Fall is usually my favorite season because of two things, football is getting under way and the baseball playoffs are in full swing. Since my Oakland A’s didn’t make it into the post-season, most of my sports attention has shifted toward football. This year, I decided to join in on a fantasy football league to see what all the fuss was about. I must admit, the thing has me hooked. Because of this league, the first thing I do when I get on the internet is go to my league’s page to see what new events have transpired since the last time I checked in. I think I’m bordering on addiction. I am currently one game behind the team in first place and have pulled off some miraculous victories.
Like when many things are going well, life finds a way to f*** things up. My top receiver and my two top running backs have gone down to injuries. These are the players responsible for some of those miraculous victories and now I have been left scrambling to look for acceptable replacements to these players so that I can put up respectable numbers on Sunday and not fall further behind the “Grid Iron Beast”.
Previous years I couldn’t have cared less for players not on the Oakland Raiders’ roster. But this year things have changed in a major way. As I’m writing this blog, I find myself looking for a running back that will play this Sunday. As if that wasn’t bad enough, I have to make the gut-wrenching decision whether to cut one of my injured players. Should I ride it out and hope that he comes back next week? Or should I cut my losses and hope that my new player will provide respectful numbers? Who knew owning a football team was this hard? And this is just a fantasy football team! Because of this, I want to scream so that everyone can hear me: F*** YOU INJURY BUG!
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