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!
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