And Now, A Word from Our Winner

Written by Nate Dunlevy | 31 December 2011

Ani G won the 18to88 Fantasy League this year. Here is his victory speech.

So….what does it take to win a Fantasy Football Championship?  Well, for me it took 61 moves, 19 waiver wire acquisitions, 2 trades, and….. LUCK…. of course.  No, not Andrew, I’m actually talking about good fortune/big break/fortunateness/godsend, that kind of Luck.

Now…It is funny how my Luck and that Luck went hand in hand.  If you followed my fantasy team (which you didn’t) you would know that with my first pick in this year’s FFB draft I took Manning.  I had no choice, he was right there waiting for me the whole time.  O, I knew he had some issues with his neck (who needs a neck by the way if you have a Laser Rocket Arm) but I also knew that the Colts would never ever downplay his injury.  They never do J.  So I took him and BAAAMMM here I am, season all ready to go, with no Rocked Laser Arm in my starting lineup and a Surgery Laser Operated Neck on my bench.  Lucky Me and My Colts.

With every loss my Colts assembled less Lucky I felt and the closer to Luck…yep that one…they got.   Lucky for me (after getting by with Kerry Collins (ouch ) and Andy Dalton for a few weeks ) Rock Your Fantasy World traded me Vick, which as it turns out didn’t have much of a Lucky season himself.  A few injuries here and there to Mr. Mike and I’m in need of another QB.  But again, Lucky for me Carson Palmer decided to head to Oakland out of retirement, so by this point I was set.  Right! Lucky Me!

Anyhow, after trading for (Thanks  Jason J)  and than dropping CJ Spiller to make roster room, Fred Jackson gets hurt and CJ is racking up yards and TDs for Forever Delone ( I fantasy football hate youJ).  Combine this with injuries to Josehp Addai, Felix Jonex, Anquan Boldin, Rey Lewis, and having to let go of Jason Babin, and the only thing you can say is …Lucky ME!

But in the end thanks to Donald Brown, Antonio Brown, AJ Green, Jimmy Graham, Tamba Hali, Jason Pierr-Paul, a few others, and yes, Vick,  I really ended up feeling Lucky.  Lucky to be the last one standing after a crazy, crazy season.  In the end all the emotions (contemplations, worries, fears, satisfactions) I went through were again worth it.  I can’t help but wonder if, after this Football Season is over (2-14 or 3-13), the Colts and we as Colts fans will feel the same way.  Luck or no Luck I think we all will.

PS:  I don’t mean to brag but this is the second year in a row that I won the Championship.  Lucky for you all I subscribe to the “Once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a trend” school of thought.  So I’m going to go ahead and wait until I win the third one before I start coming across as conceited J.  By the way, after this year’s win, Nate has agreed to start paying me to professionally play in next year’s and first ever Colts Authority Fantasy Football League.  Just FYI. J

Thanks for a great season and can’t wait for Colts Authority.

Go Colts

Ani