Fantasy Football - Week 15

Ahhh fantasy football. Even though it's towards the end of (most) seasons, I will be sharing what little is left of this precious activity. So, depending on how your league is set up, you either have the first playoff rounds starting this week (which I have in 2 other leagues....and yes I am in the playoffs in both of those leagues) or you simply go for 17 straight weeks and whoever has the best record at the end wins, which is how the league we're going to talk about is set up.

This is the Albright Man league. A league I'm in with a bunch of buddies from school. Before I go into any more, I must share that I did not fare so well this year. Prior to the start of week 15, I currently rank 9 out of 12. For those of you who also play in 12 team leagues know that finding the right players is no easy task, and this whacko year in the NFL has been no exception. This week I'm playing my good buddy and fellow trash-talker Chev. Chev's season has gone somewhat similar to mine, in that he is currently ranked 11th (which may as well be last, becuause our 12th place manager moved to Florida to become an old man and rarely checks his team.) This year is the 5th year I believe in which more or less the same group has gotten together to compete. However, something has been lacking this year. Was it the addition of 3 new managers and the subtraction of another? Possibly. Is it the fact that we no longer all live together on campus and cannot argue and discuss recent teams play over lunch/dinner in the caf? Possibly. Or is it that fact that there has been a heartbreaking lack of real trash talking this year? Definitely.

This league used to pride itself on one thing more than any other. Trash talking. Sure it was great if at the end of the season your team stood atop all the others. But secretly what we were all really after was that crown for being the years nastiest, most foul, most creative, and funniest trash talker. Gone are the days when two teams' managers would throw courtesy to the wind and let their fingers and keyboards spew out the most degrading of remarks for one another. No, now the majority of managers choose to do their trash talking AFTER the scores come in and the standings are updated on Tuesday morning. Wow, you're really tough for talking smack after a game and not before. The art of trash taking is a dying one, and it saddens me. But fear not, there is still a glimmer of hope. For as I mentioned before, this week I am squaring off against my good buddy and trash talker extraordinare. My teams season is essentially over, I stand no chance of even placing this year, but yet I couldn't look forward to this week any more. I hope Chev spends some serious time concocting the most absurd and inappropriate of trash talking posts for me this week. And I await with eager anticipation.


Can anyone figure out which team Barto is not the manager of?