How I won my fantasy football league

This post was originally going to be about the miraculous way in which I won my most recent fantasy football title, which was also my first Surf N Turf Football Championship, but I decided to go through the annals of time and document ALL of my major championships starting from the beginning...

 

For a couple years I did the stupid Sporting News Salary Cap fantasy football, baseball, and basketball as a way to figure out which cards were hot and it kept me more interested in some of the games.  You could manipulate it and just go with the money makers, and basically load your team.  To give you an idea I believe Santana Moss and Brian Westbrook were rookies.  In 2005 I was recruited to be in Dwain's league, aka Big Daddy's league, aka the PDX league.  I purchased the Sporting News Fantasy Football Magazine, and I pretty much followed it to the tea.  I took Thomas Jones and the Bears defense as late round sleepers.  Carson Palmer was my quarterback and Reggie Wayne was having an outstanding season.  The funny thing is, my first two picks were gigantic busts, which always seems to be the case.  Well back then Dwain did everything on paper, before we put it all on the internet so you had to either call him or wait for him to bring the written results into work, and let's just say his math and timing weren't always perfect!  Oh and the waiver wire system, what a calamity!  The way it worked is that you had to call him, let him know who you wanted, and hoped that he did the honorable thing!  If you got a player he did it grudgingly.  Well needless to say I ended up in the Super Bowl with Rocky, and we decided to split the money which was about 900 a piece, and player for a trophy and a "Rocky Surf N Turf"  which was a Big Mac and Filet o Fish...which is also how we came up with the name for the now standard Surf N Turf league.  Well I also dominated the championship and convinced myself the fantasy football was easy!

 

So I joined two leagues the following year! 

I think it is safe to say the Celtics Cavs game from earlier this evening changed the landscape of the NBA in the short term and long term and I think we will see the effects of this game for the next decade. My first instinct was that David Stern was going to ensure that this series was going to go 7 games, and have the Cavs win and go onto the finals, which always seemed to be their destiny. Or perhaps that he knew the easiest way to get Lebron to NY was to lose to the Celtics, still insuring a premium NBA finals against the Lakers. Or third, maybe Lebron James just quit and this was his F-U Cleveland game because he was getting boo'd or it would be easier for him to leave for NY if he lost.

Either way he looked like someone already playing for another team. Mo Williams was the only one trying for the Cavs, and James looked like someone who didn't care. This was the biggest fraud of a triple double I have ever seen, it should have been a quadruple double if you count turnovers (He was 1 short). He passed the ball, and looked completely uninterested. Kevin Garnett was breathing fire and Lebron James looked like someone that already knew the outcome of this game. He did not look angry