Guest Post By: Spencer Gilden (Spencer Nose Fantasy)
We are just two short days away from the first kickoff of the NFL season and my boner is getting stiffer by the minute. My name is Spencer Gilden and let me be honest, I am not the brightest guy when it comes to things like mathematics, current world events and or anything important in this world BUT I will tell you this coach…I KNOW MY SPORTS AND ESPECIALLY MY FANTASY SPORTS.
I have been playing fantasy sports since way before every Tom, Dick and Harry had a league on CBS Sportsline. Anyone remember doing rotisserie leagues in the Sporting News Magazine where Kenny Lofton or Dan Marino were the most expensive auction league players you could but? Well, I eat, live and breathe fantasy sports. I have multiple football, baseball and basketball leagues and simply put… I am damn good. With a nose as big as mine and being that I am a tall skinny Jew, I had to find a passion to overcome my shortcomings (got a few of those apparently) and find a way to be involved in sports since I wouldn’t have chance to play for real. So I have lived my life a sports super psycho, taking great pride in memorizing everything about the four major sports and making sure I knew the most among all of my peers.
Looking back, what did I get out of knowing where Xavier McDaniel A.K.A the X-Man went to college? Well, imagine my SHOCK when I realized that his team’s name had a double meaning. For those who don’t know, X-Man went to Wichita State.
Fantasy sports allowed me to take my sports nuttiness and apply it to something other than gambling, which I never really loved to do. With the Spencer Nose Fantasy blog columns, I will help my fellow fantasy fans by providing fantasy tips, projections and overall what I expect to see week in and week out this season. I will show you that I am not this schmo off the streets of the Five Towns in NY, I will prove I know my s%^t! I hope to provide you sound advice with a little humor involved.
Follow me on Twitter @Spencernose and check out the South Florida Sun Sentinel’s feature on me and my fantasy wizardry and a photo gallery from my draft.
