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paulseeAs every fun-loving, sports-craving, game-crazy person in the US, I am a proud fantasy football player. I love watching every game that I can in order to be the first to see the torrential beatdown I’m inflicting upon my opponent. I get caught up in the action of my fantasy games as if they are real sporting events. Sometimes this results in insulting comments, but I don’t particularly care. As previously stated: I am a proud fantasy football PLAYER, and I play to win.
Everyone on the internet has opinions on which fantasy style wins games, but regardless of play-style you more than likely have to make a few trades to keep your team current. I mean, lets face it, Clinton Portis has been practically running away from the endzone all season, and how were you supposed to know that the Saints changed kickers in week 13? Those bastards.
Similar circumstances lead to my pickup of Robert Meachem, a WR for the saints, who is a badass. He is absolutely that “take your recliner out of the recline position” type of exciting. Right when the Saints were starting to look like they might go undefeated, and their opponents were starting to focus on some of the key offensive stars, Meachem comes out with “guns ablazin” so to speak. I guess it’d be more like “legs ablazin” but that doesn’t really have the same ring to it.
Regardless, Meachem has now had a TD in every game since week 9, including this past week where he scored two. The icing on the “badass cake?” Meachem scored a TD as a defensive player. That’s right. On an intercepted pass from Drew Brees, Meachem followed the play and walked right up to Redskin’s Safety Kareem Moore and snatched the ball right back, resulting in a TD. It was… impressive. Yahoo had a bit of a problem scoring the TD, first calling it offesne, then defense, then offense again. It’s not like my game was on the line or anything…
I wish I could find pictures, but the internet isn’t THAT good. Apparently. Regardless: if Meachem is open in your league, then stop whatever you’re doing and go pick him up. He may just be the badass you need to get to the superbowl.
-Paul
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So Charlie Weis has gotten everyone into a huff again. Why not, right? He’s a lame duck head coach – he’s been fired but, for some reason, people keep interviewing him. If you continue to put a microphone in front of someone who has nothing to talk about, eventually they’re going to say something stupid. I think this was a last ditch attempt by Charlie Weis to be remembered for something other than his coaching record.
Charlie Weis? Who? Oh that guy who said Pete Carroll was living with a grad student in Malibu?
Anyways, if you get all this media coverage just for slandering the dynasty USC head coach, then Paul and I should have been famous years ago. I once claimed that he bribed incoming freshman prospects with coke. Paul’s fantasy team name makes… dubious claims about him.
Also, for the record, I’m not saying Pete Carroll is not living with a grad student in Malibu. Maybe Charlie Weis was a private investigator the whole time – he had to infiltrate college football to find out about Pete Carroll’s infidelities and reveal them to the world. Maybe it’s all the prescription pain medications. See – we should be famous.
-Alex
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Hello, I’m Paul. I like sports, and I like talking about them. I love a good morning tailgate, and can’t get enough of adverse weather football. I’ll watch most sports for at least a little while. Never a player of most of the sports I follow, I am no stranger to competition and physical play. I yell at the TV/players like they can hear me, but they of course cannot. I can read lips to a moderate degree and enjoy reading angry players’ mouths.
Most of all I love the competition and ideology behind a game. It’s a group of people (or a single person) exercising teamwork and physical discipline to win a matchup while not breaking the rules. Most traditional sports preach good sportsmanship, which I fully endorse. The respect for others and for the game is admirable, but the physical lengths some players will go to while miraculously keeping injuries fairly low is also impressive.
I’ve heard sports programming called a reality TV show before, and I will not disagree. In some degree, It definitely is. But even if coverage sometimes does focus a little heavily on inner-sport drama, the constant battle with both teams clearly trying their hardest is something that can’t really be controlled. Barring any tampering, of course. Anything can happen on the field, and there is a certain historic feel to it.
In short, that’s some of what I like about sports. I’ll write about that, and things like why I’m not all that broken up about Greg Oden sustaining a fracture.
For the honor and the glory,
-Paul
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