Cold consolation

Well, the critical weekend in fantasy football has come and gone, and my tenuous scheme to sneak into fourth place overall in Oliver Willis‘ league - and so enter the championship playoff bracket - went all gang aft a-gley. Eighth place (out of twenty) is where I wound up. Bah!

So it’s the consolation bracket for [...]

The fantasy football report

I’ve held off from the usual weekly fantasy football rants this season, trying to adopt instead a quieter, more rational approach to the pasttime. Well, I’ve hardly been rational; as is always the case, I have indulged in excess over each week’s matchup, exulting in victory and agonizing over defeat. I’ve just been quiet [...]

Shufflin’ crew

This is what we call the ol’ fantasy football two-step: one step forward, one step back. Well, that’s what I call what my shuffling Purple Stallions have done thus far this season. The good news is that my team’s most last move was a step forward, giving me an awesome one-game winning streak and evening [...]

Ignominious defeat

To open this week’s installment of “As the Purple Stallions Turn,” let’s hear from Ladd Biro, wiseacre fantasy football expert (there’s no other kind of FF expert, actually) at the fantasy site of The Sporting News. Take it away, Ladd:
Fantasy football can stress you out; but it also can save your life. We all know [...]

Inglorious victory

You hear the hooves a-poundin’, comin’ across the plains…Yes, friends, the second week of the fantasy football season brought hard-won success to your fighting Purple Stallions. Rather a slim margin of victory, as a matter of fact. Went into the Monday Night game ahead of my opponent by a mere six points. I had Redskins [...]

It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish

My vision of the outcome of this season’s opening weekend of fantasy football action (hardly a non sequitur) resembled this graphic from a poster for 300:

And indeed it did - but it was my beloved, fighting Purple Stallions who took the big fall.

Bitten again by the lousy QB bug, plus one gutless choice (benching a [...]

It’s go time

My team’s mascot
I was giving strong consideration to skipping the fantasy football thing this coming season and just watching NFL games as a casual fan - albeit The Worst Sports Fan in St. Louis™, as has been noted here before. Why? Well, as the iconic Geico gecko once said of his ad work for the [...]

Upon further review…I win!

Yesterday I lamented what looked to be a loss to my opponent in last weekend’s fantasy football matchup; today I exult in an unlooked-for triumph. Sometime in the last couple of hours, Yahoo did a last-minute Florida-style recount of the fantasy points generated by the players on my team, and mirabile dictu, I find that [...]