Between RA training and a network problem here, I didn't know if I'd get on this weekend at all. Now that I have, time to address serious business.

ESPN Pigskin Pick 'Em

Group Name: Dan Klecko Fan Club
Password: kraft

While I didn't have the sort of Dan Klecko experience that led me to draft him for fantasy football purposes, it was nice to see him have some good pre-season work. He also fills the bill for our pre-season Patriots crush, that time when a player, probably someone who won't start much, catches our attention and spurs our imagination.

Rohan Davie got a taste of that when he joined the club, and Michael Bishop made his mark as well, but the best case of it was in 1990 when Michael Proctor (the Murray State QB, not the Alabama kicker) had a whale of a camp but didn't quite catch on, getting cut. Which left us with the likes of Tommy Hodson (who was "considered to have a bright future," ha ha) and Marc Wilson. Things got worse with the Year of the Five Quarterbacks before Drew Bledsoe showed up and helped straighten things out.

Proctor wound up in the WLAF's Montreal Machine, spent some time in Cleveland's camp, made the Steelers practice squad in 1992, signed with the Saskatchewan Rough Riders in '93, Arena's Charlotte Rage from '94 to '96, and then just kind of disappears (not unlike the Rage themselves).

More than you wanted to know about Proctor, I'm sure, but I'm in a football frame of mind.