by drcool on August 25, 2010
If you are a sports fan you probably already love fantasy sports, particularly fantasy football. If you are looking to buy a gift for a sports fan you have probably heard them talking about fantasy football. The bottom line is this: Fantasy football takes a great sport and makes it better! Everyone loves tracking their players, seeing who wins that week, rooting for a RB to squeeze out a few more yards to get you another point, wish the QB would have thrown to your receiver, and so on.
But there is one problem with fantasy football especially for the short attention span, ADD, instant gratification culture we live in: You have to wait a whole season for a winner! But not any more thanks to FanDuel. Fanduel takes the awesomeness of fantasy football and makes it even better.
Here is how it works: Instead of drafting a team for the whole season you only pick players for the current weeks games. You then match up against your friends or against a stranger and you play head to head. The winner gets the money. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention you can win money playing FanDuel fantasy football. The games range from $5 per week to $100 per week so you can just deposit a few bucks and try it out or play high stakes. Some people make thousands of dollars a month on Fanduel!
And for the upcoming NFL season FanDuel is introducing their Fantasy Football Championship with more than $50,000 in cash prizes. For just $10 you can enter every week. You can enter as many times as you want and as many weeks as you want and the contest will go for 10 weeks. The winner of each week gets a free trip to Las Vegas and a chance to compete for a $25,000 first prize! Also there are prizes for the top 10 each week so even if you don’t make it to Vegas you can still finish in the top ten each week and make some good money.
The scoring is pretty standard fantasy football scoring and you get to pick 1 QB, 2 RBs, 3 WRs, 1 TE, 1 DEF, and 1 K. You can pick whoever you want as long as you remain under the salary cap. If you finish first for that week you go to Vegas and compete in the finals. It is that simple. And you can enter as many times per week as you want so you could enter 20 different teams if you want.
You may think this sounds too good to be true but it isn’t. I know the people who own FanDuel and can tell you they are awesome people and are running a great contest here. I don’t know how many entries there will be per week but I can tell you FanDuel is still a fairly young program so it isn’t like you will be competing against 100,000 other people each week. Register for FanDuel now and get ready for the upcoming NFL season.
by drcool on December 10, 2009
Who are we kidding? If you are looking for a gift for a sports fan there is a really good chance they are also a beer drinker. Some beer drinkers are happy just popping open one of the mass market beers and there is nothing wrong with that but every now and then it is good to switch it up a bit and expand the beer palate. And what beer drinker hasn’t wished that instead of spending $1 or more (sometimes a LOT more) they could just make their beer at home?
This Christmas give that sports fan/beer lover a treat with his own home brew kit from Makebeer.net. You can get a whole microbrew kit for just $99.99 that will make up to 6 gallons of beer at a time. The whole fermenting process will take about 20 days or so but the actual process is fairly quick and painless. Basically you just add the ingredients in the proper order and maintain the proper temperature and you will have beer in a couple weeks!
The Coopers Microbrewery Kit comes with everything you need to get started: A 30 liter fermenter that will make 6 gallons of beer, a hydrometer (to measure the alcohol content), a bottling tube, a airlock, a thermometer, 30 bottles, instructions, and 1 Cooper’s Lager beer kit which includes everything you need to make your first batch of beer.
But it doesn’t have to stop there. After you make and consume your first batch there are over 20 different styles of beer you can make. A full kit that contains everything you need will run from $26.99 to $36.99 depending on the style. Dark Ale, English Bitter, Australian Pale Ale, Mexican Cerveza, IPA, Pilsner, Irish Stout, Wheat Beer, and European Lager are just a few of the flavors and styles available. When all is said and done it will cost you around 60 cents a glass.
So order up a Microbrew Kit and some beer kits today. You can see the top selling products below or just click here to start shopping and order today. Don’t wait because Christmas is approaching quickly!
