In This Issue:
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Message from the Commish (Roy)
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Message from the AssCommish (Ralph)
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New Email Address? Let me know!!
Message
From The Commish
Hello
again my beautiful friends and welcome to the 2002 season of Football
Happenings!
A brief note is
better than none at all, so just a few quick points. First but not least,
thanks to Ralphworld for the wonderful web presence. The new banner
looks great and Ricky will cover some of the new stuff further on down
in the message. Second, we have a new system for sending out winnings,
which should be quicker and more efficient for all. Please continue
to send your $25 entry fee to me at:
Roy Bunting - 3104 Somerville Lane, Carrollton, Texas 75007
We will post the
prize money chart once we have firm participation numbers.
Much has happened
over the past off-season, and I'm sure there will be much more to discuss
in the upcoming year, including reports from the opening of Houston's
new football stadium and the blue, blue waters of the Caribbean. I'm
also pledging to at least write a short paragraph for each week's newsletter,
this season, no matter what my slave driver of a boss says. I also guarantee
a top-10 finish in the standings and a kick-butt season out of the Mighty
Wampus Cats.
Do you have any
idea what I'm talking about? Of course not. But, then again, that IS
Football Happenings.
--- Roy
Hello,
hello!! It's a new season of fun and football and I for one am looking
forward to hopefully more than just a handful of issues of Football
Happenings in 2002. It figures to be a busy year, tho, so I'll make
no promises on that front. Last year I was able to get the standings
posted within an hour or so of the Monday Night game ending. This year,
however, I'm going to school at night, and will be watching MNF on my
own personal "Tape Delay" each Monday. So it looks like Tuesday
Late Night's will be devoted to FBH Standings. I do promise to do my
best to get them posted in a timely manner, since I want to know where
I stand as much as anyone else. Heaven only knows when the main page
will get updated each week (or month), but we've come to learn that
that's always a crap-shoot anyway. :-)
By
now you've noticed the new Header/Navigational system at the top of
the page. I try to change things up each year or so to make up for the
7 months of inactivity between Super Sunday and Labor Day. The License
Plates are significant in that they represent each state that our members
reside in. We're all accounted for up there, except our friend in Scotland
who's plates are longer than ours and don't fit into my scheme. Sorry
Hoggy!
What
else is new for 2000 and 2? Probably not much, but we will be seeing
a new Column written by your's truly. I call it, "The Uniform
Guru". Since I am a self-proclaimed Uniform Guru, and have
many opinions on the current state of fashion in the NFL. Several teams
have new looks for the new season, and several teams haven't changed
a thing in over 30 years. Each week (issue) I will focus on a specific
Division and give my in-depth thoughts on all things uniform. With the
NFL re-alignment, there are now 8 divisions, and that assures me of
8 weeks worth of something to write about. I'm hoping my opinions will
spur some of you to offer up yours, which will give me even more to
write about.
Of
course we can look forward to the 5th Anniversary of our annual Halloween
extravaganza. I could use some new Head Shots as I'm sure some of you
are getting tired of seeing the same heads for 5 years now. Please send
me some photos and I promise to keep the embarrassment to a minimum
(maybe).
As
Roy hinted at earlier, we have decided upon a new way of passing out
the quarterly winnings this year. Roy has promised to purchase Money
Orders and give them to me, so that once I figure out who has won each
division's quarter after Weeks #4, 9, 13, & 17, those people can
actually be paid! Since we're promising to try harder with the league
finances, we humbly ask that YOU do your part and get your dues to us
in a timely manner. Someone has suggested we list those who have NOT
paid in RED in the Weekly Standings to cause some embarrassment. Please
don't make us do that. For many of you, your PLACE in the standings
is embarrassment enough.
As
always, if you know anyone interested in joining our little community,
they are certainly welcome. Either let me know and I'll add their name
to the list on the Picks Page. Or, just have them submit picks for Week
#1 and if make sure they place their name in the Comments section, and
I'll be sure to add them for Week #2.
New
E-mail Address? Let Me Know!!
Now
that I've sent an e-mail out to all on my list from last year, I see
that several of you have changed your e-mail address since last year.
If you DID NOT receive my previous announcement, or if you received
it at an e-mail address you'd rather have changed, please let me know.
Either e-mail me at ralph@footballhappenings.com
or include your new e-mail address when you make your picks. In fact,
it would be really helpful if you just go ahead and take the extra three
seconds and type in your e-mail address when you make picks this week
so that I can clean up my e-mail list. Thanks!!
Here's
a list of folks who's e-mail failed. If you're on it, or know the correct
address a person who is, please let me know...
Tommy
Shifflet, Pete Knapp, Mikey Joyce, Matt & Jill Marcus, Paul Kessler,
Matt Bashaw ("cs.com" or "aol.com" Matt?), Dawn
Ruble (still in it?), Todd Meyer (still in it?).
Good
luck to everyone in 2002... Let the games, begin!!!
--
Ralph
