Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '07 Kicks Off with a Touchdown Dance Competition Hosted by Cincinnati Bengal Chad Johnson "Chad Johnson's Touchdown Celebration Showdown" Invites Fans to Showcase their Best End Zone Moves SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug 01, 2007 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Sports kicks off the 2007 fantasy football season with a user generated contest looking for the best touchdown celebration. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '07 cover athlete Chad Johnson, the all-pro wide receiver known for his scoring end zone celebrations, is encouraging fans to share their most exciting touchdown dance. Beginning today, fans are invited to enter by submitting a video of their own best touchdown dance moves, spikes or flips, to win an opportunity to meet the star receiver. Yahoo! continues to present exciting opportunities for fans to become online web-stars with successful user- generated promotions, such as My MTV Movie Awards, my Grammy Moment and Doritos Crash the Super Bowl. Fans can submit up to 30 seconds of their best moves at http://sports.yahoo.com/chadjohnsoncontest until August 20, 2007. A Yahoo! Sports committee will select the top five videos as finalists. Following the selection of the finalists, the public can vote online for their favorite video from August 22, 2007 until September 4, 2007. The winner of Chad Johnson's Touchdown Celebration Showdown will be announced on September 6, 2007. "When it comes to touchdown dances, you've already seen some of my best end zone celebrations. Now, it's your turn to show me what you got!" said Johnson. "Don't let all the celebrating make you forget to draft me for your Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '07 team this year." Coinciding with the Touchdown Celebration Showdown is the annual open registration for Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '07 at http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com. Registration runs through October 12, 2007. Fantasy football allows users to build a roster of professional football players, through drafts, trades and free-agent signings, and then watch as the team's success is measured by the on-field statistics of the players. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '07 is even better this year with: -- A co-manager feature that will let two players manage a team together -- An easy drag and drop line-up management tool -- Custom permanent web addresses for leagues -- The ability to copy settings from your Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football '06 league -- StatTracker(R), a real-time application to help track team and league statistics "Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football is one of the greatest dynasties in sports today. Over the past decade we have established the most popular and reliable fantasy football service for players of all levels," said Jimmy Pitaro, vice president and general manager, Yahoo! Sports. "With the addition of the Touchdown Celebration Showdown, Yahoo! Sports is giving fans an opportunity to be a part of the action like never before, including an opportunity to meet one of the hottest athletes in fantasy football." For several seasons Johnson, Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football Cover Athlete '07, has led the NFL's American Football Conference in receiving yards. In 2006, he amassed an NFL-best 1369 yards en route to his fourth consecutive Pro Bowl. In six years with the Cincinnati Bengals, Johnson has gained 6925 yards on 466 receptions with 41 touchdowns. For additional perspective on this announcement from Johnson, please visit http://yodel.yahoo.com and http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/08/01/ocho-cinco-wants-your-best-moves. ABOUT YAHOO! Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo!'s mission is to connect people to their passions, their communities and world's knowledge. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. SOURCE: Yahoo! Sports Yahoo! Inc. Nicol Addison, 310-463-3463 (cell) 310-907-2834 [email protected] or Pyramid Public Relations Ken Mandelkern, 212-643-1068 x343 516-524-0818 (cell) [email protected] Copyright Business Wire 2007 News Provided by COMTEX.