Fantasy Football - Undrafted Gems + ALMOST Football Time! - Podcast for 9/8

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SPEAKER_3 (1:01)

Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your hosts, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome, Ian.

Andy Holloway (1:22)

That was upsetting to my soul.

Jason Moore (1:25)

I find that...

Mike Wright (1:27)

That's what you sound like.

Jason Moore (1:28)

Pretty offensive. Yeah, like...

Mike Wright (1:30)

Guys, I mean, was that spot on? Deuces are nodding.

Jason Moore (1:33)

Andy nailed it. The end of that... That's what I'm talking about. The end of that was troubling to me. Is that how you hear my voice?

Welcome, man.

Mike Wright (1:45)

Look, your voice is still struggling. We couldn't have week one opening without them.

Andy Holloway (1:51)

Especially after our record draft, all the shouting and screaming last night.

Jason Moore (1:55)

I'm all for substitutionary welcomes, and we can make other people rotate through until I get back to full strength. But I'm here. And we had our league of record draft last night. That did not help the vocal recovery, I would say. It did help the Mike celebratory.

Mike was the Super Duper Champ last year. So he won in our dynasty and our league of record, and he has enjoyed that very much. And so the champ often does something special at the draft. And Mike, when I showed up, there were two banners bigger than I knew they could make, that had been hung from the walls.

Andy Holloway (2:33)

One of them very inappropriately hung.

Jason Moore (2:37)

He removed things from the wall to get these to fit. I mean, they are gigantic super banners, which, okay, step one, complete. I expected a super banner. Then I rolled up and there were some hints that he had brought in a bartender. And so there was a bartender with a bar, he had hung his own banner from that.

And then he had his own custom cocktail, which was actually quite delicious.

Mike Wright (3:01)

It was very refreshing.

Jason Moore (3:04)

And Al had so many heat drafts at All Wide Receivers the whole night long. And so...

Mike Wright (3:08)

It was part of my, I didn't really have picks.

Jason Moore (3:11)

Right.

Mike Wright (3:12)

So it was part of my strategy was...

Jason Moore (3:15)

Get everyone to make mistakes.

Mike Wright (3:16)

Get people off of their game, let the players drop to me. They didn't drop to me.

Jason Moore (3:19)

No, no they didn't. But I mean, your team's all right. But so then we get going and we're all set up and we're getting ready for the draft. And then the icing on the cake was, Enroll's Two Fine Gentlemen, part of a jazz duo.

Mike Wright (3:34)

Yes.

Jason Moore (3:35)

So we had live jazz right next to Mike's drafting spot.

Mike Wright (3:39)

We had an upright bass and guitar.

Jason Moore (3:42)

Which was... Dude, it was... It was unbelievably good.

Andy Holloway (3:46)

Honestly, when they showed up, I felt bad for them. I was like, these guys don't want to be here in this room of fantasy football nerds doing a draft. And they're like, why are we here? Why are you paying us to do live jazz music here? But then, it was awesome.

They loved it. And every time they stopped to take a break or something, it was like, this is awful.

Jason Moore (4:07)

It's not as good as when they were playing. No. And I will say, on the other hand, I think the bartender had the time of his life. He is normally dealing with mother-in-laws at weddings and ends up at the League of Record Draft. And it was a good time. So that's what we did last night.

And now, mercifully, a new season begins. It's not a year of Mike, right, Al? It's over? That's right. Yeah, it's over. We're covering a game on this episode. His dynasty team is still insane. Yeah, Mike's dynasty team, if it doesn't win five straight from here on out, he'll be bummed.