OK, so fanatics play in multiple leagues. But there's something about your home league. It's the one where you got started. It's the one with your old friends. You've got rivals, allies, trading partners, the occasional blood feud, and always history.
I have the good fortune of playing in The Manly Football League, formed in the newsroom of The Mountaineer triweekly in Waynesville, NC, in the summer of 1991. Neal Anderson was on the cover of the magazine we bought that explained how to play. We didn't include yardage in the scoring because the Web didn't exist yet, and who had time to manually add up a bunch of stats? And the first pick, ever, was Randall Cunningham (who blew out his knee in Week 1).
There are only two of us left from that original eight-team league, but most of the guys have been around for a decade. And here's the thing: This is the only league that matters to me. Everything else is just... numbers. Winning here feels great. Losing sucks. And if desire counted in fantasy football, my team would always be great on the 2-yard-line.
In honor of our 12-team league, I'm putting up one of Janet's 12-team draft sheets for you to download. No fancy crap, nobody else's logos and ads: Just an organized way for you to keep track of up to 16 rounds of draft day progress.
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