This is how we roll...

Matt Forte nailed 9 points in last night's Monday Night Football game. As such, we rallied and came back to win our playoff game, 201-197, and move on to the championship. Our Play for Pay league uses the espn.com fantasy football setup. NEVER again will we participate in an ESPN league. Their playoff format is utterly STUPID. The first round of the playoffs is actually a two week event. You battle your playoff opponent over a two week period and whoever has the most points is the winner. Now how effing insane is that?!? After last week, we were ahead 135-96. Why in hell should we have to come back one week later and risk elimination to the same team?!? And that's damn near what happened. Thanks to a "Let me pull this out of my ass" 35 point effort by Ray Rice, we were in deep sheeeet for much of Sunday. (The fact that we sat Mario Manningham (21 points) and Percy Harvin (13 points) in favor of last week's waiver pickup Louis Murphy didn't help us. Nor did Anquan Boldin and Vernon Davis -- those two and Murphy combined for ... wait for it ... one (one!) point.) Anyway, it's off to the finals for us (albeit another two week one). And we have been installed as an 8 point favorite. Financially, we are now playing with house money. By getting to the finals, we get back our $40 entry fee. Still, there is $420 up for grabs. As we said yesterday, it's all about getting paid.

Lastly, in our Play for Pride league we are 15 point favorites for this weekend's championship. Even better, perhaps, is the fact that we are the top rated coach in the league. We, of course, have this printed document on the whiteboard in our classroom for all to see.

Rome: How great is that?!?