What, am I crazy? Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts is probably a doubtful start for the rest of the 2011 season, and perhaps has made his last start of his Colts career (The Colts would owe Manning $28 million if they exercised his contract for another year at the end of 2011 - crazy to think about). He is also due to make at a minimum $23.4 million this year - $20 million as a signing bonus for his new contract and $3.4 million in guaranteed salary. Luckily I left myself an out - the problem with painting every sports contract with the "overpaid" brush is there is an army of athletes who will never touch the salaries which make us do a double take. As Frédéric Bastiat wrote in his essay What is Seen and What is Not Seen, "Let us accustom ourselves, then, not to judge things solely by what is seen, but rather by what is not seen."This article requires a special shout-out to Nelson Smith at Financial Uproar who planted the seed - sorry I waited until the third week of NCAA football to write this!

Carnivals and featured links for the week!

DQYDJ: surprising our readers with yet another week where we submit articles to a carnival!  Maybe we'll keep it going this time.

Check out our carnival entries and featured links for the week!

Guess what?  DQYDJ actually entered a carnival last week!

• Check out "The Housing Double Dip", which was hosted at the Carnival of Personal Finance over at (our newfound and liked blog!) Control Your Cash.  In fact, subscribe to them while you're over there!

I hear you: DQYDJ needs to enter more Carnivals.  Fine, we will!

DQYDJ was featured in a carnival for an unprecedented 3rd straight week!  Please go check out the Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted this week at Saving to Invest... and look for "Hedge Your Gas Prices!" in the Budgeting and Money Management section!

Wow, a new leaf has been turned over! We here at DQYDJ submitted articles to carnivals 2 weeks in a row! This week, go check out the 297th edition of the Personal Finance Carnival at Money Smart Life. There you'll see Cameron's article "Skill Based Inequality Due to Technology" in the Economics section

Guess what, we here at DQYDJ actually submitted to a blog carnival this last week! I know it's been a while, but it seemed like a good idea with a freshly written personal finance article, "USNews Chimes in with some 'Radical' Tips!" Without further ado, please visit the 295th Carnival of Personal Finance... and note we made it into Pride's category, the mother of all sins! Thanks Taking Charge!

Haven't done one of these in a long time, but we here at DQYDJ should probably get back into the swing of things on the carnival front!

It's October and fantasy football is in full swing. Fantasy football, for the neophytes out there, is a game played by fans of the NFL who select players to fill a simulated team and then are awarded points based off of their real life performance. It has left an indelible mark on the viewing patterns and marketing techniques of NFL firms. Over 27 million people play today, leading Jake Plummer to claim that "it has ruined the game".