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Monday, September 8, 2008

Fantasy Football (Week One)

So my week one results in fantasy football, while not exactly what i wanted, was respectable. I currently have three teams; one salary cap football and two draft leagues. Most important to me is the salary cap football (on sportingnews.com) because i must battle with my family (and geology teacher) for supremacy of the league; and trash talk from this league carries on all year long. This past year my dad one by two points, an almost unspeakably close margin. My mom won the year before (that was an embarrassing year), but i have yet to be victorious. This year i aim to change that (or at least be in the hunt, unlike the past few years) so i did my homework. I took Jay Cutler (due for a breakout year) and the always reliable Tony Romo as my quarterbacks, my running backs were equally reliable as i chose Frank Gore and the punishing Marion Barber, for wide receivers i was short on money so went out on a limb and grabbed second year Ohio State alum and punt returning Ted Ginn, Jr. as well as grabbing a steal in a second option panthers wide out D.J. Hackett for only half a million; for defense, even shorter on money, i settled for Kansas City. Romo, Gore, and Barber performed amazingly; getting more than half my points by themselves. Ginn and Hackett, however, were less-than-stellar and both got less than one hundred points. Kansas City (helped by the Tom Brady injury) held their own and gained a respectable one-fifty. Jay Cutler has still to play tonight on ESPN Monday Night Football. As for my league, i am currently in seventh place, although the only one with a quarterback tonight and if Jay Cutler gains more than 200 points (a most probable outcome) i will be in the top three. Starting off the year well!

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