"the password is cuttlefish."

Of course. :)

I just joined - I will gamble in almost anything if there is no money involved.

One more thing about the rules - the only wrinkle is that you can only select each team once.

Only 40 slots left... get 'em while they're hot :)

Some of these nicknames are making me laugh... FREE DAVE BERG, Death to Rivas and Menechino For QB are my faves so far.

I just registered: Bleeding Headwounds.

Hopefully the NFL season is interesting. No baseball and no hockey make Ryan ... something, something.

"Death to Rivas."

Now, I have no idea who that could be referring to...oh, it must be this guy.

No, I think he means Oh-for-Threevas!

Craig, I hope you knew I was kidding. Some guy named Aaron Gleeman has that team, after all.

Please, tell me that you knew that I knew it was Luis Rivas.

Didn't give you enough credit, Rob. Sorry :)

That other Rivas was actually quite famous down in Texas. That daring escape with the 6 other prisoners was big news until they were captured, as was their cold-blooded shooting of Officer Hawkins on Christmas Eve outside a sporting goods store.

You didn't have to apologize, but come on...who doesn't know about Luis Rivas's suckitude? ;) (Other than Gardenhire and Ryan.)

Actually, that site I linked to is the first or second Google result for a Death to Rivas search. It has nothing to do with Luis; I thought it would work with the joke.

But, as I've observed in the past, my humour is so non-clutch.

I'm in - Surf Nazi Hotline.

I like Ice Cream of Wheat, but that's probably only because I've named a bunch of my fantasy teams the Wheat over the years. It's a wonderful name.

There are still 17 slots left, with 33 now taken! Hopefully there will still be plenty for everyone who wants in, or we'll create another league.

I hope people know what McLDT means. Bear in mind that I'm nostalgic for the McDLT and think LaDanian Tomlinson is a minor diety, and it will all make sense. :)

Ah hell, I'll probably change it. :)

One of my greatest regrets is that I wasn't eating meat at the time the McDLT was out.

I'm in as "Menechino for QB", and hopefully I'll improve on my performance from the Survival Pool I was in last year, when I (and 75% of the pool) was eliminated during week 1. Ouch.

hopefully I'll improve on my performance from the Survival Pool I was in last year, when I (and 75% of the pool) was eliminated during week 1. Ouch.

Ah yes, Houston over Miami, right? That's why I always enter my money survivor pool twice, because I know at least one team won't make it past week 2, and of course I had Miami in week 1 with one of my entries last year. Unfortunately my second entry lost in week 3 (Arizona over Green Bay).

True to form this year -- the Rams managed to win for one entry, but Houston screwed me again, getting beaten by the Chargers this time.

I'm in for the Batter's Box league... should be a short trip for me. :) Currently signed up as "Ricky Williams = Smoked Fish" but that was under duress so I may change it if I come up with something better.

Congrats to Pistol on his gutsy Cowboys pick. My sympathies to all those Packer backers. Who saw THAT coming?

And oh man, I hate that I had to use my Bengals pick this week. It would've been much more prudent to pick a juggernaut when they're facing a tomato can. :-)

Congrats to Pistol on his gutsy Cowboys pick. My sympathies to all those Packer backers. Who saw THAT coming?

It really wasn't that gutsy - they were a 5 point favorite. Cleveland's not that good.

I didn't see the Packer game coming, but I like to avoid teams on a short week.

"gutsy Cowboys pick"? Here in Dallas, just one week after the "Parcells has lost it, bring back Jimmy Johnson" radio coaller-fest, didn't you know Da Boys are now obviously Super Bowl-bound? But what is this newfangled thing called "the forward pass" Mr. Vinny was relying on?

I am not in this year ... I have sworn off fantasy sports of all kinds, except for a cheesey autodraft, no-money NFL league at work so I can trash my co-workers in the halls. Perhaps I will write a "Why I am a recovering fantasy gamer" article for Da Box some day.

As for this:
"the password is cuttlefish."

Wasn't that a John Travolta movie last year?

The Cowboys are horrible and will be proven horrible. The Browns at least have an actual QB.

I should also add that said actual QB had the worst game of his life. Which is how the Cowboys won.

And then there were 6 (out of 44 to enter):

Santiago superStarrs
Tuna fish
@$$Kickers
Flutie Flakes
The Frozen Chosen
Pistol

Once we get down to one or two left, we'll reset the league and have a second-half competition.