The race is on

J's World, by Jeremiah Bartz

It is week 16 of the National Football League season and the heat is on as teams scurry for the final playoff positions.

More importantly, it is week 16 of many fantasy football leagues and in that case, the pressure is truly on.

Take me for instance. I am truly sweating bullets as I go into the final two weeks with a 10-4 record atop the Wasilla Area Fantasy Football League of

Excellence.

The WAFFLE league coined by Frontiersman Valley life editor Casey Ressler, has pitted some of the finest sports minds of the Valley with Ressler.

Currently I stand in battle at the top, while Ressler is wondering where it all went wrong.

My magic number is two. With either a pair of wins or a win and a loss from my second place opponent who is desperately trying to stay alive, I will secure the league championship and all the glory that goes with it.

Not to mention I earn the right to boast to my fellow fantasy football owners how much I truly rule.

Standing between myself and the fantasy football promise land is the Wasilla Geardaddies, owned by Dan Michael.

The Geardaddies have tried to cling to my coat tails all season, riding the likes of Rickey Williams, Donovan McNabb, Kurt Warner and Priest Holmes.

Michael has already had to bid farewell to McNabb and Warner and the gods are obviously not smiling upon him as he will most likely have to say goodbye to Preist.

The loss of Holmes could ensure the first annual WAFFLE title to my team, the Crown Royals. (I know, I know, my team name is a shameless rip off of a liquor company. But clever, eh?)

There is still a battle for third place as Ressler's Wasilla Wooly Boogers are trying to figure out a way to get past Jason McCourt's Alaska Nightmare

Ressler will be having nightmares if McCourt wins the WAFFLE bronze.

Frontiersman managing editor Frank Ameduri and his editor boys will have a much less stressful time of it, as he and his team were basically eliminated during the second week of the season.

During this time of year, it is not just NFL coaches and players that are feeling the pressure late in the season.

Think about all those fantasy football owners.

Jeremiah Bartz is the sports editor for the Frontiersman (sports@frontiersman.com).