Fantasy Playoffs: Happiness Is A Warm Kicker

by Kevin Burton    The beginning of week 14 of fantasy football saw me in a (rare) good mood.  I love it when a plan works out!    Most of the fantasy world pays scant attention to kickers. In fact, some leagues have eliminated kickers from their scoring. This must be a macho thing. Kickers …

She Did The Mocking, I Did The Drafting

by Kevin Burton     In business, you have to give a report to the CEO from time to time, so she knows what’s going on.    It’s called being accountable. And this is serious business.    So it was Thursday that the CEO of the Burtons’ fantasy football company paid a visit to the Mock …

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 …

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. …

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. …

Note To Bengals And Self: Don’t Lose Stupid

by Kevin Burton    Two takeaways from Sunday’s Chiefs-Bengals AFC Championship game, one a smirking aside, the other more lasting.    To set up the first one, I remember when the late great John Madden had just left his brilliant career as Oakland Raiders coach and just begun what would prove to be a brilliant …

Bengals Roar, Bills Snore, Cowboys Lose

   My father used to say that NFL games were fixed.  Then and now I scoff at that, but sometimes I wonder.    Like Sunday, when Buffalo was so passive and so awful in a blowout 27-10 loss to Cincinnati.  Maybe this is just me needing to adjust my expectations for teams as they coalesce …

Bills-Vikings Super Bowl Just Has To Happen

by Kevin Burton    Right this minute, even the Seahawks fans have hope, or should I say Super Hope.    The NFL playoffs start Saturday. With seven teams in each conference there are 49 possible combinations of pairings for the big game.  In that strictly mathematical sense, all teams are equal.   But to paraphrase …

Here’s My Farewell To Fantasy Football

by Kevin Burton   There was a day in 2003 when I took a late afternoon city bus ride to a music store, just in case.     Undefeated Ohio State would play defending champion and heavily-favored Miami of Florida for the college football championship that night. I needed a copy of “Celebration,” on Kool and …