A question to all the football fans out there…
If an NFL team was on a 17 game regular season losing streak, which team in the history of organized football would break that streak not by finally winning, but by tying their opponent?
If you had any thought at all outside of the Cleveland Browns then you don’t follow football enough to be a productive owner in this league. In a super soggy saturated suckfest, the Browns drew a tie against their division archrival. It’s safe to say that any other team would have been victorious in a game in which their opponent gave up the ball 6 times; that is any other team outside of the post 99 Browns. However, the pre-2018 Browns surely would have found a way or ten to lose that game so I guess the Hard Knocks magic isn’t gone yet. Baby steps for Hue Jaxxx and staff?
In case you may have missed it, our 2018 3rd Commissioner “race” accumulated a whopping 6 out of 20 votes. Those 6 votes of course ended in a 3-3 tie so for the first time ever we will have a 3rd and a 4th commissioner. Ties will be unacceptable, we will stay in the Vatican until white smoke billows out of our FFBMCO chimney on all decisions this season. The league thought we had 20 tight owners but real life is cruel and crushed that fantasy and proved that only 6 of us are actually tight. Shame on the 14 of you and the 30% participation rate.
That said, we had our first pow wow on a possible issue this morning. The topic? Tanking. FFBMCO encourages reshaping franchises via trades and accumulations of high draft picks in DEALS.
FFBMCO discourages blatant tanking. Every owner has the right to sit/start players based on matchups, weather factors etc. but if a pattern of benching producers, whom you made the effort to keep/lock in the offseason, is noticed then consequences will result. Nobody is being singled out, this is just a league wide FYI.
Also discussed was what will happen if the highly improbable but not technically impossible feat of a team completing a perfect undefeated season en route to a title ala the ’72 Dolphins. In a completely bi-partisan/unanimous decision, that team will get to play for free the following year with each of the other 19 teams covering the cost of entry. For example, if someone completes this feat this year, and next year the entry fee remains $55, then the 19 of us will pay an extra $3 for a $58 entry fee to cover the cost for the supreme champion. If the entry fee is higher than $55 if/when this ever happens, then it would just be ENTRY FEE/19. Neat math!
And now for the week 1 bless’m/beat’ms.
A hearty bless’m out to our defending champion LM’s Gamblers for dropping the weekly high of 136.8. Little Michael will do everything in his power to become the first back to back champion in FFBMCO history.
A stanky beat’m to Daws Boot who provided the week 1 low of 46.22 who had (not counting team DEF) 1 and 1 player score in double figures. Matty C’s fate will rest in Marcus Mariota. Is he just a nice name with tight Hawaiian roots who was sick in college, or will he actually blossom into a legit franchise QB?
The September hat contest is currently being led by 954 Vice City, our league runner up last year. His savvy draft pick of James Conner (as 954 owns LeVeon and all his drama) resulted in 36.70 points from a drafted player. Philip Rivers scored more but was riding pine on Chuck Deal’s bench. So James Conner and his offensive haircut are currently giving 954 Vice City the lead with 3 more weeks to go. I’m sure Nick Haithcock, owner of 954 Vice City, thought that horrendous haircut was tight. However I will note that Shaun Herrick gave Brian LL a similar one back in 2013 (the first year of FFBMCO!) the first night of Brian’s bachelor party in Cincinnati. What a circle of life.
Here are the standings after 1 week of action –
If you have an eye for detail you’ll notice that all of our former champions won and all four of our commissioners won. That accounts for 7 of the 10 1-0 teams RICKADAIR!
The Microsoft Zune is currently playing Arctic Monkeys – One Point Perspective for those who are interested.
Have a Terrific Tuesday and a productive rest of the work week. Good day.
Well said commish. And yes Rivers sat on my lazy bench…I am not giving up on Bortles yet. He’s about to go 300+yards every game the rest of the year. Don’t believe me? See me in the Vegas Gambling Heathens Forum for your come uppance.
Also, other bets are accepted and highly encouraged. If voting for Commish wasn’t your thing, hopefully losing bets to me is!
Fuck Charlie.
I get it, that whopping 92 points you dropped made you jealous of my team and you felt the need to use course language and act out instead of betting me that Bortles will score more than your starting QB in week 2.
Scared Brah?
That was supposed to say 1 and only 1 in the Matty Cole section and then 4 champs + 4 commissioners = 8 people not, 7. My neat math failed me. Week 1 jitters!
You chose to post like the Browns offense when you shoulda went with the defense.