Draft night is Friday, August 27th, 2010 @ 7pm.  Please be prompt or early. All are welcome to join me at Brutal Deluxe Headquarters, aka my house, where the beer will be flowing freely.  By freely I mean free, as in no charge.  I will provide beer and some snacks, you are welcome to bring something if you would like.

1 QB, 2 RB's, 2 WR's, 1 TE, 1 K & 1DST

Just over five years ago I rolled out my home grown blogging engine here on Brutal Deluxe with a WYSIWYG editor to make posting of news stories and podcasts easy for everyone.  That worked reasonably well over the years, but the BrutalDeluxe.us website went through a few redesigns since then and the CSS had become broken.  I was in the middle of another redesign, in which I scrapped, and decided to not only redesign the website but to fix the WYSIWYG editor that I implemented within my home grown blogging engine.  While I am not completely finished with some of the design, including a new logo, and I have some more upgrading to do to the PHP powering the website, I thought I would let everyone know about the updates that are becoming quite visible.

The CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, that tell your web browser how to layout everything you see here, including the text had become very ugly over the past couple years.  I was not happy with the appearance of the blog posts announcing the latest podcasts and Alex had run into some odd behavior over the last year.  So I set about cleaning up the design so that the posts looked more professional and the site looked cleaner.  The last redesign of Brutal Deluxe was minimalist, mainly because the prior design was no longer working for us.  I wanted a website that looked less minimalist and more current.  I think this new design pulls that off and hope that the owners, listeners and readers feel the same way.  

The big change that only the owners will notice, as they are the only ones that get to use this feature, is the update of the WYSIWYG editor.  I had integrated the FCKeditor back in 2005 into my Buff blogging engine and I have been using  it with some updates since then.  In 2009 a group of folks created the CKeditor, based off the FCKeditor and they made it OpenSource, which technically I do not think the FCKeditor was.  The CKeditor is more modern and updated more regularly for the current browsers.  I purposefully reduced the number of features available to those doing posts so that only the features that were actually used are visible.  Also the spell checker within the CKeditor works!  

The other area that I have been tweaking is the list of BDFL champions, which you can navigate to from the navigation menu along the top.  The previous listing just had the logo from the team and the team owner.  I thought it would be more interesting to include the outcome of the game, including the MVP of the championship game.  I intend to spruce up the page a little more by possibly including logos for each of the Brutal Bowls.  This season we will be playing Brutal Bowl IX, which means next season will be our tenth!  I will have to see if I can come up with something special for our tenth season, suggestions are welcome and we have an entire year to think of something.  Look around the website and see if you notice anything not working properly.  

Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 7 Show 1: 2010 Preseason 1. Scott Buffington and Alex Harden review the 2010 NFL Draft, make our early picks for rookies that we think will have a fantasy impact, talk about league news, and welcome our first sponsor!

Alex's Audible Pick: The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by the late Bill Walsh with Steve Jamison, with additional insights and perspective provided by his son Craig Walsh. Sign up for a FREE audiobook by visiting audiblepodcast.com/brutaldeluxe.

Stay subscribed - our next preseason podcast will come in late May!

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Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 6 Show 23: 2009 Week 21. Scott and I review Super Bowl XLIV, talk about league news, and close out this season's podcasts.

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Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 6 Show 22: 2009 Week 20. Scott and I talk about the Conference Championship games, mention a few things about the Pro Bowl, and give our Super Bowl predictions.

We'll talk to you in two weeks!

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Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 6 Show 21: 2009 Week 19. Scott and I talk about the Divisional playoff games, give our take on the Conference Championship matchups, and take a look at NFL news.

Come out for the BDFL end-of-season party at 3pm this Sunday at Gilligans on Eisenhower Blvd!

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Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 6 Show 20: 2009 Week 18. Scott and I talk about the Wild-Card playoff games, give our take on the Divisional Playoff matchups, and take a look at NFL news.

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Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 6 Show 19: 2009 Week 17. Scott and I review Brutal Bowl 8, talk about Week 17 of the BDFL & NFL seasons, the upcoming NFL Wild Card playoff matchups, and take a look at league news.

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Brutal Deluxe Football Podcast Season 6 Show 18: 2009 Week 15. Alex and I talk about Week 15 of the BDFL and NFL seasons, review the BDFL conference championships, preview Brutal Bowl VIII, make our picks in the NFL Week 16 matchups, and take a look at the NFL playoff picture and league news.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  We will be back in 2 weeks.

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According to Rotoworld:

Police in Charlotte have confirmed that Chris Henry died Thursday morning.

Henry was on life support since reportedly falling out of the back of a pickup truck following a domestic dispute with his fiancee on Wednesday afternoon. Henry, 26, had a string of arrests but had recently turned his life around after getting a second chance from the Bengals. Coach Marvin Lewis is scheduled to address the media at 11 a.m. ET. Our condolences go out to Henry's family and the Bengals.