Eggers owner's nervous night

Eggers owners Mike Miazga shares this experience from Monday Night Football:

"I was on a plane last night headed to Charleston for work during the first MNF game. I notice this college kid has her computer open and is following the Eagles-Skins game on ESPN Website through the inflight Internet. I ask her who is winning and then ask who scored Philadelphia's first TD. Of course she says Jackson and at the time I was leading Barrels by like 15 only and this was in the first quarter. Of course she tells me Morris had nothing. So for the rest of the flight and until I got to the hotel I was sweating it. Then I saw how many points Eagles had and was really worried. Luckily Jackson didn't go nuts. I probably need mental help for following so closely."

Have any other Week 1 stories? Feel free to comment.

Week 1: Manning's big day

Peyton Manning owners were elated after Week 1 with his record-tying seven TD passes against the Ravens, but I'm sure on the flip side that those competing against Manning were not happy. In the Finks League, that would have been the Barrels who saw the Eggers score 68 points with help from Manning's 30 Finks points.

In my wife's Yahoo League from work, she was pretty mad as well after watching Manning drop a ton of points in her QB-heavy league. Is it bad thing this season when a husband and wife in separate leagues have the same QB? The Wilcoxes are all over QB Stafford DET this season.

Manning's 30 Finks points is not a record, even though individual Finks points have not been kept. Dah Commish only added the Player of the Week feature a few years ago. Quags' RB D. Martin TB scored 33 in Week 9 last year. Quags might know how he did it. Quags beat the Distillers 80-46 that week.

No bounties sought for Finks owners

Check out this story from May about a disgruntled fantasy commissioner seeking a bounty hunter for deadbeat owners. Good thing all of our Finks League owners pay up on time, or I will sick Boba Fett or Jonathan Vilma on your tale.

Here's the story: http://ftw.usatoday.com/2013/05/duck-fantasy-baseball-fees-and-this-could-happen-to-you/

Dah Commish gives a S/O in his other blog

I indirectly talked about the Finks League in by Heard in the Hallways blog for Pioneer Press. You can check it out at this link:

http://blogs.pioneerlocal.com/sports/2013/08/one_fans_fantasy_football_obse.html

Auction 2013 is in the books

A few notes from Finks League Auction 2013 now that the agonizing wait for your roster is complete:

THE TOPS: Your highest bids by position were $38 for QB Brees NO by the Distillers... $26.75 for RB Rice BAL by Newt... $24.05 for WR Fitzgerald AZ by Quags... $3.01 for PK Gostkowski by Khans.
HOT BIDS: The bidding was very spirited for the following players:
RB Spiller BUF for $23.17 by Quags, the next bid was $23.07.
WR Bryant DAL went for $23.75 by Quags, the next bid was $19.02.
The Eggers received WR Jul. Jones ATL for $6.02 to beat a bid of $5.94.
Newt claimed PK Prater DEN for $1.32, topping a bid of $1.03.
A penny makes a difference for Khans' Gostkowski bid, beating out another bid of $3.
BLIND LEADING THE BLIND: There was only one blind draw for an equal high bid. The Brawlers got RB M. Ball DEN over the Sharks for .50.
BEST ON THE BOARD: According to an ESPN Fantasy Football Draft Kit listing, these are our best remaining free agents available after Week 1:
QB Roethlisberger PIT
RB Bernard CIN
WR R. White ATL
PK J. Brown NYG

Good luck to you all.

Funny NBC spot on Premier League football

Week 17: Cleopatra reigns in FB19

Morris leads stunning comeback for title win

LONDON -- Anthony Munoz and Cleopatra RB Morris WAS scored three TDs and rushed for 200 yards on Sunday Night Football to lead a stunning comeback over the Ham N Eggers in the Finks League's Finger Bowl 19.

Cleopatra won 61-42 in Week 17 at Wembley Stadium to pick up the second league title for Dah Commish, the only remaining owner to compete in every year in league history. Dah Commish's only previous title was FB10, a 58-44 win over Simo's Los Angeles Express in 2003.

"Stunning. It's the only word I can think of to describe how I feel right now," Dah Commish said. "Before the Sunday Night Football game, I thought I was dead and buried."

The Eggers led 42-28 entering the NFL's final regular season game. In addition to Morris' MVP performance of 27 Finks points, TE Witten DAL added a TD for Cleopatra on SNF. Dah Commish won $378 for this year's Finks League title.

Eggers owner Miazga finished second in back-to-back seasons and earned $126 as the runner-up. Newt placed third with a 41-37 victory over the defending champion Distillers.

Cleopatra established a franchise record for $16 in transactions over the course of the season. The only remaining players from the opening auction to finish the season were QB Stafford DET and PKs Akers SF and Hanson DET. Stafford fell one point short of a franchise record for individual Finks points in a season, finishing with 185 compared to QB E. Manning NYG's total from 2012 when Dah Commish placed third.

Cleopatra's opening week roster included RBs Helu WAS, Redman PIT, D. Brown IND, Starks GB. Only Brown was on the roster to end the season. Dah Commish picked up starting RBs Morris WAS and Spiller BUF in the second week and managed to hold on despite losing WR scoring leader Harvin MIN to a season-ending injury after Week 9.

During the season, Cleopatra's roster included 10 different RBs and nine different WR/TEs. RB D. Brown IND and WR T. Smith BAL were released during the season only to be picked up again later in the season.

FINGER BOWL 19 BOXSCORE

Cleopatra (61)
QB Stafford DET 14
RB Morris WAS 27
RB Spiller BUF 6
TE Witten DAL 6
WR T. Smith BAL zero
PK Hanson DET 8

Eggers (42)
QB P. Manning DEN 16
RB Forte CHI 11
RB Green-Ellis CIN zero
TE A. Hernandez NE zero
WR Nicks NYG zero
PK Graham HOU 15

THIRD PLACE BOXSCORE

Newt (41)
QB Wilson SEA 14
RB Moreno DEN 6
RB Sproles NO 9
WR Marshall CHI zero
WR Cruz NYG 6
PK Tynes NYG 6

Distillers (37)
QB Luck IND 6
RB Ridley NE 12
RB Turner ATL 6
WR Cal. Johnson DET zero
WR Welker NE 9
PK Gostkowski NE 4