Bragging Rights Almanac

  Esteemed Members,  I’ll keep my remarks short today. I like to think I’ve developed a certain level of respect in this league, maybe not as a year in-year-out playoff contender, but as someone who shows up every week to play; as someone who has never missed an event prior to 2020; and as someone who has brought home a championship due to pure grit and staying power. We are in a weird time; 2020 has been a year like no other. America is approaching 190,000 COVID deaths at a minimum, and even as of yesterday, more than 1,000 Americans are dying daily. We are still in a pandemic, and with that comes making choices about risk. I respect each one of your choices, and I ask that the league respect mine. All that being said, I miss you lads dearly and will cherish the next opportunity I have to crank up the debauchery and weirdness. Lest we forget last year- I found myself popping an addy, staying up drafting until the wee hours of the morning, and finally yacking in the restroom o...

Musings Of A Man With Bragging Rights Ready For A Full Load's Response to "Bragging Rights Owners vs The Chinese Common Cold" August 29th, 2020 Let the record reflect very clearly, the ownership group Ready For A Full Load ("Full Load") loves the energy of this league and the passion that rages through all of its owners. It was league communications like this that were envisioned being dispersed when Full Load established BR Almanac. The ownership of Full Load is proud to provide our league this platform for discussion and discourse.  Full Load ownership appreciates the ownership of Glenns plea to ensure the flames of our friendship stay stoked, that we never allow life’s inevitable obstacles to suppress our quests to claim the Keith Rendleman Trophy. This impassioned cry does not fall on deaf ears and should be seen by the league as a necessary reminder of our roots. While this is a groundbreaking league statement for its public nature, the fears and concerns e...

  For Immediate Release For more information contact:   Glenn’s Phone: (919) 308-5323 Fax: F**k  Dat  Bitch Email: tpolumbus@glenn’s.com   Bragging Rights Owners vs  The Chinese Common Cold   Raleigh, North Carolina (August 29, 2020) –  Fellow brothers I write this press release to you all because our precious league, Bragging Rights, is facing something it’s never faced before.  That my brothers  is  a global pandemic called COVID-19. It is a pandemic with such a historic impact on our society that our kids, grandkids, and step kids will ask one day where were you when the outbreak happened? I know where I was brothers. I was in the “epicenter” of the outbreak working a mere mile away from the “no go” zone in New Rochelle, New York. I saw the national guard. I saw a robust community turn into a ghost town. I encountered a member of the synagogue which was the center of the outbreak.  I saw a glimpse into the future, 5 months i...

  Yesterday, I was on a college campus for the first time in a few years to visit my girlfriend Krista's daughter, Sarah. She's a freshman at App State, and living in a freshman dorm as most of us did together. It's a living-learning community not unlike Cornerstone. I mounted Sarah's TV for her, hung a couple photos (as 26-year-old stepdads do) and met her roommate. As I left, I realize this was the first time that I felt like a visitor on a college campus. Not just as someone who didn't go to that school, but someone who didn't belong there. At some point I stopped operating exclusively as the double-bottle swigging neanderthal that stayed up until 1 am each night playing Playstation, blasting Da Baby in my one bedroom apartment. Rest assured I still have a piece of that in me, and I save it up for the boys and for the Boom table. This league has become much more than fantasy football; it's a road that continues to be paved each year as we kick the season ...

By CLBB Staff Major Players in Italics A few months after Taylor "Tee" Meachum began working for Rowdy Rhinos in 2018, he settled into a daily routine: he would meet a fellow Fortnite novice in the bathroom during their lunch breaks, he said, to comiserate and weep about their lack of success in the hit video game known as, "Fortnite" . The tears were not due to performance in the job they were hired to do, nor their treatment of other employees. But the belittlement, insensitive remarks and threats spawned directly from Meachum's inability to stay alive in Fortnite, his commitment to jumping from the Battle Bus early, and talent for bringing the team down. This game, and the culture around the game within the Rowdy Rhinos building, ultimately drove Meachum out of Fantasy Football front offices in April 2020 admist a global pandemic with no warm feelings, and plenty of therapy needed.  Though team owner Alex Sloan is not directly connected to any of the verbal...

After seven years, it’s time to hand out some awards. Greatest team in league history So, there are a few ways to go about it. We could take the easy way out and go by straight statistics (cause that’s how this game is measured), but that’s not as fun. Tyler’s 2014 team still holds the record for points scored in a regular season, with Pat’s 2016 team falling just short of that threshold. One thing I’m not sure anyone had dug up yet is total points on a championship run, each of the seven years. So here’s that: 2013 – I’m Just Here to Pick Romo – 231.20 2014 – I’m Just Here to Pick Romo – 216.68 2015 – Rowdy Rhinos – 288.16 2016 – Stairway to Evans – 195.48 2017 – Cobb’s Bubble Route – 236.3 2018 – FFCA – 219.04 2019 – Bunns of Steel – 233.6 Did anybody remember Sloan’s Tour De Force from 2015? I sure as shit did not. Drops a steaming 157 right on Everybody’s Favorite Information Security Guy in the semis, then follows it up with 130+ in the finals against you...