Welcome to another installment of Wild Card Wednesday, as I try to cram together all of the awesome, random things that we’ve been missing out on in favor of the big stories and half-naked Marisa Miller…

At some point on Sunday, Houston Texans quarterback Matt Schaub hurt his foot and now it looks like his season is over. I’m sure that the Texans won’t completely give up on Schaub until a doctor does something cool and drastic like slam his glasses down and yell, “Damn it, I’m not God!” In the meantime, the second coming of Matt Leinart is upon us, and somewhere there’s a Jacuzzi not being boned in.

Last night, Houston tight end James Casey Tweeted the above image of a local Hooters showing support for the new QB. Unfortunately, after calling the Hooters, I learned that they ran out of space and it should have read: “Hey Leinart, we believe you gave us all gonorrhea.” OK, I may have made that up. But would you bet against it?

I’ve got my fingers crossed for you, Texans fans. God knows this would be my response to losing Schaub…

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This time, at least.

With Leather is once again teaming up with DraftStreet fantasy sports to bring you a one-day-only fantasy football league that is totally free to play and could win you a piece of a $250 cash pool. It’s so easy, all you need to look like you know what you’re talking about is a football and a football shirt. You probably haven’t made it past the picture of Marissa Miller. If you click her, it makes the picture bigger and super HQ! Just kidding, it takes you to the sign up link for this game, and I’m sorry for that.

How to play:

Click any of the hyperlinks (like this one) to sign up.

The game happens this weekend, and it’s going to work a lot like our baseball games; you’ll sign up (for free, again, I’m not going to make you pay for anything) and pick your team, choosing two QBs, two WR, two RB and so on until you’ve exhausted your salary cap, and the team with the best performance in this Sunday’s games wins money. So do the next five top teams.

And there you go. This is going to sit at the top of the page all weekend, so enjoy Marissa and please, hang out and play with us. I’m playing, and I’d really appreciate knowing I lost to EVERYBODY who could’ve played, and not just Burnsy and Upstate Underdog.

The first time we partnered up with DraftStreet to promote their free fantasy baseball game, I finished in the fifties. I was embarrassed, so on the second try I drafted a bunch of Cleveland Indians, thinking “sure, this is going to work, yeahhh Go Tribe”. They got shut out, and I finished in the hundred-and-fifties.

We’re gearing up for game three this Friday, and I’m shooting for the two-fifties, because it’s an Uproxx All-Star Fantasy Baseball Game. Beating the guy who does The Dugout isn’t enough for you? What about all three guys who do The Dugout? Jon Bois and Nick Dallamora are throwing in. What about Matt Ufford from Warming Glow (who apparently used to do something on this blog, I dunno)? What about Gotty™ from The Smoking Section? He’s already gotten up a piece about it. Punte, Burnsy, Danger Guerrero, and practically everybody you know from the Uproxx network of sites is playing, and because it is free you have the chance to win CASH MONEY and assert DOMINANCE over the ENTIRE WEBSITE.

Sign up right now, because the S is going down. We’re heading headlong into this thing this Friday with a $300 cash pool, and with me playing that is easy f**king money.

It’s going to work just like before. You draft a one-night team of players from a salary cap, and the team that performs the strongest takes the cash. It’s free and everyone cool you know is playing it, even Marissa Miller in a Cubs jersey [citation needed]. The game starts (and technically ends) on Friday, and I LOVE YOU so DO THIS FOR ME.

Spoiler alert: I’m drafting Buster Posey and Albert Pujols this time. I can’t lose!