{"id":31,"date":"2005-10-07T00:52:34","date_gmt":"2005-10-07T05:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/2005\/10\/07\/fantasy-football-fever\/"},"modified":"2007-06-02T00:56:33","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T05:56:33","slug":"fantasy-football-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/2005\/10\/07\/fantasy-football-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football Fever!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, I’m a nut. This year I’m participating in no less than 10 fantasy football games of one kind or another.<\/p>\n

2 Pick’em games (ESPN & Beat Zeke<\/a>)
\n1 Elimitation League
\n1 Salary Cap League (Gridiron Challenge)
\n6 True Fantasy Football Leagues (Fanball, MSN, ESPN, Nfl.com, Yahoo x 2)<\/p>\n

This is the reason I proposed to Heather right before the start of Football Season – I needed a football widow nag me and try to book all of my Sundays. Last season I was in 3 leagues and finished with 2 visits to the championship game and 1 overall victory. Hooray for me!<\/p>\n

It’s still early, but I’m proud to report that I’m kicking ass and taking names in either first or second place in EVERY game in which I’m involved. Since I wont be able to achieve it again, I’ll report that in week 4 I was a winner in all 6 of my fantasy leagues out-scoring my opponents 573 to 380. I also beat Zeke & took top scores in the three other games. At this point I am ranked #78 in the world in the Gridiron Challenge and only 40 or so points off of the leader.<\/p>\n

Ok, I’m done tooting my own horn. Now that I’ve officially Jinxed myself real good I’m going to bed to dream of pig-skins & cheerleaders… and my Fiance of couse!<\/p>\n

I’ll report an end-of-year summary right here when the season wraps, or when the Dolphins are knocked out of first place… whichever happens first!<\/p>\n

** Quick Update – 10\/11\/2005 – Four days after posting the above article **<\/strong>
\nI went 3-3 in the fantasy games getting knocked out of first place in two of them, lost the Pick’em & the Gridiron Challenge (Slipping nearly 400 positions on the leader board … *sigh*) and was eliminated in the Elimination league. Should I be superstitious? Stay tuned for more!<\/em><\/p>\n

** Another Update – 1\/21\/2006 – The season is ended and the final results are posted! <\/a>**<\/strong><\/em>
\nI turned it around, but the big story is about me and a guy named Zeke. Click above! <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m out of control this year. Really. I love it. This the Early-In-The-Year-Report when I’m kicking ass… stay tuned for my season-end wrap-up to see just how bad I’ve jinxed myself by blogging this! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}