Tag: Football
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Fantasy Football Team Branding
For the first time in many years (I literally cannot remember, it’s been so long) I’m participating in my family’s fantasy football league, which has been going for twenty years strong now. The position of league commissioner was recently passed down from my dad to my youngest brother. That news, plus the round, pleasing anniversary number, convinced me to come out of retirement and participate this year. Oh, that, and AI. While I may or may not be consulting with Claude to draft players and adjust my team roster, I am definitely using AI to have some fun with my…
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Against Football?
With a week to go until the Super Bowl and news headlines filled with stories of saggy balls, this seems like a good time to take a departure from my normal travel blogging and write about an excellent football-related book I read recently. If you don’t live in Boston or Seattle, you probably don’t care about this year’s matchup, so you might as well read this instead. Against Football: One Fan’s Reluctant Manifesto by Steve Almond was recommended to me by, coincidentally, a Seattle friend when I saw him and his wife over the summer on my west coast tour.…
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Super Sunday
Completely unrelated to the fact that I’ve called San Francisco my home for several years now, I’ve been a 49ers fan since I was about 9 years old. At the tail end of the Joe Montana era, I started watching football with my dad and decided that the best team at that time (and all of the 80s) would be my favorite team too. Somehow I was able to weather a devastating playoff loss that resulted in the end of Montana’s career in San Francisco and the end of the Bill Walsh dynasty. Given that my reasons for latching onto…
