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iPhone devotion and FF linkage

Last weekend while I was home in Virginia, I was all girly-ed up, ready to attend a baby shower when I apparently lost focus of how to walk down stairs, you know, the simple task of putting one foot in front of the other...and I fell down our cement front steps. I think I did a few pirouettes, hit my head on the hand railing, and finally landed in the bushes with my feet pointed towards the sidewalk. I have no clue how this happened but distinctly remember having the time to tell myself, "this can't possibly be happening right now; but is the iPhone okay?" as I was careening towards the ground. I pulled myself up and hobbled to the front door covered in leaves - my mom reverted into supermom mode as she opened the door to find me holding my head with one hand and keeping my skirt away from my two bloodied legs with the other hand. It wasn't pretty. But what I found most impressive of all is that my mind had time to worry about my iPhone before my own limbs. I think this just goes to show how addicted I've become to this tiny machine. For better or for worse. And I am fine now, by the way, just a bit of a limp and an impressive set of scars developing...

So this morning while I was riding the bus and catching up on football news on my beloved iPhone, I noticed that Gregg Rosenthal is everywhere. In case you can't get enough Gregg from NBC Sports and Rotoworld, they've now merged with ProFootballTalk - check out his latest article on why Reggie Bush is now "Running Back 1A".
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Matthew Saunders said…
I tried not to laugh, but failed. Hope you're okay.

Now that we know you're an iPhone nerd, you need to give us reviews of FF iPhone apps. I'm begging for Yahoo to give us a StatTracker app, but it's currently Flash-based, so I'm not sure that's going to happen.
3:23 PM
Anonymous said…
hey, you slammed the lions. Oh wait, they deserve it.
3:55 PM
Fantasy Football Librarian said…
Brilliant, Matthew Saunders, I love it. I've got a couple of football apps but I'll do some research and see what kind of feedback I can give. I do remember using CBS on my iPhone last season and linking th clean display...I guess the real reviews might have to wait until the start of the season.

And feel free to laugh. It was rather humorous in retrospect.

And anon, I feel I can slam the Lions now that the Broncos are descending into "laughing stock of the NFL" status...
6:07 PM
Bob said…
Yeah, thats crazy whats going on in denver, but times that by 50 years = lions. Love the site!
8:21 PM
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