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Frankiet
Quit Date: June 14, 2005
Posts: 568 Location: Delaware
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Posted: September 26, 2005 9:00 PM Post subject: Fantasy football .. a rant |
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Does anyone else get into this?
I was introduced into a league last season and this is my second year managing a team. There is alot of strategy and research and some luck of course in getting the right players from a draft, setting your weekly lineups and then watching the results of accumulating points from your starters as the play their real life games.
The thing is it makes you more aware of how the entire NFL is doing, not just your home team. Oh, sure, I still get to root (for real) for my Philadelphia Eagles, but I often find myself wondering how Priest Holmes (running back for Kansas City) or Ben Rothlisberger (quarterback for Pittsburgh) is doing and trying to actually follow all of the statistics and wondering how to improve next games lineup.
Then, there are injuries! Sure, you have backups, but how do they compare with the starters and when do you sit a starter and play a backup?
Yesterday for example, I sat out my (real life team) Fantasy starting kicker David Akers and played my backup (Jeff Reed, Pittsburgh, 8 points 2 FG's 2 XP's) instead because he looked like he pulled a hamstring last week. (Now I am diagnosing sports injuries)
Well, he started anyway and kicked the opening kickoff, and re-injured his hamstring (real life). There was a penalty (offsides) so the Eagles had to re-kick the kickoff and they sent David Akers out again (I'm ranting now!!!)
He re-injured his hamstring again (2nd time in 2 kicks and again the Eagles incurred another penalty. This time they took Akers out and had a lineman come in and really mangeld the kickoff.
To make a long story short (in real life, not fantasy) The game came down to 12 seconds on the clock and the Eagles in field goal position, what did they do, sent Akers out there again. It was only 29 yards, what the hell, I can kick one that far, drunk!
Anyway, Akers ran up to the ball, kicked it and fell to the ground grimacing and in tears as the ball sailed through the uprights, good for 3 points and they won 23 to 20. (real life)
Oh well, it's Monday night, and there's a game on. Kickoff time is right now! I'll know late tonight whether I'm 3-0 or 2-1, but at least it's only fantasy. My Eagles are really 2-1 in real life.
Good luck and see you in Detroit this year for the superbowl! _________________
"Once in awhile you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you look at it right" |
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ms_tapestry
Quit Date: October 21, 2009
Posts: 2574 Location: Seminole, TX
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Posted: September 26, 2005 9:22 PM Post subject: |
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Ha! I enjoyed your rant! Fantasy football indeed. Ya'll have finally found a way to be arm chair coaches for real. . . . or is that fantasy? _________________
Tonya
You must do the very thing you think you cannot do.
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marw
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Posted: September 27, 2005 1:41 AM Post subject: |
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I enjoyed your Rant, too, Frank. Ofcourse, being from the South, we all like football. (I'm not sure I got the Fantasy part, but then I might have been having a blonde moment. --used to be one )
You sound like a lot of the BFs in my youth; I used to have season tickets for the Bears (50 yard line for years because of that. And before that there was high school, and college football.....so I don't think I ever watched it on TV until somewhere in my thirties. I still prefer being there in person, but dont' get to do that much now.
Football is a good game, but even with a southern upbringing, I don't really understand "total immersion" which you guys do.
Interesting rant!,though! _________________
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alleghany
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Posted: September 27, 2005 5:16 AM Post subject: Re: Fantasy football .. a rant |
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Frankiet wrote: |
Good luck and see you in Detroit this year for the superbowl! |
Woohooo! I smell a party and have placed my request for tickets from a Ford buddy of mine!!!! Hope my order gets filled!
Actually, I stopped following or even watching college and pro football when my step-father became ill nearly a decade ago. Thanks for helping me think of him.
Cheers to you! _________________
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Tammy
Quit Date: February 16, 2004
Posts: 2565 Location: Florida
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Posted: September 27, 2005 9:11 PM Post subject: |
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GO DOLPHINS (Real Life)!!!!!!!!!!!! _________________
Tammy
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Seabrez
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Posted: September 28, 2005 11:55 PM Post subject: |
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Frankiet....YEAH FOOTBALL!!!
You should be one of those sports announcers!!! Awesome job of describing the game. Never heard of the Fantasy football, but it sounds interesting.
Ok...I'm a Dolphins fan. But enjoy watching the league in general. I should be a Colt's fan being from Indiana....but have no respect for them. When they left Baltimore in such a way...thought it was a dirty deal and now they keep milking the taxpayers in Indy dry!! Booooo!!!!
Smiles _________________
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Deb
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