Photo Fantasy Finish

Well I didn't plan on writing a entry for this week but the storyline unfolding in my fantasy football league is too good to pass up. I will first fill you in on how our league works, as it isn't like most of the regular leagues. The league I am in has two different aspects to it. We have one that is a regular fantasy football league combined with a pick em against the spread. The pick em makes us pick every NFL game against the point spread. Whatever place you are in both leagues is your point total. You following me so far? For instance if you are in 3rd place in fantasy and 4th in pick em, you would have 7 total points, which would put you in around 3rd place overall. Whoever finishes in last place in our league gets kicked out for the following year and must drop down to our feeder league AKA our minor league fantasy league that starts next year. Yes you heard correct we have a ten person major and ten person minor league starting next year. The loser from the major league gets the boot and the champion from the minor league gets the call up to the bigs.

The drama that will unfold on Sunday will be epic. Nicholas Alfonso Elroy Pickens Fredrick Kerr is currently sitting in last place and stressing out about being kicked out of the league. He needs to have a good week in pick em in order to save himself from being sent down to the minors. Personally I hope he can pull it off. His comic relief on the message board along with text messages throughout the week are top notch. He will be greatly missed from the league next year. Since we have a feeder league I sent him this text last night using ESPN 30 for 30 lingo. "What if I told you that Sunday is his last supper? ESPN 30 for 30 presents a Kerricane in the feeder league. After he received that he replied with, "What if I told you he got back up and won the fight." He then said , "This league needs me. I wont accept a spot in the minors. I would rather hang them up." Kerr if you're reading this, I have a going away song for you. We are going to miss you homie. I will pour one out for you at the draft next year. http://www.youtub.com/watch?v=ggNymSJ52Fw See the picture below for Nick Kerr.

As for who will be the league champion. It's all going to come down to the final standings in the pick em, as Jeff Schmaltz is in 1st place overall followed closely by 2nd place Nate Godsey. Nate is currently in 1st in pick em followed by Schmaltz and then me. If i can pass Schmaltz in pick em and Nate keeps the lead over me. Nate will win the whole league and capture the trophy from his brother Joel who won the league last year. If I fail to pass Schmaltz in the pick em then Jeffrey Deery Schmaltz will become a champion in just his 2nd year in the league. Gentlemen I can be bought. It should be a great NFL Sunday this weekend. Here is a photo of the two duking it out for the league title this weekend. Nate is on the left and Schmaltz is on the right. Disregard the gentlemen wearing SPF 30 on his nose in a 25 degree Colts tailgate a few weeks ago.

Lockout 2011

Merry Christmas to everybody a day late. I hope everyone had a good Christmas and is looking forward to bringing in 2011, I know I am. The Colts got a big game today and I just got home from church where I talked to the big guy and I am pretty sure Indy will take care of business today. Now that the season is coming to a close and my fantasy season is all but over as I sit in third palce and can't make up any ground on first or second, it has me thinking about next season. I then remembered that there is a good chance there won't be a NFL or NBA season next year. The casual fan (females and most males) who don't follow the collective bargaining agreements aspect of the two leagues just assume that they won't allow a lockout to happen. I just shake my head at them because it has happened before, why can't it happen again? Both leagues are far from any type of agreement to go forward with next season. That is a fact, which would mean no Super Bowl for Indy. That would also mean no season tickets for my friends and I to go to Colts games, which means no tailgates, and no stories to talk about what happened at the tailgate the next day. Trust me there have been some stories to tell from this season. Nate, Kerr, SK, Reed, Joel, Josh you guys know what I am talking about. It's been a pretty "Ravishing" season.If both leagues are locked out next year I then wondered what I would do with my free time with no fantasy football. I would be lost, fantasy football consumes my life in the fall. The trash talking on the message board, changing my team name from week to week to embarrass my upcoming opponent. So what should I do with my free time? I suck at golf so I won't be playing any of that. I'm not going to join a WNBA fantasy league or watch more women's basketball. I would rather sit in a bathtub and slit my wrists then do that. I might travel the country and attend college basketball games that Gus Johnson calls http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB2KOhEceNM I would consider a college football fantasy league but there are way to many schools and we would have to limit them to a certain number of conferences. I would probably make a road trip to see the Gators play in the swamp for the first time ever. Every time I've seen them play it has been on a neutral site. (Jacksonville, Atlanta, New Orleans) I might make my return to coaching CYO football at Holy Spirit. If all else fails I guess I can pick up a foot fetish like Jets coach Rex Ryan has. What I do know is that I will be depressed no matter what. Fantasy football is my crack. I hope everyone has a good new years, but don't puke before midnight, it's trashy. God bless.