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Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
10/05/2017 6:37 am
Day 4 of the draft and these players may or may not make the team.

Pick 5.13 Ted Beneke WR - I never liked this character in Breaking Bad but here he is on my team. His character backstory is in the link.

http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Ted_Beneke



Gotta love his dedication, going to Huell Babineaux's house to run routes. (in the show this is Beneke's house, but as you can see it's a very nice house so in our MFN world, the 1st round pick would have a house this nice while the 5th round WR would maybe have a condo...work with me here lol)
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Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
10/05/2017 6:48 am
Pick 6.12 Brandon "Badger" Mayhew RDE - Badger is the numbnuts friend of Jesse Pinkman and Skinny Pete. He got busted for selling meth again and spent 2 years in prison, where he bulked up enough to go from a WR/DB type to a 287 lb DE. He is a bit of a loose cannon but Raiders brass thinks he could develop into a decent pass rusher.

http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Brandon_%22Badger%22_Mayhew

Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
10/05/2017 6:58 am
Pick 7.11 Gale Boetticher RG - The nerdy scientist who was set to be Heisenberg (albeit a much less bad *** version) before Walter White gets a second life as an MFN OL. Gale met an unfortunate demise in the show but left behind one **** of a karaoke video.

http://breakingbad.wikia.com/wiki/Gale_Boetticher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v0VR6Kf7KQ



Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
2/26/2018 2:52 am
I'm 2 drafts behind on this.

The 2002 draft featured more former Raiders, using names I am unable to use with the default name machine.

Pick 1.30 RT Langston Walker I was hoping for him to boom but he's lost 6 ratings points. He will start at either RG or RT with Huell Babineaux starting at the other spot on the right side.

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



Pick 2.30 SLB Phil Villapiano He had a solid rookie season and enters 2003 as the starting SLB. His future rating is unchanged.

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



Pick 3.30 WR Fred Biletnikoff Biletnikoff didn't play much as a rookie but his ratings rose 7 points. Has a chance to start this season, he'll be #3 at least.

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



Pick 4.30 FS Neal Colzie Colzie didn't play much as a rookie and his status was up in the air heading into training camp 2003. I was hoping Yev Kassem might take his spot but that's currently a murky situation.

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



Pick 5.30 RDE Akbar Gbaja-Biamila Taken as a flier in the hopes he'd boom, he is now working as a bouncer at a local Oakland night club.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar_Gbaja-Biamila



Pick 6.30 SLB Jack Squirek Another "lottery" pick, another bust. Squirek is now delivering pizza for a living, not that there's anything wrong with that.

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



Pick 7.30 WLB Ray-Ray Armstrong Armstrong is still on the roster for now but he's near the bottom of the LB depth chart. Needs a strong preseason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-Ray_Armstrong

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Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
2/26/2018 3:30 am
The 2003 draft features some characters from Seinfeld I was unable to use for this team https://mfn85.myfootballnow.com/team/21.

Pick 1.29 RDE Crazy Joe Davola After a solid training camp, Davola looks to be starting Week 1 in Indianapolis. I'm hoping he drives coaches crazy with his play while NOT kicking anybody in the head like he did to Cosmo Kramer.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/%22Crazy%22_Joe_Davola



Pick 2.3 C J Peterman He lost 5 ratings points during camp but he'll battle for a starting spot regardless. I have no idea if he has any football cleats in his catalog.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Jacopo_Peterman



Pick 3.29 SS Yev Kassem Better known as The Soup Nazi, Kassem busted at camp and needs a strong showing in the preseason to stick around.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Yev_Kassem



Pick 4.30 CB Izzy Mandelbaum More like Mandelbust, Izzy had an awful camp and will be coming to a waiver wire near you very soon.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Izzy_Mandelbaum



Pick 5.29 SLB Jake Jarmel Jarmel was a DB in college but he is making the switch to LB in the pros. He had an improvement of 4 ratings points during camp but it may not be enough to crack the final 53. I'll be sure to get some Jujy Fruits before I cut him, if it comes to that.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Jake_Jarmel



Pick 6.30 TE Earl Haffler He had the best camp of all my rookies, improving 11 points in future rating. He is still slow even for a TE but he will likely stick as my FB2/TE3. I'll take that in the 6th round every draft.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Earl_Haffler



Pick 7.29 SLB Jack Klompus A DT out of college, I tried him at LB since that would be his easiest path to making the final 53, but a bad camp has him going to the waiver wire with Izzy Mandelbaum. I think he was distracted because someone "stole" his pen, then he wrecked one of Jerry Seinfeld's cars. Now he can go to his early bird dinners since he has no film to watch.

http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Jack_Klompus

Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
5/06/2018 5:24 pm
It's time to showcase the 2004 rookie name changes.

Pick 1.31 WLB Cliff Spab I'm not much of a movie fan now but I love old 80's and 90's movies like S.F.W. Spab was the star of the movie, a slacker whose motto was so f'n what, hence the title S.F.W.

Upon receiving the call from Raiders staff, informing him of being drafted, Spab simply said "so f#$%^&g what, see you at training camp".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.F.W.



Pick 2.31 RT Bull Shannon I recently had a draft start the day Night Court star Harry Anderson passed away, and named all those draftees after characters on the show. I couldn't use Bull Shannon there, that league has the default name machine.

http://nightcourt.wikia.com/wiki/Bull_Shannon



Pick 3.6 SS Thomas Magnum Word has it Magnum bought a red Ferrari with his bonus money. For you youngsters, Magnum P.I. was a hit show in the 80's about a private detective in Hawaii.

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



Pick 3.31 WR Happy Gilmore Happy is a hockey player but he's playing football today. Gilmore spent his bonus money buying his grandma's house back from the IRS, only this time he has more money than Shooter McGavin.

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



Pick 4.31 RG Tommy Callahan Jr. Tommy Boy is going to try his hand at playing offensive line. He's certainly big enough.

http://hero.wikia.com/wiki/Tommy_Callahan



Pick 5.31 MLB Biff Tannen Tannen is back from the future to try to make the team as a linebacker. He already knows if he made the team but I haven't been able to get a look at that sports almanac with future results yet.

http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/Biff_Tannen




Picks 6.31 and 7.31 had their contracts voided


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Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By Gustoon
5/07/2018 1:34 am
Happy Gilmore is Jets fan.

Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
5/07/2018 1:51 am
Maybe that's why he sucked in training camp. He'll be a free agent soon if you want him.

Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By Wolfkill
5/13/2018 2:50 pm
Gustoon wrote:
Happy Gilmore is Jets fan.


He's not...he got free tickets.

Re: 2001 Raiders Name Theme

By raidergreg69
9/23/2018 9:24 pm
Wow, been a busy summer. I'm 2 drafts behind on this. Our current draft names are obviously Halloween themed movie characters, though Sammi Curr and Eddie Weinbauer might not be so obvious.



This movie came out when I was 17 and despite it's cheesiness, I like it. I mean it has Ozzy as a TV preacher, Gene Simmons, and Skippy from Family Ties and a soundtrack by metal group Fastway...what's not to like.

Sammi Curr is the dead musician/villain while Skippy is Eddie Weinbauer, the metal nerd who starts all the chaos.
Last edited at 9/23/2018 9:26 pm