Armchair Owner!

So I've been puttering around on this site called MyFootballNow for a while now. "What is it?" you might ask. Well, it's a site which gives you the ability to take control of a 'professional' football team.

I say 'professional' because, while the general setup of the NFL is in place (majority of the team cities, colors, and leagues are true to form), the rosters are fictional, the teams are only referred to by city, etc. Personally I like the fictional set-up because it gives me a little room to have some fun with my team's history and what-not, but still feel like I'm playing the team in question.

So in the beginning, I was a part of (now-defunct, in the form I was playing it in at least) League 5, as the owner of the San Francisco franchise. A team with a good, mobile QB and a decent running game, I managed to hit the extensive free agency pool for a little shore-up talent and go into the playoffs. I lost to the eventual League Championship... err... champions in the Conference round, but was confident going into the following season.

Until the league folded.

See, the site is set up to where if a league falls below a certain threshold of human team owners (it was recently changed to 25% of the league's teams), the league automatically disappears until enough people sign up once more. The human owners that were still left get to take up residence on another team in a different league. So it happened I was given the chance to settle in another league, and found my Cleveland franchise available.

C'mon, who hasn't wanted to armchair owner their favorite team?

As it was, I nabbed up the Cleveland job in the 'special' League 1. League 1 is special because it's running what the site calls the "Bleeding Edge" game engine.

Computer gaming nuts would recognize this as 'Beta'.

MFN's "Bleeding Edge" engine incorporates any and all game enhancements, bug fixes, and the like that players have requested and suggested. These are implemented in League 1 and well-tested by us before they trickle out to the other leagues.Of course, these changes can cause issues on their own, and it can make for interesting fun (sarcasm implied), but the league soldiers on despite whatever chaos is sewn.

It's just like Goodell's run of the NFL, honestly.

But honestly, if you want to give it a shot, it's a good amount of fun. The sims play out 6 days a week, so seasons move quick. Your first team is a freebie as well, and credits for additional teams (or to remove the not-very obtrusive ads) aren't too expensive. And if you want a little bonus, use this referral link to sign-up:

http://goo.gl/OVMbdD

If you wind up buying credits, we both get a bonus 10 credits for your first purchase! Not too shabby. And if you join, look for JCSwishMan33 in MFN-1. I'll be trying to improve on Cleveland's 6-10 record in 2015, with a near-completely-new coaching staff.

Talk about (virtual) art imitating life...