{"id":11207,"date":"2011-10-05T03:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisblogrules.com\/?p=11207"},"modified":"2011-09-24T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T07:07:03","slug":"the-fantasy-football-draft-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisblogrules.com\/the-fantasy-football-draft-video\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fantasy Football Draft [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C2gfIVy_7h0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I used to be so into fantasy football that I had to give it up about six years ago. \u00a0I\u2019d spend all this time researching pass defenses, injuries, match-ups, etc. that it took away from my enjoyment of watching games.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, I wanted to shoot a comedy sketch that covered all 17 weeks of the season. \u00a0We wrote a 12-page script then attempted to shoot it in one day. \u00a0Some of the fantasy football sketches were 1\/8 of a page, some were longer \u2013 4\/8 of a page to a full page.<\/p>\n<p>While we were shooting a TV pilot together, Mike E. Winfield and I shot the fantasy football sketches in between the main shoot dates of the pilot. Last week, we released \u201cThe Fantasy Football Draft\u201d which officially kicks off our fantasy football series.<\/p>\n<p>Because it\u2019s geared for a specific audience, we thought the sketches might only appeal to people who are in fantasy football leagues. \u00a0But we wanted to try to appeal to a larger audience, so the writers and I created a rivalry between the lead, Mike, and the young boy, Lance. \u00a0The rivalry plays out over the entire season and there are some pretty funny stuff; quick scenes where some jokes don\u2019t pay off until future weeks. We\u2019ll see how it plays.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll probably stick most of the fantasy football sketches on our back-up channel \u2013 ZekeM2 \u2013 on YouTube, so our main channel doesn\u2019t become the fantasy football channel. Our main channel is ZekeMahogany and we do a wide variety of comedy (and soon-to-be VFX sketches). The idea for the draft episode was to introduce this group of guys and how intense they are about fantasy football. \u00a0And there\u2019s always the one guy who doesn\u2019t really know what he\u2019s doing, shows up with a magazine, picks whoever the mag says to pick, and wins the league.<\/p>\n<p>My friends and I gather for our fantasy drafts every year and it\u2019s the only time I get to see some of the guys. \u00a0In fact, my fantasy baseball league draft has been going on since the late 80\u2019s and two guys from Pennsylvania fly out to California to do the draft in person. We also have a major league player in our league (who will remain anonymous). He actually drafted himself in the league, which was met with about five minutes of laughter and a lot of smack-talk.<\/p>\n<p>The lead of the Fantasy Football sketches, Mike E. Winfield, recently shot two episodes of The Office as a recurring character and his first episode will air on Oct. 6th, so check him out as Mike E. breaks into the big time.<\/p>\n<p>And come on over to our YouTube Channel and subscribe to see the rest of the fantasy football series as well as our VFX and comedy sketches. \u00a0We\u2019re just getting started over there, so please join us as we\u2019re going to have a lot of fun as we just added a really great VFX artist to our team. \u00a0Thanks for the support and thanks to ThisBlogRules for always being so kind to us.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<br \/>\nZeke Mahogany Comedy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to be so into fantasy football that I had to give it up about six years ago. \u00a0I\u2019d spend all this time researching pass defenses, injuries, match-ups, etc. that it took away from my enjoyment of watching games. 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