We Are Fanatics readers will hear me talk about Facebook and Twitter from time to time, but rarely do I mention Myspace. Football Fanatics, and some of our “sister” sites, do have a presence on Myspace so I’d like to take a few moments just to chat about what’s going on in the Myspace world. Myspace is a great place to interact with fellow sports fans.

We currently run Myspace accounts for Football Fanatics, Surf Fanatics and Fighting Fanatics. I recently spent some time working on these three accounts. They have all been upgraded to Myspace 2.0, cleaned up and given cool new background layouts. I used to shy away from Myspace because everything was always just a big mess. That’s no longer the case. I’m keeping the account simple and I’ve synced the status updates to Twitter so there will always be a constant flow of new updates.

One of my favorite things about Myspace is the comment section. When posting wall comments, friends can add videos, pictures and text. You won’t find that on Facebook or Twitter. Also with Myspace, we can seek out potential friends that may not know about us. I’ve joined dozens of sports groups on our Football Fanatics Myspace account in search of more fanatics.

If you’re on Myspace, come by and check us out. Send a friend request and I’ll be sure to accept it. We will continue to post new promotions, featured items, unique Myspace coupon codes and seasonal sales for all our Myspace friends. Once again, you can find Myspace accounts for Football Fanatics, Surf Fanatics and Fighting Fanatics.

See ya there!

Last week we featured the Fantasy Football Newb, David M. Well it turns out that his team Murphy’s Law is now 2-0. In today’s video segment, Fantasy Football newbie Dave from IT covers his 2nd week and discusses plans for this week – including his match-up with his interviewer, The SuperFavres. Now both at 2-0, Dave M. and Mike M. are the only undefeated teams in the league. After this week, there will be only one.

Did you struggle in the opening week of Fantasy Football last Sunday? That’s probably because you didn’t have my list of sleepers, top performers and who to sit in front of you. I don’t like to toot my own horn, but I was the top scorer in our Fantasy Football league last week. So take my advice and ride these players to the top of your league standing.

Sleepers:
QB – Brett Favre – Facing the Lion who Drew Brees threw 6 TD’s against last week. Not to mention, 0-18 last 18 games.

WR – Laurent Robinson – Strong week 1 after a strong preseason, in his 3rd year which is widely regarded as the breakout year for WR’s…. look out for this guy as long as his QB can be at least respectable, he is targeted frequently. This is the only one I’m iffy about. Only start him if you have no other options.

RB: Fred Jackson – Looked really good as an all purpose back running and catching the ball last week vs a good NE Patriot’s defense. Start Jackson until week3 when Bills #1 back Lynch comes back.

TE – Todd Heap – Faces San Diego who’s defense should be improved with the return of Shawne Merriman…onlyt thing is the just can’t seem to guard TE’s. They gave up over 90 yards last week to Zach Miller of Oakland which does not have a good passing offense around inaccurate QB JaMarcus Russel. Start Todd Heap, TRUST ME!

Who To Sit –

QB – Donovan Mcnabb – Do not wait for Andy Reid to make a decision, Mcnabb will not play on Sunday…pick up an extra QB if you have to and set your starting line ups not to include him now.

RB – Pierre Thomas – I think his knee is giving him more problems than we know about, owners should start Mike bell instead who looked really good last week besides a fumble.

K – Kris Brown – Brown who was ranked in the preseason as a top 5 kicker was the most dropped player in Yahoo leagues last week after a terrible 1 point performance in most leagues. Nuff’ said!!! (Yeah I had him in one of my leagues)

DE – Dallas – They let Tampa Bay run all over them in the first half, expect more of the same except all game vs NY Giants.

Top Performers –

QB – Aaron Rodgers – The obvious pick would be Drew Brees every week but I like Rodgers vs a suspect Bengal pass defense.

WR- Larry Fitzgerald – Reggie Wayne was the top WR last week vs the same Jacksonville defense Larry F. will face this week, expect Larry to capitalize as he always does.

RB – Adrian Peterson – Facing 0-18 Detroit who just let a backup…Mike Bell…run all of them for 143 yards. I wouldn’t be surprised by a 200 yard game from “All Day”.

DE- Washington Redskins – Facing St Louis who couldn’t even get on the board last week. Expect a lot of man on man action with Haynesworth on top of Bulger all game.

Rookie of the week:

WR – Percy Harvin – I like Percy to continue his strong start to the season vs a terrible Detroit pass defense. Seems to be good ol’ #4 Bret Favre’s go to guy so far this season

Sticking with the fantasy football theme this week… let’s turn our attention to the subject of several of our past videos: The Corporate Gangsters. The Gangsters were on the wrong end of a Week 1 fantasy beat down. He put up only 45 points! That has to be some sort of record. Check out this video we shot of Dave C. talking about his team and the moves he made to get things on the right path for Week 2.

In this segment, Fantasy Football newbie Dave from IT recaps his results from last week’s action and weighs in on his strategy for the upcoming days. Having won his round last week, Dave’s mulling over changing his offensive players including swapping out his quarterback for another big-name QB who had an unusually good weekend. Our own stats guru, Zeke even throw his 2 cents into the fray.

How would you advise David M. ?

Remember that “friendly wager” over the outcome of the fantasy football season? Well, things got off to a great start for Andrew as Zeke beat Chancel in the opening week thanks to Drew Brees and his six touchdown passes! Check out Zeke and Chancel recap the NFL’s opening week and several of the Football Fanatics fantasy football matchups.

By now you should know that we take fantasy football very seriously at Football Fanatics. No one comes out of the womb with a wealth of football knowledge already consumed in the back of their brain … well, maybe Zeke did, he’s our resident guru and human sports almanac. Most of us learn the game over time. We watch games, become familiar with players and remember key events and statistics over the years.

At some point, we all joined our first Fantasy Football league. Maybe you started in 1995 or 2001? Well David M. (part of the IT team) is playing fantasy football for the first time ever this season! In fact, before the 2008 season he didn’t know much about football at all. Here’s a quick video of David talking about his newly drafted fantasy team and his expectations for the year.

Side note: David won his week 1 Fantasy match-up by like 30 points.