The 2024 Fantasy Football Champs - Coca Cola Kids Shoot for Back-to-Back

The Coca Cola kids, the 2024 Champions of their Fantasy Football League, are ready for a new season.  The draft is done and we head into the second week of the season with a 1-0 record.  The team this year doesn't have quite the powerhouse players as last year's team, but the Kids look to be competitive again this year.  Slow and steady is the way to win this year!  Maybe there will be a couple surprise, highlight seasons from a couple guys to push the Kids to a back-to-back championship.  

Here is the roster of the Coca Cola Kids as of Week 1:

QB - Kyler Murray, Arizona

WR - CeeDee Lamb, Dallas

WR - Puka Nacua, LA Rams

RB - Jahmyr Gibbs, Detroit

RB - Raheem Mostert, Miami

TE - Sam LaPorta, Detroit

W/R/T - Brandon Aiyuk, San Francisco

Q/W/R/T - Derek Carr, New Orleans

K - Jason Sanders, Miami

DEF - San Francisco

Bench:

Will Levis, QB Tennessee

Terry McLaurin, WR Washington

Calvin Ridley, WR Tennessee

Courtland Sutton, WR Denver

Jordan Addison, WR Minnesota

Trey Benson, RB Arizona

Brock Bowers, TE Las Vegas

Week 1:  1-0

Coca Cola Kids: 136.89

Roll Tide: 131.46

Week 2: 1-1

The Watergirl: 180.11

Coca Cola Kids: 167.09

Next week I will introduce you to a new Fantasy Football league and my team in that league.  

My 5 Favorite Breakfasts

It should be no secret that I love breakfast.  Go back to 2021 for my post on Breakfast Cereals as proof of my love for the morning meal or at least the food from the morning meal.  As I was scarfing down a Pop-Tart at 9:45 PM one recent night, it got me thinking, what are my favorite breakfast foods.  These would be foods that are traditionally served at a morning meal, but could be eaten at any meal.  Or, any of these breakfast meals could be eaten with a nice hot cup of coffee...at any time of day.   

Here are my Top 5 Breakfasts!  

5.  Pop-Tarts!  Let's face it, Pop-Tarts are basically cookies for breakfast!  The classic Brown Sugar and Cinnamon are my favorite with the chocolate Pop-Tart with white cream filling is a super close second.  I like the frosted cherry Pop-Tarts too.  While I don't mind a generic Toaster Pastry, they aren't a Pop-Tart.  

4.  Sausage Breakfast Burrito - Yep, roll those suckers up in foil and take them on a hike or bike ride and you've got a great protein-filled and filling snack.  Even though they scream morning meal, I can eat these at any time of the day.  Please, do not put any cream sauces of any kind on my breakfast burrito.  I would take it with a dipping salsa thought.  Yum!  

 

3.  Scrambled Eggs, Turkey Bacon with toast and jelly -  This is a classic and one of my favorite meals to make; however, I like it when my youngest daughter makes it.  She has a touch about making the eggs super fluffy (I think her secret is lots of almond milk).  I do love that when she makes this breakfast for the family, I have to flip the bacon.  I mean, the grease can hurt a little.  

2.  Cereal - I can eat cereal any day and any time of day.  I will eat sugar cereal, healthy cereal, and cereal in between.  I love cereal.  

1.  Steak and Eggs!  Okay, steak and eggs with hash browns.  What else do I need to say other than when I have steak and eggs, the eggs have to be sunny side up so the yolk spreads across the plate to get soaked up in the hash browns.  Okay, I can taste it now.  My favorite place to have steak and eggs is either at a local ma and pop restaurant or at Bob Evans Restaurant.  

Album Playthrough Project August 2024

It was a disappointing month of album listening for me.  I was happy with the quality of music I listened to, but disappointed in the number of albums I listened to.  I was, however, able to squeeze in a few albums in some free time.  

It was interesting as time was short, I found myself going to music and artists that I was familiar with.  It seemed that since I didn't have much time to listen, I didn't want to waste any of it with something that might turn out to be a dud.  Or, maybe I knew in my hectic moments that I needed certain music to lift me up and drive me forward.  I'm not sure, but here are the albums I listened to in their entirety in the month of August:  

The Nylon Curtain (1982) Billy Joel 8/15/24
Human Wheels (2005) John Mellencamp 8/22/24
Waiting for the Night (1993) Freddie Jones Band 8/28/24
All of This Life (2018) The Record Company 8/28/24
Shaken N Stirred (1985) Robert Plant 8/29/24
8/23/24 Greenwood Village, Co. (2024) Dave Matthews Band 8/30/24
The Principals of Moments (1983) Robert Plant 8/30/24
Wheels Are Turnin' (1984) REO Speedwagon 8/31/24

Best Memories: The Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel

So many car rides with friends, so many concerts, so many hours memorizing lyrics

Biggest Disappointment: Shaken N Stirred, Robert Plant

What the heck?? Synthesizers galore and not in a good way..bad experimentation.

Best Rebound/Redemption: The Principals of Moments, Robert Plant

I try not to listen to the same artist so soon after an album by the same artist, but I needed to find something to get back to believing in Robert Plant again! It worked.

Best Concert Memory: All of This Life, The Record Company

Glen Oak Park, Peoria, IL June 2019 Great night!