The Defenders: Comics Fantasy Football Champs

Dave Carter of Yet Another Comics Blog has hosted a fantasy football league on Yahoo! the past two years, and yours truly took home the trophy this season with playoff victories over the regular season champs (and Dave’s team), Kickers, Inc. — 71-60 — and the evil Flex Mentallo — 59-44.

Despite scoring the most points in the league during the regular season (1079), I only had a 7-8 record — after going 5-2 the second half — but snagged the last spot in the playoffs on a tie-breaker. Once there, though, the Defenders rolled to victory! They were a ragtag bunch, not unlike their namesakes, and by the end of the season several of my opening day starters were long-gone or had been benched.

What started out like this:

…ended up like this:

Several of my expected stars — Daunte Culpepper, Edgerrin James, LaMont Jordan and Jeremy Shockey — were all cut or benched at some point, replaced by the surprising likes of Drew Brees, Frank Gore, Maurice Jones-Drew and Marques Colston.

Metti-Publisher — the comics publisher fantasy league — needs to get back up and running ASAP because Fantasy Baseball doesn’t start up for another three months and I need another fix bad!

PS: Go Jets! Brady and Beliprick are going down this weekend!

About Guy LeCharles Gonzalez

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez works in publishing by day, world domination by night. Over the years he’s lived in Staten Island and South Beach Miami; served in the Jehovah’s Witnesses, US Army, and Dennis Kucinich’s ‘04 Presidential Campaign; won poetry slams, founded a reading series, co-authored a book of poetry, and self-published another; prefers Pumpkin and India Pale Ales, Buffalo Trace and Four Roses Bourbons, and Dona Paula Shiraz Malbec. He’s a devout Mets fan from the Bronx now living in New Jersey, and has a beautiful wife and two amazing kids.

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