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Fantasy Football may be over, but that doesn’t mean the battle for bragging rights has to be. We’re launching our first WYG? mini-contest: the NFL Playoffs Challenge.

Here’s how it’ll work:

• Predict the winner of each of the 11 NFL playoff games
• After the Super Bowl, the 5 users that picked the most correct games will win a RUWT? Sports T-Shirt
• If one fan gets each of the 11 games right, he or she will win a $50 gift certificate to Amazon.com
• If multiple fans run the table, up to five will each win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com

Be sure to check back here on the blog for updates and standings. What are you waiting for? Get picking!

First Round Games:
Redskins vs. Seahawks
Jaguars vs. Steelers
Giants vs. Buccaneers
Titans vs. Chargers

I joined my first Fantasy Football league last year to find out what the hubbub was all about. It didn’t take long for me to get hooked.

Fast-forward to this year, I’m in the finals and tonight’s MNF game will decide it. On the line? About 300 units of pride, kids.

I’m up 11 points on my opponent and we each have one player left. He has Brandon Marshall, the streaky second-year receiver that has been on a tear as of late. Who do I have? Nate Kaeding. That’s right America, my last hope for the title is riding on my kicker.

Come on Santa, you’ve got to have a 6 field goal game from Kaeding somewhere in that bag…

update: i won. that pretty much makes me the smartest man alive…or something like that.

I hope that features will be coming out fast and furiously over the next few weeks, but tonight I’m making sure everyone knows about an oft-overlooked one.

There’s a football game on tonight. Yes, I know most people can’t see it because of this NFL Network foolishness (I’m looking at you too Big 10 Network!), and granted Broncos vs. Texans isn’t exactly must-see TV (it’s Cutler vs. Rosenfels, people!), it’s a slow night in the sports world so you may be wondering where you can see it.

Before you hop in the car and head to the nearest sports bar, remember you can click on “Airings” on any game page and see which of your buddies has the game on TV, and more importantly, whose couch you need to invite yourself to.

Sure, you can get Social Networking anywhere, but how many sites give you Couch Networking? Thought so. Don’t forget who loves ya baby.

It’s Friday.

In celebration I give you Justin Timberlake shotgunning a can of Miller Lite before a Packers game.

In this spectacular, space-time continuum threatening moment, it simultaneously has nothing to do with sports and everything to do with sports.

More pics of JT bringing sexy back to Lambeau over at Deadpsin.

Hey folks, hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend. You’ll notice that this week’s YouTube Tuesday is actually happening on Wednesday. Crying foul? Well, go back to the first sentence. It was Memorial Day. And just like garbage pickup, everything shifts a day. Don’t buy that excuse? Well you obviously hate America.

This week’s video was an easy choice after hearing about the United Football League. That’s right folks, Bill Hambrecht, a “rich old Wall Street guy” is teaming up with rebel Mark Cuban (eyeing the Vegas franchise) to start a new football league directly opposing the NFL. They’re aiming to kick off in August 2008, and the plan is to televise games on Friday nights, targeting cities currently without a pro team—all they need is 7 more billionaires to hop on board. The NFL has swatted off four competitors and it’s hard to imagine this crew breaking through, but if I get to watch a pro game in Vegas or we get even one “He Hate Me“, it’ll probably be worth it.

I feel good. Really good.

I just got back from my first vacation since I started coding last Fall and I genuinely feel great. I had skipped Thanksgiving, Christmas, and countless birthdays, but forced myself to take some time to go home and visit the family and friends, and I’m so glad I did. Five days full of homecooked Jamaican food, NYC subways, and drinking with HS friends was exactly what the doctor ordered. I’ll be tackling a couple big features in the next couple weeks. Stay tuned.

And oh yeah. I ran into Drew Brees in the security line at Newark Airport. I was thinking “That guy looks like Drew Brees but smaller”, when I realized his trademark mole…and then his trademark gorgeous wife. Realizing you’re as tall as Drew Brees? Kinda cool. Watching him waddle away from security as he struggles to put back on his belt? Strangely enjoyable.

We’re going a bit off the grid with this one. At the same time distrurbingly bad and funny, yet strangely appropriate now that Peyton has taken care of the “can’t win the big one” monkey.

Last night’s Superbowl between the Colts and the Bears had the craziest first half I’ve seen in quite a while. 6 turnovers, Vinatieri misses a kick, and Hester runs back the opening kick for touchdown which I missed. Because I was 30 seconds late to my buddy’s house. 30.

Anyways, we’ll get a week or two of basking in the glow of the Colts, the unavoidable Sports Illustrated commercial with some cheap sweatshirt, and the inevitable slew of new Petyon commercials…which I actually like. But then what? My fantasy football team was eliminated months ago, we need to remove the NFL from the navbar. College basketball will slide into the top spot, but what will we add?

Wait for it…

NASCAR. That’s right kids. I’m somewhat of a closet NASCAR fan. I’ll admit it. I’m actually looking forward to watching NASCAR Now on ESPN2 tonight. While I’ll miss the “Boogity, Boogity, Boogity!”-stylings of DW, I’m curious to see how ESPN will handle NASCAR on their network.

We’ve gotten the Team A vs. Team B games under our belt, but this will be RUWT?’s first rateable sport that is every man for himself. We’re stoked.

It has taken a good amount of will power not to join the masses and pile on Nick Saban and I’m quite proud of my restraint. So instead of piling on, I’ll just pass along Dan Le BAMatard’s quality attempt at ripping Saban a new one.

“The punctuation on the Nick Saban Error is greasy and greedy. You know what he was as Dolphins coach? A failure. A loser. A gasbag. And one of the worst investments Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga has ever made. He was less of a success than Dave Wannstedt and more of a traitor than Ricky Williams. There has been very little in franchise history that came with more expectations and fewer results than this hypocrite who at the end avoided the hard questions one last time.”

Nice.