Fantasy Football Break Down Week 3

Well, since I just got done disposing of ALL of my disposable income in that hellish demontown Atlantic City, I figured I owed you guys a post. Especially since Bucholtz requested this. So here is the Sports Bloggers Fantasy Football Breakdown of Week 3. (For Weeks 1 and 2,  go here)

Top Performers:

QB: Aaron Rodgers- Owned by Gally. Rodgers is my MVP pick for this year and he looked like one this week with 269 yards and 2 TDs in the air on top of 38 yards and 1 TD from the ground.

QB: Peyton Manning- Owned by Gimp. Manning has 220 yards and 3 TDs at halftime of the Sunday Night game.

RB: Maurice Jones Drew- Owned by Bucholtz. Had 113 total yards and 3 TDs. Solid day.

RB: Willis McGahee- Owned by James Brown. Had 67 yards and 2 TDs. This guy has 6 TDs already this season and I think some Philadelphian Bloggers need to apologize to me.

WR: DeSean Jackson- Owned by Sac-Town Kings. 149 yards and 1 TD.

Bad Sits:

Jericho Cotchery-Had 125 total yards and 1 TD. Owned by Shiancock, But I am doing this post on a Sunday Night and he has both receivers left to play.

Ben Roethlisberger- Owned by Shiancock, Had 20.3 fantasy points to Matt Ryan’s 7.8 in the Stiller’s tough loss to the Bungles.

Ahmad Bradshaw- Owned by Gimpshot. Would have gave him 12.35 points over Derrick Ward’s bagel.

DeSean Jackson- Too bad one of our Top Performers was on Sac-Town’s bench.

Willis McGahee- Jimmy Brown wishes he had this guy in for Tomlinson.

Bad Start:

Terrell Owens: Owned by some douche bag. Owens had 0 yards. FML. I didn’t even have anyone better to start.

Minnesota Vikings: Again, me. Got me -2 points somehow. I don’t own another defense so maybe I should look into that.

Derrick Ward: Owned by Gimpshot. Earned him .9 of a point.

Ted Ginn Jr: Owned by Sac-Town. Earned him 0 points.

Brian Westbrook: Owned by Favarro Must Die. DNP. Having Benson and Willie Parker on the bench doing well doesn’t help either.

Frank Gore: Owned by Flubby. I guess this has to go in the bad start category but Frank Gore was knocked out of the game with his ankle issues and got Flubman .4 of a point.

LaDanian Tomlinson- Owned by Jimmy Brown. DNP

Pick Up of the Week:

Pierre Garcon- Indianapolis Colts- Owned by Gally- This kid seems to be the real deal after a break out performance in week 2 and another stellar performance in week 3.

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I Don't Get It.

This is my weekly section where I will bring you topics from the sporting world (obscure or otherwise) that “I Don’t Get”.  I’ll either discover the legitimacy of something thought absurd, or further exploit the sheer stupidity of it all.  This week I bring you…

Minnesota Roller Girls – Minnesota’s Foremost Roller Derby Squad

When I happened across a 3-day tournament called “Brawl of America”, I was stunned to see it was for A FREAKING ROLLER DERBY.  In an arena.  Really???  Okay, number one…this is like, a full-fledged event complete with judges’ panel, referees, and lighting.  So my friend and I go in and these girls are doing laps like an Indy race, only on skates.  People are cheering and yelling and going crazy, but to me it just looks like a big cluster-F of roller skates, helmets and booty shorts.  Oh yes, they battle in booty shorts.

Readyyyy...Seetttttt...Derby?

After about 15 minutes of not knowing what in God’s name we were witnessing, we get a program and then it all makes sense.  The scoop is that they have teams made up of: (1) Jammer, wears a star helmet and scores the points; (3) Blockers, wears a plain helmet and…DUH; and (1) Pivot, wears a striped helmet and organizes the pack and calls “plays”.  Basically all you really need to know is that once the Jammer gets out in front of everyone, one of the refs spots her and she scores points by lapping everyone.  There are various penalties a girl can be dealt i.e. cutting the track, elbowing, what-have-you.  If a girl gets too many she gets sent to the penalty box.  So the moral of that story is, if you jack a girl in the face you’ll get put on time-out (but it would make for great entertainment).

One of the cool things is that they have sweet names like Harmony Killerbruise, Hannabelle Lecter, Jackie Daniels, Venus Thightrap, and Tone Loco – to name a few.  The bout we made it to was for 9th/10th Place (Oh yeah, that’s how I roll.  Watchin’ it when it counts!), and it was the Minnesota Roller Girls vs. Grand Raggidy Roller Girls hailing from Grand Rapids, Michigan.  I tried to keep a play-by-play after I figured out what was going on, but it’s mostly just the two teams trading off the lead.

Ooooohhh! Fast! (Actually, my camera blows. Who wants to buy mama a new one?!)

The sweet parts are when say, one girl hip checks an opponent and the girl goes flying across the floor for like 15 feet and hits the people sitting along the track.  Then there was big drama when all of a sudden Jackie Daniels is spinning out of control and she crashes down on the sideline in front of us.  The medic rushes out, her coach comes rushing over, and they’re all trying to figure out what was going on…turns out one of the trucks on her skate broke.  Ohhhhh!  So much drama in the M-S-P (that’s the airport code for Minneapolis-St. Paul, people).  Anyway, my Minnesota Roller Girls threw it down and finished 91-75.  That’s how we do!

Jackie Daniels - Outta Commish'

After their bout, we kind of hung around to see if I could get pictures with some of the girls.  Luckily I spotted one of the Minnesota Roller Girls “It” Girls, Jammer #109, Psycho Novia.

Psycho Novia - Slammin' & Jammin'!

First of all, she is freaking TINY and ADORABLE.  Not the kind of girl you’d expect to be out there checking/being checked/potentially losing teeth.  She asked if we were going to try out for the team.  I laughed.  Or chortled (God, that is a fantastic word). [Note:  Something everyone should know about me is that for some reason I can't navigate a room without getting injured.  If there is a table 10 feet away, I will run into it.]  So then!  Super diesel badass Jackie Daniels from the Grand Raggidy Roller Girls comes out, and she’s also just a little thing.

She skates so hard she broke a truck on her skate, people.

Things I learned from this experience:
1) These are like, normal girls (in booty shorts).  I totally thought they were going to be tatted up Amazonian lesbians.
2) This is like, a sport.  They skate their asses off (in booty shorts), and sweat, and get injured (Seriously.  Medics on stand-by.)  They have tournaments.  People pay to attend these things.  In arenas.
3) They serve booze.  FTW!

Check it out sometime.  It’s really hard not to get into it and start cheering for these girls when they’re kicking the crap out of each other.  On wheels.  In booty shorts.

Visit www.wftda.com to find out more about the league.

P.S. I bought these.

My ass will be ready to rumble in these badboys! (heh heh.)

P.P.S. Apparently there’s some movie called Whip It coming out.  About roller derbies, or something.  No one’s gonna see it until it’s on TBS, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

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The Gally Blog's Fantasy Football Extravaganza

Hello Blogfrica and random readers.  We here at the Gally Blog consider ourselves something of a sporting website.  We may not exactly be credentialed, but that doesn’t make us unqualified to pretend we are.  The NFL season is nearly upon us and with that is Fantasy Football.  So we here are going to combine all of that.  We’re holding a Blogger Fantasy Football exhibition.  Us here at the Gally Blog will  be participating, as will members of the sports blogging community for ultimate bragging rights. There could be prizes as well, but I’m waiting to see if I can get it sponsored or not.

We will do regular updates about it, and I’m sure logic will go crazy if he wins.  If you or someone you know is interested in participating or sponsoring, hit me up. My info is up at the top right, and the comments section is available as always.
Current Roster:
Myself
Monday Morning Punter with Brandon.  MMP is from With Leather and KSK, Brandon is from ROTU
Gimp-From here and So much for college
James Brown. JB is usually found at The Phoenix Pub, but can be found at Everybodys got their something.
Logic-Here and 11logic.
Max-Max post’s at Usually Useless, Fire Eric Bruntlett, as well as Digital Sports Daily.
Doktakra-Dok writes at Doktakra, Low Posts, as well as Blog Critics
Andrew Bucholtz-Andrew’s site is Sporting Madness, but he’s featured at The Phoenix Pub, Canuck Puck and many other places.
Adam-Adam is featured at Avoiding the Drop
Christmas Ape-Ape is one of the members of KSK, writes at Sporting News, and is the Author of this book.
Flubby-Flubby is one of the writers at  KSK.
Rob from Wisconsin: Rob is a contributor at The Phoenix Pub.

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