The Rant Rag – Week 1 Fantasy Goats

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines “Goat” as several things, including: “a person who is blamed for a loss or failure” Thus, literally, a “Fantasy Goat” is a fantasy football player that a person blames for the loss of his or her game.  For me, I know a player is a “Fantasy Goat” via one of two tests. First, subjectively, after the games

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Waiver Favors: Early Week 1 Fantasy Football Pickups

By Ha Kung Wong Twitter: @FBGarbageTime Enjoyed the first Sunday of the 2015 NFL football season, but couldn’t find time to track all the games for waiver wire gems in your fantasy football league?  Or did you auto-draft your fantasy team and now need to overhaul it with some new upside players? Well, don’t worry!  Because we’ll be scouring the

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Five Things We Learned from the 2015 NFL Kickoff

By Ha Kung Wong Twitter: @FBGarbageTime Ah, football.  Yes, it’s back.  And what better way to start the season than with the polarizing New England Patriots, the defending champs and subject of significant off field persecution by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, and the revitalized Pittsburgh Steelers. Of course, both starting running backs and centers were out of the game (due

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Injuries & Oddities: The “NFL Players Are Weird” Edition

By Ha Kung Wong Twitter: @FBGarbageTime We’ve had the injuries run down for the week, so how about a few oddities?  And the theme this week?  Well, just NFL players generally being weird… RGIII Has an Intern? First, we hear that RGIII has been benched in favor of Kirk Cousins.  And then we hear that RGIII “Likes” this rant on

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Injuries & Oddities: NFL Preseason Week 3 Edition

By Ha Kung Wong Twitter: @FBGarbageTime As usual, it’s time to catch on all the NFL injuries, this time from Preseason Week 3! Randall Cobb The Packers have already sustained a major injury to their receiving core with Jordy Nelson going down last week with a torn ACL, causing him to miss the entirety of the 2015 season.  And although the

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Reality TV is for Suckers, but what about Madden 16?

Am I a sucker? Well, I’ve been watching the TV show “UnREAL” on (gasp!) Lifetime.  Hold your horses, that’s not the sucker part.  If you’re not familiar with what “UnREAL” is, it’s a fictional weekly drama concerning the lives of the people who produce and direct reality TV shows.  In this case, it’s a mythical reality show called “Ever After”,

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UPDATED – Injuries & Oddities: NFL Preseason Week 2 Edition

By Ha Kung Wong Twitter: @FBGarbageTime Another week of preseason football means another week of “Injuries & Oddities”!  AND another week of our mascot, the jackelope! OK, let’s get to those NFL injuries! Kelvin Benjamin UPDATE: @Panthers WR Kelvin Benjamin suffered a torn ACL in today's joint practice with the Dolphins (via @RapSheet) pic.twitter.com/1G8SyfP0OL — NFL Network (@nflnetwork) August 19, 2015

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Injuries & Oddities: The “Not All NFL Player Commercials Suck” Edition

By Ha Kung Wong Twitter: @FBGarbageTime Hey everyone! So last time we covered a whole bunch of injuries, and I know there are a whole bunch more, including to such high profile players as LeSean McCoy and Kelvin Benjamin.  But we’re going to look at that later in the week.  I think I owe you a little more nonsense, so

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