I like to think of myself of a somewhat honest person. When I compete, whether it be in athletics (I don’t too much of that anymore) or board games or games of chance or whatever, I like to play the best that I possibly can and win honestly. There is no fun for me to win (or lose for that matter) by cheating or playing dishonestly. Twice this week the wife and I have been accused of cheating and it really pissed me off.
As you may or may not know, The School Girl and I are in a fantasy football league with some friends, family and friends of family. This is the first time that my wife has ever played. She was only ever a fan of football in passing but decided it might be fun to play so she signed up. She started off a little rough losing her first two games, even though I had been giving her a little bit of advice. I like to think that I have a bit of knowledge when it comes to football. She bucked up; however, and delved deeply into researching players and teams all by herself. It was mutually decided that she would take her team on for the remainder of the season all by her lonesome without the assistance of my previously terrible advice. The hard work panned out for her.
She has since gone on a 6 game winning streak and rocketed to second place, only one game behind the leader but leading the entire league in total points! She had even started to give me advice which I willing took since I am wallowing in last place. Most of my team has turned up injured or just crappy this year (minus one player) and I decided that I would try something a bit drastic.
It was my idea to trade my wife my one decent player in exchange for several players that would be able to get me more points overall and hopefully get myself into the league playoffs. Now our league is commissionered by my brother-in-law, Michael TD and apparently Mr. TD’s friends did not like this trade as my wife would be obtaining another star player. Due to all of the scuttlebutt, the trade was vetoed by Michael TD. I understood why he did it, as some members of our league felt like I was assisting to stack my wife’s team. On the contrary, I was attempting to bolster my team that was in the doldrums of the league. I accepted this and decided to administer a different trade.
The subsequent trade I offered was also to my wife for the same quasi-star player from my team for multiple players on her team that I felt would help me. This trade was not vetoed by the league or the commissioner so I felt like everyone was better and we could move forward.
This evening I received an email (as did everyone in our league since the moron hit “reply to all”) from one of Michael TD’s disgruntled friends, we will call him Little Bitch:
Why are we letting these two get away with this? Yes, my team blows but this is ridiculous.
Maybe I can get a family member in the league next year to help me out down the stretch…
This, of course pissed me off. If Little Bitch were to have said this in front of me I would have shoved my foot into his throat. After calming down for a moment, the wife and I pow-wowed and decided to call it a season. We have since benched our entire teams (we did not release our players so that no one else can have them). Basically we took our ball and went home.
I am not that upset that I won’t be playing anymore fantasy football this year as it was becoming a lot of work playing myself out of the cellar. I am extremely upset; however, that my wife has decided to throw in the towel. She was enjoying herself and was interested in football like I used to be when I was in junior high. It was cute and damnit she was good at it. She had her principles, though. She would rather not play with sore losers. I think that she was a little sad about it all. That is what makes me angry. I am pretty sure that the problem was these childish pricks couldn’t get over the fact that they were getting their asses handed to them by a woman who had never played the game before. It is pretty sad really. Pretty sad indeed.
Nonetheless, we will be starting our own league next season and all of my friends and family are welcome to participate. If you want to play with us just email me. Our league will be fun and there will be no name calling or finger pointing, just a basic enjoyment of football. So to all of you whiney-ass-fucks in my fantasy football league, I bid you good luck.
