Note To Cincy’s Tee Higgins, All Is Forgiven

by Kevin Burton    My Kool & The Gang tape doesn’t play so well anymore. Found this out Sunday.    I had the greatest hits record on CD, but I lent it to one of my neighbors when I lived in Ohio and never got it back. But I had to hear the song, Celebration, …

“Here Comes Foster!” There Goes Al Michaels

by Kevin Burton    I love me some Al Michaels. Our sportscaster-sports consumer relationship goes back more than 50 years.    How much do I love Al Michaels?  Well, I watched the entire unwatchable Raiders-Chargers game Thursday because he was calling it. I didn’t even have any fantasy players involved.   And I’ve been watching …

Turning My NFL Sunday Inside Out

by Kevin Burton    I don’t know what that was last Sunday, but it was something, and it was personal.    Was it a self-boycott, playing hooky, a tantrum ( I am good at those)?    I guess it was the fantasy football version of the line “I’m just tired and bored with myself” from …

Cowboys Have Longest Title Draught In Dallas

by Kevin Burton    Sports fans in North Texas and coast to coast, gather round.    As we honor the new kings of baseball, the Texas Rangers, who won their first World Series Wednesday, let’s also take a look at the sports landscape in Dallas.    Clarence E Hill Jr. of the Fort Worth Star …

Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift, Jumping The Shark

by Kevin Burton    America, do we hate the Chiefs yet?     On second thought, let me extend the question to the rest of the world, since the NFL plays games in London, Mexico City and Frankfurt, Germany. World, have we had enough?    It seems as usual I am behind the times, late to …

A Moment With Mom And Sweet Victory

by Kevin Burton    My mother doesn’t know anything about fantasy football, but she knows a lot about perseverance.    Both truths were evident Monday night.    I was watching Monday Night Football when she called, and she was still on the line with me when the game ended.    To set the scene:    …

Dallas Defense Was The Stuff Of Fantasy

by Kevin Burton    Before she went to bed Sunday night I told my co-manager/wife that we had lost our Muppets of Beepball League fantasy football opener, because we trailed by 46 points.    The opponent was out of players but all our K&J Silvers team had left was one running back and our defense. …

Kev’s Fantasy Football And Stupid Draft Tricks

by Kevin Burton    I just broke the all-time record for fastest to drop a player off a fantasy football roster.    If you know fantasy, you know this is not a happy occasion.    Footballs have not even begun to fly yet. That comes tomorrow when the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs host Detroit. …

How Many Fantasy Teams Are Too Many?

by Kevin Burton    If having one fantasy football team is great fun (which it is), wouldn’t having more than one team be even more fun?    That is the question I asked last year, in my second year as a fantasy manager. I answered it in the affirmative. Yes indeed, great big ridiculous fun! …

K-State’s Deuce Vaughn Wows Cowboys Fans

by Kevin Burton    It was just one pre-season game, so let’s not get crazy with this yet. But Deuce Vaughn may be about to silence his critics.    I sure hope so.    Vaughn was a consensus All-American running back at Kansas State in 2021 and a unanimous All-American last year, according to Wikipedia. …