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Time to catch up and profile my last 2 draft classes.

2005 Oakland Draft Class

Pick 2.30 WR Rod Tidwell Tidwell is the WR in Jerry Maguire who wanted to be shown the money.

https://www.charactour.com/hub/characters/view/Rod-Tidwell.Jerry-Maguire



Pick 3.30 K Ray Finkle LACES OUT! Ace Ventura was fiction as Finkle didn't miss a GW FG in my Championship season.

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Ray_Finkle



Pick 4.30 MLB Bobby Boucher Boucher didn't have a great camp with us, and he is now a member of the Chicago Bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waterboy



Pick 5.30 FS Ace Ventura The Pet Detective is still looking to get back into MFN, but it won't be in Oakland or Vegas when we move.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_Ventura



Pick 6.30 CB Jerry Maguire Maguire, now a Washington Redskin, actually boomed a little in camp but his lack of speed is why we let him go. Cjfred showed him the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Maguire



Pick 7.30 LDE Hello Newman Newman is from Seinfeld but we don't know if Newman is his first or last name, so I just called him Hello Newman. Now we call him free agent. His rating has actually improved but not enough to make our roster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_(Seinfeld)

ha ha brillant, always love your re-names :)

2006 Oakland Raiders Draft Class

This year's theme is fictional characters from Halloween movies/TV shows.

Pick 2.32 RDE Sammi Curr As mentioned previously, Curr is the villain in the heavy metal themed Trick or Treat movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_or_Treat_(1986_film)



Pick 3.32 FS Freddy Krueger Krueger is a little slower than I like but his other attributes increased and he should be a nice addition to our secondary. Hope opponents WR dream about him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Krueger



Pick 4.32 RT Michael Myers Hopefully Myers will murder some DL and keep Lamonica safe from harm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Myers_(Halloween)



Pick 5.32 QB Jason Voorhees We're hoping Voorhees can be a decent #2 QB and leave the bad Friday the 13th juju behind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Voorhees



Pick 6.32 LG Gomez Addams The patriarch of The Addams Family will try to scare pass rushers away from Raiders QBs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomez_Addams



Pick 7.32 RB Eddie Weinbauer Mr. Irrelevant might stick around on our 53, we'll see how the preseason goes. Weinbauer is the hero of Trick or Treat, though his backwards cassette tape started the chaos in the first place. He was played by Marc Price, better known to guys my age as Skippy from Family Ties.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092112/characters/nm0697027

I named my 2007 draftees but forgot to post about them. Oh well, I'll do a quick rundown...



Johnny Utah was the name of Keanu Reeve's character in the movie Point Break.

Eric Cartman and Kyle Broflovski are from South Park.

Buzz Sawyer and Jimmy Superfly Snuka were pro wrestlers back in the day.

Terry Tate went back to being office linebacker after we cut him.

Hey hey hey, it's Fat Albert Robertson, you know, the old cartoon that Bill Cosby hosted.

Here we are drafting for our 2008 season, when some prominent baseball players don't have jobs with spring training right around the corner. I decided to help them out and offer some of them football jobs to supplement their income.

I'm also going to skip the pics/links as you'll know who most of them are if you know anything about baseball.

Bryce Harper wants to play QB, but that's too bad because he will be a TE. He only agreed to sign if he was my 1st round pick.

Manny Machado likes to fight and stir stuff up on the diamond, so I'm hoping he's just as aggressive playing LB.

Craig Kimbrel is a closer in baseball but he will need to get open if he's going to make it as a WR.

Mike Moustakas (pronounced Moose Tacos haha) won't sign a baseball contract until Machado does so he followed him to MFN where he hopes to make the team as a DE.

Dallas Keuchel used to be a good starting pitcher but he had a down year last season, so he's giving football a try.

Bartolo Colon...the Round Mound of the Mound is a fitting name to use for an OL. I usually call him Fatolo Colon, I mean look at him...



Gio Gonzalez rounds out my baseball draft. Even if these guys eventually sign baseball contracts, they will still be able to play MFN if they make the Raiders since this is a virtual world and won't interfere with their main job.

This year's rookie Raiders will be named for famous stoners since yesterday was 4/20. I'm sure most everyone knows Snoop Dogg, Cheech and Chong, Dave Chappelle and Willie Nelson are big stoners. Seth Rogen starred and wrote Pineapple Express, which is a movie about marijuana if you didn't know while Doug Benson has his own podcast called "Getting Doug With High".

I'll try and remember write ups later, as I am short on time today but this draft's theme is summer. My draft pick names have all written a song with summer in the title. Dave Meniketti is the main guy in Y&T, whose video "Summertime Girls" was one of my MTV favs back in the day. Everyone knows Bryan Adams and that annoying "Summer of '69" song, along with Don Henley's "Boys of Summer".

Eddie Cochran wrote "Summertime Blues", John Sebastian was in Lovin' Spoonful and wrote "Summer in the City", and Glenn Danzig wrote "Dirty Black Summer".