In Defense of the Touchdown Vulture

October 29, 2015   ·   Dan Carson   ·   Jump to comments

The fantasy football food chain is a horrifying thing.
It's a circle of carnage, really. No one is safe. Not you. Not the star running back. Not even the pinnacle predators.
Because, at all times, the fantasy vulture is out there—lurking in the shadows, sniffing out the easy kill.
It waits patiently for the RB1 to gash his way into the red zone. It watches as he slips through the second level only to be wrestled down a thigh short of the end zone.
Then it is time.
This is when the vulture goes to work—when the Khiry Robinsons of the world swoop in on a $585,000 base salary and tear a wet, six-point chunk out of Mark Ingram's throat. 
Is it wrong of them? Depends on who you ask. But make no mistake: The vulture is only doing what it has to do to survive.  
It grabs its quarry and transports it a single yard into its roost in the end zone. There, amongst piles of angry fantasy tweets and the bones of Byron Maxwell, the vulture quie...

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