Championship week has come and gone, the “Lucky Bastard” returns home, the Commish captures the “Sacko” and a new name, and the rest the horrible dreams of what could have been!!!
   Losers- everyone but the Cats! Just kidding (I’m not kidding).  TBIAC takes home the award for best team with the worst record. Not sure how he did it but it was fun to watch! TSMYTDs was the surprise of the season making the playoffs (albeit from the weakest division in FFL history) despite a roller coaster of a season.  LO was gifted a RB duo early on and it was almost enough to make up for the Eddie Lacey #1 overall draft pick (????) and  NEVER EVER accepting a trade offer! Pigg had a chance, but with no one but Raaaawwwwdddddjjjjaaaasss, he just didn’t have enough.  DSVP was terrible. Terrible. (Someone needs to learn what is important in life and it’s not family and job!!!). Grid, again, fought his way into the Super Bowl…..and lost.  All year long this blog had said Grid was the strongest team put had no bench.  I guess his “experts” disagreed and made no moves despite every other team in the league being crushed by injuries.  Grid went into the playoffs unscathed and on fire. Until ODB lost his shit (and found a suspension) and the injury bug finally hit!  A final week of furious waiver wire action (all being looked at by the league office for collusion) gave him a full roster, but not a good one.  Cats had rebuilt his team numerous times over the season after losing his top two picks to injuries, #1 WR to a kidney and Chris Ivory to mediocrity.  David Johnson, Deangelo Williams (thanks DSVP!!) and Tim Hightower were the MVPs of the playoff run combining for 139pts in two games (23.1 pts per player per game average).  The Cats take the trophy home again despite the fact that the starting Super Bowl champion QB was Matt Stafford. Matt freaking Stafford!  Final score 127-85.
 Great year! Take a few weeks off to recuperate then start hitting the mock drafts for “this is serious business” 2016!  And the Commish will be emailing about the trophy presentation (boozefest).
    I wrote a piece about this year, winning the “Lucky Bastard”, again, and my thoughts on our FFL league. When I re-read it, I found some similarities to Lebron’s “coming home” letter. Weird, I know!!
     “The Lucky Bastard Coming Home”
   Before anyone ever cared where I would play FFL, I was a kid from North Texas.  It’s where I walked.  It’s where I ran. It’s where I cried.  It’s where I bled.  It holds a special place in my heart.  People there have seen me grow up.  I sometimes feel like I’m their son.  Their passion can be overwhelming.  But it drives me.  I want to give them hope when I can.  My relationship with North Texas is bigger than FFL. I didn’t realize this four years ago (when I won the first championship).  But now I do.
    I’m not promising back-to-back championships.  I know how hard that is to deliver.  We’re not ready right now (it’s the off season). No way. Of course I want to win next year, but I’m realistic. It will be a long process, much longer than it was in 2015.  My patience will be tested.  I know I’m going into a situation with a young team.  I will be the old head.  But I get a thrill out of bringing a group together and helping them reach a place they didn’t know they could go.
      I want kids in North Texas to realize that there is no better place to FFL.  Maybe some of them will come home after college and start a FFL family or a FFL business. That would make me smile.  Our community, which has struggled so much at FFL needs all the talent it can get.
   In North Texas, no FFL WIN is given. Everything is earned.  You work for what you have.  I’m ready to accept the challenge. I’m coming home (to “this is serious business ” 2016).
  This is best read in Morgan Freeman’s voice.