Fantasy Football Draft Stories

[ricanrockers 39]

The year is 1998, the guy looks around the room and with a serious face tells all of us that we're done.

 

He picks Kordell Stewart with the first pick......

 

If you look at Kordell stats from 97 they were very very nice but to draft him #1. Oh Boy...not good! We talk and laugh about it every year. Needless to say, the guy is still in the league but never makes the playoff. In his defense, he drafted P.Manning in 04 with the #2 pick. Manning had an awesome season but the guy still didn't make the playoffs.

[Force of Two 0]

1997-1998 was the beginning of FF for my league so there was a plethora of mistakes that we laugh at now....In fact the guy who essentially was a dynasty for the 1st 4-5 years of the league lucked into Manning, RMoss, Terrel Davis and Jamal Anderson that year and crushed the rest of us...

 

98-00 were the dark times for me....too much Skip Hicks, Cecil Collins and Mike Alstott....Cecil the Diesel is still a running joke in the league....and if it makes you feel any better in 1998 we had a guy take Kordell in the 1st as well....and he is a pretty good FF player now..

[Polamalu43 0]

1997-1998 was the beginning of FF for my league so there was a plethora of mistakes that we laugh at now....In fact the guy who essentially was a dynasty for the 1st 4-5 years of the league lucked into Manning, RMoss, Terrel Davis and Jamal Anderson that year and crushed the rest of us...

 

98-00 were the dark times for me....too much Skip Hicks, Cecil Collins and Mike Alstott....Cecil the Diesel is still a running joke in the league....and if it makes you feel any better in 1998 we had a guy take Kordell in the 1st as well....and he is a pretty good FF player now..

 

My worst pick was taking Touchdown Tommy in the 3rd round the year he began the year as the starter. I think I got caught with the some guy thinking he'd throw for 5,000 yards. It wasn't me, by the way.

 

Interesting draft weekend ideas: My main money league will hold our own version of the combine. We are getting "40" times, beer chugging, log toss, and our own Wonderlic.

[ricanrockers 39]

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[mgs316 14]

1998 - drafted Jeff George in the first round, 11th overall, after his 29 TD campaign. 4 td's, 5 int's, and 7 starts later, he got hurt.

 

But the true moral of the story is...I still won the freakin league!!!!

 

Never think your #1 pick is that important.

[ratbastard1 0]

The year before i joined one of my leagues the champ had won by drafting last (10th) in a snake. He took Rice and Emmit and of course they were all world that year and the next (3 keeper) so he won again. That first draft the first 9 picks were QBs.

[49ER MAN 0]

In my league in 99 I drafted 3 WR's before picking a RB, OOPS!

[ricanrockers 39]

In my league in 99 I drafted 3 WR's before picking a RB, OOPS!

 

...wow...tough season I bet!

[harken34 0]

We still make fun of the guy who pick Ryan Leak in front of Manning in a rookie draft.

[Whyamiabillsfan 0]

A person who is no longer welcome in our league drafted TD the day after he retired.

 

We made him stick with it.

 

Needless to say, his other picks weren't the cream of the crop. He finished dead last.

[Let Da Big Dog Eat 40]

I have 2 of them. Means I have played for too long.

 

Back in the mid, late 90's, a guy drafts Skip Hicks (Skins) in the 2nd RD. TD heavy league. Like a poker player I look around and there are no raised eyebrows. I wait until the 10th or 11th RD and announce "Since the BU RB in Wash has already been drafted, I'll take the starter, S Davis." He led the league in TD's and I crushed everyone to the SB. Funniest part is that after I drafted Davis the guy looks down at his MAY mag and says, "Hicks is the starter, it says so right here!" Taught me all I need to know about the mags!

 

2nd one: In '04 I took CMart in about the 8th RD. Everyone was down on him after a stinky '03. Guy laughed at me. I looked at him and said, "pennington is back and he's my 3rd RB." Led the league in rushing. Another SB. In "05, the same guy took him as his #2 (starting) RB. I have been laughing at him ever since. But, the funniest part is yet to come. I will take CMart as my #3 RB again this yr and with the improvements in the Jets O-line and Pennington back I get to laugh at him again.

[ricanrockers 39]

I have 2 of them. Means I have played for too long.

 

Back in the mid, late 90's, a guy drafts Skip Hicks (Skins) in the 2nd RD. TD heavy league. Like a poker player I look around and there are no raised eyebrows. I wait until the 10th or 11th RD and announce "Since the BU RB in Wash has already been drafted, I'll take the starter, S Davis." He led the league in TD's and I crushed everyone to the SB. Funniest part is that after I drafted Davis the guy looks down at his MAY mag and says, "Hicks is the starter, it says so right here!" Taught me all I need to know about the mags!

 

2nd one: In '04 I took CMart in about the 8th RD. Everyone was down on him after a stinky '03. Guy laughed at me. I looked at him and said, "pennington is back and he's my 3rd RB." Led the league in rushing. Another SB. In "05, the same guy took him as his #2 (starting) RB. I have been laughing at him ever since. But, the funniest part is yet to come. I will take CMart as my #3 RB again this yr and with the improvements in the Jets O-line and Pennington back I get to laugh at him again.

 

As a JETS Fan, I hope you're right. C-Mart would not be a bad 3rd RB

[Jeremy 0]

We have a guy in one of my leagues who takes Randy Moss in the first round every year. 3 years ago (going into the '04 season) when I joined that league, I sat down at the table opposite this guy and guys were asking him if he was going to take Moss again this year. He didn't really commit either way. He draws the #1 pick (At the time we picked randomly the day of the draft). So I'm thinking, "well, he's not going to take Moss at #1. He'll take Priest Holmes or maybe Tomlinson." He took Moss.

 

What's really sad, is he did better than I did that year. I took McAllister at #6 and then drank the Kevan Barlow Kool Aid, so I had one of my worst years ever. I won the league last year, though.

 

The next year? Randy Moss. I think he drafted 5th that time.

 

Now we've moved to a system were you draft in reverse order of where you finished the year before. So this year he'll pick 3rd overall with a chance at one of the "big 3".

 

I actually think he may have learned his lesson. We'll see. I think he once won the league with Moss during one of Moss' big years and has been loyal ever since. I haven't seen that much man love since the days of Bouve and Ricky Williams.

[DC Gator 0]

2002:

The new guy in the league asks what he needs to do to prepare for the draft several weeks before the event. Everyone tells him, "Just buy a magazine and study"

 

The guy walks into the draft with a Sports Illustrated For Kids under his harm - his "magazine!" From that moment on until the end of time... his team will be named - SI for kids.

 

Eventually got very good.

 

1998:

It's my first year ever of fantasy football. I'm right out of college. I'm in a league with guys at my first job. I study some but nothing really past the first three round. I pick Steve Young, Jerry Rice. Then - I really have no idea what I am doing. Well - i graduated from the University of Florida so i grab Fred Taylor as my second running back. We actually lost to Georgia that year - where i saw Robert Edwards beat the defense up. So, I draft him. I saw a lot of Randy Moss and Marshall that year... so i get him. Those three players... with like my 4-6 picks... while the laughter rained down upon me. I didn't know why anyone was laughing at me either.

 

You all know what transpired. Through pretty much dumb luck and a lack of FF knowledge i drafted the most powerul team i have ever owned. In year one.

 

Looking back - i couldn't understand why the veterans were sooooo annoyed with me winning the thing. This is the reason why i may chuckle when the new guy in our league picks up laverneus coles with his second pick... but i'll never outright laugh.

[ricanrockers 39]

2002:

The new guy in the league asks what he needs to do to prepare for the draft several weeks before the event. Everyone tells him, "Just buy a magazine and study"

 

The guy walks into the draft with a Sports Illustrated For Kids under his harm - his "magazine!" From that moment on until the end of time... his team will be named - SI for kids.

 

[mggoilers 0]

We had an owner draft Fred Lane. I have yet to say "That guy is dead" ever again in a draft. But he still gets crap for that one.

[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon 0]

New guy took Chip Lohmiller, PK, WAS with the #1 pick in a draft in the early 90s.

 

As a joke, someone had told him kicker was the most important position. We pleaded with him to change his pick, but since Lohmiller had the most points in the NFL the previous year, he was convinced we were trying to screw him.

[DixieDevils 0]

In 1996, we had an owner no-show on us for the draft. Another person, willingly took on the team at the last second. He took over the guy's draft spot and had the second pick in a redraft. After giving him some time to look over some info through a few books, he came back with his pick:

 

Steelers defense.

 

The guy still made the playoffs, but was booted in the first round.

 

My favorite team was my 1997 draft, again a redraft. I had the 5th pick and took Terrell Davis. Later ended up with Michael Irvin, Karim Abdul-Jabaar, Antonio Freeman and Mark Brunell. Went 12-3. This was the year Brunell was hurt in preseason, and yes, I knew that when I drafted him. So I played my card to have him back by Week 5 and go from there.

 

In 1999, I made the Cardinal Sin of not drafting a running back in the first two rounds. I had the 9th pick in a 12-team league. I took Terrell Owens and Antonio Freeman with my first two picks. I then took Emmitt Smith and Duce Staley in Rounds 3 and 4. My next two running backs, Mike Alstott and Cecil Collins (oops). My final running back, in Round 18-19, Stephen Davis. This was his breakout year in Washington.

[Hurricane 0]

Still not sure why I did this... traded up to get the 3rd overall pick (my 1st (7th) and 3rd rounders for the 3rd pick and 10th round pick) in keeper redraft league so I can take RICKY WATTERS in 2001. LT2, Holmes, you name him was on the board still. I was thinking contract year for Ricky, plus he was coming off a great 2000 campaign... but how stupid. I just looked, and it was just slightly stupider than the guy I traded with taking Derrick Alexander with the 7th pick.. when LT2, Holmes, you name him was still on the board!

 

First year in the league, I was the last guy to draft a QB. I panicked and picked Bubby Brister. In the 13th round or so, the guy who takes Brian Griese informs me that Brister was just benched earlier in the day. Figuring I'm screwed, I then draft Steve Beuerlein and Donovan McNabb (I'm a Syracuse fan) in the last two rounds. Post-draft, Trent Green goes down, and who picks up Kurt Warner but yours truly. I was a proud Kurt Warner owner from 1999 to 2003 when he was a fantasy machine.

[Parkers99 0]

Once, in the late 90's, I held the draft @ my house. We had one guy not show... after listening to her whine & beg, we decided to let my wife play in his place.

 

This is a 12 man auction format league w/ $150 entry. There are a couple of idiots in every league, but I'd say 7-8 of us take it pretty darn serious & spend way to much time here on these boards.

 

As I'm sure you've guessed.... My wife won the freakin' title; She ribbs me about it this time every year.

 

Right after her draft, I was pretty surprised at how well she did. So I asked her how she knew who to bid on and how much to bid... she said, "I just told myself to outbid you & Chris (a friend) by $1 on any players you looked interested in".

 

Moral of the story: Women Are Evil

[ricanrockers 39]

Once, in the late 90's, I held the draft @ my house. We had one guy not show... after listening to her whine & beg, we decided to let my wife play in his place.

 

This is a 12 man auction format league w/ $150 entry. There are a couple of idiots in every league, but I'd say 7-8 of us take it pretty darn serious & spend way to much time here on these boards.

 

As I'm sure you've guessed.... My wife won the freakin' title; She ribbs me about it this time every year.

 

Right after her draft, I was pretty surprised at how well she did. So I asked her how she knew who to bid on and how much to bid... she said, "I just told myself to outbid you & Chris (a friend) by $1 on any players you looked interested in".

 

Moral of the story: Women Are Evil

 

You married a smart women.....nice job!

[maddog3819 0]

Several years back we expanded to 12 teams from 10....One of the new guys had the 12th pick and took TJ Duckett in the 1st round and then immediatlly followed that with Jimmy Smith for the 13th. The room was silent. Someone top that.

[Parja 0]

In 2004, a guy in my league (a redraft, mind you) drafted Eli Manning and Phil Rivers as his QBs, insisting they would both be the starting QBs for their respective teams. He ended up having to pick up a scrub QB of the WW just to field a full lineup of players who actually had a shot at taking the field Week 1.

[tecklc2112 7]

Last year, the only guy in my main league that just won't research or use any kind of strategy took Vick with the #5 overall pick...Sad part is, he got lucky on some of his other picks and ended up winning the regular season(lost 1st rd. of the playoffs). He'll probably do the same thing this year as well.

[krizay 0]

Well I got a double whammy in 2002. I had 3 bad *** running backs. I wanted to get a nice QB. So I traded Priest Holmes for Peyton Manning after the draft. Unfortuneately it was Holmes' record breaking year and not Manning's. To make matters worse. My pick in the final round. Clinton Portis(rookie year) was sitting there to be had. I really, really wanted him. However he had the same bye week as Holmes, my 2nd RB and my starting QB (Trent Green at the time) so I didn't draft Portis. Two BIG mistakes!!!

 

I learned a lesson that day. Don't worry about bye weeks. It's only 1/17 of the season. QB's is now the only bye weeks I worry about.

 

EDIT** I just checked my yahoo profile. Instead of taking Portis. I took k Joe Nedney!

[Knights of Ni 0]

My first year playing Fantasy Football was 2003 - it was also the first time for 10 of the 12 players, so the first draft was pretty entertaining; people like Tom Brady and Drew Bledsoe were going in the first couple of rounds. Fortunately for me, I had done my homework and with the #1 overall pick I selected LaDanian Tomlinson. When it came back to me, no receivers had even been taken yet ... so with the 24th and 25th picks overall I took Randy Moss and Marvin Harrison back-to-back. I took Stephen Davis in the 4th, managed to snag Chad Johnson in the 9th and Hasslebeck in the 11th.

 

Needless to say, I won the Super Bowl that year

 

 

 

Ni!

[Belushi 9]

Happened this year in our rookie draft for our dynasty league. Guy has two first round picks, back-to-back. He's already got 2 QB's on his roster, but he take Leinhart early, while Davis and White are still on the board. Then he takes a LB (Hawk I think) with his next pick. So White falls to the guy ahead of me, and I get Davis in the 8th spot.

 

It gets better. In the 2nd round, he takes Vince Young. Now he has 4 QB's on his roster (we only start 1). We all kid him after the draft. So he trades Leinart for a 2nd rounder next year (first rounder this year for 2nd rounder next year. Nice). And then he decides to not sign Vince Young to a contract.

 

So he turned a possible White and Davis combo into A.J. Hawk.

[chris_dub 0]

Every year I'm in a yahoo league with a bunch of buddies. It was our 5th year last season, & I had the last pick in a 10-team league. Following Kevin Jones' & Willis McGahee's amazing numbers the previous season, I figured I was off to the best start drafting both of them 10th & 11th....needless to say, they had horrible seasons & my team finished 6th.

 

My next two picks were solid with LaMont Jordan (who I traded later in the season for Steve Smith) in the 3rd & Chad Johnson in the 4th. But my other 2 wideouts were a bust with Ashley Lelie in the 7th & Roy Williams in the 8th.

 

To add insult to injury, I took Kendrell Bell with the 1st pick in the 22nd (last round). The next guy took Larry Johnson...& Eli Manning going 4 slots next.

 

[cixelsyd 0]

We had the same thing happen with Kordell that year... drafted #1.... but then the guyt traded Kordell during the draft for Chis Carter and some other QB... he was a big Vikings fan, and loaded up on Vikings... Robert Smith, Leroy Hoard... He had like 7 Vikings... and that was the year they got the scoring title... he ended up taking 2nd that year...

 

But the best was last year... our leage started in 97... lots of experienced players... but after mannings year things got crazy...

 

Manning went 2nd... Culpepper went thrid (viking fan)... then another guy decided at the 10 spot that WR was the way to go, so he went Harriosn, Moss, and then Kerry Collins... 1, 2, 3

 

It just was a crazy draft.... McNabb went in the 2nd also... we are a 6pt TD for QB's, but still this was wild...

 

I think our draft will be back to normal this year... but last year was wild...

[Smizzy 0]

A couple years ago....In my money league....the guy with the #1 overall pick talked sh*t for 3 days before the draft about how he was gonna win it all.

 

He drafted Mike Cloud RB NE first overall. I sh*t you not.

[chris_dub 0]

He drafted Mike Cloud RB NE first overall.

 

[listen2me 23 1,831]

Weirdest Ive seen is Alstott picked 4th overall....

 

we have a fee for players who get picked who have already been drafted, or picking retired/dead/or guys in jail....

 

we figured this was basically a joke or something for a laugh (besides the picking a player already drafted)

 

we saw Barry picked the year after retirement, the guy for the Braves that used to play football andrew jordan? maybe idk.....Fred Lane picked....and patrick jeffers picked 6-10 times....

 

the pot was pretty stacked and some lucky guy had his name drawn and won it all....

[Haverchuck 0]

Before the 2002 draft I was talking with another owner and in a joke I was telling him how important it was to have a good defence, kicker, and QB because they were the only positions that could give you negative points in our league. It was his second year playing which made it even funnier when he picked a defence in round 1, a kicker in round 2, and a QB in both the 3rd and 4th round. He's since learned from his mistake and that is unfortunate because that year I benefited from him and had my best lineup ever.

[jvan23 0]

sit down for this one. this must have been late 90's. we have 1 keeper and i was coming off a horrendous year so my keeper was a WR.

 

now, my league has 3 different line-up options:

pro set - 2RB, 3WR

wishbone - 3RB, 2 WR

run & shoot - 1RB, 4WR

 

my brilliant plan was to forget about Rb and stack 4 wide. i did this before taking ANY RB. for the life of me, i can't remember who my WR's were other than eddie kennison after that season he had 8-9 Td's of which most were bombs which is big points in our league. plus i took a QB whom i can't remember as well. (wish i could remember who those players were)

5th round comes around and people are pleading with me to take a RB. i get up, cockey and confident. grab the marker and tell the guys "watch this".

the pick.............................................. drumroll...... dramatic pause............

 

 

Greg F'ing Hill - RB Kansas City Chiefs

 

pretty sweet, huh??? what dope i am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fantasytool 0]

I think this was 4 years ago, but a guy in one of my leagues, who is known as a knucklehead, blurts out "Stewart" for his 3rd round pick. So, we ask him which one, because there is James Stewart for the Lions and Kordell Stewart for the Steelers. This is when Kordell was on the downslide and was not even considered draftable really. We were all hoping he said Kordell. Sure enough, he takes Kordell Stewart. We all laughed and laughed. He won the title that year because he had LT and Culpepper.

 

The next year, the same guy drafts Jimmy Smith in the 5th round. three rounds later, he is on the clock and looks up, totally serious looking, and says "Has anyone drafted Jimmy Smith yet?" We all just start laughing.

[ricanrockers 39]

A couple years ago....In my money league....the guy with the #1 overall pick talked sh*t for 3 days before the draft about how he was gonna win it all.

 

He drafted Mike Cloud RB NE first overall. I sh*t you not.

 

 

 

I think that's worst than Kordell Stewart.

 

He may win for "worst pick"

 

 

sit down for this one. this must have been late 90's. we have 1 keeper and i was coming off a horrendous year so my keeper was a WR.

 

now, my league has 3 different line-up options:

pro set - 2RB, 3WR

wishbone - 3RB, 2 WR

run & shoot - 1RB, 4WR

 

my brilliant plan was to forget about Rb and stack 4 wide. i did this before taking ANY RB. for the life of me, i can't remember who my WR's were other than eddie kennison after that season he had 8-9 Td's of which most were bombs which is big points in our league. plus i took a QB whom i can't remember as well. (wish i could remember who those players were)

5th round comes around and people are pleading with me to take a RB. i get up, cockey and confident. grab the marker and tell the guys "watch this".

the pick.............................................. drumroll...... dramatic pause............

Greg F'ing Hill - RB Kansas City Chiefs

 

pretty sweet, huh??? what dope i am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

never heard of the guy

[WhiteWonder 2,685]

i forget the year... im going to say 2001, was Jeff Garcia good then? it was one year when he was good and was probably the 3rd or 4th QB taken (3rd or 4th round) and it gets to round 16 and this guy goes "i cant beleieve everyone forgot about him!, Ill take Jeff Garcia!" We all just cracked up

[Franknbeans 46]

My worst pick was taking Ron Dayne when he was a rookie and available in the 1st round of a 4 player keeper league. Since most good RB's are protected and Barry had recently up and retired on my team , I was in full rebuilding mode. The only good RB's available in the 1st round (essentially 5th) were rookies. I took a chance and paid the price.

[Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka 0]

A couple years ago....In my money league....the guy with the #1 overall pick talked sh*t for 3 days before the draft about how he was gonna win it all.

 

He drafted Mike Cloud RB NE first overall. I sh*t you not.

 

 

This guy wins.

 

More good ones: My first year I took Kordell Stewart in the first and Jeff George in the second. That was '98 I think.

 

In '99 I saw a guy take the Broncos Defense #3 OVERALL. The best was that they were an average D at BEST that year.

[Los Angeles Raiders of Oakland 0]

i was in a leauge 10 deep. everyone had 3 kickers. This was my second year in the leauge. The first year I had a partner. Well are team was bad he drafted it had money problems so I said I would go haves with him. We made so trades and got the team descent. However because his bad drafting we still got the first pick in the draft the next season. About a week before the season starts someone dropped out and I took there team. Terry my X partner. With the first pick in the Drat. Does not take a RB. Does not take super Rookie Randy Moss.........Drum Roll please..........................He picks............Jason "freaking" Elam.............OH MY GOSH.

 

Needless to say we all got a good laugh.

 

 

Shortly after he got the nick name "Short Bus"