I find myself down this morning, 0-30, in both fantasy football leagues. Tony Romo, Kevin Smith, and the Giants defense and special teams are responsible in one league while Donald Driver and Mason Crosby did the honors in the other. I had no players on any of the six teams that played yesterday, starting or on the bench.
Speaking of yesterday's games, Giants fans have to be disappointed in that pitiful effort last night.
Another seventh round steal for the Saints.
A story I read a few days ago ... and again this morning ... via Pitcherlady.
- Oh Daddy 3:58 Fleetwood Mac Rumours
- 700 > 100 3:19 Earlimart Mentor Tormentor
- Loves Me Like A Rock 3:18 Paul Simon Negotiations And Love Songs 1971-1986
- Hats Off To (Roy) Harper 3:42 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin III
- Long Hard Ride 3:51 The Marshall Tucker Band Greatest Hits
About today's QOTD: I don't doubt that someone somewhere might sip drinks from a "jelly jar" but I haven't seen it in my many years going to the SuperDome.
Quote of the Day
By Monday night, after a holiday weekend and a start time that will give fans nothing better to do than tailgate outside the Louisiana Superdome and sip their drink of choice from a jelly jar, the stadium will transform into perhaps the NFL's most ear-splittingly difficult building to visit.
Adam Kilgore, Boston Globe
Blog of the day is here.
Quote from said blog: "Welker reached out with his hands of iron and stopped that missile with his fingertips just before it hit the ground. Then he curled up like a beetle hiding behind its carapace, as he always does, and let the defensive onslaught pile on top of him. When the dust cleared, he popped up and headed back to the huddle, ready to line up for his next diving self-sacrifice. After the nuclear holocaust: cockroaches and Wes Welker."
Hopefully you can make up some ground this weekend, but not with Percy Harvin since I'm up against him this week.
That jelly jar crap mars what is otherwise a pretty good read.
I yanked Percy in favor of Chris Chambers. He'll probably go off on both of us now. Sorry. I hate when I'm up against Saints players but I cheer them on anyway. My fantasy team always takes a backseat to the Saints. My way of giving one up for the team. :)
Oh, and that jelly jar crap didn't bother me too much although I do think it was meant as a putdown. I'll admit us Saints fans are passionate about our team and we're not exactly the New England "tea-n-crumpet" types. We don't drink from jelly jars unless someone fills them.
Yeah, I'll cringe if he scores, but the most important thing is a Vikes win for me. If that's what it takes, so be it.
When I first read that jelly jar shot, I thought he was referring to moonshine and it was code for calling Saints fans hillbillies/rednecks. But then I remembered that the only real moonshine I've ever had was in unlabeled mason jars, so maybe not. Or maybe that's what he meant and he's just clueless. Whatever, it was tacky.
Moonshine is not all that big in these parts any more although it may make a comeback if the economy doesn't pick up. :)
A guy I used to work with used to make his own beer and whiskey. The beer was a little too heavy (And nasty) for me but his whiskey wasn't all that bad. Wasn't up to Gentleman Jack but it was better than the rot gut rye whiskey my former brother-in-law gave me.
Oh yeah, told ya. Percy is having a whale of a game as I type. Didn't hurt me too much because Chambers had a respectable game, too.