The great Meat Loaf died at the age of 74 on Thursday. The operatic rock legend did have a tie to football, as it seems everyone in some way has a tie to sports.
Meat Loaf claimed to be a Fantasy Football icon, saying he won most of the many leagues he played in annually.
Here he is with Rich Eisen:
In an interview with The New York Times, Meat Loaf said he was in 33 leagues and took the title in 9.
“Last year, I was in 33 and I won 9,” he told the New York Times in 2005.
In 2016, Meat Loaf explained his strategy.
Normally everybody goes for running backs,” Meat Loaf said on the SiriusXM Fantasy Sports Radio channel. (Audio here.) “Last year, I didn’t. And what did I have, 13 leagues last year? And [I] won 11. And I didn’t go for running backs. I went for receivers. My first three picks were receivers, and then I went for running backs, and then I went running back alllll the way down the line. And one of my last picks — still left on the board — was Kirk Cousins. What a sleeper last year. I was sitting there [thinking], ‘Don’t you dare take Kirk Cousins, people. Don’t you dare.’ I think I took him in the 13th round.”
“Every time USA Today or ESPN . . . ask me to join their fantasy league, I’ll say you don’t want me,” Meat told my pal Mike Harris last year. “Why? I’ll win. They say, ‘You’re awfully cocky.’ No, it isn’t being cocky. I haven’t lost one yet, any celebrity fantasy game.”