As an avid reader of Campus Circle (which I know you are!), you may have read my previous article about helping my wife, Kristen, with her fantasy football team—Hoosier Mama. That article was written before my wife’s draft and focused on drafting players with your head vs. your heart.  It’s a great article, you should really read it. Now. Don’t worry, we’ll wait…

You’re back? Pretty good, right? In response to that column, we have been flooded with emails (ok, three) wanting an update on how Hoosier Mama has performed this season. The short answer is—3-0, baby! Yes, Hoosier Mama is currently undefeated and leading the league in points scored.

The long answer is—Peyton Manning, Peyton Manning, Peyton Manning. Kristen loves Peyton Manning as much as Ted Cruz hates Obamacare, so there was no doubt he would be a member of team Hoosier Mama. Let’s just say that was a pretty good second round draft pick; he may end up throwing 50 TDs this year.

The rest of the team has a few hits—Jordan Cameron (tight end), Jordy Nelson (wide receiver) and Cincinnati Defense – and, a few misses—CJ Spiller, Darryl Richardson and Chris Ivory.

While being 3-0 is great, there is trouble in paradise (hence the title of the article.) It’s an issue experienced by all fantasy owners: which players are underperforming and need to be benched? Which players are underperforming but need a couple weeks to get going? Who should be dropped? Who should be picked up?

It is particularly thorny when two people own one team, and even more so when the co-owners are married. It gets to feel like walking on barbed wire when one of the co-owners isn’t really a co-owner at all, and tries to take over the decision-making. No, Kristen didn’t write that last sentence, but it is 99 percent accurate (hey, I’m not 100 percent bad.)

The truth is, having played fantasy football for so many years, I tend to dominate the conversation with Kristen on which players to start/drop/pick-up. I forget that this is in fact her team, and I am not the co-owner. I am Tom Hagen to Kristen’s Vito Corleone. I can be the consiliere, but I cannot be the Godfather.

Having established the mob pecking order of Hoosier Mama, the future looks bright as we head into the second quarter of the season. Kristen has cut the cord on Chris Ivory, benched Darryl Richardson and picked up a sleeper Arizona Cardinals running back. I was there to offer my opinion, but the decisions were all hers. The fate of Hoosier Mama is on her lovely shoulders and Peyton Manning’s arm. They make quite the power couple.