It’s not a good sports weekend when the only good thing that happened was that your fantasy football team pulled out a miraculous win even when two of your running backs didn’t play.

The Gophs lost a heartbreaker. The Vikings got creamed by the Bears. Even the Gophers hockey team, ranked Number 1 in the country, lost and tied Alaska-Fairbanks. Sad. Sad. Sad.

My intrepid fantasy football team though, they are the source of my sporting joy. I didn’t really like my team right from the start of the season and I didn’t think I’d be doing very well. But somehow we pulled out four straight wins to start the season. I lost last week but this week something odd happened. I had three running backs that were listed as “probable” to start. Then, on Sunday morning, right before games started, I read that one of them had been downgraded to “questionable”. So I benched him and put in the two “probable” guys. What do you think happened? My questionable guy ripped off almost 100 yards and two touchdowns versus the Vikings and my two probable guys didn’t get a single carry. Perfect. But somehow, in the face of extreme adversity, the rest of the team pulled together and scored enough for the win. It brought a tear to this jaded fan’s eye.

Okay, not really, but it was a surprise. I would have traded it for a Gopher win though. Rrrr.