Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Gooooo, Bears!
For the first time, and probably the last, I’m going to be watching a football game solely for the defense. I’m down by 13, I have the Bears defense and my dad has Anquan Boldin and Edgerrin James. While I feel badly for wanting my defense to totally decimate Matt Leinart in his second NFL game, I can’t help myself. I need to win this week. Man, I knew I should’ve quit fantasy football after I won two leagues last year. It’s too much pressure now. But, haha, at least I don’t have Frank’s tremendously bad luck. No matter what players he gets, no matter what sport it is, somehow his teams are jinxed. I don’t know how it happens - he does all the right things, checks the stats, picks up the right players, but when it comes down to game day, he gets beaten by Bo. Bo, who picked Shaun Alexander, The John Madden Jinx player of the season. Of course, most of the fantasy football experts said not to pick Alexander anyway. They said he was lazy and that he wouldn’t work as hard this season because he worked hard last season to get a good contract. So, getting lucky with the first pick in the draft, I pick Larry Johnson. Geez, he may as well have broken his foot for all he’s produced for me. Leigh-Ann’s LaDainian had FOUR touchdowns today. FOUR! Larry Johnson was tremendously lucky to get one, and he rushed for a big whopping 26 whole yards. Hell, I could’ve rushed for 26 yards.
Enough about football - has anyone been watching the Leafs? Who are these guys? They shoot and they score! It’s like someone switched out last season’s team and replaced them with guys who actually like to shoot the puck. And last night, when I thought they were going to turn back into the Leafs of yore and blow the game, they won with an awesome short-handed overtime goal by Mats, his 500th career goal. The only way it could’ve been better was if it was a playoff game. It was worth sitting through poor Cassie Campbell working her first game doing color. I honestly hated her at first. I like Joe & Harry’s chemistry. They’re no Vin Scully, but they’re fun because they know each other so well. Anyway, I didn’t realize that Cassie was working the game because Harry Neale was stuck in Buffalo because of the snowstorm. Had I known that she was an emergency replacement and didn’t have time to prep, I would’ve given her a break. She knows her hockey, she was just a bit awkward, which she’ll get over. Speaking of disappointing, I sure miss John Davidson on Satellite Hotstove. Yeah, yeah, he’s now the president of the St. Louis Blues, but I want him back doing commentary. Oh, J.D., come back. You know how I hate change.
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