterback on a terrible fantasy team that had a lot of Washington Redskins, and was before I figured out that was not going to be a winning strategy during the Dan Snyder era.

Since then, I’ve played re-draft leagues and keepers, snake drafts and auctions, money leagues and leagues where the only “prize” was a shot of Malört to be consumed within 15 minutes of starting the next year’s draft. I’ve used Yahoo! and CBS and ESPN and NFL.com…