Scotty Crowe's Blog Posted on December 15th, 2007Tweet0Permalink

I LOVE/HATE/LOVE FANTASY FOOTBALL

I gave fantasy football a try last year and fell in love with it. Thinking you can't have too much of a good thing, I accepted invitations to a few other leagues this year and wanted to break up asap. We've worked through our differences, and I managed (literally) to make the playoffs in all 3 leagues, which are drastically different in size and composition. Two of my teams got bounced last week, but if I can pull off a victory this weekend, I'll be one step away from justifying all the time spent reading articles and rankings charts on Saturday afternoons. Because I know you really care, I've given you a team-by-team summary of each of my little armies this season:
League: CBS SportslineSize: 14 TeamsTeam Name: *** ******* (inherited name)Composed of: A bunch of east coast folks. With the exception of my co-manager, I know no one in the league...though they all know each other very well and love to utilize the email list function to bicker and talk trash like middle-schoolers, forcing me to up my BlackBerry data plan in order to avoid paying $500/month on their nonstop copy-paste parade.My (OUR) team's stud: T.O.Outcome of the first round of playoffs: LOSS, 110-94Where I (we) went wrong: Bernard Berrian on the bench with 22 pts...Kolby Smith, Adrian Peterson (CHI, a former Georgia Southern Eagle, what what), and my man TO combined for 11 - switch one out and we advance.
League: YahooSize: 12 teamsTeam Name: Dillon PanthersComposed of: Midwesterners, mostly in the Chicago area. I know about half of the guys, mostly from Aware.My team's stud: Three-way tie - Ocho Cinco, Plax, and the Waiver WireOutcome of the first round of playoffs: LOSS, 67.15-124.35 (OUCH)Where I went wrong: More like where they went wrong. The Panthers, who put up the weekly high score 4 weeks in the regular season, only had 2 touchdowns from their lineup in the playoff game (one from McNabb, one from the Jaguars DST). That's soft, you so-called "skillplayers." SOFT.
League: ESPNSize: 10 teamsTeam Name: Indian ApplesComposed of: Guys from (at some point) Georgia and Los Angeles. Ironically, I know, see, and talk to these dudes the most, but intraleague correspondence is pretty much dead.My team's stud: The Colts! I grabbed Peyton, Reggie+Marvin, and Dallas Clark. When Marvin went down, I traded for Randy Moss. Tasty, right?Outcome of the first round of playoffs: WIN, 145-99Forecast: This weekend has the Apples facing off with the #1 seed, the league's New Guy who only lost 1 game in the regular season. We need the Cowboys to run the ball (he has the Romo-TO combo) and the Colts to hang 70 on the Raiders. No problem, right?

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