BaDoBuKiBro - Week 3 Review

God damn, with this new every-week Thursday football, it makes it hard on a blogger to get the game reviews out in a timely fashion. Seems like as soon as Week 3 is over, Week 4 is beginning. I'm posting this before the first quarter of the Browns-Ravens game is over, and they're paused right now because Josh Cribbs just got cold-cocked, so I feel like these are still relatively fresh. Enjoy:

NBD - Week 3 Review

After months of acrimonious negotiations, two intractable parties finally came together this week to resolve their differences and come to an agreement for the good of the game. I am speaking, of course, of the agreement reached by the NFL and Time Warner Cable, which finally added the NFL Network and the Red Zone Channel to their line-up this week, thus allowing me to watch NFL coverage 24 hours a day. Today was Yom Kippur, and I had the day off. I watched a replay of the Lions-Titans game and an hour of Terrell Suggs being mic'd up for every game of the 2011 season. I don't even like Terrell Suggs. I also spent a good amount of time writing NBD's Week 3 Reviews. So there's a good chance I'll burn out on NFL football within the next 10 days. But until I do, here are the fruits of my obsession:

NBD - Week 2 Review

In the course of preparing this week's game reviews, I had occasion to look back through our league's history pages (you'll see more below). One of the most enjoyable parts of doing this "research" was seeing some of the bygone franchise names that I had long forgotten.  Inspired by that trip down memory lane, I've prepared a little quiz. Can you name the owners of the following NBD teams?

1) McGahee = the Christ (2004)
2) We Want Prenump (2005)
3) Fall Out Boys (2005)
4) Dock War (2006)
5) Fredo (2007)
6) Pat Magroin (2007)
7) Tri Steeg Area (2008)
8) Pubers and the 'Fro (2008)
9) Goin' Rogue Y'all! (2009)
10) The Death Panel (2009)
11) Sir Lucius Left Fut (2010)
12) This Team Here is Dead (2010)

Answers will appear in the Comments. Read on for more recent history: Week 2.

BaDoBuKiBro - Week 2 Review

"I said that to say this: If you wouldna did what you woulda did, 

we wouldna been where we woulda been to get what we got."

-Michael Johnson to Robert Geathers, Bengals sideline

For anyone watching halftime of the Monday Night Football game last night, these words of wisdom came floating down from heaven during ESPN's cavalcade of clips from mic'd players. Amazed by their sagacity, I rewound three times just to get the transcription exactly right. Like some sort of Zen koan, it may seem like a bunch of nonsense, but deep truth lies within Mr. Johnson's words. Read through this week's recaps, and the meaning should become clear.

NBD 2012 - Week 1 Review

The temperature has cooled, school is back in session, and Lassard has risen from the grave with a thirst for brains and human flesh. We're back in the high life again, boys, so let's take a look back at Week 1:

BaDoBuKiBro Draft Stats

Whereas there are roughly 10 straight hours of sports programming on TV tonight between the US Open and two Monday Night Football games; and...

Whereas my 21st Century attention span is incapable of simply sitting and enjoying said programming, but instead demands that I be doing something on my laptop at the same time; and...

Whereas the Draft Board still lives in my living room, and will probably take longer to throw out than the box of defective patio chair parts that has been here for the past year...

Therefore let it be known that it was pretty much inevitable that I would spend some time tonight entering our auction results into a spreadsheet, and using that to make some calculations.
I share these with you now:

NBD - Draft Stats & Review

Before I dive into the results of Week 1, I wanted to take a look back at the draft and delve into the numbers a little bit. With this being our first auction draft, most of us had some question marks as far as strategy and definitely some different approaches emerged during the auction. Some people focused most of their money on a few big expenditures, while others spread the wealth around to help create a more balanced team. I spent the first two sets of this evening's US Open final putting together a spreadsheet and have found identified some statistics that I thought might be interesting and useful in future auctions.