Armos wax the Dogs in South Dallas

WAXAHACHIE, TX - Some say the town's name is Native American for "cow" while others say "buffalo". However, most agree the name's origin is from the Alabama language, originally spoken in the region around the Waxahatchee Creek by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe, who migrated to Eastern Texas in the 1850s. In the native tongue, "waakasi hachi" means "calf's tail", so the town could have been called Calfstail, Texas. With the Waxahatchee Creek bordering between Shelby and Chilton counties, Waxahachie, Texas shares the same etymology as the Alabama creek. Many places in Texas and Oklahoma have their origins in the Southeastern United States, due largely to the forced removal of various tribes during this time. The central area of Alabama that includes the Waxahatchee Creek was the home of the Upper Creek moiety of the Muscogee Creek Nation for hundreds of years. This also suggests the Muscogee Creek language origin of Waxahachie. Tender Mercies is a 1983 film about a down-on-his-luck country music singer named Mac Sledge that was filmed in Waxahachie, but the exact town was never mentioned in the movie. The original Tender Mercies starred Robert Duvall and he won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Actor for the lead role. The 2019 remake of this classic was also filmed in Waxahachie, but it fell short of the original. This time Keanu Reeves plays Mac Sledge who doubles as country singer on Saturday nights and quarterbacks the South Dallas Armadillos on Sunday afternoons. In the re-make, Mac wakes up in the wee hours on Sunday morning in a strip joint called "Big Daddy's" after almost being beat to death in a barroom brawl on Saturday night. He's taken in by the club's dancing girls and nursed back to health with a lot of tender mercy and then leads the team to vict'ry on Sunday afternoon. I don't think there will be an Oscar this time around for Reeves, but the Armadillos did defeat the previously undefeated Birmingham Bulldogs 37-13 in one of the movie's better scenes. You Are What Love Means to Me by Craig Bickhardt from the "Tender Mercies" soundtrack (1983)

Final Scores

BUL

GAM

24

13

BD

PS

12

4

BLZ

WIL

22

21

DOR

SM

20

19

FRE

CHE

15

10

DOG

ARM

13

37

GRE

MAY

22

33

JUG

BEL

30

21

The 2019 BDFL El Dorado Explorers

EL DORADO - When I'm taking to somebody who truly understands fantasy football and I tell them that I'm in a 16-team league, their eyes get real big. They understand that we play in the major leagues of fantasy football. When you have 48 roster spots for quarterbacks and only 32 can start in the NFL each week, then you know there is some serious depth in the BDFL. Is there enough skill talent in the NFL to support a 16-team fantasy league? This is usually a topic for discussion with the doubters and I always air on the "yes" side since we have fielded 16 teams in the BDFL now for 15 years running. I've never seen an 18-team league and I don't think I want to, but 8-10 team leagues are a joke. To prove my point, like I do almost every season, below is what a 17th BDFL team's roster could possibly look like this season in the BDFL through Week 4...

NOTE: El Dorado is west of Fieldstown just before you get to Lassiter Mountain. Known as a good place to drag race back in the 1950s. It translates to "The Gold One", the name used by Spanish Conquistadors back in the 1550s for the mythical golden empire in the New World.