Are you ready for some futility?

Hey there.

Real quick.

(By the way, thank you to those who have joined the movement to get me a new blog picture. Every little contribution helps.)

But, hey.

So I was sitting here watching Day 6 of the endless, CNN-type coverage of Brett Favre's Cher-like return to the NFL and I got to thinking: Oh, how I wish I could write a blog every week about football. And then I got to thinking: You know, I have a perfectly good blog that I'm literally held at gun-point to fill up several times per week. (Okay, the gun is actually a metaphor, but I don't know if that means I can't say "literally.")

And then I got to thinking: I'm really hungry for cotton candy.

And then I got to thinking: Fantasy football.

Totally.

If I start a fantasy football league with a few dedicated readers, I can easily use that as a flimsy pretense to write a little about football every week as part of my job. Who knows. Maybe I'll be able to tie that all in to music somehow. I'm smart as eff. But I'm not smart enough to figure all that out right now.

So here's what's up.

If you're interested in being in the first ever Tim Karan Fantasy Football League (witty name to be announced at a later date), which may or may not include other staffers at AP (since, well, I haven't brought this up to any of them yet, seeing as how I'm sitting in my jammies at home), let me know. It'll bring you a little bit of quasi-fame, considering by being in the league, you'll be agreeing to let me involve you a little bit in this very blog.

And it'll also bring you closer to me (which has a cash value of $17.95).

And, the winner will receive a super-cool prize package made up of assorted AP-style swag that I'll put together throughout the season. Hell, I'll even get Jason Pettigrew to autograph something for you if you're into that sort of thing (although I'll have to trick him since he believes organized sports are the worst thing since Pearl Jam. I, however, am clearly on board with both sports AND Pearl Jam.)

Come on.

If you're anything like me, you know that make-believe football is the answer to that nagging hole where a real life is supposed to be.

E-mail me at karan@altpress.com with a convincing reason why I should count you in. I need at least seven people. And I don't care if you don't know the difference between a nickelback and Nickelback.