Over the unbearably long off season, two members of This is Serious Business went to their heavenly home, or hell, I’m not judging. Our West Coast friend Vina Mites, was lost to us this summer. California raised their tax on FFL ownership. 40% to the state for every Win. Too rich for the poor Cali-kid. Godspeed VM, we will all miss the easy “dub”! VaderPug was arrested, charged and found guilty of FFL fuckery. Won’t go into details, to spare the innocent minds of this blogs readership, but let’s just say “black magic, beastiality and even porch pirating” were mentioned. 25 to life was the verdict, but after the Supreme Court saw what he had done to TISB, he was promptly put on a military cargo plane and was last seen headed south. Guantanamo? Venezuela? The Silos in Waco? We may never know the truth.

The draft was held again at the official TISB golf course resort. A place where the beer flowed like wine and FFL brains instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. A little place called Corinth, or north Lewisville, it’s hard to tell which it is. As usual, some made it some did not, but ALL did not pay😂. We should probably do that sometime (I accept Apple Pay). TISB is now a ppr league so a learning curve will probably hit the entire league for a few weeks. Once the sea legs are back we will see who will “ never lose again” and who takes home the “Sacko”!!!

I’ll just leave this here for the beloved readership to peruse…

Let’s get to week 1 in This is Serious Business!!!

Team Pigg v the Big Diesel. Pigg walked out of the draft room and lit a giant Cuban cigar, grinned at the reporters and didn’t say anything (you have to know Trey😏) led by a 100% draft rating and Josh Allen at qb, Pigg squealed into the season with 31 from his leader. 22 from Godwin, 16 for RWhite (that’s a fluke, the Commish is faster than that guy). Big Diesel countered with a terrible 15 from Mahomie, 18 from Breece and Walker and 26 large from Mixon (who’s still not in jail). Looked like an easy W for Pigg, but because the Commish made insane, unsupervised, crazy kicker rules, Moody hit 26 for BD. And, oh yeah, Pigg had the first empty roster spot of the year😭👏🏽 with CMC not playing. Tough loss for the #1 seed, but we play on. BD 137 Pigg 99.

DFUN vs the Lil d Ceiling Cats. This is what FFL is alllllll about! Dominance. Records from all TISB seasons will show the Cats have never lost to the Commish despite his collusion, mirror leagues, Fantrax changeover and scoring insanity! Will this be the year it all changes? No. 151-102. Brutal beat down. Caleb Williams failed in his first NFL/FFL start, AmonRa was AmonNot and the Kelce regression has started. The Cats had 32 from Kupp, 33 from waiver wire pickup Minn D and 19 from JConner (before his yearly injury). Just another W for the Cats, and one more L for the Commish. Different season, same outcome.

In the Sunday night game, TBIAC made the long drive to Denton to meet Laces Out at Jerry Webb Memorial stadium. Lots of pregame hype for both teams, none of it warranted. Saquon started his new FFL journey by scoring 3 tds and this weeks game was over just as it began. Tyreek had 26 points and one arrest, Evans caught 23 and JGibb ran 17. Laces Out tried their little heart out but just couldn’t keep up with the high flying Captain. Hurts was meh, 16, AJones rum led for 18 and AJ Brown grabbed 22. But, Williams ran for 3 entire points, Fergie had 4 before leaving the game with an injury, and Drake London, FFL preseason all star with his new and improved QB, new head coach, new coordinator…. same result. 3.5 points. Aubrey was the lone high spot for the tiny dancers, kicking in 21 even after getting robbed of his 72yard attempt! Final score 135-117. Good game, bad matchup for the LO team.

Week one is over, 4 happy owners, 4 angry owners. Who will be the first to make a trade (not Steph)? Who will play a rookie QB in his first ever nfl game (felix). When will Nizzle sell his team for an obscene profit and start his own league? Can Trey make it through hunting season and FFL season at the same time (probably not). Soooo many questions, many many weeks to find the answers. Good night and good luck! Welcome back to This is Serios Business season 27 (ish)!!!!

It’s that magical, sad time of the year. Christmas brings family and friends together for a day while FFL brings family and friends together for months. Both will be gone soon. There will be happy memories from both, and bad ones (LGB passing out at the table from too much eggnog, BD destroying his tv while watching the Niners, Nizzle02 dressing up as Ebenezer Scrooge, again). But memories have been made, stories to be told and overall, fun had by all, mostly. Thanks for fighting and clawing and cheating all season long… we have a good group of team owners. Let’s get to week 16 in “This is Serious Business”!

AintReba hosted LO for the third installment of “Catfight”. LO, after a strange and disappointing week 15 was looking for revenge over Nashvilles favorite singer/songwriter, one to escape the Sacko Bowl and second, revenge for stealing her RB in the mirror world debacle that caused LO to lose to the resurgent (on the last week of the season) Cats. Soooo, a lot at stake, tempers we’re high and the claws were out! 132-72. Terrible game. AintReba, despite looking all season as if she could not bear to lose her trophy, came out swinging her tiny little fists and connected with an early haymaker. Josh Allen 20, DSmith 23, Higbee (?) 21 and Lenny rumbled for 16. LO countered feebly with Patterson 3, Z Jones, 1 and Herbert 5. Game over, AintReba is out of contention. LO looks towards next week in her final opportunity to not add her name, again, to the most beautiful trophy in all FFL sports.

This will be remembered for decades as the worst championship game ever. 91-70. The #1 seed and #1 scorer got 70 freaking points. The winner, LGB, would have lost every other game played this week. Terrible.

Will Pigg rebound in his first playoff appearance? Will Vita-Mites take home the bronze in his first season and first playoff appearance? Cousins battled Minshew, Mixon versus Saquon, Sanders ran with Cook. JJeff caught balls against Godwin. DST went completely to VM with 23 total and Pigg only 13. But, Gerald Everet (?) took home a big fat ZERO and Dawson Knox had 38yds and a TD for 9. That was the difference, a freaking TE!!! A reminder that every play, every player can be the difference between wining and losing. Pigg takes 3rd place and a cash prize, VM falls to fourth and gets a coupon for a walking tour of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, reality star’s only. Sooo, that should be fun.

In the Lock of the Week, TBIAC draws the easy out that is known as DFUN. Predicted to win by 13, the Greenville Avenue Gangsta strolled into Denton ready for revenge. He did not get it. DFUN exploded for 126 points even with his RB Drake scoring 0. TBIAC had a good game from Goff and KingHenry and that is it. Shocker!! DFUN leaves the Sacko Bowl and TBIAC has one week to prepare his team for the angry little owner LO. Whatever happens next week, it’ll be more exciting than our so called championship game🤣

So, we are down to two team, vying for the title of Sacko Bowl Champion (actually the loser, but winner in that they get the trophy, the painting which will be displayed prominently in their house for an entire year and their named engraved for all history to remember). Good Luck and Godspeed to both.

It’s playoff season, my how time has flown by. Remember when LO was on an epic win streak? When VM looked like he might shoot to #1? When DFUN won that game? When Pigg realized he might go to the winners playoffs for the first time (that was last week btw)? Well, we are here, bittersweet, but all great FFL season have to have a conclusion. Someone goes home happy and someone takes home the Sacko and is happier! Skill and knowledge is a must, but the FFL gods are fickle, and every week is a new season. It’s go time for every team. Survive and advance, or in Sacko case, survive and exit. Week 1 of the playoffs have happened, let’s get to it….

In the best game of the week, Pigg v Nizzle02. Piggs first playoff appearance, Nizz #1#1. As we have seen soooooo many times this year, it was D/ST that made the difference. Pigg had Joe Cool with 22 and JJeff 18. Nizz got 9 from Danny Dimes and 2 from DAdams. Pigg ran Mixon for 5 and Sanders for a fat zero. The #1 #1 got 11 from Jacobs and 10 for Pollard. Flex went to Montgomery 21 over AJones 16. 75-64 Pigg. McPherson kicked 9 versus Carlsons’s 7. Sooooo, 84-71. Will Pigg survive and advance? No. CAR D scores 1, Nizz’s DEN D 15 big ones. Final 85-86 in a soul crushing first round knockout. The dreaded #1#1 moves on, Pigg falls to consolidation round.

In a shootout LGB hosted VM in a terribly small stadium in a suburb somewhere no one cares about. Both QBs went off, Hurts for 34 and Fields 23. RBs Saquon 18, Dillon with a shocking 19. Cook 23 CMC 19. Theses two were going at it!! 100-96 VM at the end of position players. Here we go again with the DST. The Cali newcomer had PHI D with 12. LGB had 19 from GB (also a shock). Soooo, LGB with a one point lead. Kicker time- Gould 3, Maher 12. Game over. 127-115. LGB moves on to face Nizzle02 and VM faces off with Pigg for the 2nd loser trophy.

Enough said

After coming so close to the winners bracket, TBIAC falls to the Sacko Bowl Tournament to face Big Diesel who also had dreams of championships . Both had good teams that just fell short. Luck? Bad luck? FFL Gods displeasure. Yes. Not much of a game. 119-91. Mahomey 30, Zeke 13, Kittle 21 vs Goff 14, DHenry 22 and ABrown 18. But Def was the big difference this week. SF 15 SEA 0. BD is out and TBIAC goes on to the second round of the Sacko Bowl.

After a weird alternate universe waiver wire snafu, little LO faced off with the all time wins leader CeilingCats in a revenge game from last week. Winner exits the Sacko playoffs, loser moves on. A mirror version of the league had to be made to create the playoff bracket. It was a trial run on one team (not LO) and it worked. Unfortunately it also made a schism in time where a player was picked up on waivers by two teams in two alternate universes. Usually this wouldn’t matter at all because the waivers are done by week 3 in this league. But as luck will prove out, it might have. Cats v LO. Geno 15, Herbert 8. JConner 15 Ekeler 13. Najee 14 Patterson 11. Chase 12 Tyreek 12. Evans 8 Wadle 17. Taysom 10 Friermuth 0. Etienne 10 Lockett 6. Easy win. JTuck kicks 5 and Bass gets 6. Easy win. DAL Def -1 ARI Def 11. Not so easy win 90-87. The player in question in the weird alternate universe was JMckinon, who AintReba got and LO lost. He scored 26. Luck? Bad luck? Collusion? No. Nothing nefarious, just a technical snafu. AintReba would have gotten McKinnon in waivers due to priority, because she is terrible 🤣 but still an unfortunate event. LO will try to exit the Sacko Bowl next week against her now nemesis AintReba in an epic week 16 Grlz FIGHT!

1. Make sure you have paid up ya cheap bastards (jk about the cheap bastards part😂) but pay up if you haven’t yet!

Week 16 will see the two most hated teams play one another (Nizzle02 v LGB) for the big ugly trophy and Pigg travels to the beach to take on VM for the consolation prize. DFUN and AintReba reenter the contest after their one week punishment and take on surprise contestant TBIAC and not so surprising LO. Should be a fun week, stay warm, light a fire and don’t forget to pray to Shiva to deliver you a FFL W!

They don’t hate to lose.

In a game that didn’t matter, this game proved to matter less than that. Nizzle02 107-79 over DFUN. Niz goes into the playoffs in the dreaded #1 seed with the most points scored. Dreaded. Yes. No #1 #1 has ever won the tournament. Is this the year? Will DFUN take home the Sacko? Is this his year? We will find out!

LO breaks her second half of the season slide with a big win over the sad Cats 111-98. But still goes back home, aka, the Sacko Bowl where she will meet the Cats again in week one of the Losers bracket. Easy win again? Or revenge game for the all time wins leader Cats? Who will float and who will “fill em in”. The Sacko will sort it out next week.

Pigg, high on playoff fever, got a wake up call from our Sacko Queen, AintReba 104-101. Pigg stays in the Winners bracket but lost precious seeding while Reba will have a bye week as punishment for being on the bottom, as usual.

The new guy, Vina-Mites, laying on a chaise lounger under his coastal cabana drinking a nice Rose from Napa slid into the Playoffs knocking off early season favorite TBIAC, 88-72. With both teams fighting for a spot on the Winners side, they both just floated in to week 14 and the final score reflects that.

The current Champ (contested) LGB took on Big Diesel looking to solidify the #2 spot while BD was fighting to get into the tourney. It was a real Dawg fight till the end, but LGB got the W and the playoff spot will Diesel gets sent down to relegation hell.

Sooooo, the regular season is over. Playoffs and the Sacko Bowl are upon us. 4 teams in, 6 fighting to not take home the most famous trophy in FFL history (and the worst painting in the world, dogs playing poker on black velvet). Let’s all thank the Commish for fighting through our platform change, our dumb questions and for screwing up the last week with some alternate version of our league (if you don’t know don’t worry about it, we persevered🤣). If you haven’t paid, please do (not sure I have, was planning on winning it all as usual 😩)

The winners bracket will be Nizz v Pigg and LGB v VM in week one. In the Sacko Bowl, DFUN and AintReba will take a bye week while Laces Out hosts the Ceiling Cats and TBIAC welcomes Big Diesel. Don’t forget the Saturday games, get your team ready and start hating to lose! This is Serious Business 2022!

One week left in the Regular season and the “W’s” are hard to come by and playoff seating is taking shape. Satan, aka Nizzle02 is in, Pigg and LGB are fighting for 2nd, VM and TBIAC are fighting to remain in the bracket. Diesel and Laces Out still have a chance but will need a lot of help. Cats are out, DFUN and AintReba still in a scramble for last place and the #1 seed in the Sacko Bowl. Sooooo, a lot going on, wheels are turning and the pressure is rising quickly. Who’s going to step up in these last two regular season games (history does not favor LO)? Who is going to choke away a chance at the promised land (again LO)? But this is why we play the games! Lets see what happened last week and what it sets up for week 14….

LGB, fighting for the 2nd seed, fending off Pigg, needed a big W and got an even bigger L. Nizzle02, already clinched, showed off his dominance by NOT playing a QB and still winning by 63. Pollard 22, DAdams 29 and a ridiculous 42 from the CLE Def (wtf?) was waaaaayyyy too much for the end-of-season- collapsing LGB. Edwards continued to be a sleeper agent, scoring only 1, Walker III got hurt, Higbee is a TE, which means he sucks, 1, and worst of all, he didn’t have the CLE Def. Nizz continues to roll while LGB will be looking to end his horrific losing streak (1 in a row).

In a battle of “no one cares” the Commish greeted the Cats late Sunday night with “Condolences on your loss” with a lead and rookie superstar Olave yet to play. The Cats only had a TE (we know what that means) and Deebo playing with a 9th string QB. Not looking good. But the CeilingCats don’t quit (unlike LGB’s squad) and went to work. Deebo stole 6 big point to put the Cats up 1 with the MNF game to go. Olave vs TE Hill. Olave caught 65 from the Red Rocket. Hill then caught 35. And passed for 21. And rushed for 10. If you’re doing math in public, I’ll help out…it’s tied. Then Hill scored. Ball game Cats! The team then lifted their coach onto their shoulders and carried him off the field victoriously! Or something like that…

In an absolute must win for both teams, only one showed up. 126-80, the team from the frozen North rolled. 30 from Joe Cool, Watson continued his heater with 21 and GWilson caught 16. The Capt was done as soon as Lamar went down with an injury and KingHenry stumbled for 3. Reeeeeaaaaallll hard to rally from that start. So Pigg should have a fairly relaxing week 14 while TBIAC will have a few sleepless nights trying to put his team back together in time to make the Winners Bracket.

Laces Out, trying to stop a late season slide hosted Hollywood Leading Man, Vina-Mites. Again, both need the win to have a chance. But, again, only one showed up to play. 133-90, LO’s streak continues. For the West Coast Wonder, Hurts 34, Saquon 14, St Brown snagged 23 and K Gould booted 12. LO watched Herbert fail again, Ekeler didn’t score a TD and Waddle pulled off a big fat zero. VM will go into the finale fighting for a seat at the table. LO will put the blindfold back on and set up next weeks roster.

Big Diesel, in a must win, gets the cellar dweller, AintReba in a fortuitous matchup. The Siren of Signal Calling hasn’t won a game in about three years. Almost sounds like a trap game. It was. AintReba tripled her weekly average by scoring 98 points behind DK’s 18, Samaji’s 15 and Gallup with 15. Diesel’s team came in overconfident and badly coached! Kittle struggled with the 9th string QB, Thielen is old, Cooper was Cooper and Mahomey was a mere mortal. Painful game to watch for us and even more painful for BD to watch his playoff hopes and dreams crushed by a team that has 4 empty spots on her roster, but for some reason has decided to keep Jamycal Hasty on the team. 🤔 but a win is a win, or for Diesel…..welcome to the Sacko Bowl!

Week 14 is upon us. The regular season is ending and playoff season is coming up quickly. As a refresher, the top 4 go to the Winners Bracket and play week 15 and 16. Nobody really cares because this league is alllll about the Sacko, the most beautiful trophy in all make believe sports competitions!! The seeding is different but amazing. 10 and 9 are the top seeds and will get a bye the first week (don’t worry, this is not an advantage). The other 4 will play week 15 with the 2 winners exiting the Loser tournament. The losers of week 15 will play 10 and 9 in week 16, with the winners again exiting. Leaving the two absolute worst teams to tickle fight for the Sacko Championship. Winner exits and the loser takes home the hardware (in AintReba’s case, just go home and dust it off for another off season).

Week 14 outlook- Nizz is #1. Pigg and LGB at 8-5 , VM and TBIAC 7-6. Pigg plays AintReba, so he should (?) go to 9-5. Diesel will look to spoil LGB’s dreams and put him at 8-6, or win and go to 9-5. In the big one, VM hosts TBIAC with the winner going 8-6 and the loser joining the rest of us in the bracket of shame! Then when the scores are over and the wins are tallied up, the Commish will have to go to the tie breaker rules…Points scored. Currently Pigg has 1406, LGB 1375, VM 1440 and TBIAC 1352. So these teams need to win and win BIG! 14 weeks all coming down to the last second and maybe even the last point! This is why we play the game….

Week 12 is over (to be truthful week 13 just finished, but we will save that for later). As previously written erroneously, the bye weeks were not over (fuck me) but are now (maybe?). 7 teams have a real chance at the 4 spots in Valhalla (plus the darkest horse team #8 Cats). Pigg is on a heater, LO is ice cold and LGB and TBIAC are holding strong, but not dominate. Scoring is tight for those teams looking at a tie situation soooo bring out your best. The Commish finally figured out the playoff bracket so we won’t be doing it on a napkin like last year (😁). Let’s get to week 12 in “This is Serious Business”…

As the picture shows…. Pigg 114 LO 94. In a near MUST win for both, Pigg steamrolled into the victory behind MSanders 28 and JJeff’s 20. The petite pugilist punched back with her tiny fists of fury behind Herbert’s 26 (finally) Locketts 12 and Ekeler’s 14. But, this week it wasn’t near enough. Our Northern Yankee team owner is making a furious run for his first Winners Bracket while LO is beginning her yearly losing streak, fighting her way back to the Sacko Bowl that she knows so well.

TBIAC 111 Big Diesel 100 in a well played game from two teams trying to reach the promised land. The Capt had Lamar run/pass for 21, Chubb rumble for 18 and KingHenry 11. BD had Mahomey tossed only 18, Pacheco (?) 14 and Thielin (?) 12. Special teams were huge again with Diesel getting 19 and 13 from the Niners and Sanders, but that just made the game closer, not close. Big win, painful loss.

AintReba loses a close one to her archnemesis LGB 86-83. Josh Allen 29 but Fournette 0. KC Def 19 but Lutz K 0 for the Nashville SuperStar. LGB countered with 14 from Dak, Walker III 15 and Tee Hig 17. Not sure how this dumpster fire of a game was soooo close and yet even more boring, but it was. We are all FFL dumber for having watched it.

130-76 Nizzle02 stays on a heater. 11 in a row if you’re counting at home. Yes, he did sell his soul to the Devil, and knowing Nizz, he came out on top of the deal. Kyler tossed 25 and Jacobs (mind blowing) 42. More than enough to defeat the CeilingKittens…..again.

112-74 Vina-Mites easily sends DFUN down to Davey Jones’ Locker (nautical humor). Hurts 29 DHop 14 and Amon St Brown 18 was just too much for DFUN’s 0.2 from Drake, 5.3 McLaurin and Raaaaaawwwwwdddddjjjjaaaaass 9.5. VM stays in contention for the winners Bracket, the Commish stays in contention for the Sacko, as usual.

Week 12 is over, there is 2 games difference between 6 teams all trying to win. Last place looks like an even more fierce battle between DFUN and AintReba. Neither looks like they are giving this loss up without a fight (?) or win (?) They both suck (!) Either way, these next few weeks will be stressful and painful and exhilarating. It’s all we can ask for to have such a competitive group body slamming each other every week. Great job, keep it up and let’s go FFL’ing…

Time is running out quickly on this season. The Commish is flailing away at Commish-ing as much as FFL-ing. Nizzle02 apparently sold his soul (if he even has one) to the Devil for Wins. LGB, already sold his soul, is hot on his heals. LO is still not in last, mainly because AintReba has it locked up. Vina-Mites is relaxing on his California King mattress sipping on some Rose. Pigg is making a run for the playoffs, for the first time since the league began. TBIAC is back to fantasy relevance after a few down seasons. Big Diesel is flying along at 6-5 and feeling good, while the Cats are just sad, so sad. On to the recap…

CeilingCats 129 LGB 102

TBIAC 78 AintReba 59

Big Diesle 124 LO 115

Pigg 103 DFUN 93

Nizzle02 104 Vina-Mites 87

Sooooo, off to week 12. Everyone needs wins, time is running out. Make some moves, get healthy and be glad the bye weeks are over. Good luck to all, let’s play some FFL Football!

Week 10 is over and we are one game closer to Playoff season, or Sacko Bowl for 6 unfortunate teams. Injuries and bye weeks are still big players on everyone’s roster, and the waiver wire is reeeeaaallll thin. This week we will take a quick look at the overall numbers so far and see who’s good, bad, lucky and who drew the wrath of the FFL gods this season (hint…. Meow). Let’s get to the week 10 recap!

Kupp gave Nizz the W, but left the game on IR. Jacobs, surprisingly, still hasn’t disappeared, ran for 15. Carr was Carr, 14 and DAdams 12. Pigg just didn’t have much this week. 14 from Cousins, JJeff 11 and no one else in double digits. Nizzle02’s luck remains intact another week.

Welllll, not really. BD 95-89 victory over DFUN. Mahomie blew up with 25, and Kamara 13. The rest of the team just sat on the sideline and watched DFUN try to break 90 points. JTaylor finally ran the ball, 13, CeeDee only 9, Foreman 11 and Kelce, as always, 14. Before the special teams entered the game the score was 80-80. But then the special teams entered the game and Big Diesel kicked and tackled 14, while the Commish stumbled and missed with only 8. Ball game!

In a case of good game, wrong week, the Cats went down to the West Coast Wonder 106-96. The Goat tossed 18, Etienne 16, Williams 11 and in Deebo’s return, 10. DAL Def got run over, literally, by GB and only scored 2. VM got 21 from Hurts, 17 from Saquon, 14 tough ones for Dalvin and Damien Pierce rumbled for 14. Add 14 from the special teams and it adds up to another W for the Hollywood Superstar, and another, unlucky, loss for the kittens…

In the best game of the week, LGB went to Greenville Ave to slap fight TBIAC. These two really went at it with their open hands flailing about wildly! Fields ran, occasionally threw, for 20. JimmyG 17. CMC 18, Chubb 14. Walker III and Diggs combined for 25 while the Capt countered with 28 for King Henry and ABrown. This looks like it’s going to be a close one! A Pearce, whoever that is, only caught 5 and Pitts snagged 6. GDavis 8 and Schultz found 5. At flex, Allgeir 5 vs Cooks 6. 82-81. Now it’s time for our favorite part…Special Teams!! LGB put Maher and BUF against York and NO. 8 to 8 at K, 5.93 to 7.74 at Def. Final score LGB 96.5, TBIAC…….. 97 and the W! A half point slap in the face!

In our second Cat fight of the year, LO faced off with AintReba for the title! As expected, these two tiny pugilists came out firing on all cylinders, throwing haymakers and pulling hair! Herbert continued to disappoint LO with 14 while JAllen had a bad game for Reba with only 21. Ekeler 15, Patterson, in the lineup this week, 8 and Tyreek 13. The artist known as Denton’s Red Dirt Diva had Lenny stumble around for 10, DK 8 and DHenderson (can’t believe his guy is even on a team) had a career high with 9. 11 and 14 for the K & Def finished this game up just as it began…..boring. LO rides high (as high as she can) and adds the title of 2022 Queen of the Gridiron to her multiple Sacko Trophy’s! AintReba was last seen staring at her extensive art collection, and wondering where it all went wrong (draft, research, roster churning….)😘

And now, let’s do some Math-lete stuff! No big surprise, Nizzle02 is on top at 9-1 followed by LGB 7-3, LO 6-4 (???), VM TBIAC BD and Pigg all at 5-5. Cats and DFUN 3-7 (WTF is going on this season???) And, as always, AintReba in the gutter, where LO left her last week, 2-8 (who did she beat?). But does wins and losses tell us the whole story? Yes but no. Wins are all that matter, but the FFL Gods are fickle. Some times the off season tributes or indiscretions can come back to you in the season. Nizzle02 clearly burned incense and prayed to Shiva, showered her with gifts and baby elephants. The Cats lost their way, forgetting that FFL is a spiritual endeavor, and mock drafts and FantasyPros can only go so far. Which leads us to POINTS, for and against. Nizzle02 1189.44 at the top, LGB 1130.4, VM 1109.42, LO 1105.4, TBIAC 1080.04, BD 1059.72, Pigg 1048.94, Cats 1046.86, DFUN 933.42 and AintReba 28. Just kidding 902. 04. From the highest scorer to the lowest, a difference of 287.36 points over 10 games is 28.736 points more every week on average for Nizz than AintReba. WOW… Now points against. Cats leading with 1224.4 while Pigg has the low with 956.96. That is a 267.44 difference or 26.7 points a game. WOW… in the case of Pigg and the CeilingCats that difference shows in a 5-5 record vs a 3-7 record. Nizzle02, with the most points scored is 7th in points against. Must be fucking nice! DFUN comes in 2nd in points against (and a 3-7 record) while LO has the second least scored against her (probably because she plays Reba every week🥳) but explains her winning record. Most of our fellow teams fall in the middle of both groups and the record shows it. No real mystery solved here but proof that Shiva can smile on some and stomp on others. That’s it for this week, enjoy the freezing temps (except Vita-Mite’s who is at the beach adding up his State income tax bill) and let’s get ready for week 11 in “This is Serious Bizness”. I’m going to run down to the store and see if there is any incense or bright shiny things left…

Short recap this week, longest title ever. If your looking to waste 3 hours of your life go watch “Wakanda Forever”, if you’ve only got 3 minutes…. Continue reading.

Pigg 144-Cats 98

DFUN 80- AintReba 61

Nizzle02 106- Big Diesel 86

LO 142- TBIAC 63

LGB 115- VinaMites 91

Another week, more losses, more wins, more bye weeks, more injuries. Keep fighting and maybe this year you’ll get a parade like the WNBA CHAMPS!!

Another week of wins and losses, injuries and waiver wire pick ups., winning streaks (Nizzle02) and losing streaks (LO). Our first trade of the year went down with the Cats sending two RBs to LGB for a broken Deebo Samuels. The Cats have a baby Deebo at home so it was completely worth it! Bye weeks are brutal, keep filling out that lineup and let’s get into week 8 in “This is Serious Business”

TBIAC took on the Commish in a do or die/ must win battle for…. nothing. The Capt is rolling and DFUN is just prepping for the Sacko Bowl. 148-104, TBIAC takes the W. A great game for DFUN with over a hundred points but he ran into an absolute steamroller. Lamar 21, Chubb 24, King Henry 34, ABrown 33 and 17 from the TEN D was just waaaay to much to overcome. For DFUN, the Red Rocket tossed 17, 12 from Drake, JTaylor continued to be one of the worst number 1 picks of all time, 5, Aiyuk ( in Deebo’s absence) 14, and Foreman with a huuuge 31. This one was all about a good game on a bad week, or another way to put it is, just another crushing loss for the Commish

After a scorching hot start, LO has started her yearly slide into the bowels of FFL hell. LGB exploded with 139 points from Dak 25, CMC 32, Diggs 16 and finally something from Pitts, 14, along with the great Justin Tucker kicking in 17. LO fought back, feebly, with Danny Dimes dropping 9 at QB, 19 from Tyreek, and 22 from Waddle. 10 points from Bass at K and 9 from NE D totaled 98 and a third straight loss for the tiny baller!

In another must win/ do or die game, the Lewisville trash transplant Big Diesel came to Cats stadium in lil D and walked out with a W, 129-96. Cousins wasn’t on prime time TV so he went off for 23, Coop 17, and Kamara FINALLY showed up with 33. The Cats countered with 17, as usual, from TB12, 22 by Etienne, 14 from Stevens and a big fat ZERO from George Pickens. Cats needed that win to continue their delusion of making the winners bracket, while BD kept himself in the race to the top.

The West Coast Vina Mites travelled all the way to the frosty land of Team Pigg in a showdown of playoff wannabe’s. Pigg apparently thought that he was on a bye week and only suited up his “b” team. Burrow 13, Mixon 5, JJeff 9 and Sanders 13. TB D 3 and McPherson 1. VM, having traveled so far in an electric car towing a trailer full of FFL players, stopping to charge the battery every 37 miles, was angry and ready to rumble. Hurts 28, Saquon 12, Dalvin 20 and DHop, finally healthy and off suspension, 21. Not much of a game 119-63, but still a victory for VM. Let’s all pray he can make the return trip to LaLa Land before week 9 starts!

And in the Monday Night FFL Game of the week, Nizzle02 snagged another easy win over the tiny troubadour AintReba, 106-86. Kyler did his homework and it payed off with 24, JJacobs finally returned to normal and stumbled for 5 but AJones rumbled for 15, Kupp only 14 and the steal of the week, Tony Pollard went off for 32. AintReba countered, badly, with JAllen 17, LennyF 11, 21 from DJ Moore, Philly D 16 and nothing from the rest of her roster churned team. This intrepid writer is not a math wiz, but I believe Nizzle02’s team of highly paid FFL ninjas may make the playoffs.

Soooo, week 8 is in the books, week 9 is the next chance to improve your team, your roster and your self worth….or not. Bye weeks are still plaguing us all and the injuries keep mounting. Keep your head up, make some good moves, and pray to the FFL god Shiva to save your season. I know I am.