Welcome back to year 11 (I’m guessing) of “This is Serious Business” FFL extravaganza! Another year of drafting, managing and for some (Melissa) roster churning. We all made it through the new “Fantrax” draft, so congratulations! Always send ALLLLLLL questions to the Commish because he is the asshat that changed us to this platform😂. Welcome to the new guy, some Cali surfer dude, and I’ll just guess he won’t win a game this season (spoiler coming). To the rest of us, thank you for competing and donating your hard earned dollars to the Ceiling Cats, they appreciate it since there is now a third Cat in the mix and kitty litter isn’t cheap. It’s time to play some FFL and good luck to all of you, except DSVP aka Let’s Go Brandon, our returning champion (contested). Let’s play some FFL!!!!

Week 1, finding your lineup, waiting for the injuries, praying your auto draft worked, hoping this is the year you don’t win the “Sacko” (Steph). Always remember it’s a marathon and not a sprint, except for Grider aka Nizzle02, then it’s a sprint, go all out! Will Saquon be a FFL God, or go down with an injury, is Josh Allen Superman (most likely), will CMC play more than 4 games? Is the GOAT finally going to answer to Father Time, despite his magnificent jawline and perfect hair? Or is your whole team made of spare parts? All the questions will be answered over the next 17 GLORIOUS weeks! Let’s get to week 1….

In our first girl on girl cat fight of the season, AintReba went to Denton to take on lil Steph and her LacesOut squad. Nothing better than two Sacko contestants flailing away at the foosball! Both have heavyweight QBs, J Allen 31 pts and J Herbert 23 pts. Fournette and Gibson went for 13 apiece while Metcalf had 1 and Knox a giant 0.5 for AintReba. LacesOut countered with 15 from Ekeler and Williams combined but the Miami connection of Waddle and Tyreek had 26. The difference in week one came down to the flex position. LacesOut actually used a good player, Patterson 19, instead of a SECOND TE, Waller 7. (Who plays two TE in the FFL world?) The gamble lost and AintReba went out like “the night the lights went out in Georgia” 105-88

DFUN, the Commish, hosts the other Cali Surfer boy, Big Diesel. Again, two big time QBs, Mahomie and Raaaawwwdddggeerrs, a showdown for history! Mahomie, despite not having any WRs goes for 34 while the Packer Captain, without any WRs went for….. 3. Game over. Or is it? Diesel got 14 total from his starting backfield, Zeke and Kamara and WR JuJu. Michael Thomas exploded for 17 but TE had 0. For the Commish, Cam Akers ran for zero points (Commish was warned about this pick), but J Taylor rumbled for 23. Cedee disappointed, as all the ‘Boys did and caught 2 pts but Scary Terry grabbed 11 and Kelce 18. Sooo here we go, it’s down to the special teams…..MIA came up huge with 24 points for the Commish to take the lead but Deisel’s R Succop booted in 15 to squeak outa 97-96 victory! Great game between two mediocre teams!

Team Pigg welcomed Nizzle02 to his Yankee-land stadium. There is no love lost between these two, who have never met or spoken too, but still soooooo much bad blood! Guess what, 2 great QBs, Kyler v Joe Cool. Pretty even, Murray 18, Burrow 16. Nizzle02 backfield only ran for 14 while Pigg’s had 19. The matchup here was all about the WRs. Grider had Davatae 20 and Kupp, before his season ending injury happens, 18. Trey had J Jefferson 30 and Pittman 18. Huuuuge numbers for each team! TE and Flex both were terrible with a combined 9 and 11. But as stated earlier, K and DEF matter this year! Nizzle02 got 9 from Carlson and 8 from the Titans. Pigg kicked 8 from McPherson but ran away with the TB Def sacking the ‘Boys for 18 points and the week 1 victory 121-99!

Not much to talk about here. The Ceiling Cats welcomed the new guy, or girl, not real sure since we don’t have pronouns on the new platform (thanks Commish). As a welcome gift to our league, the Cats laid down like… cats. And got run over by the Vina-Mites (whatever the hell that is😂). Brady flailed around for 10, Najee got hurt, H Henry was terrible as expected . The Mites got 24 from Hurts, 23 and 10 from Swift and Cook ( before both of their upcoming injuries). WR was the only bright spot for the Cats with Chase and Evans going for 31 while the new guy’s WR had 8. But the day was won or lost on the flex position. Etienne 6 for the all time wins leader Cats, and 27 for the Vina-mites Saquon ( before his upcoming injury). 114-83. The new guy may be someone to worry about if his/her team stays healthy. Congrats on the first win!

Tom Brady is a Cheater aka the Captain takes on the serial Sacko winner DSVP now named Let’s go Brandon. LGB was a 30 point fave to start the day. Buts it’s FFL and you’ve got to play the game! Lamar v Dak. 20 to 4. CMC and Dillon rushed for 26 for LGB while TBIAC got 18 from his backfield. Diggs and Higgins combined for 20 while the Captains WRs caught 29 (told you the G Davis was a good pick!) Both TE were meh. And both flex were fantastic, A Brown 15, Diggs 18. Soooooo again we are back to K and DEF (seeing a pattern yet?) Prater 1, Tucker 6. IND 9, BUF 23. But this time it wasn’t enough (got ya), TBIAC takes the week 1 W 92-89. Fans at the stadium were heard saying the LGB team wasn’t able to to score enough to keep up with inflation (poor political joke, more to come).