Rinse, repeat!

Yes, indeed we are! Hopefully, you saw the email I sent this past weekend. In it I outlined a few things about the league homepage and the 2025 season. I have more news, so I'll compile it all here.

The Hughes League Site: The 2025 site is more or less good to go.  As I noted in the email, the site is now using a simplified template that will easily carry over from one season to the next. It's clean, simple, quick, and (I think) attractive. I muddled around with quite a bit of the code and trashed it a few times over the past couple of days, but it should be nearly in final form now. A couple of things still need fixing, and I hope to get those worked out soon. The problems are cosmetic and mostly minor.

1. The customized view on mobile devices is not currently working correctly. FIXED
2. The league logo (the shield on the front page) is out of proportion. FIXED
3. Some tabs have incorrect/missing icons. FIXED 
4. The text in the 'Rules' tab refuses to stay 'left-aligned'. FIXED...Rules now located here on the News blog. 

Only #1 above is very important. 

Please visit the site and poke around. I will be adding modules as time goes by. I have not put some of the 'in-season' modules in place. I think everything else is there, but you are going to have to look in a different place to find some things. The most important tools are located in that row of icons to the right of the shield. If you have issues, be sure to let me know. 

BTW...in trying to keep things tidy on the site, I have removed the special tabs, including the Coach Hughes Tribute, the historic banners page, the Champions Hughes News Editions page, etc. Those can now be found right here on the Hughes News site over in the right column. (EDIT)..The Rules page is here as well.

I tried a bunch of the different color (theme) options as I was tinkering. You might have noticed the site in red, blue, etc. if you were visiting over the last few days. I finally decided on the 'brown' theme, which is closest to what we have had for several years. In the future, I might give the defending champion the choice to pick the color theme. 

Payment: I'm currently collecting payment for 2025. The cost to each owner is $18. That covers the $100 MFL league fee, the $25 for Primetime Draft, and the trophy, which has run about $85/$90 with shipping. (I paid more last year for mine, but I paid the overage out of my pocket.).

I will not be sending endless nagging emails this year. You have several options....

• My Venmo address is @Robert-Andrews-91  
• You can send me a check: 15051 Peachmeadow, Channelview TX 77530.   
• Or send the fee via PayPal. There is a PP button on the '25 league site, and the amount is already programmed in and includes an extra amount to cover the fees PP collects from me for accepting payment. Please pay promptly. 

Once you pay, I will send the league invite and unlock your franchise. As of Monday afternoon, I've collected enough for the league fee. I have paid Myfantasyleague for the 2025 season.

As an inducement to pay promptly, I will add $10 to the waiver budget to every team paid for by August 1. 

League Stuff/Misc: There are no rules changes for 2025. I thought about formalizing a rule about 'missed lineup deadlines,' but those will continue to be dealt with on a case-by-case basis, and I will do what I've done for 45 years: try to use my best judgment and strive to do right by everyone involved. 

I have the draft scheduled for Labor Day, September 1st, at a site to be determined or online. I will maintain this Hughes News blog this year as I have in the past. As I mentioned in the email, I'd really like to get more engagement this season. I have a few ideas, such as a Houston watch party.  Maybe on a Sunday or Monday night later in the season, we could try to get together and watch an NFL game. Our postseason get-together is always a good time, and more of that sort of thing can't be bad, right?

Stay in touch...read your email and this blog. Please pay for your team if you haven't yet done so.

-commish

Ellis is spending some time in California with her folks. As an unofficial Disney Princess she was super excited to meet a bunch of them over the weekend!

Peter F'ing Gabriel, boys and girls. He still kills it. Seeing his show was a long-time goal. So glad I was able to be there.