Good Draft Day Stories (1 Viewer)

[Couch Potato]

One year at a live draft we had a guy who couldn't make the draft so he did it from home. We all sat around the room, speaker phone turned on and turned up in the middle, and his speaker phone was on so he could have his hands free. Typical stuff, right?

At some point in the draft we hear another voice over the speaker but more distant. This guy's wife begins complaining at him about something, and she's really pissed. He tells her to shut up, that he's busy with his draft (doesn't tell her he's on speaker). She REALLY gets going then, using language that would make Rex Ryan blush, and starts going off on him about all kinds of things, including "losing money betting on fantasy football." He starts yelling back. She keeps going off on him, and he on her, and for about 5 minutes they are just yelling and cussing at each other like crazy about all kinds of things.

At first we were all snickering, but after this went on awhile and got nastier we just sat there, dumbfounded, listening. We should have turned off our speaker, but it was sort of like a car wreck. You want to not hear this fight, but you just have to. Finally he says "Oh ----, speaker's on!" and things go silent for a minute (we learned later that he thought he hit the speaker off button earlier when they started fighting but did it quickly and it didn't work).

So, we're now figuring out where things are in the draft , joking and talking about what we just heard, when we hear the speaker come back on. "Uhhhh... who's pick?" We all laugh and start giving him grief, and then in the background we hear her scream "And you football nerds can ---- yourselves!" and the sound of a slamming door.

We all roar. A good draft day memory.

 

[radballs]

1. Is he still in the league?

2. Are they still married?

 

[Couch Potato]

1. Is he still in the league?2. Are they still married?

League folded up several years ago. I played softball with him for a few years after that though so we were in touch.They didn't last too long after that, a couple of years. Both the way she came into the room yelling and his quick "shut up" were tip offs. I remember at the time of the first yell and "shut up" thinking to myself how blunt they were toward each other. Not a lot of love in that room that day, and it seemed there hadn't been for awhile.

 

[cjack]

Several years back, I was heading to pick up a friend and then to another friend's house for the draft. I used to have a pretty nice 1965 Pontiac LeMans Convertible back then and I was driving that car that day. I'm about a mile from my first friend's house when I see smoke coming up from the floorboard of the car. I pull off to the side of the road and the car stalls as I pull on to the side of the road. I get out and take a look underneath my car. It's on fire. I have nothing available to douse the flames and it's getting worse. A woman driving behind me calls 911 and I try to figure out if there's anyway I can keep my car from going up in flames. I'm in a fairly rural, residential area. Not much I can do until the Fire Department arrives about 5-10 minutes later. At that point, they get there, open the hood, to where the fire had spread, and put out the fire.

At this point, our draft is going to start in about 30 minutes. I call my friend and have him come pick me up, but I have to wait by my car until the tow truck arrives. That doesn't happen for probably close to another hour. Now, as the commissioner of the league, I always made a point to my league mates to make sure they showed up on time for the draft. That's not possible at this point, so my friend and I had to call in our first few picks until we could finally drive over to the draft location. It's a fairly vague memory at this point, but I recall it was a year when Faulk was pretty much the consensus first pick, which I had, so I took him and I think everything went well that year as far as the draft.

As far as the car, luckily it wasn't catastrophic. The paint had been burned off the right fender. The tire had melted. Much of the wiring was shot, but other than that it wasn't too bad. I had a shop fix the wiring and slap on a new tire, and then took it to an auto body place for the paint repair. Unfortunately, I didn't have insurance to cover fire at the time, so I spent about $2K out of pocket to get the car fixed. The cause of the fire is still a bit of a mystery for me. Supposedly, the carb was leaking fuel and that's what caused the fire. Suspiciously enough, I had just had the car in for some work the week prior to this event, but I couldn't prove anything one way or the other. The shop did give me a break on much of the labor cost to repair the wiring, but I was never sure they shouldn't have been entirely to blame.

 

[fightingillini]

Story #1

Last year, in my 10 team main draft, I was drafting in the 9 hole. The guy in the 8 hole reaches for Joesph Addai in the 3rd round. He desperately wanted D Brown as insurance. He passed on him in the 7th round and it snakes back to me in the 8th round and I took Brown....was my BPA. He was livid. Starts yelling at me that I made a bonehead move, that Brown was going to be his pick, and so on. So for his next pick he says "This is to get back at you!" and takes Darren Sproles (I had taken LT in the 1st round but I wasn't going to overpay for Sproles). For the rest of the draft his uses this "c@ckblocking" strategy and takes 6 backup RBs in the last 11 rounds. That's right. 6 backup RBs. From the 8th round on I took only one backup RB.

That backup RB was Jamaal Charles. Jackpot.

I won the league and the other guy finished in last.

 

[cjack]

Story #1Last year, in my 10 team main draft, I was drafting in the 9 hole. The guy in the 8 hole reaches for Joesph Addai in the 3rd round. He desperately wanted D Brown as insurance. He passed on him in the 7th round and it snakes back to me in the 8th round and I took Brown....was my BPA. He was livid. Starts yelling at me that I made a bonehead move, that Brown was going to be his pick, and so on. So for his next pick he says "This is to get back at you!" and takes Darren Sproles (I had taken LT in the 1st round but I wasn't going to overpay for Sproles). For the rest of the draft his uses this "c@ckblocking" strategy and takes 6 backup RBs in the last 11 rounds. That's right. 6 backup RBs. From the 8th round on I took only one backup RB.That backup RB was Jamaal Charles. Jackpot.I won the league and the other guy finished in last.

What kind of d-bag were you playing with? He's going to get all upset because he didn't handcuff his player early enough? Man, that dude needs to grow a set. If you don't jump on a handcuff early enough in my league, you should be prepared to pay the cost. There's no mercy for deuchepumps.

 

[fightingillini]

Story #1Last year, in my 10 team main draft, I was drafting in the 9 hole. The guy in the 8 hole reaches for Joesph Addai in the 3rd round. He desperately wanted D Brown as insurance. He passed on him in the 7th round and it snakes back to me in the 8th round and I took Brown....was my BPA. He was livid. Starts yelling at me that I made a bonehead move, that Brown was going to be his pick, and so on. So for his next pick he says "This is to get back at you!" and takes Darren Sproles (I had taken LT in the 1st round but I wasn't going to overpay for Sproles). For the rest of the draft his uses this "c@ckblocking" strategy and takes 6 backup RBs in the last 11 rounds. That's right. 6 backup RBs. From the 8th round on I took only one backup RB.That backup RB was Jamaal Charles. Jackpot.I won the league and the other guy finished in last.

What kind of d-bag were you playing with? He's going to get all upset because he didn't handcuff his player early enough? Man, that dude needs to grow a set. If you don't jump on a handcuff early enough in my league, you should be prepared to pay the cost. There's no mercy for deuchepumps.

He's not a d-bag. He's a really nice guy...just not a good FF player.......he just got mad that I took his pick. We kept telling him....IT HAPPENS. It did mess with him the rest of the draft. You're right. This is a 10 team league and we were in Round 8, so he had the 73rd pick.....still lots of talent on the board.And me and the other guy drafting on the other side just kept scooping up the late round sleepers and talent.

 

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A guy got banned last night from the bar where we draft for a $250 league this next Sunday. Best part is, he worked there. The guy who manages the bar is also in the league. Eager to hear the story on this one. He's having a surrogate come in with a cell and he's talking him through the draft.

Last year a new guy in my office league was drunk as hell and picked a guy in the 6th round that not only had been picked... but picked by HIM in the 4th. We made him sit in a special chair right in front of the draft board, post picks, and get everyone's beers for the rest of the draft.

 

[werdnoynek]

A guy got banned last night from the bar where we draft for a $250 league this next Sunday. Best part is, he worked there. The guy who manages the bar is also in the league. Eager to hear the story on this one. He's having a surrogate come in with a cell and he's talking him through the draft. Last year a new guy in my office league was drunk as hell and picked a guy in the 6th round that not only had been picked... but picked by HIM in the 4th. We made him sit in a special chair right in front of the draft board, post picks, and get everyone's beers for the rest of the draft.

drunk timeout! i like it.

 

[delusional]

had a guy fall in a trash can he was so drunk, had to pluck someone from the bar to finish his draft

 

[steelerfan1]

the first year our league was together we did a live online draft.

when it gets to our friends pick at the end of the 1rst round, his computer locks up and shuts down.

he is livid that he probably is going to miss his first 2 picks and he starts hitting his computer and letting loose a tirade that could rival ralphie's dad from the x-mas story.

a concerned neighbor hears this and thinks there is a domestic beatdown of our friends wife going down and calls the police.

police show up, wife answers door and explains the situation and everyone has a good laugh at our buddies expense.

ps. he won the league that year....

 

[Chaka]

This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job, and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch gangly wrench. Just then this little apprentice leaned over and said, 'You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch wrench.' Well, this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, 'The Langstrom seven-inch wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.' Just then the little apprentice leaned over and says, 'It says sprocket, not socket!

 

[todd2006]

This lawn supervisor was out on a sprinkler maintenance job, and he started working on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch gangly wrench. Just then this little apprentice leaned over and said, 'You can't work on a Findlay sprinkler head with a Langstrom seven-inch wrench.' Well, this infuriated the supervisor, so he went and got Volume 14 of the Kinsley manual, and he reads to him and says, 'The Langstrom seven-inch wrench can be used with the Findlay sprocket.' Just then the little apprentice leaned over and says, 'It says sprocket, not socket!

During our annual auction, one of the owners was so hungover that he drafted from the bathroom floor down the hallway. Needless to say, he was quiet most of the draft until he starts throwing out outrageous bids ($37 on a backup WR when the bidding was stalling around $10) and fielded one of the worst teams imaginable. It was pretty funny. Another auction, the same owner and one of his best childhood friends were having a bidding war on Emmitt Smith and also I believe Fred Barnett. We were at a local eating/drinking establishment. As one owner bid, the auctioneer would start the "going once, going twice..." and the other owner would chip in at the last minute with the next $1 more bid. As the bidding increased to what were at the time records prices for players in our league, they become more animated, jumping up and down, yelling their bids, and eventually taking off their clothing. Please keep in mind that the draft was being held in public at a restaurant (there were kids and families present). I believe both of them got to their boxers before the bidding ended. Thank god.Lots and lots of good stories out of this league.