A second year of Family Fantasy Football has begun. Mom’s team, named Last Place Lulu for her last place finish last year was on a comeback after Week One.
First, Yahoo ranked Last Place Lulu the best draft picker of the five-person and one-dog league. Go Mom!
Then she came away with a huge first week win over the nine year old, even though she did not play Peyton, who rocked the house.
But in Week Two, she faced Bacon Puppies, and for the second year in a row, lost to the dog. Again, she benched Peyton because she assumed that when playing his little brother, who he loves, the game would come out fairly even. Apparently, not that even.
Basically, Last Place Lulu has a quarterback problem. She drafted two excellent quarterbacks: Peyton and Colin Kaepernick. In the first two weeks, both played well, but Peyton has been on a roll. Last Place Lulu, almost ten years his senior, keeps thinking the “old guy” will get tired or hurt. Knock on wood, he looks stronger than ever.
And Kaepernick threw for 412 yards and three touchdowns in the season opener. On any other fantasy football team, he would be a smart choice.
So here we go into Week Three. Last Place Lulu is set to play Orion, managed by a smack-talking ten year old who is studying the constellations for fun.
Sitting at the computer, Last Place Lulu looks at her quarterbacks. On the advice of her nine year old, she actually reads the player updates. She debates. She avoids a Week Three decision by looking at her growing Running Back problem (none of them are scoring).
“Go Peyton, mom,” says the nine year old, “You can’t even say the other guy’s name. It is not Copernicus.”
Still, what if Week Three is Kaepernick’s time in Copernicus’ sun?
Last Place Lulu is playing Orion. Will it be the Week of the Astronomer? Or the brilliant Peyton once again?
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