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Who's up for it this year? I missed last year, but really enjoyed playing the year before. We're a bit early to get this started, but the sooner the better.

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

A bit early isn't it? But most definitely count me in!

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

Not really preseason starts in about 4 weeks.

Do you all use one of the online sites like CBS, ESPN, etc.?

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Once again Romsuiag's Rancors will be there.

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

Could someone quickly explain me the principles of the game ?

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Flyoc,
Farm with attitude.

Does this help Flyoc?

http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/football/ ... index.html

We're talking American Football here btw.

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

We've used Yahoo the last couple of times. Its free, easy to use and set up, and generally hassle-free. If no one else wants to be commissioner, I'll get a league set up for us here in the next couple of days.

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Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!

I think it might be best if we wait till we get closer to the season. That way people don't sign up, forget about it, and then we have "idle" teams all over the league.

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

Yup i'm sure i'll be in...

I hope to actually be there for the draft this time as i couldnt be there last time..

The Hawkbats are already in training for the new season!

But like Rom said, lets wait until closer to the season to set up the league.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

I'll be in for this, much more so than the baseball one

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Dalaran: Arindel - Frost Mage (Mining/Alchemy)
Dalaran: Roran - Paladin (Weaponsmith/Blacksmith)
Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

I see. I can't follow American Football here so I guess I'm out of this....

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Flyoc,
Farm with attitude.

you've got the internet, so you CAN follow it. (you just might not understand what you're following.)

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

My all-kicker team is gonna rip it up this year.

Sluggy joined in on the first year. It won't be hard at all. Just let the system pick your guys, then just leave them where they are positioned. That is unless someone gets hurt, but it will tell you when that happens.

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian

All your kickers are belong to me!

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Count me in. and let the beatings begin..

Shadow's

I'd do it, although I'm more of a baseball guy myself. But football is good too.

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Kothen Kerasi - TKA, Swordsman, Medic.

TC Char - Dinin

the league champs will be back again!

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Ryric Krael
Former Vice President AGN
Former Director, Section 6
Former Head of Department of the Treasury
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Ask not what your PA can do for you, but what you can do for your PA
"Gone Section Five"

Hey everyone, yall remember me? The Criticals wil be back this season and I have been looking forward to it. I will be back a few times to check when the league is created and good luck to everyone! You can still contact me on msn or on AIM at UberBadGoalie.

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

Not really sure how this works, but It'll be fun trying.
Im not familiar with the US version of football, so I'll pick a random team

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Meriander, Paladin
Rentin, Warlock
(Emerald Dawn, WoW EU server)

Does anyone have any interest in adding another spot to the roster? I was thinking of having 1 Defensive player per team. This (I think) means we can pick up a LB or any other Def player. Good idea? Bad idea?

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

I thought you got to pick an entire team for your defense with points be what the team did in total. OR are we going to make a custom scoring system?

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Dalaran: Arindel - Frost Mage (Mining/Alchemy)
Dalaran: Roran - Paladin (Weaponsmith/Blacksmith)
Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

It's my understanding that you can customize it however you want. I think Acritus is suggesting that on top of the team D, you also get one additional defensive player. Am I correct Acritus?

If so, there are pros and cons to the idea. It doesn't really matter to me.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

Yup Talon, I was suggesting we have both a Team Def and 1 Def player on our roster. I think this small addition would spice things up a bit, but if its unpopular then nevermind

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

We should probably specify a position (LB, CB, DT, etc.) and not just 1 Def player.

I'm in by the way. The Commandos are looking to avenge their terrible post season.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

ack! Double post.

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- Wiegraf Terrik
SWG: Human Commando/Pistoleer
WoW: Dwarvish Rogue (Herbalism/Alchemy)
EQII: Alazin, High Elf Wizard

Former Section 4 Director

"Please, if anyone were to play Obi-Wan it would be me, with the 'Luke, Luke save me' and the lightsabers going 'Vvvwiinnngg, vvwinggg, vvvWING!' -- Professor Frink

Im looking into what players can be put in the Def Player postion and if it can be restricted to a certin position. I agree that it would be best if every team had a LB and not just a def player.

EDIT::

For the Def Player position (D) you can have a DB or DL in the spot. However, we can have a spot for a DB or DL and have the D spot none exsitant. Hope that made sense.

This will add a whole new leel to the game and draft so im not sure if its a good idea, but it still depnds on what yall think and want.

How soon is too soon btw?

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

Sry for the double post, I just want to keep the discussing going so ppl dont forget about the AFL

So the biggest news of this week has been former Ten Titan Eddie George has signed to Dallas on a 1-year contract. George is going into a filled back with Julius Jones expected to start for the Cowboys. George is expected to make an immediate impact but his numbers have been droping since the 2000 season. Im not sure what the situation is like in the backfield now that their main guy has left. Titan QB McNair is coming off a Co-MVP season so it is assumed that Tenesse would not be running the ball, instead using McNairs arm to do the workload.

So the big question is how does George's move affect his Fantasy Stock? Going into a system and a confrence that is "stacked" will he improve his numbers or once again, be put on the bench of the owners?

My take is that this improves the back's stock a little bit, not much though. Bill Parcell likes to use a big back to pound the ball down the Def throat. I think Parcell will use George as much as he can but will also use his young backs too. George is undetr pressure to preform with just a 1-year contract with Dallas and he is a workhorse. All of this to me turns George into a much more valuable option in the draft. What do yall think?

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

Dude.. too my information in one post to digest.

Wait another month before starting in on the serious grid iron talk. It's still baseball season.

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"Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides." - Thomas Paine, Common Sense

So I guess we shouldnt talk about how Ricky Williams retiring? ::ducks::

Cya yall in a few weeks

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

Ive briefly talked to Cetera about starting the league soon. The consensus was that he would wait to make the league.

Im just curious for input about a draft date inbetween 8/20 - 8/22. That is next weekend. Is that too early for most of you? The games start on Sept. 9 so we do have some time to do this draft, but its quickly running out.

I think im too excited about football this year...

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

i want to play. whats the league number and password.

Trin

1 week prep time might work out. But I am excited for that game on the 9th. I can finally start practicing religion again

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Dalaran: Arindel - Frost Mage (Mining/Alchemy)
Dalaran: Roran - Paladin (Weaponsmith/Blacksmith)
Dalaran: Baine - Rogue

lakini, the league has not be created yet but I hope it will be soon. Keep on checking this tread for more info or bug Cetera some

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

Even though I haven't been in game for awhile if you still have space I'd like to join again.

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Davni Weric
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A Partner in Core Resources
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Still looking for input on a good draft date. If you dont tell us when you want the draft you run the chance of it conflicting with RL issues (duh )

It seems we will have a pretty full league this year. Ive counted 15 ppl so far that want in. This is great, hopefully this will mean more action then late last year when some teams "dropped out"

Although the problem comes up about the Bye weeks. If we have an odd number of teams then there will be a bye week in which one team will not play, but your players will. This can be a big bummer and I would like to avoid it as much as possible.

Two solutions: We get another Avian to sign up for a team or (and I would not like to see this happen, but) ask a member to leave and play next year. The second option would suck but Bye weeks are horrible. Hopefully it wont come to that.

Little FYI, by this time last year we had drafted already

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Avian Football League 2007 Forum Thread

I believe Bossman? set it up last year..so whoever wants to set it up..go for it

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Ryric Krael
Former Vice President AGN
Former Director, Section 6
Former Head of Department of the Treasury
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Ask not what your PA can do for you, but what you can do for your PA
"Gone Section Five"

As long as it isnt on Thursday I'm ok with the draft date. Other than that feel free to set it up whenever.

Ive never set one of these leagues up before so someone whos had experience with it before can go ahead and set it up now so people can start joining.

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Romsuiag (Brad)
Former and Third President of Avian