Playoff Edition 2 - 2011

(WatchBlog McGee is a fictionalized blogger but reports on actual, flesh and bone, real-life fantasy football leagues.  This year, he is embedded deep in the CFFFL, and will be periodically blogging on league matters.)

WatchBlog is continuing his 4 part series on the CFFFL Final Four.  Part 2 follows.  Let’s get to it.

Not Left Behind

When Cindy “All I want for Christmas is a green left hand” Cook heard about the proposed new CFFFL, she didn’t hesitate to sign up to manage a team.  She wasn’t the typical woman after all.  She had graduated high school in 1986, and yet she still enjoyed regularly attending her high school Alma Mater’s football games, and had they offered, she would have gladly taken the field to march with the band at halftime just like the good old days.  She knew and liked football, and she knew and liked winning.  Seemed like a perfect combination, and she knew the league was to be made up of other Cook family members, a group she had bested in friendly competition on more than one occasion around the holiday table.  Her husband and middle child were to also manage teams, and though there would be a battle for computer time amongst the three managers, Cindy knew the three would enjoy sharing the experience.  Ultimately, her youngest child, not involved in anyway in the CFFFL, would draw the short straw in having to share computer time with rabid fantasy football owners.  The early fake Vegas odds had Cindy’s Leftovers as one of the top favorites to win the fledgling league, and ranked her as the 3rd most likely team to win the CFFFL Championship.  Fake Vegas had some big misses in the CFFFL this year, but on this prediction, they were right on as the Leftovers finished with the 3rd best regular season record.  The Leftovers dominated the point totals for almost the entire year, but developed a midseason habit of barely getting outscored at least once every other week.  One such close 6 point loss to Cousin Mose & Me in week 11 “left” the Leftovers at 6-5, and in jeopardy of missing the playoffs altogether.  With her top QB out with injury, Mark Sanchez and Alex Smith would have to perform if she was to salvage her season in the last 2 weeks, and perform they did, as they averaged 26 points each in the last 2 games to help give the Leftovers 2 straight wins, a playoff berth, and the 3rd playoff seed.  The seeding wasn’t exactly ideal, as her first round opponent would be another dangerous team, and her biggest rival, her husband.  Dish and garbage duty were likely on the line as well as playoff advancement, and despite a pitiful performance by the returning lefty QB Michael Vick, she escaped with a 9 point victory to advance to the final 4.  Fittingly, her next matchup stays within her immediate family, as she will have to knock off her own daughter to reach the championship game, and if she does, household chores through the New Year will almost certainly be someone else’s responsibility.

WatchBlog out.