Live with Tom Brady, die with Tom Brady
Word was that Pat Riley owned the trademark on "threepeat," so I couldn't have used it anyway. After two Turducken fantasy football championships, my team fell in the league semifinals last weekend. This weekend we lost in the 3rd place game, our worst final standing in four years in the league.
But I lived with Tom Brady, so I died with Tom Brady. He fell to 8th in the draft, where my Gridiron Engagement chose to give him a shot. He had Randy Moss, didn't he? And when we somehow had a chance to draft Moss in the third round, we took it. They returned our trust with eight wins to start the season. A bye week and the rise of the Patriots' running game were the only things that stopped an undefeated fantasy year. In a world in need of heroes, Brady and Moss made the team proud.
Others stepped up too. As Marvin Harrison and the Baltimore defense fought injuries all season, Plaxico Burress went practice-less to the end zone each week. Patrick Crayton survived my benching him against the Redskins — as I do when all Cowboys on my fantasy rosters play the Redskins — to develop into the 3rd wide-receiver role for Dallas. Ryan Grant came out of nowhere as well and went even further. Grant, Earnest Graham and — briefly — Chester Taylor turned around an initially weak running-back corps.
But, oh, that Tom Brady. All day long, Brady to Moss.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:50 PM
I think I smell another Lombardi Trophy heading to the Cowboys Trophy Case… This team has the all the weapons to take the next step, Super BOwl Step!
January 17th, 2011 at 10:22 AM
[...] been having a mixed weekend. Yesterday we sat at 4P's and watched her beloved Patriots and my beloved fantasy QB Aquaman lose ugly to the Jets, something only Jets fans, haters and the New York Post [...]
October 13th, 2011 at 8:10 AM
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