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Fantasy Football is a cruel, cruel mistress
But unlike your wife, every once and a while, she actually delivers the goods.
I'm in 2 leagues, one at work and one with friends. Going into last night's game, in the work league, I had a 17 point lead, but my opponent had the Seattle defense.
In the other league, I was 9 points behind but had Adam Thielen still to play.
Not sure if any of you watched the game (AP, aren't you a Vikings fan?), but with 2:30 left in the game, the Seattle defense scored a TD to make it 21-0. At that point, the Seattle defense had scored 20 points. Adam Thielen had a whopping 23 yards on 3 catches (3.5 points). I was behind in both leagues.
In the final, meaningless 2:30, Thielen had 2 receptions for 47 yards, bringing his total to 5 catches for 70 yards. I get a point for every 10 yards and a half point for each catch. Thielen finished with 9.5 points. The Vikings scored a meaningless TD, followed by an ever more meaningless extra point. The TD dropped the Seattle defense to 17 points. The XP dropped them to 14.
I win my work league matchup by 3 points and the other match by .5 points, all because with 2:30 left the Seattle defense was more worried about going home than stopping the Viking the way they had for the first 57:30 minutes.
- APIAD
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Re: Fantasy Football is a cruel, cruel mistress
Yeah im a viking fan but i went to bed halfway through the third quarter. I was promised sex and the fucking on tv wasnt worth watching.
I havent been able to recover from yahoos auto draft this year. Its insurmountable.
- artie_fufkin
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Re: Fantasy Football is a cruel, cruel mistress
I gave up fantasy football a few years ago, because the Raiders were (and still are) so bad I couldn't watch the NFL.
Zach and his friends formed a fantasy football league last year. They're all great kids, but I'm not sure any one of them could name four members of the New England Patriots, a feat of ignorance to which you have to aspire around here.
I happened to be in the room during the draft, and after he drafted Brady in the first round, I was unwittingly solicited to become Zach's adviser. What followed was an astonishing array of ignorance and mispronunciations, on the latter most notably an attempt at "Ezekiel."