Fantasy football title

2012-01-13T11:38:00.000-08:00

I defended my fantasy football title this year with a quality draft and a steady, long-haul approach.

I present these facts; if they are interpreted as bragging, so be it:

In the seven years I've competed in fantasy football (all the same league), I've been in four championships and won three.
The Commish is the only one who has ever beaten me in the finals (hat tip, Taylor).
I'm the only person who has defended a title.
When I won in 2010, my team name was Wet Socks.
This year I gave a hat tip to the crapshoot nature of fantasy sports and gave it a French slant.
I finished in last place in 2009.
Which means I also pulled off a (possibly unprecedented?) worst-to-first-to-first progression.
I'll be back with the same group of guys next year, but don't talk about a three-peat yet. I'm just focused on winning next year's draft. (Read: take it one day at a time, etc.)
I was nearly ready to stop watching NFL football in 2005 when my middle school friends approached me with the idea of starting the league. I was dead set against joining, but with some arm twisting and as a favor to a great group of friends I reluctantly obliged.
I drafted Calvin Johnson eighth overall as the first wide receiver off the board. I took some shots for it at the time because I passed over the likes of Andre Johnson and Roddy White -- the top-two consensus WR picks. Later I drafted Matthew Stafford in the sixth round and (two years removed from an 0-16 season) predicted the Lions would make the playoffs.
All three looked foolish at the time.
And yet, here we are.

Wet Socks

Fantasy football title