We had a great time in the Windy City! We didn't do much sightseeing (we've done it all that many times), but we hit a bunch of our favorite food joints, celebrated our granddaughter's first birthday, and spent a lot of time with 4-year-old Leo. I did go downtown to watch Manchester United pull off a rare match win with the Chicago MUFC Supporters group at their bar. That was a lot of fun.
Back here in the real world... Thursday night's MFL Live Scoring snafu resolved itself as expected, not long after the game ended. I might not even have noticed, as I rarely watch or check in on games/scores on Thursday night. But I flipped over after the Rangers beat the Sabres and kind of enjoyed seeing the Giants dismantle the Eagles. My father was a Giants fan, and they still own a piece of me.
But the glitch caused the commish message forum to experience a 'meltdown' of epic proportions. "My league is in revolt!" "MFL won't be around next season!" Yup, guys actually typed those sentences. I was all rather amusing. At least one other commish shared my perspective. He suggested everyone wait for Friday's USA Today and calculate their league by hand. Oh, the memories!
Sorting Out The Week... I don't think I quite have a handle on what happened. The Flyers had to score 125 points to win a freaking game, and at that, it was a less-than-five-point win...at least I'm spared the shame of a zero-win season... the Blizzard seems unstoppable right now...they own the top seed at the moment but the season is just arroaching the halfway mark... the R'backs are on top in the Barenholtz but have scored the fewest points in the division and have fewer points that any of the three 1-win teams!! No need to scratch your head, just look at their PA...
...the Legends have won three straight to claim a share of the Lombardi lead. I spend a lot of time prepping for the draft, James, well, not so much. WTF?... I dunno about the rest of you bottom feeders, but you know that 7-7 can get you a decent shot at a wild card bid. Poker players will tell you that all you need is 'a chip and a chair' and anything can happen! I figure I've had some bad luck to open the year, so maybe a few breaks will swing my way...
Updates On This Site... With the issues some had on the league site now a memory (knock on wood), I've had a chance to work on things over here on the blog. If you click the Memorials link over on the right, you'll see that I added a small photo collage and memorial blurb for my uncle, Ralph Straley. As you know, he passed away earlier this year and was the guy who inspired me to start this silly thing that we enjoy each fall. BTW...the same update was applied over on the league site under the 'About Us' tab.
Something else I've recently worked on, something I'm excited about, is adding some photos to the Ed Hughes Tribute Page. There are some new sideline photos, including one with running back Joe Dawkins that I particularly like (for no real reason other than 'just because'). I've added a couple of archived NY Times articles that ran late in the 1971 season as the Oilers' season unraveled and Coach Hughes' seat got hot, and a Chicago Bears 1985 anniversary team pic that has notations for CEH as well as Walter Payton.
Even better are some pictures of EH in action in the late 50s with the Giants and Rams. Coming soon are three items I've been chasing for quite a while. I think I'll wait to discuss those when I have them in hand, scanned, and posted.
The Team Profile page is a revision of one I had previously linked on our league site. It's been cleaned up. The Flyers Helmet History is a complete redo of a page I did a long time ago and hadn't touched in forever. It's just for fun.
In general, I've been trying (with mixed results) to bring some visual consistency to those pages. I used different methods to compile many of them, Excel, MSWord, ChatGPT, coding by hand, the native Blogger system, etc. That's why, for example, the fonts are inconsistent from one page to the next, and some columns are different from one page to the next. I'm working on those things slowly but surely.
Yeah, Right! LOL... For reasons not worth getting into, I've recently looked at changing where I host this blog. One choice was Wix.com. I eventually decided that I'm not going to make any moves, but not before I clicked one of the options at Wix, which was claiming a domain name*. I typed in EHFL.com and here's what popped up:
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*=I used to own 'www.hughesleague.com'. But it was costing me an annual fee, which wasn't worth paying since I had no real need for ownership of that domain name.
33k! Someone must think this is a real football league with ad revenue coming in haha
ReplyDeleteLOL.. yeah, 15K and i might have considered it but 33 seems excessive, no?
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