Monday Night Madness
Sometimes you just gotta believe in something bigger than yourself ...
Monday was a very unusual day for me. It started out by being a long day at work. Because of the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, our schedule at work had been accelerated to the point that we stayed late to keep up. I left work after 8pm and headed home to get changed and go relax at Marikka's with a few drinks. K.Leigh was there with a friend of hers, Eric (I'm terrible with names but I'm about 75% on his name being Eric). I grabbed a drink and joined them in front of the big screen to watch a Pittsburgh/Baltimore game that was already out of hand. Kelly came out of the back shortly thereafter and joined us.
The Game
Pittsburgh did not leave this game in doubt for very long. They were up 14-0 at the end of the 1st quarter (about the time I left the house) thanks to TD catches from Heath Miller and Santonio Holmes. Both TDs were the results of Baltimore turnovers, a fumble by the offense and then another fumble on a kickoff return. You would think with an early lead that Big Ben would be content to hand the ball off to Fast Willie Parker and shorten the game. That did not happen. Fast Willie got off to a slow start and never really got up to speed. Pittsburgh's defense on the other hand continued to tee off on the Ravens. It was comical how often Baltimore QBs were dropping to the turf and how often the ball kept popping out leading to 3 fumbles and an interception by Pittsburgh. By the time Baltimore finally landed a TD near the end of the first half, the game was out of sight with Pittsburgh posting 35. The only thing to do in the second half was make fun of Baltimore's defense for not having the grey matter to figure out that Ben was going to throw the ball. Baltimore can hang their hat on keeping the Yellow and Black attack to under 100 yards total rushing, but who needs to run the ball when there is a wide open receiver on every other play.
Fantasy Impact
At the end of Sunday's games, I had about a 2.5 point lead on Ben in the TRU league. Ben still had Willie Parker in the Monday night affair against the vaunted defense from the Steel City that I was prepared to unleash. When I found out the weather was going to be bad, I gave up hope that I could pull out a victory. I expected Parker to get lots of touches and have at least 1 big run to break open some fantasy scoring. Fortunately for me, Ben tried to showboat a little before taking a shot to the leg that sent him to the sideline for a series during Monday's game. When the smoke cleared, I was left with close to an 11 point lead and the winner of 3 straight. I am currently sitting atop the passing yard standings, followed closely by Mike.
The Clowning
We had a lot of fun taking shots at Baltimore during the Monday night game. Kelly was able to fully express his hatred for Ray Lewis. Ray (aka pile jumper) may have even tackled his own quarterback at one point in an attempt to get a half tackle added to his stat sheet. Junior even came out of the back to help with the laugh riot. His traditional San Francisco hat clashed with his Pittsburgh t-shirt, but his SF hat tends to clash with any and everything. Of course, it may not be politically correct to make fun of a 2 and 6 team but who cares. The clowning really took on a life of its on when the fake megaphones came out. "Attention Baltimore defense, I will make a 3-step drop and pass to the right hand side. I will continue to do this until we score a touchdown. That will be all." "This message is for the Baltimore defense. Now that Charlie Batch has entered the game, our entire plan has changed. He will be using the same 3-step drop, but throwing exclusively to the left hand side of the field. Thank you." "Damn it Baltimore. We're just going to throw it to the wide open guy over the middle. Thanks again." Heather got in on the act by reminding me of her victory over me this week even as she was handing me my credit card slip. That's kind of ballsy considering I still had a defensive player in the game. At last count, she did squeek out a victory, but it was by like 10 points or something. I guess I didn't quite crush her spirit when I dropped 213 on her in week 2. Oh well, there's always next year.
Word of Warning
In a totally unrelated development, I tried Captain Morgan's Tattoo after the game. It was just a hair on the other side of horrible. It was very sweet and I guess I was not expecting that after drinking bourbon all night. It did not sit well with me at all. Of course, I'm no longer a friend of Jager after may nights of enjoying it in my youth. Its bastard child, the Jager bomb is also something I don't care for in case you're keeping score at home.
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