Tag: Football
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Week 5 Newsletter: Swift Pun-ishment
We’ll get to the football and funny business in a minute. But first… Nothing about Tim Wakefield’s career should have worked, yet it did beautifully. Born in Melbourne, FL in 1996, Wakefield rose up the baseball ranks as a power-hitting first baseman at Florida Tech, where he set the single-season and career home run records…
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Week 1 Newsletter: Feeling Blue
Football is back, motherfuckers! The final sign of the NFL’s return is here at last — the first newsletter of the season has been released. With both real and fantasy football being played today, anticipation is high for pretty much everyone whose real team doesn’t have a star player calling out the head coach and…
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2023 Draft Newsletter
Welcome to a new era of the Epic League! Think that’s a bit dramatic? Consider the following: all but one of us are now in our 30’s, as of next weekend half of us will have been married, and Dad will soon not be the only member of the league who’s, well, a dad. We’re…
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Week 19 Newsletter: Into the Unknown
It’s a testament to the best laid plans of mice and men that the one year I decided to not publish a newsletter every week, the newsletter technically goes longer than it ever has. Super Bowl-specific newsletters aside, this is the latest in a season and latest in January that I’ve published one of these.…
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Week 15 Newsletter: Moroccan Roll
Did you guys know Lindsey Scott started playing college football in 2016? Yep, he redshirted his first year at LSU, then left after Les Miles was fired. He transferred to East Mississippi Community College, where he first lit the world on fire, leading the Lions to the 2017 NJCAA National Championship. He then transferred to Missouri, where…
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Week 11 Newsletter: Just for Kicks
This football season has been fantastic so far. There have been some incredible games that will go down as instant classics (like Vikings-Bills), young and exciting players like Justin Fields, Tua Tagovailoa, and Jalen Hurts are making the leap, and there’s plenty of change across most of the non-AFC West divisions. There’s also plenty more to come…
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Week 8 Newsletter: Curses, Foiled Again!
When I was trying to find a good theme for the last newsletter, I ended up with two good choices. One of them (the one I went with) was coaches, given that the publishing date fell on National Coaches Day. But the other idea was so good that I ended up saving it for this…
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Week 5 Newsletter: Put me in, coach!
Happy October, everyone! It was definitely weird to have the past few weeks pass without a newsletter being published. It’s like how I feel whenever the 10 p.m. news is on and I’m not in the booth. But hopefully absence makes the heart grow fonder. It certainly made the last few weeks easier to not have…
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Week 1 Newsletter: Florida Men
The leaves are turning red, pumpkin spice is in the air, school is back in session, and it’s no longer fashionable to wear white. Despite the area just getting through several days of triple digit hell, Fall is indeed upon us, bringing with it the greatest season of them all: football. With all the craziness…
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2022 Draft Newsletter: Back with a Vengeance
So, that newsletter retirement didn’t last long, did it? Now I know what it feels like to be Tom Brady! I was truly content to end the newsletter in January. I wasn’t lying when I said it had become a grind and I was looking forward to not thinking about it for once. Then about…
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