****Official World's Greatest Draft****

[Voltaire 5,491]

14.12 RB (all time) - Emmitt Smith

 

Smith currently holds the NFL record in career rushing yards with 18,355, breaking the previous record held by Walter Payton, on October 27, during the 2002 NFL season. He leads all running backs with 164 career rushing touchdowns, and his 175 total touchdowns ranks him second only to Jerry Rice's 207 touchdowns. The sum of his rushing yards, receiving yards (3,224) and fumble return yards (-15), gave him a total of 21,564 yards from the line of scrimmage, making him one of only four players in NFL history to eclipse the 21,000-combined yards mark.

 

Smith also accumulated a number of NFL postseason records, including rushing touchdowns (19), consecutive games with a rushing touchdown (9) and 100-yard rushing games (7). His 1,586 yards rushing is also top on the NFL postseason chart, and he shares the total playoff touchdown mark of 21 with Thurman Thomas. Smith is one of only five NFL players who have amassed over 10,000 career-rushing yards and 400 career receptions. Emmitt Smith and Jerry Rice are the only two non-kickers to score 1000 points in a career.

 

I thought about Emmitt this last time when I took Johnny U. I worried people would be biased becuase he held on too long past his prime and the last five or six years he was of mediocre fantasy value. But early in his career the dude was a perenial stud and he had eight Pro Bowl selection.

[cbfalcon 827]

15.4 Matt Suhey - RB

 

You guys are really bad at this. You gotta have a lead blocker for your tailback. You really think Emmit Smith can pancake a LB for Jim Brown to bust through the hole? Yall's teams are ridiculous.

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15.5 Margaret Thatcher - Administrative Leader (Head of State)

 

She was the catalyst who set in motion a series of interconnected events that gave a revolutionary twist to the century's last two decades and helped mankind end the millennium on a note of hope and confidence. The triumph of capitalism, the almost universal acceptance of the market as indispensable to prosperity, the collapse of Soviet imperialism, the downsizing of the state on nearly every continent and in almost every country in the world — Margaret Thatcher played a part in all those transformations, and it is not easy to see how any would have occurred without her.

 

Thatcher entered 10 Downing Street with a mandate to reverse the UK's economic decline. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised reduced state intervention, free markets, and entrepreneurialism. She gained much support after the 1982 Falklands War and was re-elected the following year. Thatcher took a hard line against trade unions, survived an assassination attempt, and opposed the Soviet Union (her tough-talking rhetoric gained her the nickname the "Iron Lady"); she was re-elected for an unprecedented third term in 1987.

 

Thatcher took office during the later period of what was known as the Cold War, a period of frosty relations primarily between the Western powers and the communist Soviet Union and its satellites. During her first year as prime minister, Mrs Thatcher supported NATO's decision to deploy US cruise and Pershing missiles in Western Europe. She became very closely aligned with the policies of US President Ronald Reagan (1981–1989), and their closeness produced transatlantic cooperation.

 

Thatcher was among the first of Western leaders to respond warmly to reformist Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They met in London in 1984, three months before he became General Secretary. Thatcher declared that she liked him, and told Ronald Reagan, saying, "we can do business together."

 

By the mid-1980s, privatization was a new term in world government, and by the end of the decade more than 50 countries, on almost every continent, had set in motion privatization programs, floating loss-making public companies on the stock markets and in most cases transforming them into successful private-enterprise firms. Even left-oriented countries, which scorned the notion of privatization, began to reduce their public sector on the sly. Governments sent administrative and legal teams to Britain to study how it was done.

 

But Thatcher became a world figure for more than just her politics. She combined a flamboyant willpower with evident femininity. It attracted universal attention, especially after she led Britain to a spectacular military victory over Argentina in 1982. She understood that politicians had to give military people clear orders about ends, then leave them to get on with the means

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Wrong page bump

[Voltaire 5,491]

Looks like BLS gets skipped and Sux is up. Heck if it's been 24 hours I'm up.

[Voltaire 5,491]

15.8 Marshall Faulk - RB

[BLS 314]

BLS chooses: GFIAFP=Biggest FFT loser

[TAS 2]

BLS chooses: GFIAFP=Biggest FFT loser

This could have sealed the deal for you regardless of who else is on your team.

[Voltaire 5,491]

BLS chooses: GFIAFP=Biggest FFT loser

 

I wondered when he would get taken.

[SUXBNME 1,596]

Biggest FFT idiot: Gutterslut / Kosmiq / Siouxsie / Toad Sprocket / Elevator Killer / etc.. (same person)

[Lackman 0]

Let's not get a category screwed up. It's "FFT Biggest Idiot". Not necessarily Loser.

 

You could make a case that there is a difference.

[SUXBNME 1,596]

Let's not get a category screwed up. It's "FFT Biggest Idiot". Not necessarily Loser.

 

You could make a case that there is a difference.

noted and fixored

[Voltaire 5,491]

Biggest FFT idiot: Gutterslut / Kosmiq / Siouxsie / Toad Sprocket / Elevator Killer / etc.. (same person)

 

I'll enter it as Gutterslut (for now) but I'd like to give you full credit if somebody can confirm (and we reach unanimous concent) that these five are all the same person as you say.

[patweisers44 865]

15.10 Famous African-American George Washington Carver.

 

This may be a reach, similar to drafting a kicker before the last round in FF, however he is the last in his tier, then there is dramatic dropoff to the next tier that includes Todd Bridges, Colin Powell, and the guy that played "Sticks" on Happy Days

[Voltaire 5,491]

15.10 Famous African-American George Washington Carver.

 

This may be a reach, similar to drafting a kicker before the last round in FF, however he is the last in his tier, then there is dramatic dropoff to the next tier that includes XXX XXX and XXX

 

Pats, please don't name drop.

[patweisers44 865]

Pats, please don't name drop.

oops....sorry...as they say on the streets "Thats my bad"

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I'm gonna go ahead and make my picks, as I won't be checking this sh!t over the weekend.

 

15.12 - Recliner Pilot, FFToday Biggest Idiot

 

16.1 - Steve Young, QB

[SUXBNME 1,596]

I'll enter it as Gutterslut (for now) but I'd like to give you full credit if somebody can confirm (and we reach unanimous concent) that these five are all the same person as you say.

QUOTE(kozmiq @ May 6 2009, 08:58 AM)

Now that's just silly and immature.

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Lets see...Who else here says that all the time...hmmmm

Oh yea..Gutterslut

 

Elevator Killer = Gutterslut / Kosmiq / Siouxsie / Toad Sprocket / etc...

 

Mystery solved

[Saint Elistan 106]

Sh!t...gonna be a run of FFT Idiots....

 

I'd go with RP, but someone has to snag his counterpart...

 

I'll go with Wiffleball - Biggest FFT Idiot.

 

I'm not sure which of the two would get more votes in a poll...probably RP, but whateva. I'll take my chances.

[SUXBNME 1,596]

16.1 - Steve Young, QB

 

Best QB to ever play the game.

Most feared by opposing defenses

Most versitile

Most athletic

 

Too bad his career was cut short.

 

(for the record, I hate the 49ers)

[TAS 2]

Best QB to ever play the game.

Most feared by opposing defenses

Most versitile

Most athletic

 

Too bad his career was cut short.

 

(for the record, I hate the 49ers)

[kutulu 1,707]

Don Hutson WR (all time)

[gocolts 300]

Sh!t...gonna be a run of FFT Idiots....

 

I'd go with RP, but someone has to snag his counterpart...

 

I'll go with Wiffleball - Biggest FFT Idiot.

 

I'm not sure which of the two would get more votes in a poll...probably RP, but whateva. I'll take my chances.

I doubt that. Wiffleball is easily the best choice for this category. The guy is a focking joke.

[Voltaire 5,491]

Jim Brown-RB

He was the first RB to go way, way, way, a long time ago. Lackman took him.

[kutulu 1,707]

He was the first RB to go way, way, way, a long time ago. Lackman took him.

 

 

I looked, but didn't see him...

 

 

Gale Sayers?

[Voltaire 5,491]

16.5 Tipper Gore - Joe Bryant's Secret Love Child

[Saint Elistan 106]

I'll take Barney Fwank - Corrupt Democwat

[patweisers44 865]

16.3 Corrupt Democrat John "Sh1tstain" Murtha

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Wrong page bump

[SUXBNME 1,596]

Religious Leader - Ayatollah Khomeini

[BLS 314]

marie antionette - famous woman

[naomi 360]

16.8 Francis Crick - Scientist/Inventor

[SUXBNME 1,596]

16.8 Francis Crick - Scientist/Inventor

Meh...Maurice Wilkins was the real brainchild behind the discovery of DNA molecule structure

[naomi 360]

Meh...Maurice Wilkins was the real brainchild behind the discovery of DNA molecule structure

Well Crick worked with more than that, but I'm not that enthused about considering this category since Issac Newton was taken. Hard to beat him in discoveries and inventions.

 

edited to delete hint towards potential pick

[Voltaire 5,491]

Meh... XXXXX was the real brainchild behind the discovery of DNA molecule structure

 

Please no name dropping..

[FeelingMN 273]

Since cbfalcon is awol, I'll pick.

 

16.10 Charlemagne - Military Genius

 

Charlemagne (Latin: Carolus Magnus or Karolus Magnus, meaning Charles the Great) (2 April 742 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768 to his death. He expanded the Frankish kingdoms into a Frankish Empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800 as a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople. His rule is also associated with the Carolingian Renaissance, a revival of art, religion, and culture through the medium of the Catholic Church. Through his foreign conquests and internal reforms, Charlemagne helped define both Western Europe and the Middle Ages. He is numbered as Charles I in the regnal lists of France, Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire.

 

The son of King Pippin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, he succeeded his father and co-ruled with his brother Carloman I. The latter got on badly with Charlemagne, but war was prevented by the sudden death of Carloman in 771. Charlemagne continued the policy of his father towards the papacy and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in Italy, and waging war on the Saracens, who menaced his realm from Spain. It was during one of these campaigns that Charlemagne experienced the worst defeat of his life, at the Battle of Roncesvalles (778) memorialised in the Song of Roland. He also campaigned against the peoples to his east, especially the Saxons, and after a protracted war subjected them to his rule. By forcibly converting them to Christianity, he integrated them into his realm and thus paved the way for the later Ottonian dynasty.

 

Today he is regarded not only as the founding father of both French and German monarchies, but also as the father of Europe: his empire united most of Western Europe for the first time since the Romans, and the Carolingian renaissance encouraged the formation of a common European identity.

[TAS 2]

Q. Laz-FFT idiot/welcher/dooshbag

 

He never has done anything to me, but the blatant welching on paying up is a no-no!

[patweisers44 865]

Well Crick worked with more than that, but I'm not that enthused about considering this category since Issac Newton was taken. Hard to beat him in discoveries and inventions.

 

edited to delete hint towards potential pick

now i know it was a good pick.

[Lackman 0]

16.12 Claude Monet - Artist

 

Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926)was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.

 

In 2004, London, the Parliament, Effects of Sun in the Fog (Londres, le Parlement, trouée de soleil dans le brouillard) (1904), sold for U.S. $20.1 million. In 2006, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper providing evidence that these were painted in situ at St Thomas' Hospital over the river Thames.

 

Falaises près de Dieppe has been stolen on two separate occasions. Once in 1998 (in which the museum's curator was convicted of the theft and jailed for five years along with two accomplices) and most recently in August 2007. It has yet to be recovered.

 

Monet's Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil, an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought by an anonymous telephone bidder for a record $ 41.4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6 May 2008. The previous record for his painting stood at $ 36.5 million. Le bassin aux nymphéas (from the water lilies series) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008, lot 19, for £36,500,000 ($71,892,376.34) (hammer price) or £40,921,250 ($80,451,178) with fees, setting a new auction record for the artist.

 

Nympheas - Water Lilies sold for GBP £16,500,000 (US $32,670,000). This was one of the highest prices paid for Monet's work.

[Lackman 0]

17.1 Osama Bin Laden - Insurgent

 

Osama bin Laden is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the September 11 attacks on the United States and is also the most wanted person in the world. Al-Qaeda has also been associated with numerous other mass casualties attacks against civilian targets. Since 2001, Osama bin Laden and his organization have been major targets of the United States' "War on Terrorism."