October 9, 2007

The Agony, The Ecstacy

You should know that I despise the Dallas Cowboys. I can’t stand TO (drama queen), and for as long as I can remember I just haven’t liked them as a team. It’s practically a requirement when you live where I live. You are brought up hating the Cowboys because they’re, well, the Cowboys. Cheering for them just isn’t done.

For that reason, you’ll have to keep this between us.

Last night, I jumped so high that I almost hit the ceiling when Nick Folk (Dallas Cowboy kicker) nailed a 53 yard field goal, not once but twice. TWICE! You see, when Folk nailed that kick and several others that night, he was contributing to my fantasy football win by exactly one point (73-72).

I had joked the entire day that I needed Folk to have a career night. I needed him to get 20 fantasy points to win, and 20 fantasy points is exactly what he got. I can’t remember the last time I was that happy.

Mr. BBM was laughing at me as I began leaping around my living room, high fiving him, jumping up and down and yelling with excitement and laughter.

This, my friends, is what fantasy football does to you. It makes you cheer for a Cowboy.

In my other league, I’m not faring as well having lost again (102-98). You know you’re having a bad day when your tight end outscores your QB Vince Young (a whopping two fantasy points), LenDale White (a pathetic one point), Deion Branch (one point before leaving the game with an injury), and Jerricho Cotchery (three lousy points) combined. With a combined seven points between those four, my tight end, Ben Watson, outscored them all by 21 points. That’s just wrong.

If I had played Brian Leonard, in place of LenDale White, I would have won. If I had played Derrick Ward instead of White, I would have won. Nothing is more aggravating than that, except perhaps the outscoring issue as noted above.

I’m also surfing the waiver wires for new QB’s. Trent Green is done; so is Delhomme, and I’m just not feeling confident resting all my fantasy eggs in Vince Young’s two-point getting basket.

It seems it has become impossible to win games in both leagues at the same time. It’s just not going to happen. If that does happen, it could be very bad for my ceiling and my head.

Who was your biggest disappointment this week? Who made you want to jump for joy?

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