After Week 6, Master Bates's fantasy football team (which I drafted) was 1-5 after suffering a crushing 80.65 to 80.62 loss. In that game star running back Adrian Peterson put up 30 points, while quarterback Kurt Warner (replacing an ineffective Drew Brees) threw 2 passes and fumbled costing the team 1.48 points.
Brees, Peterson, Brian Westbrook and the boys used that loss for motivation. They reeled off 8 straight and made the playoffs as the third seed.
But bad luck haunted them in the first round of the playoffs. First Matt Hasselbeck threw a meaningless touchdown to Deion Branch with 1 second left. Since both players were on the opposing team that play gave him 13 additional points.
Later that afternoon selfish running back Brian Westbrook cost the team 6 points by kneeling on the 1 yard line and not scoring what would have been a very important (at the time) touchdown.
Thankfully Adrian Peterson didn't stop at 1 (though his teammate did get draggged down there setting up AD's first TD) and Master Bates's team got its 9th straight win.
The fickle fate of fantasy football.
Speaking of which Josh, Beers, Michael, Kev, SCZA, PPD, Horse and Greco should be embarrassed that in a 10-team league, the only 2 women (Erin and Billie) will be competing in the Super Bowl.
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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3 comments:
After I'm done beating Erin, I'll be the only 2-time winner of this league. Smoke on that suckers!
the poop did a masterful job drafting, although you could never tell by looking at my receivers. the .03 loss did cost me the number 1 seed and afirst round bye.
Speaking of overcoming the Odds....Considering I was 1-15 last year, I made a masterful selection of Adrian Peterson with the first pick, traded for Brett Favre & Earnest Graham and brought Bill to the brink of elimination so much that he was glued to the TV for 3 hours on Monday. I am not ashamed of my season. I am disappointed that the Poop didnt cover the season more or step up and join our league......
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