Name: Sigmund Bloom
Nickname: Bloom
Job title(s): Co-host, “The Audible,” Footballguys.com Staff Writer
Full-time in fantasy? Yes
Age: 34
Education: BA, Syracuse U. ‘97 (Philosophy/Policy Studies), JD U. of Texas ‘00
Family status: Married to Kim Bloom; son, Miles Bloom, born 1/12/10
Favorite fantasy sport to play: Football
Favorite sport to watch: Football
Favorite team (any sport): Pittsburgh Steelers
All-time favorite athlete: Muhammed Ali
Years playing fantasy: 11

I got my start in the fantasy industry when … Joe Bryant and David Dodds asked me to be a staff writer for Footballguys.com in 2006.

Since then, my fantasy résumé includes: Co-host, “The Five Minute Drill” WebTV show, ONNetworks, 2007-08; Co-Host, “The Audible”; Fantasy Football Expert, Co-Host, “Gametime Decision” 104.3 the Fan, Denver, Colo.

Three questions

1. You’ve reached a fairly prominent spot for both fantasy and NFL draft stuff. Do you get a bigger kick out of scouting and analyzing the draft or analyzing fantasy and fielding all the start/sit questions?

Draft — The NFL draft is the ultimate cliffhanger, seeing how all the pieces fall in place, then the career of each of a cliffhanger in an of itself, seeing whether the teams look wise or foolish when the dust settles. I also love scouting at the all-star game practices and following all of the rumors and subterfuge leading up to draft day.

2. How do you balance stats versus what you see in the games when doing your fantasy work?

Stat analysis is overrated. The sample size in a football season is too small to extrapolate meaningful outcomes, and stat analysis is backward-looking, not forward-looking. Always trust your eyes.

3. For anyone with entrepreneurial visions, what have you and scouting partner Cecil Lammey done behind the scenes to get to where you can make a living covering football?

Treat everyone with respect, give all glory to the game and those who play it, take risks and believe in yourself!

Bonus: How do your parents and college professors feel about you eschewing your law degree to slum it with us sports folks?

I think my law school professors knew that I wasn’t going to practice law. I went to law school to see if I wanted to practice law. The answer was no, and I don’t recommend that strategy to anyone. My mother has always supported me as long as I pursued happiness, so, of course, she’s happy because I’m happy.

As we reported nearly three weeks ago, Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom of Footballguys.com will be hosting a 12-hour megashow on BlogTalkRadio’s The Fantasy Sports Channel on Saturday (Aug. 29) to raise money and awareness for cystic fibrosis research.

The Audible’s Drive for Cystic Fibrosis will kick off at noon Eastern on the FSC and run all the way to midnight (for the non-math majors in our audience), with Footballguys.com’s Matt Waldman and Andrew Garda of ThunderingBlurb.com stepping in for 30-minute breaks at 3 p.m., 6:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.

The hosts will be talking football and fantasy football all day with a slew of guests (including me at 4 p.m.). Bloom says the “tentative” schedule of topics looks like this …

12:00-1:30 — Quarterbacks
1:30-4:30 — Running Backs
4:30-7:30 — Wide Receivers
7:30-9:00 — Tight Ends/Kickers/Defenses
9:00-12:00 — Free for all

A donation site has been set up in conjunction with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

A roundup of recent posts on the FSB News page.

– The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation has set up a donation site for The Audible’s Drive for Cystic Fibrosis — the 12-hour Fantasy Sports Channel event that will be hosted by Footballguys.com’s Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom on Saturday, Aug. 29.

– The National Football Post will apparently give a big-screen plasma TV (of yet-undetermined size) to the winner of its league of fantasy football “experts.”

– The cable network best known as the relative Siberia to which the NHL playoffs were once banished will debut a sports business show, The $ports Take, on Aug. 25 at 6:30 p.m.

– Shane Schroeder, last year’s winner of the inaugural million-dollar prize from the Fantasy Football Open Championship, (who is hanging on to his day job for some reason) dishes to The Associated Press on what he expects in the coming football season.

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If you were to start with ESPN’s NFL Countdown on Sunday and watch to the end of the final game, you’d probably hit about 12 hours of football in a day. Now imagine talking fantasy throughout that span.

The Audible’s Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom will hit the air on BlogTalkRadio’s The Fantasy Sports Channel on Aug. 29 for just that length of time to raise money and awareness for cystic fibrosis.

The Footballguys.com duo will hit the air at noon Eastern that Saturday and go straight through until midnight with just 30-minute breaks every three hours. (For each of those intermissions, Andrew Garda of The Thundering Blurb will step in.)

The event is designed to draw attention to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and listeners will be able to make donations throughout the broadcast.

“We hope to raise awareness for CF, and we hope to raise quite a bit of money for this great charity,” Lammey told FSB.com. “There isn’t a better time of year than now to bring the fantasy football community together to support something as serious as Cystic Fibrosis.”

The Audible is among the most popular shows on The Fantasy Sports Channel and ranks among the top 90 audio podcasts on iTunes. In addition to fantasy talk from Lammey and Bloom, Lammey says the broadcast will include guest appearances by former Broncos guard and current ESPN analyst Mark Schlereth, ESPN.com NFL reporter Adam Schefter, Yahoo! Sports’ Jason Cole and Scout.com’s Adam Caplan, as well as other Footballguys.com staffers and some others.

The FSC put on a similar event to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation back on March 7, with Paul Greco and Lenny Melnick of FantasyPros911.com leading a 24-hour baseball-themed show.

FSB.com will pass along more info on the event, including the URL for donations, as it becomes available.