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I’ve never been a huge fan of playoff fantasy football. If real fantasy football is chess, playoff fantasy football is checkers. Or Candyland.
Nevertheless, sometimes you just aren’t ready to let the fantasy football season die. If that’s you, there are a few sites where you can get your fix. If I’m going to spend any time at all on one of these, there’d better be a decent payoff that I can pretend I might win, so I’ve listed the prizes for each here.
NFL.com Playoff Challenge: You compete against all other players for the grand prize (a Super Bowl trip) and a few other prizes ($100 and $50 gift cards to NFL.com).
Sporting News Salary Cap Playoffs: Similar to NFL.com but with a series of cash prizes for the top teams. $500 top prize.
CBS Sports Playoff Challenge: One $5,000 top prize.
ESPN Gridiron Playoff Challenge: What the hell? The top prize is 3,000 ESPN Winner’s Circle points, which supposedly have a $450 retail value, but can only be redeemed for merchandise in the Winner’s Circle “Rewards Gallery,” which as you’d expect is mostly ridiculous crap you’d never want to own:
"...the central artistic-discursive genre of our time..."?!?! Who writes this shit? Oh, right, Charles Hirschberg. What a douche.
…or wear:
This t-shirt would look especially good in XXXL and worn to the Golden Corral.
with some mind-bogglingly stupid shit mixed in for variety:
WHY DO I WANT THIS?!
The one decent option is an Xbox 360, which can be had for 3,000 points, so I guess that’s decent if you don’t own one and want one (though considering that it’s been out for a long-ass time now, what’s been holding you back?).
Fine, but not worth anywhere close to $450.
It’s worth pointing out, though, that the Xbox package isn’t worth $450 – significantly better bundles can be had for $300 these days.
Anyway, if you play one of these, let us know how it goes. I’ll probably give the NFL.com league a whirl.
e-roc 2:56 pm on 1/02/2010 Permalink |
@Matt – I could use some Geek-insight at WR this week… Please help me pick three from the following:
a) D. Aromashodu (@DET)
b) D. Bowe (@DEN)
c) H. Nicks (@MIN)
d) J. Gaffney (v. KC)
I just don’t want to end up picking a dud….
Matt 1:17 am on 1/03/2010 Permalink |
Will do tomorrow man – sorry but I’m managing two PokerStars tourneys at the same time…
remind me tmrw if I forget.
e-roc 8:28 am on 1/04/2010 Permalink
Welp. The CORRECT answers were (a), (d) and (e) – Other. Fortunately I did start (a) and (d). Patrick Crayton would have been the Other money pick. Not Nicks…
Also, I was THIS CLOSE from starting McGahee over MJD…..
At any rate, thank you Geeks for another good season. I retained #2 in the points race (should have finished #2 in the playoffs as well), which pockets me $200…
Matt 9:26 am on 1/04/2010 Permalink
Sorry man, my memory’s about as useful as a hairbrush to Ving Rhames…
rob[from kc] 3:31 pm on 1/02/2010 Permalink |
I would go with everyone but Bowe. He seems to suffer from the drops just as bad as the other kc grief receivers.
e-roc 8:00 pm on 1/02/2010 Permalink |
Thanks. He actually had a decent game last week against a solid Cincy DEF….
rob[from kc] 10:56 am on 1/03/2010 Permalink
yes This is true but it is amazing what no practice can do for the chief’s receivers. We fans here in kc learned many years ago to never allow a chief to be in the position of making you or breaking you. You have been warned. lol good luck
e-roc 8:31 am on 1/04/2010 Permalink |
Didn’t go with Bowe, but it looks like I should have picked up the KC defense!