Fantasy turns to nightmare

In the wake of Sunday night’s 49ers-Seahawks game, I need someone to talk to. I promise this won’t just be a sob story and, once I’m done with the couch, you’re more than welcome to lie down and tell me about your problems.

My fantasy football team, Superior Race – I took Arian Foster with the No. 1 pick, and my sense of humor is, admittedly, a little off-center – entered America’s Game of the Week with a 10-point lead over my best man’s squad, Feeling Lucky. He’s a big Colts fan. Yet Andrew Luck was in my starting lineup. I digress.

What’s important is that his championship dreams hinged on the leg of Patriots kicker Stephen Gostkowski, whom the eggheads at Yahoo! Sports projected to come up a solitary point short with nine.

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