Links and Lessons Learned

Some Lessons learned from the first week of fantasy football:

-You can never count a team out if they have a couple of players going on a Monday night game. Pink Ponies scored nearly 40 points on Monday night.

-The 126 points for BIG TUNA was impressive. Tony Romo and the Addai played lights out. Travis Henry looks awfully good in Denver.

-But not that impressive. Its still week 1. I bet this is the only 5 TD game of the season for Romo. I wouldn’t say this team is the front runner just yet, even after outscoring every other team by at least 26 points.

-Not a good week for stud running backs. Sure LDT accounted for two touchdowns (including a passing TD that only counted for 4 points) but he rushed for only 25 yards. Steven Jackson fumbled twice and scored 1 whole fantasy point. Larry Johnson only managed to rack up 8 fantasy points. Ladies and Gentleman, your top 3 picks of the draft.

-I’m surprised there hasn’t been more free agent pickups. After the first round of games, there is usually a mad dash to the free agent pool.

-That being said, LVL INFINITY + 1 TEAM has been doing a nice job in bolstering his roster.

-When your team is stacked with players from the same team, you can do really well (see: STEELERS OWN COWBOYS).

-You can vote on who you think will win each match up by clicking on view match up on the right hand side of our league page. It’s a fun feature that more people should partake in.

-It’s a long season, so if you lost big don’t get too down and if you won big, don’t get too up.

Best sports links of the week:


Football is a violent sport, and after Sunday’s injury and possible paralysis to Bills TE Kevin Everett, you can only hope this miracle is true. http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3016159


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nfY1H1fqI4 The Haka as performed by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team (that is their name, not their racial makeup). If the Bears defense did this before a game, the opposing team just might quit. The best pre-game ritual since John Henderson unleashed this all time classic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4cXZGkRMCY


Seattle Sports Blog “Enjoy the Enjoyment” has Ichiro smacking around media that ask him stupid questions. http://www.enjoytheenjoyment.com/2007/09/ichiro-calls-out-nonsense.html


Gus Johnson is the greatest announcer alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcIvgiNWG1g


Rivalries between teams are what make sports great. But when fans go too far, some really really messed up shit can happen. Warning, this is both brutal and unbelievable to read, for guys especially. http://zachls.blogspot.com/2007/09/dont-wear-texas-gear-in-sooner-country.html


Wait, um, since when were we allowed to say “fuck” on TV? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1i2e6cySw


James Bond stuff going down in the NFL: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3014677