SLaM: Draft Day Chaos
Madness, Mayhem, Protests, Backroom deals, and Bedlam. All this and
it was only Draft Day. The inaugural season of the SLaM fantasy
football league kicked off with a night of chaos that the season
will be hard-pressed to match.
The first uproar of the night was caused when Gunslingers owner
Josh Freeman shipped off his 1st round pick (pick 4 overall), and his
8th round pick to the Benevolent Dictators for their 2nd, 4th, and 6th
round picks. This raised shouts of collusion from the dynamic
DC duo of Ms. Pajot and Mr. Ricard (owners of the Destroyers, and the
Legion respectively). The irony abounded as many teams in the league
had feared collusion at the hands of the DC tandem.
The first formal protest under the League's rules was instituted
but later withdrawn just prior to the draft, and the trade went through.
This, however, was just the first of many suprises.
Because of a complete lack of computer technology on the behalf
of the DC contingent, and a militant craftsman who cut Rage Owner
B. Kammer's phone line, the draft began with only 6 owners present:
Pajot, Milone, Freeman, Ricard, Wright, and Ward. Mr. Dispasquale,
co-owner with Ms. Ward, drafted from set lists submitted by Mr.
Sobolewski, Mr. Parris, and Mr. Kammer. Phone connections were set up
with Ms. Margenat, and eventually with Mr. Kammer.
Communications break downs were not half as suprising as the first round
where Barry Sanders and Drew Bledsoe both dropped into the late first
round. Bledsoe going to the Mystics, and Sanders to the Cleveland team.
Also, the Destroyers somehow ended up with the lethal Super Bowl QB
tandem of Elway and Favre. Other suprises included Jerry Rice sliding
to the Legion at pick 40, and the early selection of Air McNair at 11
even after he was declared the most over-rated person in the draft by
the Guru.
With the season still 2 weeks away, it is still anybody's game,
but the cards have been dealt, and now it's time to see how everybody
plays their hand. Feel free to drop by the
Proudest Monkeys Website
and rate how you think the draft went, and keep your eyes and ears
open as the season is just around the corner.
Email: jfreeman@law.tulane.edu