Boom Pow Surprise

The kickoff to the football season is tonight, and that also means the start of fantasy. The first couple weeks of fantasy football are always tough because they coincide with the start of the playoffs for fantasy baseball. As we go into the playoffs, I have one team sitting on top with my two other teams sitting in third place. Luckily fantasy baseball will be over by the time fantasy hockey rolls around (contact me if you are interested in joining my league). But as for football, I had a draft last night and here’s who will be lacing up for Boom Pow Surprise:

Michael Vick (Atl - QB)
Andre Johnson (Hou - WR)
Eric Moulds (Buf - WR)
Brandon Stokley (Ind - WR)
Shaun Alexander (Sea - RB)
Tatum Bell (Den - RB)
Steve Heiden (Cle - TE)
Paul Edinger (Min - K)
Atlanta Falcons (DEF)

Aaron Brooks (NO - QB)
Kerry Collins (Oak - QB)
Ricky Williams (Mia - RB)
L.J. Smith (Phi - TE)
Amani Toomer (NYG - WR)
Phil Dawson (Cle - K)
Chicago Bears (DEF)

This should be a solid team with three quality QB’s, a top tier RB and another who should benefit from the Broncos system. But what could put me over the top is the 11th round pick up of Ricky Williams. Hopefully Cedric Benson will be a bust during Ricky’s four game suspension and Ricky can return to being the Ricky of old, well, but without the weed.

And like the last few seasons, the kickoff of the football season is being accompanied with a concert. For some reason the NFL felt obligated to let a press release out saying that Kanye West would not be kicked off the bill. Thanks for the memo NFL. Since when does not doing anything warrant a pres release? Of course this stems from Kanye’s comments at last weeks hurricane relief concert on NBC. But there was no way the NFL could boot the only black performer for making an anti-Bush comment when other performers include Green Day, who’s last album, American Idiot, takes shots at the Bush administration, and the Rolling Stone, who recently called Bush a piece of, um, human excrement, on their recent song, Sweet Neo-Con (scroll down to read how much I hate this song). So the NFL were in a no win situation. I’ll be interested in seeing what song Kanye chooses to perform tonight considering Maroon 5 are also on the bill. Keep in mind that on a Kanye’s latest album, he did a duet with the lead singer from Maroon 5 on the song Heard ‘Em Say in which Kanye raps, “And I know the government administered AIDS.”

Oh yeah, and there is a football game tonight too, which happens to be Randy Moss’ debut with the Oakland Raiders playing against the defending Super Bowl Champs, the New England Patriots. With all these tangibles, I wonder how Vegas put the odds on who will make the water cooler moment tomorrow. I think I'll put my money on Randy. As for my predictions for the season, here are mine:

AFC East: Jets
AFC North: Steelers
AFC South: Colts
AFC West: Chargers
AFC Wildcard: Titans, Chiefs
NFC East: Eagles
NFC North: Green Bay
AFC South: Falcons
NFC West: Seahawks
NFC Wildcard: Panthers, Cowboys

AFC title Game: Colts over the Jets
NFC Title Game: Falcons over the Panthers

Super Bowl Champs: Falcons