Congratulations to Igor and the Dinamos! Entering the playoffs with a 6-8 record his squad was probably overlooked to make a deep playoff run much less win it all. His squad suffered from some injuries (as all of us did) early. But they got healthy at the right time. And that my friends is, “a damn fine way to go!”
“A Damn Fine Way To Go” is a song written by Michael Stanley like no other song he’s ever done. It’s on “The Hang” LP and released in 2012. I hope you give it a listen.
I have one more song from “The Hang” in queue for the next post because afterall, “it’s all about the hang.”
She swept across the room like a slow moving summer storm
And paused just long enough to admire the effect of the heat she’d left in her wake
And as her long legs moved in and out of frame he watched her hold the moment
Not like the ones who held on to ’em like they weren’t gonna make ’em anymore
But like someone who knew just where all the buttons were and just how to push ’em
And he remembered that line from that old movie
If she was a ranch they would have called her the bar nothing
And this little voice in his head said, “Son, some things you don’t do, and some things you do”
Well, she was one you did …
Yeah this lovin’ might kill you
But eveybody knows
We all gotta go sometime
And this might be a damn fine way to go …
What a rush! Right in the heart of the holiday season with parties, family & friends get togethers we had three NFL games on followed by two more games a couple of days later. (I will admit, I didn’t watch a single down of football on Christmas Day.) And all of that happened before any kickoffs on Sunday! Karma struck for Browns fans in the their final home game of the season. (I did watch that game at my brother in laws house.) Oh, sure they may have lost a couple spots in the draft but they beat their arch rivals.
The View Askew League championship game was a grind! As was what Yahoo calls our consolation game. I still call it The Toilet Bowl. That’s a leftover from the NCFFL for me.
First our Toilet Bowl. It looked like for several days that The Reckoning was going to win easily. That all changed on game day with QB play. Very, very, very good QB play for Sleepy Squad and pretty poor QB play for The Reckoning. But that changed again with some good WR points and as has happened often this season, K’er points for The Reckoning. Monday night some RB points put The Reckoning over the top for good at the 7:07 mark into quarter 3. Sleepy Squad settles into the seventh slot in the draft order while The Reckoning lands in the eighth.
Now she knew that some guys were born smart about women and some were born dumb
And as she parted those heartbreaker lips to slowly exhale
He could tell she was making up her mind about just where he finished in that horserace
Was he someone who could go straight through that door and bust out a couple of jumps ahead of a shotgun blast
Or was he just another six feet of attitude lookin’ to order from a menu he couldn’t afford
Well the truth was it probably depended on the day
Or the night
Nothing lasts forever, not even forever
But then again it wasn’t forever she was lookin’ for …
Yeah this lovin’ might kill you
But eveybody knows
We all gotta go sometime
And this might be a damn fine way to go …
Way to go …
All season long our Goddess has been a fickle one. First favoring this team, then that one, then settling yet on another. I actually think she was playing the field and cheating on several teams at the same time. Last week she turned her attention to the Dinamos giving The Reckoning the cold shoulder, a slap across the face, a poke in the eye, and if all of that wasn’t enough, a twist of their balls with her right hand while twisting to the right.
Ouch!
And all season long I felt she had that twinkle in her eye for Offsides Mother F****! blessing them with a low points scored against. I actually think she enjoyed the championship game in toying with both teams teasing them letting their owners think they were gonna win. Afterall, she puncked the Dinamos with injuries and a poor record during the season. In fact the Dinamos had to rally up some victories just to make the playoffs.
The games on Christmas Day were not kind to OFM! They did okay, mostly up and down their lineup except the QB play but just enough to hold onto the lead. QB Goff probably had too much eggnog before kickoff and only scored a little over 3 points. That swung the pendulum over toward the Dinamos. Two other players for OFM! celebrated a little more than they should have and suffered in their point totals too. QB Hurts scored only slightly better than Goff while RB Cook would have been better off with an “out” designation which would have forced OFM! to use RB Hall and his 29+ points.
Despite all the eggnog, beef tenderloin, and figgy pudding, OFM! held a slight lead going into the Monday night game. After the first half I began to doubt my prediction that I posted in the comment section of my pre-game post.
But that all came to an end erasing all doubts at the 11:08 mark in Q3 on Monday night. At that point not only did OFM! get the same treatment as The Reckoning, you know, that cold shoulder, a slap across the face, a poke in the eye, a twist of their balls with her right hand while twisting to the right, But the Dinamos became our 2025 Champion! Sorry dude, but how’s that ball twist feel Jeremiah? And Igor, how’s that stroke of your balls feel from our Goddess?
Seriously though Congratulations to Igor. I think this is his second championship, his first coming in the former NCFFL but this is his first one here in View Askew.
She pulled him close and he was hard pressed to tell where she began and he stopped
But then again stoppin’ wasn’t an option right about now
Their eyes met and he could see it all
She was one that had gone everywhere but home …
Fantasy Karma continued to cast her spell over the Dinamos. While there were some blemishes in some of their point totals those were all over come with some terrific numbers from super QB Allen, RB Stevenson, & wr McBride. I’m not disparaging McBride with the lower case “wr” instead of upper case “WR.” It’s that McBride is classified as a TE in which our league treats as a WR. So I differentiate the two with the “upper case” and “lower case “designations. It works for my feeble brain.
Of our four teams that played this weekend the Dinamos were the only one to hit their projected point total. For them that meant there was no option of stopping. For the rest of us it was a damn fine way to go.
Yeah this lovin’ might kill you
But eveybody knows
We all gotta go sometime
And this might be a damn fine way to go …
–words and music by Michael Stanley
Again, congratulations to Igor and his Dinamos squad. With their 3-0 run through the playoffs they finish the season with a combined record over .500 at 9-8.
Thanks to Big Daddy Sean for hosting the league and having us around again this year.
Sometime next week, (midweek perhaps?) I’ll have the 2026 Category Players Report available and posted to the website. I’ll let everyone know when that is available.