2016 - 4th season -all hail the queen

It's been a while Internet and anyone who might actually read this, and believe it or not, I'm back. This weekend stared my 4th season with a break out 60 point lead. #sorry #imNotSorry

Last season, I won my league and all of the honor and gloating that comes along with being a champion. This year, I'm here to try again for Hufflepuffs and female fantasy football players alike!

I have never been a consistent blogger but despite playing for three seasons I have discovered there is still so much I don't know about fantasy football and I feel like this would be a good time to get back into the swing for things.

For those of you who might be curious I am still with my Peyton Manning obsessed boyfriend. He is taking the Manning retirement surprisingly well, given the fact that he still manages to bring Peyton up at least once a week in conversation.

We bought tickets to go to the Lions vs. the Colts home opener yesterday, which was a game indeed.

Being from Detroit but a Colts fan, it was a conflicted game for me. I wish the Colts would have played a stronger first quarter but I think the Lions deserved the win with their consistent performance. However, Detroit fans, y'all, come on! This is why we have a terrible reputation!!!

I witnessed a man in a Lions shirt, kick an older man who was walking away and wearing a colts shirt in the ass and almost knock him down. I was flabbergasted that adults would act this way. The fight almost broke out in front of me. I had had enough beers to want to break up the fight but, with how women tend to get beaten up around football, I stayed to myself.

It was good to see Luck back on the field. I followed him in the off-season with the new Andrew Luck Book Club, which if you haven't checked it out, is amazing. I'll be posting about the book club later this season, as well as a summary of my 2015/2016 season win. So look out for more posts this season, I swear I'm going to stop sucking at posting.

First Sunday, the holy Sunday

Today I am starting Andrew Luck in my BB league over my backup Jay Cutler.

Andrew is ranked higher in Fantasy point then Jay Cutler but the Colts play the Broncos tonight at 8:30.

And for those of you who don't know, the Broncos mean - Peyton Manning.

There is so much love in Indiana for both the Colts (our home team) and the Broncos (Peyton Manning's new team). If you ask anyone in Indiana, they will tell you that Peyton made Football good at home.

Manning played 14 seasons with the Colts. He took them to the Superbowl twice and they won once and there are many division champions in there too.

In Indiana, Manning is a football god.

Last year in his first game of the season Manning through 7 touchdowns (this is fantasy football gold, actually this is just plan FOOTBALL gold.)

Andrew Luck threw 2 in his first game last year.

However when the Broncos played the Colts last season, the Colts won on their home field. It was an overall emotional affair for Indianapolis since the city never really got the chance to say goodbye to Peyton Manning.

No one expected the Colts to win, but they did.

Tonight they play the Broncos in Denver.

So we shall see if starting Luck over Cutler who is predicted to put up 21 points today, just like Andrew Luck.  Yet the Bears are playing the Buffalo Bills tonight.

Well no use worrying. It's time to play.

Week 7 - CAN I JUST TALK ABOUT THE COLTS??!?!?!

Okay, seriously.

Week 7 oh my precious baby.

I thought about many titles for this week. Such a "Zen in the Art of Fantasy Football", or "Week 7, eh." or "The week I lost to the bottom ranking team in the league" however none of these things turned out to be true.

Because THE COLTS ARE AMAZING.

So, I started the week off in a pretty "eh, football" kind of mood. I didn't have anyone playing Thursday night. I worked in the colt outside Friday and in the rain on Saturday and so when Sunday came around I was just not into anything. Because the weather sucked all weekend until Sunday I spent all day catching up on the work I couldn't do in the rain. 

Now the big news a work is that B-Rad, my bro and FF coach broke his foot this week. So he worked inside at the desk (watching and updating me about the games).

My defense was freaking heartbreaking. Cincinatti, who has been awesome for me, typically scores between 7-16 points for me, scored 2. 2 points and they still won against Detroit (sorry friends!)

My wide receivers under preformed and running back under preformed and I was worried. I had 3 players playing Sunday night while Mr. Anderson had 2 playing Monday night.

Then it was like the heavens opened up, and the Colts played an amazing game!  If you haven't heard (and if you haven't heard you are not a football fan, and that's okay!) but they beat The Broncos.

You might be thinking okay, one team about horses beat another team about horse and historically I would have agreed with you. However the Broncos Quarterback is Peyton Manning, who used to be the Colts quarterback.

I made a post earlier this year about Peyton Manning being the Harry Potter of the football world. He is a pretty big deal and the Colts let him go a few years ago. The Colts letting Manning go is this big deal in Indiana. He had neck surgery and had to sit out all of the 2011 season. In reality the Colts were gonna have to pay something close to 90 Million dollars to keep Manning on the team for the next 5 years. Yeah that's a lot of money and at the time he was still recovering. So the logical decision was to let Peyton Manning go. So Indiana loses there shit, might I add.

So this game on Sunday was a pretty big deal because the Colts took it as a moment to welcome him back and thank him for all the years he was the QB.

Also EVERYONE thought the Colts were going to lose. B-Rad asked if I wanted to make a bet on the game (being poor I don't play for money). I told him I thought that the colts would lose but it would be less then a 10 point difference. 

Big freaking surprise, they WON! and Andrew Luck got me a WHOOPING 34 points! 

However, Reggie Wayne tore his ACL reaching for a wonky throw by Luck and now he is out the rest of the season. I feel for Wayne because I tore my PCL playing Roller Derby and that shit sucks!

So I had like a 7 point lead going into Monday night's game, Mr. Anderson had 2 players left, I had resigned myself to losing. HOWEVER, his two players only made like 5 points and I won! (Sorry Mr. Anderson!)

(for those of you who don't know, the angry looking guy is Wes Welker, the other guy is Andrew Luck, forgive the horrible facial hair)

Now I am even more excited for December 15th, when the Boyfriend and I are going to see the Colts.

And we are ready! (god damn, why does he look adorable in all the pictures and I look...well, ridiculous.) 

Week two: This week is so much like my first boyfriend

Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.

This was a disappointing week for the Night Terrors. We lost. Big time. By almost 50 points.

Jason Witten who was amazing last week only delivered 2.7 points. Reggie Wayne? 7.5 points.

Ray Rice has a hip injury and he is my top running back. He only scored 4 points!

Martellus Bennet was the only saving grace of this week with 23 points.

The very worst was that the QB I played this week was Michael Vick. Shit head, dog fighting Michael Vick. He scored 37.22 points against Andrew Luck who only scored 20.64 points. I got knocked into the 11th position on my league because of that.

I really felt that this week was like my first boyfriend.

You have a small crush on a guy with some nice hair, and low and behold he asks you out (drafting). It's all exciting! It's fresh and new. YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND (Fantasy Football team)! You flaunt it to your friends (winning team). You tell everyone about them (players and your win). Then suddenly, you realize you don't really like that guy (football), you just the idea of having a boyfriend (or team). You don't really see eye-to-eye on some things (who starts and who doesn't) and some of their behavior is embarrassing (how they play).

When you are young and you fall out of like with a guy you break up with them.
When you are playing fantasy football and you fall out of like with your team, that is what they call fantasy football.

Mr. Anderson told me, if I was getting pissed off I was doing fantasy football right.

I guess I am doing it right this week.

RECAP
NIGHT TERRORS ARE NOW 1-1
lost 86.44 to 136.42

Introducing the Night Terrors

Ray Rice                  RB
Darren Sproles        RB
Jason Witten            TE
Andrew Luck          QB
Reggie Wayne         WR
Steve Smith             WR
Giovani Bernard       RB
T.Y. Hilton              WB
Montee Ball             RB
Cincinnati                DEF
Martellus Bennett    TE
Michael Floyd         WB
Philip Rivers            QB
Justin Tucker           K
Ryan Tannehill         QB
 

Wavier
Dropped Philip Rivers 
Added Josh Gordon    -WB

Yahoo.com Fantasy Grade - B