Category 3: Sports Teams

(Players may choose three teams from any sports league. You are drafting the franchise in its entirety, not a specific year. Keep this in mind when drafting teams like the Cowboys who had a great run in the ‘90s but have not won a playoff game in 12 years)

Eric	Richard	Khurram	Derrick
San Francisco 49ers	Jacksonville Jaguars	Los Angeles Lakers	Chicago Bulls
Boston Celtics	Dream Team	Harlem Globetrotters	Chicago Bears
NY Yankees	Washington Sentinels	Dallas Cowboys	Little Giants

Round 1 Analysis: The only real surprise in the first round was Khurram’s pick of the Lakers as opposed to the Cowboys. The Lakers? Really? Everyone knows my hatred for that team. Khurram is about dead to me at this point. Everyone else just stuck with what is widely regarded as their favorite professional sports team. Not that I was worried about anyone taking the Jags for their own purposes, I just didn’t want them to be used against me for leverage in a trade.

Round 2 Analysis: Derrick grabs Da Bears to go along with Da Bulls. Knowing his love for most things Chicago, this category is turning out to be exactly what he hoped for. Khurram’s pick of the Globetrotters was a good way to obtain value but he must have been wondering if anyone would pull the trigger on taking his Cowboys. I thought about it with my next pick, but I held off for two reasons. One, I didn’t want the draft to turn into nothing more than an exercise of spite. And two, the thought of drafting the Cowboys makes me sick. So, I went with the Dream Team. I know I get stuck with the later Dream Teams as well. But the 92 team more than makes up for it. Eric just didn’t bring any ammunition to this round so stuck with the one of the best teams in NBA history.

Round 3 Analysis: Keeping the same mindset of the previous round, Eric picked the best team in the history of major league baseball. I picked the Washington Sentinels from the movie The Replacements for four simple reasons: 1) Quicksand 2) Nan Desu Ka! 3) Creative use of the song “I will survive” to kill time while in jail and 4) Their Cheerleaders were strippers. Khurram gets his team here, and I would say that it further cements his status as a frontrunner except for the fact that the Cowboys haven’t won a playoff game in 12 years. Finally, Derrick closes it out with The Little Giants, making this his best category so far. I mean just check out the 46 second mark of this clip.

Overall Impressions: My guess is that we were all thrilled to get our respective teams, and then anything after that was a bonus. The Dream Team and Harlem Globetrotters picks were a little out of the box and the Washington Sentinels and Little Giants were way out of the box. Eric played it smart and safe by picking winners (though the Yankees are down this year).