Footballguys Staff Bio: Kevin Ashcraft
Age: 29
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri
Education: B.S. in Organizational Communication from the University of Central Missouri
Occupation: Self-employed
Hometown: Raytown, MO
Family: No and nope.
Years playing fantasy football: 8
Favorite FF smack talk: None needed - my team does my talking for me
Years writing about fantasy football: 2008 is my fourth year as a News Blogger for Footballguys
Favorite FBG feature: The news Blogger (a bit biased there) and the Draft Dominator - it is used for every draft I do
Organized football experience: Played 3rd grade through high school - even got a few looks from NAIA schools.
Favorite NFL team: Kansas City Chiefs
Favorite college team: Central Missouri Mules in D2 and Kansas Jayhawks in D1
Favorite fan moment: It is a tie between watching KU win the 2008 NCAA Basketball title and barely being able to remember the Royals winning the 1985 World Series
Favorite player of all time: Always have been a Peyton Manning fan
NFL rule(s) I would change if I could: Each team gets a chance on offense in OT - and lessen all the penalties on aggressive hits - IT IS FOOTBALL!
Favorite movie(s): Office Space, Freedom Writers, Hoosiers, Field Of Dreams, Major League, Million Dollar Baby, Bruce Almighty, The Green Mile, Old School, Caddyshack
Favorite musical genres/albums/artists: Mostly Christian/Gospel; Bands include Caedmon's Call, The Fray, Casting Crowns, Kutless & Nickel Creek
What I read: The Bible; try to read a newspaper every morning... for books, mostly non-fiction biographies of athletes, coaches, etc
Hobbies: Obviously playing fantasy football, as well as baseball; collecting DVDs of classic sports games from years gone by; website design
Favorite TV show(s): The Office, Law & Order SVU, Friday Night Lights, Brothers & Sisters, The Amazing Race & anything regarding sports
Least favorite household chore: Emptying the trash and unloading the dishwasher
Dream job: General Manager of a NFL or MLB franchise
Quote: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." -26th U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt
Name Five People You Would Invite To Dinner: Peyton Manning, Tiger Woods, Sarah Palin, George Brett & Hilary Swank
Parting thoughts: I Corinthians 13:11-12 - "When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely."
