What's in a fantasy football name?

 

Plenty.

Everyone tries to come up with the most clever nicknames for their fantasy football teams. Starting this year, my Finks League team will become Saints Preserve Us! starting with our 30th season. Simply, I have run out of nicknames honoring the leather helmet era pro football teams of the past. My first leather helmet nickname tribute was in our first season when my team was the Staten Island Stapletons, also honoring my birthplace.

My recent run of leather helmet names started in 2014 with the Decatur Staleys. 

Saints Preserve Us! (yes, with an exclamation mark) honors my favorite NFL team, whose late GM bears the name of our league. I don't plan on changing this new nickname any time in the future. After 30 years, I am finding out what my fellow Finks owners have known for quite some time. It's too difficult to change your nickname every year. 

As you recall, I changed my previous run of nicknames every year from 1997 to 2013 as puns on Shakespeare plays. My only titles came in 2003 as As You Hike It and in 2012 with Anthony Munoz and Cleopatra.