In search of the *

With week 11 in the books, the playoff picture in the Ahmedinjead Flyers fantasy football league is coming into focus. Three teams — the Bradydaddys, All Shake & Seeds, and inglourious basterds – clinched playoff spots this week, joining the league juggernaut, my Bollinger’s Bombers.

Basterds turn their lonely eyes to Chris Johnson

We know that Monday Night Football will once again play a spoiler role, but we don’t yet know for whom. The streaking inglourious basterds need 16.28 points from Tennessee RB Chris Johnson to beat The [Prima]Donnas. Johnson has easily eclipsed that mark in each of the last three games.

I’m done and The DTs are also MNF-dependent. I’m done needs a big night from each of his first two picks — Andre Johnson and Steve Slaton. The DTs will need to hang on to that nearly 43-point lead in order to avoid becoming a postseason postscript.

And in the down-but-not-out category, the Toddler Terrors need 70 points from QB Matt Schaub, WR Jacoby Jones, and RB LenDale White. The Bradydaddys counter with WR Nate Washington.

Once these games are squared away, we’ll start to get a clear sense of the playoff picture.

This day in history: A game of inches

On this day one year ago, the bradydaddys lost to the Toddler Terrors 93.98-92.30. A tiny margin of victory, but still bigger than the margin in previous week’s 106.18-105.02 loss to Bollinger’s Bombers. Two losses by a total of 2.84 points. Ouch.

Lonely at the top — Week 10 in AJFlyers

With three weeks to go in the fantasy football season, the AJFlyers playoff picture is beginning to take shape. You’ve got the good (four teams with winning records), the mediocre (three teams at .500), and the ugly (seven teams with losing records). Click the link for this week’s writeup and analysis. 

I promise not to take a knee during the post, like M J-D did yesterday (right), costing the DTs six points.

The way we live now

T-shirt, Gap ($18.50). Day-Date II watch, Rolex ($30,200).

Jay Cutler took a big dump all over the national stage again last night, this time on the NFL Network. Cutler threw for a respectable 307 yards; it was the five interceptions that did him in.

He was good for 2.48 fantasy points this week for All Shake & Seeds, meaning Shake will have his work cut out for him as he tries to topple my Bollinger’s Bombers.

This season’s Thursday night football debut wasn’t a kiss of death for everyone. Bears RB Matt Forte (16.10 pts) got Screw the Italians off to a good start against I’m done, who got a scant 2.70 points from Earl Bennett.

And Bears K Robbie Gould hit two field goals (one from 50 yards), for a respectable eight points for inglourious basterds.

FarBeyondDriven got a bragable 18.50 from Frank Gore, while his week 10 opponent Snyder’s a bitch got just 1.60 from previously unstoppable TE Vernon Davis.

Classic reverse psychology

Is Nathan waving the white flag?

He’s changed his team name to “I’m done,” changed his smack talk to read “whenever you gotta start mcfadden and lynch…its time to just call it a season,” and changed his profile pic to this:

"Stick a fork in it." Get it?

Don’t believe the hype. He’s just trying to lull Screw the Italians into a false sense of security. Or perhaps goad him into another name change.

The ‘stache releases new taunt

Heading into his matchup with the 3-6 Italian Stallion, Vince has changed his team name from Screw everyone to Screw the Italians. I’m only half Italian so I’m therefore only half offended.

Nate may trail in the standings, but he leads the league in name changes. He’s at nine on the year — weinerdogs, then rabid weinerdogs, then communistas, then my mom?, then munch on this, then (briefly) we are marshall, then shenanigans, then (briefly) f*ing shenanigans and now Italian Stallion.

Vince has screwed four things this season: the weinerdogs, the bombers, everyone, and now the Italians.