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The Fantasy Football Curse of a Season Is Almost Over...Finally...

Having the 14th pick of a 14-team league, dominated by quarterback stats, I felt pretty good going into the season having drafted Indianapolis Colts' starter Peyton Manning and Houston Texans' starter Matt Schaub. I knew that Manning would miss some games, but the early prognosis was that he'd miss 2-3 and that's all. It then became known he'd likely miss the season, so I picked up Jason Campbell, the starting quarterback of the Oakland Raiders. He then went down with a season-ending injury and I picked up his replacement, Carson Palmer. Schaub then went down with a season-ending injury, so I wound up picking the Kansas City Chiefs new starter (Matt Cassel went down with a season-ending injury also) Tyler Palko. After he struggled and former Denver Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton was waived, the Chiefs picked him up. I then decided to release Palko in favor of Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Hainie, who was replacing Jay Cutler whom was also said to have suffered a potentially season-ending injury as well. Hainie has been awful for the Bears and there's speculation they could go after the recently released veteran Donovan McNabb. So, once again, I've released Hainie in favor of Palko, as Orton is banged up. My only productive running back, the Detroit Lions' Jahvid Best, is also out for the season with an injury. After tomorrow, I'll likely have just three players from the draft: QB Peyton Manning (kept him JUST in case he returned), TE Zach Miller (on the bench) and Brandon Lloyd. Lloyd is the lone guy I drafted who is actually starting, as Manning is banged up and Miller is backing up Jared Cook of the Tennessee Titans. I'm stunned my team is 5-8. We should probably be 3-10, maybe worse than that. We've gone from Peyton Manning and Matt Schaub, two of the better quarterbacks in the AFC to Carson Palmer, whom hadn't played in over a year, and Tyler Palko, whom seemingly hadn't played since he was in college at Pittsburgh. It'll be so nice when the season ends. Fortunately for me, my team won't finish last overall or even bottom of my division. Yeah, that's quite the sad self-congratulations, but for how awful this season has gone on the health front, I'll take it.
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