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Friday Fun Thread for August 8, 2025

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Anyone up for a motte fantasy football league? I know we have some NFL fans, and we all love making bets and predictions.

I'm up for it, though I'm concerned that enough of you fuckers the fine Mottizens that are graciously volunteering in this very thread are deeply steeped in the knowledge of Pennsylvania's football teams to prevent me from scooping up later round bargains. Speaking of which, I fully reserve the right to draft a defense in the 9th round or a kicker in the 10th, and in fact to fuck up my entire draft because my other league is a full PPR league with 6 points for QB touchdowns and no kickers.

I'll play, but only on the condition that we gat at least ten people, including the following:

  • The guy who drafts Patrick Mahomes way too early
  • The guy who loads up on tight ends
  • The guy who drafts big names from five years ago way too early, and acts like he can't believe they're still on the board
  • The guy who drafts the Ravens defense in the 9th round
  • The guy who drafts the consensus best kicker in the 10th round (used to be Janikowski, more recently Justin Tucker, who knows this year)
  • The guy who drafts an inordinate number of Steelers (or whoever the hometown team is)
  • The guy who drafts someone who will be bagging groceries two years from now because he had a 79 yard run in the preseason
  • The guy who takes fantasy football way too seriously but nonetheless ends up drafting an awful team
  • The guy who fucks up his entire draft because he thinks it's a PPR league when it isn't, or vice versa

This last one happened in a league I played in a few years back and the results were hilarious. He had drafted a bunch of wideouts and practically no RBs and didn't realize we were in a standard league until the 7th or 8th round. He then started frantically drafting every questionable RB available to make up lost ground, and was offering desperate trades the week afterwards to correct his error. He ended up almost making the playoffs, but the full-blown meltdown was unforgettable.

The guy who drafts Patrick Mahomes way too early

I might actually change my team name to that in the league I've been in for 8 years, because it's kinda true.

It's only kinda true and not literally true because he's my keeeper.

The guy who loads up on tight ends

I am in this post and I don't like it.

The guy who loads up on tight ends

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