Close call

Like I mentioned yesterday, I had a pretty comfortable lead over my fantasy football semi-final opponent going into last night.  I was ahead 83-51.  He only had the Bears defense left to play and I had the Bears tight end.

My fantasy football team was pretty much a disaster for most of the season.  I started 0-4 and then managed to win 5 of my last 9 games to limp into the playoffs at 5-8.  After my bad start I paid very little attention to my fantasy team.  Sure I would check my line up each week to make sure I didn’t have a player on a BYE week starting but other than that I paid very little attention to it other than seeing if I won or lost each week.  Despite my apathy, I somehow found myself on the cusp of the championship game last night. (and guaranteed money)

I decided I would go against my apathetic strategy that “worked” all year, and chose to watch the Viking/Bears game (on my laptop connected to the bedroom tv) to ensure I was victorious.  The game held interest for me even without the fantasy tie in since it was being held outdoors in frigid, snowy conditions, one of my favorite things to watch.

I was encouraged when I saw that Brett Farve was actually starting.  Having Farve out there meant the Vikes had a better chance to score points which would equate to less points for my opponent.  I was bummed though to see Adrian Peterson wasn’t playing.

The game started out well with Farve marching the Vikings right down the field for a touchdown, perfect.  I was feeling pretty secure in my victory. Then the wheels came off.

Farve got slammed down to the frozen turf in the 2nd quarter and was out of the game, in comes Joe Stinking Webb.  I was now very worried.  I had glanced at the score of my game and I saw that now I was only 5 or 6 points ahead.  I needed the Vikings to get some yards and some points, badly.

Well things went from bad to worse when Hester scored a TD on a punt return which added to the Bears defensive total.  Webb did manage to scramble for a TD but I figured I was toast.  He was taking sacks, throwing int’s and fumbling like mad.  I turned off the game at 11:20 with the assumption that my huge lead was gone and I was going to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.  As I dozed off I tried to console myself, remembering that the fact I was even in the semi-finals after my horrible start was a minor miracle.

So I wake up to the alarm this morning and instead of laying there for 10-15 minutes slowly waking up I instead shot out of bed and went right to the computer.  I had to see the crushing final score to cement my defeat.  I hit the refresh button and held my breath.

Holy shit, I actually held on for the win.  The Bears Defense actually scored the 31 points needed to tie our game, the only thing that saved me was the 28 receiving yards Greg Olson managed to squeak out, giving me two more crucial points.  Wow.

So my fairytale march through the fantasy football playoffs now continues.  I have a chance to win the whole damn thing which seemed beyond impossible 6 weeks ago.  Oh did I mention the team I am playing has Vick as their QB?  Yep I am going to be pulling for McCoy to be scoring a lot of td’s on the ground this week.  It would suck to go down in flames courtesy of an Eagles QB.

Last night I was playing around some more with my new web cam and posted some quick silly videos here, here and here. I obviously enjoy some of the built in effects the camera supports.

Here is a 2010 version of the story of Jesus.  Social networking would have made the immaculate conception thing so much easier to mange.