Tuesday Morning Hangovers

"Sir today is Tuesday and we don't have our Hangover yet. Get your act together. (Also, I'm actually ranked worse than "The Bane." I need to get MY life in order.)" - Gotham Knights #weektwo

Tuesday Morning Hangovers

Spoiler alert: Don’t ever go to a place like this for a date, let alone with your boss…#weekone

Tuesday Morning Hangovers

The aftermath of the season isn’t till next week, but I just couldn’t wait…I love this game. #preseason

2015 Elite League Draft Lottery Show

2015 Draft Lottery

I apologize gentlemen as the day was very full and got away from me, nevertheless for those who are interested in their draft pick results, behold! (Video presentation coming)

1. The Sith 

2. Prophet N Kings 

3. Sons of Thunder 

4. The Bane 

5. Gotham Knights 

6. Orange Crush 

7. Limited Edition 

8. Dunwall Assassins

9. Heartbreak Kid 

10. Sesame Street Gang 

Straight Out Clowning...(Continued)

Here are some more! Can you figure out which fits whom?

I'll be waiting for my meme, now. Anybody wanna step up?

- JB

Straight Out Clowning...

Gentlemen. Start your engines. The 2015 season of the Elite League begins. If you're not up to date with the most recent trends of the internet, I'm not going to waste the time to catch you up. All you need to know is there is no other way to start a new season than by shots fired. As much I would have liked to feature all of you, I only had a six carrier so I had to use my best ammo. Welcome to year 10. 

Here's how it works: "Straight Outta" either means what you "represent" or what you don't have :) 

Gotham Knights would still draft Daunte Culpepper if the NFL.com didn't say, "NO."

The Bane is actually from a place called "Farmington"...this is a probably a compliment. 

This one made me laugh out loud. 

Get the blade count on your razor up, Sith!

Bonus: 

I don't care if 10 more years go by...I just can't resist myself when it comes to The Educators. 

Dude could only take so many losses...
P.s. Niners are "straight outta players"

Having Fun

Once in a while it's nice to forget about the points your fantasy team is scoring (sometimes you really wish you could).

For those of you who might have not seen Odell Beckham's catch this week, please watch the video below.

Every year there is a player on my team who I just like to watch play the game. No matter how many players I have playing in other games, if I get the chance to watch a game, I'll choose the one he's playing in.

Odell Beckham Jr. Has become that player for me this year. Granted there aren't many options on my team and I didn't even draft him, but the sheer athleticism this man possesses is just fun to watch. These are the moments I remember why I like watching football. These are our perennial olympics. These are our gladiators. I am entertained.


- The Bane

Tuesday Morning Hangovers

"2009 called...they want to know if we'll ever do a 12 team league, again..." #weeknine

Faux Nirvana

I must say that I am not at all feeling what I felt last year when I got my first win of the season. Maybe it's because my playoff hopes are chaff and the dessert was larger than I realized it would be, but I believe there is another reason. This season, though I am still actively participating in the league, I have found a certain calmness about the outcome of my games. Perhaps I have been comfortably desensitized to losing or have gotten my priorities a little more straight than in previous years, but I believe I came to a realization this past week. I had convinced myself that I no longer desired to win. As you all begin your Buddhist mantra, let me explain. This was not a conscious decision or willed immunity. I simply found myself indifferent to the outcome. That is, until I won. I suddenly realized that my emptiness had not been sincere. Fear of the disappointment that hoping had brought me in the past paralyzed any desire I still had to win. I was, in effect, running into the void to escape an uncertain future. I was afraid of losing, so I stopped wanting to win. This goes back to the formulaic adage: Satisfaction is found in the balance of expectation and situation. If you want to be happy, you must either lower your expectations, or improve your situation. My fear chose the half of this equation I could control and numbed me to the fact that I had chosen it.

This is a sad fantasy football story, but the sadder fact is that this mentality is not isolated to the realm of make believe sports. Millions of people are finding themselves paralyzed each day, running into the void to escape the uncertain. We don't know the future, and that terrifies us. The fear of disappointment is a powerful chemical designed to subtly change our outlook on life. People who are afraid seem nonchalant on the surface, apparently indifferent to their spiritual wellbeing. I am so thankful that our God is much bigger than Montee Ball, and MUCH MORE RELIABLE. We serve a perfect God with perfect love that casts out fear. There is no need to fear the future when you serve the One who is beyond time. He was just as He is just as He will be. With the knowledge that God will never disappoint, and that even through the trivial failures and disappointments of this world He is still the same, we can openly embrace our desire for a connection to Him. That desire planted deeply in each of us by His spirit that is calling us back to Him; calling us back home.

Hopefully I can muster the courage to openly embrace my desire to win again, no matter how many disappointing weeks come my way. There will be no video. I have been in a creative rut lately and found no inspiration when I went to create it.