A Week In Fantasy Football At My Workplace (Part II)

NOTE: Apparently, there’s a character limit for Youcastr articles, and I managed to exceed it. So, this entry is divided into two parts. If you haven’t read the first part, you might be a little bit lost. With that out of the way…here we go…

Friday, October 10: Again, I’m up early on checking the fantasy football goings-on. Unfortunately, The Comebacks has a man-crush on Slaton, but he’s willing to offer Chris Johnson or Steven Jackson and Cotchery for Romo. Frankly, I’m just ready to put this issue to bed at this point. The final deal: Romo for Jackson and Cotchery. Did I get ripped off? You bet I did. Do I have a better WR? You bet I do.

It is not long before The Comebacks is talking…well…comeback. Playing Nobody’s Home, his new signal-caller gives him a great advantage in his matchup and a heck of a shot to improve to 2-4.

Funny thing about the movie business…there’s not a great calling for people to sweep popcorn during the week. Hardly anyone goes to movies during the week, so most of the hours for people who don’t have managerial roles are limited to weekends and breaks in the school schedule. So on this day, I go to work for the first time in this entire sequence. In person, The Comebacks is quick to show some love for his trade. He is smiling like a chesire cat. Meanwhile, the manager of Team Commodores is staying hush-hush. That’s his nature. While I’ll talk smack until I run out of air to breathe, he’ll sit back and let the cards play themselves. So far, the cards have played him to a 3-2 record and a spot in the upper half of the league. We exchange pleasantries (I’m actually not being sarcastic when I say that) and I mention how his Colts (Peyton Manning, Joseph Addai, and Reggie Wayne) could be in for a long day against the Ravens. However, he points out that he’s benched Manning for Jay Cutler and Addai for…well… McClain. God, why did he have to take him from me?

Saturday, October 11: This is an even quieter day than Wednesday. However, the one transaction of the day could decide my matchup.

For perspective…I watched absolutely zero football and did not get online Saturday. To be completely honest, I was at a high school band competition. I was the drum major in my high school band last year, so I still drop in to see how they’re doing, which was the case on this day. The fact that my girlfriend is also in the band probably has a little something to do with it, but…right, fantasy football…okay…

However, I had heard Team Commodores TE Kellen Winslow was “under the weather” before leaving for this competition. Being the kind and generous person that I am, I passed the word along to my foe for this week, and he dropped Winslow, adding Owen Daniels as his replacement.

Sunday, October 12: I walk into the office at work at 11:45 AM, roughly fifteen minutes before I have to clock on. Bossman is there, checking his team on the office’s computer. It doesn’t take him long to ask me a question, which doesn’t surprise me. He often asks for my opinion in game day lineup decisions. However, his question this time had nothing to do with his CANES AND SKINS UNITED.

“Why the hell did you trade Romo?”

Nice to see you for the first time in a week, too, boss.

At kickoff, the rosters for my game show as such…(QB, RB, RB, Flex, WR, WR, TE, DP, D, K)

Team Commodores: Jay Cutler, Michael Turner, Le’Ron McClain, Marion Barber, Reggie Wayne, Brandon Marshall, Owen Daniels, Patrick Willis, Giants D/ST, Robbie Gould

Evans’s Almighties: Aaron Rodgers, Brandon Jacobs, LaDainian Tomlinson, DeSean Jackson, T.J. Houshmandzadeh, Terrell Owens, Jason Witten, Antoine Winfield, Eagles D/ST, Matt Prater.

I quickly fall behind. WAAAY behind. Houshmadzandeh and Winfield were my only players to take the field in the 1:00 games, and they combined for four points. When the Team Commodores commissioner leaves work at 3:00, he’s ahead 32-3.

It’s not all bad news, though. McClain actually lost two for the Commodores, so Addai, seated comfortably on the Commodore bench, and his zero point game would have actually been an improvement. Then there’s the matter of Peyton Manning, also on the bench for a 271 yard, three touchdown outing.

Unfortunately, the late afternoon games don’t go much better for me. My only player to get into the end zone before the Sunday Night contest between the Patriots and Chargers was Aaron Rodgers. Even my bench players, aside from Warner, are being shut down. At 7:17 PM, The Comebacks declares my chances of victory dead on arrival, saying in a smack talk chat box, “hmmm not quite what we were expecting. i guess we have a 3 way tie at the top!”

He refers to a deadlock (actually, involving four teams, not three) between myself, Team Commodores, Peacock Thunder, and THE REAL 74, should I lose. By this point, THE REAL 74 (3-2) has massacred Peacock Thunder (4-1) in a contest that ended with a final score of 128-51.

LaDainian Tomlinson is of little assistance to me. He picks up some crucial yardage, especially on a late-game screen pass to keep one time-burning drive alive in the Bolts’ dismantling of the Patriots, but he fails to get into the end zone. At the end of the day, I trail 85-79.

Monday, October 13: I check the league website hoping for a different story, but no dice. I am down six, and we both have one “player” left. He has the Giants D/ST, and I have Brandon Jacobs. My typed words at 9:33 AM: “I don’t see the Giants giving up a lot of points to Cleveland, so I’m going to need a good game from Jacobs. It will go down to the wire.”

“A good game,” by polling of the audience, fell to about 20 points. In translation, somewhere between 100-150 yards and a score or two.

While we wait for the Monday Night game, I get a slight chuckle from the latest in injury news. Now, don’t get me wrong, I would NEVER wish harm on anyone, especially if they aren’t wearing a Dook jersey…but then I looked at the TV in my room and say “Romo out four weeks with broken finger.”

Ahem…he…hehe…

Okay, so now I was the one smiling like a chesire cat.

Then, a funny thing happened on the way to me improving to 5-1…

The Giants defense sucked.

No, I didn’t nearly get a 20 point game from Brandon Jacobs, although he did get one touchdown early in the second quarter. Instead, the Giants D/ST “earned’ an impressively futile -7, leading me, if you will, to a 91-78 victory.

As the dust settled, I improved my winning streak to five games, taking sole possession of the league lead. CANES AND SKINS UNITED defeated Dunkin’ Donuts 118-62, so there will be no dunce cap action at the theater this weekend. The Comebacks couldn’t even celebrate a 95-39 blowout of Nobody’s Home, since he was now looking for a new quarterback. After receiving Romo, he had dropped Frerotte, so now he’s looking for a quarterback other than Kyle Orton to put under center. He’s already told me he doesn’t want Kurt Warner, but I assured him I am staying far away from the trade market this week.

Sometimes you’re lucky, sometimes you’re good…

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