Records made to be broken

Until seeing the Eggers' 91 points scored in Week 2, I had completely forgot that our Finks League records were kept with such detail for regular season games. With so many years now in the league, I thought I was only keeping playoff records. 

The Eggers' achievement was quite amazing, considering former owner Matt Simo had the previous record going back to Week 11 in 1995, our second Finks League season. 

I found my 10-year celebration book in a remote file cabinet. There it is: 

Simo's Chicago Blitz 90, Matt Trowbridge's Young Guns 38. 

Trowbridge went 9-5-1 that season, but missed the playoffs as the third place team in the Baschnagel Division behind Mike Wilcox's Kansas City Kings (11-4) and Simo's Blitz (10-5). Simo finished second that season after losing to the Stone Blue Bombers, 42-27, in the Finger Bowl. 

I don't have a boxscore from that 1995 Week 11 game. 

The Eggers' 2020 record-breaking performance seems appropriate, considering Miazga's first season was 1995. Playing as the Cosan's Ham n Eggers with a co-owner named Chiarelli, the original Eggers went 7-8 and placed fifth in the Baschnagel Division. 

Other 2020 Finks owners participating in that 1995 season were Dah Commish (La Fleur de Bruce Lees) and Stan Goff (Cowpokes).

One other league note about 1995, that was our first year that Dah Commish went high tech. I bought my first laptop, an Epson monochrome with a track ball as a mouse. My first email address was AOL, such as the rest of the world when that company swamped mailboxes with startup discs. I either sent weekly standings via dialup email through AOL or faxed it out to our Finks owners as I did in our inaugural 1994 season. Wi-fi didn't come along until years later. 

For the record, here is the Eggers' 91-point, Week-2 total against Quags:

QB K. Murray AZ 20

RB Chubb CLE 17

RB Sanders PHI 9

TE Kelce KC 9

WR Ridley ATL 17

K Tucker 19

Welcome to new Links page...

... Perhaps looking much like the old page. Welcome to the first chapter of the page-by-page introduction to the new Finks League website, starting with Links.

The link to Links:

https://sites.google.com/site/finksleague/links?authuser=0

It might be listed last, but it is one of my favorite pages. I have tried to pack  it with "goodies" of various links to relevant fantasy news and sites. The new Google Sites uses "Buttons," the small squares that act as links to other pages. I have used them vigorously on the new Links page. Check them out. 

Also, if you have any suggestions for any cool fantasy websites you would like to see on the Links page, please send them to me and I will put them up. 

I have opened the new Links page with a returning tribute to our namesake, former Bears and Saints GM Jim Finks who was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Finks died in 1994 before this fantasy league was created. It seemed appropriate to name it after him. Finks helped build the Saints' famed Dome Patrol defense in the 1980s that signaled the turnaround for a previously moribund franchise. 

Why the Equalizer

A ways back, I finally found a CD of my favorite songs from the NFL Films catalog. Half of it is the legendary voice of John Facenda ("The autumn wind is a Raider.") and the other half is the music of Sam Spence.



This is my favorite song to get me in the mood for NFL football just ten minutes away. Thought you would enjoy. The talk radio today was playing Fox Sports' NFL theme. This is better.

And away we go...

 

With a new web site, possibly a new blog and during these COVID challenged times, we have a new season for Finks League football. As long as the NFL is playing, we will continue to play fantasy football. Because we're Finksters and we're crazy. 

That's my now 12-year-old daughter Anna grabbing slips of paper from my Titleist/Wisconsin hat to determine our division assignments. It's become an annual tradition for me. 

Auction notes you crave:

• The top QB bid was Mahomes KC for $44.11 by Quags. Using rankings by CBS Sports fantasy analyst Dave Richards, the top ranked QB not drafted was Roethlisberger PIT at No. 8.
• Top RB bid was McCaffrey CAR ($40.79) by the Jays. Richards' top remaining pick at RB is someone named Moss BUF at No. 21. Is that Randy Moss' kid from LSU?
• Highest WR bid went to Thomas NO ($20.01) for Mafia. Richards had No. 18 Woods LAR still on his board. 
• At PK, Tucker BAL went to the Eggers for $6.11. Richards ranked undrafted Badgley LAC at No. 4.
• Finks auctioneers had two blind draws, both featuring Gaga vs. Eggers. My Anna draws the winning name fro slips of paper. Gaga trumped Eggers each time, getting WR Cooper DAL and WR Beckham Jr. CLE for $1.02 each time. 
• In a case of unusual strategy, Gaga owner Sean King bid $1.03 for each of his top position choices and then bid $1.02 each on everyone else. Let's see if it works. 
• A reminder to every owner, get your Week 1 lineups in  the first kickoff of your games. Welcome back, all. 

Chuck Bednarik plaquage Frank Grifford

Destiny brought these two together for arguably the hardest hit in NFL history.