Fantasy Drafts

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Famous People Who Died Young Draft

4:40 PM

We decided to draft famous people who died at the age of 38 or younger. The drafters varied greatly in their assessments of who should go where...other than that great big rock and roll party in the sky.

Yes, we know we're going to hell.



Round 1
Sydney - Jesus
Adam - Mozart
Chris - Alexander the Great
Sarah - Joan of Arc
Albert - Jimi Hendrix

Round 2
Albert - Vincent Van Gogh
Sarah - Anne Frank
Chris - John Belushi
Adam - Raphael
Sydney - Nero

Round 3
Sydney - Rimbaud
Adam - Lou Gehrig
Chris - Kurt Cobain
Sarah - John Keats
Albert - Bob Marley

Round 4
Albert - Marilyn Monroe
Sarah - Franz Schubert
Chris - Jim Morrison
Adam - Robert Johnson
Sydney - Billy the Kid

Round 5
Sydney - James Dean
Adam - Bruce Lee
Chris - Sylvia Plath
Sarah - Princess Diana
Albert - Alexander Pushkin

Round 6
Albert - Crazy Horse
Sarah - Charlie Parker
Chris - Janis Joplin
Adam - Robespierre
Sydney - Buddy Holly

Round 7
Sydney - "Lucy"
Adam - King Tut
Chris - Andy Kaufman
Sarah - Emily Bronte
Albert - Lord Byron

Round 8
Albert - Jeff Buckley
Sarah - Rosalind Franklin
Chris - Keith Moon (traded to Albert)
Adam - Otis Redding
Sydney - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Round 9
Sydney - Sid Vicious
Adam - George Gershwin
Chris - Mitch Hedberg
Sarah - Elliott Smith
Albert - Tupac Shakur (traded to Chris)

Round 10
Albert - Simone Weil
Sarah - Patsy Cline
Chris - John Kennedy Toole
Adam - Jesse James
Sydney - Evariste Galois

Commentary coming sometime in the next 38 years...

11 Comments:

Blogger Hired Hand said...

Yes yes yes. To nip any whining in the bud, the following excellent choices went unpicked:

Shelley, Bobby Darin, Mendelssohn, Jean Harlow, Hank Williams, Prefontaine, Eva Peron, Marie Antoinette, Notorious B.I.G., Len Bias, The Big Bopper, Ritchie Valens, Catullus, Michael Collins, Sam Cooke, Brian Epstein, Lady Jane Grey, Bonnie AND Clyde, John Bonham, Nick Drake, Eva Braun, Wilfred Owen.

5:22 PM  
Blogger Hired Hand said...

And, of course, JonBenet Ramsey.

5:22 PM  
Blogger Chris said...

And Jim Croce.

5:26 PM  
Blogger Red Baroness said...

maybe if you had been present at the draft, it would have gone earlier. *ahem*

9:21 PM  
Blogger Hired Hand said...

OH, YEAH, RIGHT. I *forgot* you had to be present at the draft to pick. Oh wait. . .YOU WERE ABSENT TOO.

(although your draft board was quite comely.)

11:19 PM  
Blogger Hired Hand said...

Here's the Baroness's comely draft board

11:27 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Man comes wriggling, howling with pain and terror into the chilly, indifferent world, and all too soon he goes trembling-like-a-leaf and howling, bawling, out. No trace of him remains, and no heaven snatches the electrical impulses of his brain -- what you all have left is fantasy drafts?

11:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

look at the outcry. man you guys never cease to let people down. how hard is it to write something you think is witty and put it up? what does it take 30 minutes...you all are dumb and worthless. but please no grandmother sex

5:19 PM  
Blogger Selfish Country Music Loving Lady said...

Um, OK. Not to act all mom-like or anything, but can we keep the comments reasonably civil, please?

7:13 PM  
Blogger Selfish Country Music Loving Lady said...

That's an interesting concept of "censorship" you've got there.

1:13 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

great turnover chicken fucks, real good work. done with this.

4:35 PM  

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