Yes, that's right ... we've dipped our pudgy, little pigskin piggies into the hack-infested waters of the fantasy football world. You know the Cold, Hard Football Facts: We're all about REAL football, not the fantasy variety. Our Quality Stats are all about winning on the field on Sunday, not about you winning by the water cooler on Monday.
And that's the way we, and you, like it. But it's still a few weeks 'til kickoff, and it turns out a lot of you folks are doing something called a fantasy draft this month. So, we thought we'd give you our irrefutable Cold, Hard Fantasy Football Facts over the past week.
Fret not, trolls, we have not changed our mission. This is just a temporary preseason divergence. As one reader, Gene Guth, wrote to us upon seeing our Cold, Hard Fantasy Football Facts:
"I DESPISE FANTASY FOOTBALL! You claimed the same thing just a year or so ago ... Now that I know what you’ll do for money, I’d hate to know what you’d do to get laid. As I’m sure your mothers told you plenty of times, 'You should be ashamed of yourselves!'"
Well, Gene, decorum prohibits us from sharing with you, or anyone, the depths of humanity we've plumbed in the past for money and sex. Suffice it to say, we should be ashamed of ourselves. But we're not. Shame is one of those pesky emotions we've conveniently kicked out of our lives.
So, without further adon't, here are our 2007 Cold, Hard Fantasy Football Facts:
