 Each and every week here on Fantasy Sports Today, we love to present winners to you here. And our winner of the Million Dollars on FanDuel last week is our new friend, Mike Stauffer. You can follow him on Twitter at 2kstauff. That's S-T-A-U-F-F, and he joins us now here to talk about being the Million Dollar winner last Sunday over on FanDuel. Mike, thank you so much for coming on Fantasy Sports Today. It is great to see you. How are you? How are you feeling? I'm feeling great. Thanks for having me. I'm just super excited. The past couple of days feel so surreal, unbelievable. I feel so lucky. And just still kind of in shock about everything that happened. I bet, you know, sometimes, Mike, we have people on who play a lot on FanDuel and who win a lot on FanDuel. But your story is really great because you don't win a lot, as you said. And this is like, you go into this thing and you start off on a Sunday. So I suppose before we catch up to now, let's go back to it. You're building a lineup, I'm assuming, on Saturday and you hit the submit button on Sunday. What goes into the thought process for you? Well, so this week was such a weird week for me because normally I do spend the whole week thinking about my lineups. But unfortunately, with all the positive COVID testing this week, I was purposely waiting a little bit closer to kick off to kind of get a better idea of what the ownership percentages might be this week and to really have as much information as I possibly could. So Sunday morning was a bit stressful, trying to get as much research done as I could before the games, but it was exciting to be able to submit a lineup that ended up being so great. Yeah, no, and definitely was the case. I mean, if a Dallas Cowboys quarterback is gonna throw for 500 yards, I guess that gets you off to a good start, right? Let me know. Once you see that, you know, you got a good shot at winning some money. But again, you got to build it with other players and who are some of the other players that you built it with? Well, I'm actually a Browns fan. So it was kind of interesting. It was a game I was really heavy on just as a fan. And I felt with the Browns scoring so many points the past couple of weeks against a couple suspect defenses, it felt like a game that just really stood out to me. So I had multiple lineups with that stack in there with a double stack on the Cowboys and Odell running it back. And then I just kind of stuck with something that I do a lot and just went with some home running backs, some games that I liked. I liked Dalvin Cook, even though that was a road game against the Texans, they've been struggling to stop the run. So the lineup just came together very well. Stacked the defense with Cook, you know, where the defense, luckily there wasn't really a defense that went off this week. There were no like big touchdown scoring defenses. So, you know, it was just crazy to see everything coming to play on Sunday. Yeah, and look, when we look at your lineup here, you had Prescott, Davis, Mixon had the game of his life. Lamb had a great game. Beckham we're gonna get to here in a second. Amari Cooper, Andrews, Dalvin Cook, and of course you stacked it with the Minnesota Vikings. But you said you're a Browns fan. And look, let's be honest, Mike, no one could ever predict that even with, I'm sorry, even with Cleveland going up against Dallas that Beckham would have done what he did. I gotta tell you, he has been a, I'm sure you know too, he's been a massive disappointment, both in fantasy and reality. But if this guy could just do half of this every week in DFS, people would be very happy. Well, you know, as a Browns fan, you always have to be optimistic. So I just, I'm just so ecstatic with the three and one start and seeing them kind of put things together this year that I believe that they're gonna be great again. Every week they, every time there's a game like this, they just get all of Cleveland so excited and seeing that on Sunday was great. I mean, there were points during the game, during this late where I'm so used to losing, I didn't think there was really a chance I was ever gonna win the million dollars that I was kind of, I was kind of rooting against that and rooting against my lineup because I just want to see the Browns win. So, and then Odell hit that reverse for a touchdown. I was like, wait a minute, this is getting kind of serious now. I might actually be onto something with this lineup. So it was a roller coaster of emotions when that game was going back and forth. I'll tell you that. I can't imagine what the last five minutes of this must have been like for you, Mike, where I mean, I can only picture myself and I can't even picture myself like refreshing, refreshing, is this really happening? Am I sure? Like, are you sure there wasn't a glitch? Like, am I really a millionaire here? Like, what were the emotions like in the last couple of minutes? Well, I mean, you know, the whole, I was, luckily I was in the lead after the 1pm game. So the 4pm games where I actually like left my house, I went for a walk. I had no players in the 4pm, the slate of games at all. So had to get away, stop watching Red Zone for a little bit, take a couple of deep breaths, went for a walk with my wife and daughter. And then I, the person in second place said he was tight on my tail with Darren Waller. So I was watching Darren Waller every play. It was the weirdest way I've ever watched a football game. I focused on one player, just watched every rowdy ran. Couldn't believe Derek Carden throwing the ball more, but I'm super thankful for that. Might have to buy Derek Carder's with some of the money. It was a crazy Sunday. And everybody I know is reaching out to me, like all my family and friends, it was crazy. It was one of the coolest days of my life, that's for sure. Oh, I'm sure. Now, what does your wife think about all this? Because I'm, look, I know with my wife, you know, I guess we could call it frivolous money, honestly, like for me, I'm married. I have two kids and, you know, when I throw money at different things, the great thing is, you know, I'm sure like you have a great relationship with my wife. So it's not like I'm getting questioned or anything like that. But of course you get that little eye roll a little bit when you spend money. What is she thinking now that you've made your family a million dollars just for playing Dak Prescott? Yeah, to be honest with you, I'm not sure if she had any idea that I was playing Fandall like this. Obviously. She watches me watching sports and she's a trooper. She tuffs it out with me, watches the game. She loves the Browns too. And I didn't really say much, you know, during the 1 PM games, I took a screenshot that I was in first and sent it to my buddies, thinking, oh, this is cool. I'll brag that I was in first place at the million dollar contest for a little bit. And then as things started getting serious, she knew who she had a root against in the 4 PM games. All of a sudden, it became a little bit more serious and it was a really fun day for both of us. It was exciting. I don't think she even believed it after it happened. I don't think she, even to this day, I don't think she really believes any of this happened, but it's real. It's crazy. Yeah, and I think your story is so great, Mike, because for some people who play a lot on DFS, certainly it is a big deal and it's like pseudo life changing. But I'm guessing for you, this is like really life changing. Like this is going to alter. It probably won't alter who you are. I mean, if you're a Browns fan, you're going to stay a Browns fan. And certainly, you live your life the way you're going to live. But anybody that wins a million dollars doing anything, definitely has a change in their life in some way. And I'm guessing that's going to be like that for you. Oh, for sure. I mean, I still wake up and it's only been a couple of days, but I pinch myself thinking that I'll be able to pay for my daughter's college without having to stress and just things like that as things go forward. And it's very surreal. It's hard to believe, but it's definitely going to be life changing, like you said. It's just, it's good. Now, for people who don't know, who don't follow you on Twitter at 2K, stop on Twitter. You are in charge of player ratings at NBA 2K. And I'm guessing, given what we talked about before the show, you absolutely love working for NBA 2K and doing that. And you've said that you're staying. You're not doing the LeBron show about free agency. You're staying with NBA 2K. And I know that you've said so much how thankful you were to have and still to have that job with them. It's great, right? Oh, yeah. I'm honestly living the dream in more than one way right now. It was a dream job of mine forever. And nothing's changed in that regard. I'm so happy to have my job and to be working hard to make fun video games for people. So life's great. I'm so blessed to have won this contest. I feel very blessed to be able to continue working at my job. And yeah, have fun watching sports. And yeah, life couldn't be much better in this moment, that's for sure. Well, congratulations, Mike. We love to hear these great stories about winners, especially those who have it unexpected. And Mike is super transparent with this saying he's lost a lot through the years, just playing as a regular dude on Fandall. And now he's a winner of a million dollars. And certainly when the Miami Heat season starts up next year and I'm disappointed with the rankings, I know where to go to complain about it on NBA 2K. Mike, thank you so much for coming on Fantasy Sports Today. Again, congratulations. Thank you so much for telling your story to us. And best of luck on Fandall the rest of the season. Well, thank you so much. I do have to add one thing. My wife did want me to say that we do a family and friends Fandall, Fantasy League that season long and she wanted me to let you guys know that she beat me this week. So congratulations to Stoffer. All in all, you're the big winner regardless of this. You've had him twice. I have to shout out my cousins and family that beat me and Fandall this week in other contests. So I just had to make sure that they got it out there. They got a shout out. All right, Mike, thanks for coming on the show. We really appreciate it. Thank you so much. All right, Mike Stoffer with us will be back with more Fantasy Sports Today. Don't go away.