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It is August and that means the Football Season 2019 Is Starting

Can you believe that the Football Season for 2019 has already started with the first pre-season game between the Denver Broncos playing the Atlanta Falcons tonight August 1st.

It might not even feel like football season yet, especially with the outside temperatures close to or over 100, but nevertheless it’s here.

The month of August is the time to decide whether or not to sign up for Fantasy football.

August 08 is the first pre-season game for the Los Angeles Charges and they will be playing the Arizona Cardinals. www.chargers.com

August 10 the Los Angeles Rams will be playing the Oakland Raiders www.therams.com

The official start of the 2019 football schedule won’t be until September 5, which will be a Thursday night game with the Green Bay Packers playing the Bears.

For the complete NFL 2019 schedule check out – www.nfl.com/schedules/2019

But for the month of August, its preseason which allows us football fans, especially those of us that also play Fantasy Football, to get to know the players, who is injured, who is not.

We get to check out the new players and to see who got traded where. August gets us ready for our draft, when we get to pick who we want as our Fantasy Football team.

ESPN has a site that will rank the teams and the individual players to help you will your selections.

It also has several links to help you get your league up and running, especially if you are new to Fantasy Football. www.espn.com/fantasy/football

This is the Yahoo’s site for signing up to play Fantasy Football, in case you do not want to use the ESPN’s site.

football.fantasysports.yahoo.com

For all ‘non’ fantasy football players, August is also important, it is a really good time to start stocking up on various food items, such as chicken wings, chips, dips and an assortment of drinks.

It’s always better to be prepared in case someone stopped by to watch a game or two with you.

It is going to be very interesting to see how well the LA Rams and the LA Chargers play this year.

Last year they both did well, The LA Charges made it past the Baltimore Ravens in the Wild-Card game, but then lost to the New England Patriots the following weekend in the Divisional Payoffs.

The LA Rams beat the Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the Divisional Playoffs, and then went on the beat the New Orleans Saints in NFC Championship Game.

The Rams did make it all the way to the Super Bowl, unfortunately, they lost to the New England Patriots.

Many sorts fans that watch the game had some serious doubts about the penalties called against the Ram and certain penalties that should have been called against New England.

It definitely made it a game that was talked about for several weeks after the season was over,

If only the Los Angeles Charges had beat the New England Patriots in the Wild Card Game then go on to beat the Kansas City Chiefs, both the LA Rams and the LA Charges would have played each other in the Super Bowl.

Now that would have been a Super Bowl!

Good Luck to both of our Los Angeles team, the Charges and the Rams, and let the games begin!

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