NBD - Week 3 Review A

Remember Stacey Williams?

I do. Even weird mid-90's swimsuit fashion couldn't un-hot her. I always felt like she was under-rated compared to your Vendelas, your Cindy Crawfords, your Kathy Irelands, etc. I bring this up because I just discovered Sports Illustrated's "The Vault." On it, you can browse back through pretty much any Sports Illustrated in history. I just read an article from 20 years ago about Joe Montana leading a fourth-quarter comeback over the Eagles. He threw four touchdowns in that quarter and 428 total passing yards for the day. Would have been a pretty strong fantasy asset, I imagine. And speaking of assets: among the issues you can browse are all the swimsuit issues. They've actually got a whole section of the site devoted to it. You can re-live all your adolescent wank jobs anew. It's fantastic.

Back to fantasy of the football variety: We've got a couple games in the bag even before the MNF contest:

Bartelby (96) defeats Woody's Warriors (53)

After years of frustrating ineptitude, Bartelby has come screaming out of the gates this season to start 3-0, and they did it this week over former bottom-of-the-pack rival Woody's Warriors (when I say "former" there, I'm obviously referring to the rivalry, not Woody's bottom-of-the-pack status; he is now 0-3). Last week's big Bartelby horse, Frank Gore, went down early to injury, but the rest of the crew was able to step up and overcome his absence. No earth-shattering performances here, but nearly everyone was solid and in double figures, including team-leading Willie Parker (19), who has a history of beating up on the Bengals. Unfortunately for Ray, though, the Bengals had the last laugh in that game, coming from behind to defeat his beloved Steelers. The rest of the Bartelby attack was balanced, featuring David Garrard (17), Devin Hester (14), the Giants Defense (12), Ryan Grant (10), Greg Jennings (10), and Ryan Longwell (10). The Warriors, meanwhile, have dropped their scoring every week, reaching a pretty miserable low here in Week 3. Not a single of Eric's players managed to get into double figures, and several team members appear to have given up on their coach. Rumors of a shake-up in the Warrior front office are inevitable this week.

I'm at the Pizza Hut (108+) defeats Matt Ryan Loves Dogs (74)
Elliott still has a little work to do tonight beating up on Koehler (he picked up my cast-off Dallas Defense), but this one was decided even before Pizza Hut's Dallas Clark and Reggie Wayne combined for 32 points Sunday night. The trouble for MRLD started when Dwayne Bowe was scratched from the Kansas City-Philly game but not scratched from Koehler's starting line-up. Bowe's goose egg was nearly matched by the impotent Redskins' running game, whose Clinton Portis managed only 48 total yards. Braylon Edwards, Jeremy Shockey, and Jason Elam's similarly shitty outings sabotaged the best efforts of Joe Flacco (18), Steven Jackson (14), and the surprising Cedric Benson (14). The Pizza Hutters, on the other hand, were solid across the board, with only Reggie Bush (and potentially the Cowboys' D) missing double figures. Leading the charge was the afore-mentioned Wayne, but Donald Driver, Tom Brady, and Ricky Williams were not far behind. That last sentence sounds like it came from a 2004 game recap. Maybe this Sports Illustrated Vault thing has got me confused.