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The Road to Fun Bowl XX and Other Playoff Notes
Third Round
Fun Bowl XX Bocce Balls Win Second Straight Fun Bowl over Poopy Pants
For the 2nd straight season, Chuck's Pants came up small when it mattered most. Packers Donald Lee and Brett Favre played in "the worst conditions I've ever seen." TO sprained his ankle early and Joseph Addai coasted for the Colts. This allowed the Bocce Balls to win another championship without a single double digit scorer. Bocce Balls 50 ($434.33) Poopy Pants 46 ($260.60) in the lowest scoring Fun Bowl since Mrs. Schmu took the crown nine years ago with a two WR lineup.
Third Place For the Chicago Gamblers, their fairy tail story of The Three Bears failed to produce a happy ending for the second straight week as those same blustery, frigid playing conditions left their two Bear receivers hungry and cold. Nickboy seized the opportunity to cash their league first check and put up 62 points with the help of Roddy White and Jamal Lewis. Nickboy 62 ($173.73) Chicago Gamblers 45 ($0)
Consolation
Was it the Adrian Peterson Bowl? Maybe next year. The LT Bowl? Brian Westbrook Bowl? Whatever you call it, it was a potentially embarrassing moment for all of us who play the waiver wire and agonize over injuries and lineup decisions each week. Was it possible that the Beach Party could sweep through the playoffs like a runaway train with an untouched roster? In the end, roster management justice was served. Finally healthy, the Pugnacious Prophets avenged a season sweep by the Beach Party and led the league in scoring for the 2nd straight week to capture the what's his name bowl and next season's #1 pick. Pugnacious Prophets 83 Beach Party 44
Toilet Bowl
In a match-up of two teams that fell from the Penthouse to the outhouse, the Commanders avoided The FFFL Hall of Shame. Commanders 72 Bears Fan Behaving Badly 48
Second Round
The defending champ Bocce Balls kept rolling all the way to the championship round to face the fumbling, stumbling, rumbling Poopy Pants who somehow advanced to their eighth straight finals with a season low 41 point performance. Chicago Gamblers' Chicago Bear fortified lineup soiled the bed with Tom Brady handing off on a stormy day to produce the week's lowest (37) point total and provide Poopy Pants a pass. Pathetic! So Fun Bowl XX will rematch last year's participants. Call it the battle of the bad behavior WRs. Moss vs. Owens. Stay tuned.
This year's Toilet Bowl features two teams who perhaps counted their chickens before they hatched. A few short weeks ago, the league office fielded questions from both participants about first place tie breakers and playoff seeding rules. How the once mighty have fallen as the Commanders and Bear Fan Behaving Badly will try to avoid the Hall of Shame.
And then there is the Consolation Bowl where the low maintenance, cruise control Beach Party has coasted into the finals to play the last place Prophets who took all season to get Brandon Jacobs and Andre Johnson in lineup at the same time. What happens with the #1 pick if Beach Party wins?
Not that it matters to us in this league, but how about Brian Westbrook downing himself at the one yard line? Somewhere there were playoff games decided on that play.
First Round Notables
Week 15 Previews Gamblers vs. Poopy Pants Poopy Pants appears poised to participate in their 7th straight Fun Bowl. Last year they lucked their way in. This season, they are peerless. Prediction: Poopy Pants by 11
Bocce Balls vs. Nickboy revised Paul has never made the finals. In our 19 previous seasons, no team with the #1 pick has won the Fun Bowl. The Bocce's WRs are a murderers row and I recently discovered that they have more than 1 RB. That said, back to back 90+ weeks would be unprecedented. Prediction: Bocces by 2
Playoff Prep In our pursuit of playoff justice...
Who are these guys? 2007 All Bargain Team
QB Derrick Anderson RB Earnest Graham RB Ryan Grant WR Roddy White WR Brandon Marshall WR Dwayne Bowe TE Donald Lee K Mason Crosby
An Infamous week for FF Legends: Now you see 'em, now you don't
That was the week that was. Its over. Let it go. Oh what a a week it was. Its over let it go.
- theme from the satiric 60s TV show That Was the Week That Was.
The triumphant returns of Priest Holmes and Ricky Williams lasted all of two games and six plays respectively. Before I had a chance to resurrect my infamous photo of Ricky and Da Coach in dreds, Ricky's a goner. Before I could put Priest in my line-up, he retired. Where's the fun? And in case you were wondering, the Ricky photo is also gone, apparently emptied from the recycle bin.
If that wasn't enough fantasy RB tragedy for one week, the player that prompted our 2005 division names, Cedric Benson, was also lost for the season. Inspiring division names is as legendary as Cedric is likely to get.
And that player from the cover of Madden who inspired this year's division names? He went to jail in the past week.
Then there is the genuine tragedy of Sean Taylor who would still be alive if NFL team policy allowed injured players to travel with their teams.
And just to show that more modern lyrics can be equally expressive...
How bizarre Ooh baby, (ooh baby) - Lyrics from How Bizarre - OEM All Play Standings The first and second place teams will qualify for the championship round of the playoffs. Two wild card teams will be selected on the basis of All Play Record: Here is a link to the all play standings. As it stands, the Hawkeyes may qualify with the worst record of any playoff team in league history. But they should qualify despite getting screwed by their schedule. Somewhere there is justice.
Commissioner's Capsule Comments
Beach Closed We have rules for owners who abandon their teams as the season winds down. But never wrote rules for a team abandoned from the beginning of the season. The All Gay Beach Party has not turned in a lineup since week 3. They have not participated in waivers at all. The result is an occasionally less than competitive lineup, particularly during bye weeks. After weeks of deliberation, the competition committee has decided to take action to prevent their on-and-off competitiveness to affect the standings of playoff contenders any further. In order to maintain a level playing field, we will be freezing their lineup for the remainder of the season. We considered having them forfeit all their games. But this would have put my team in a more competitive position. So their two wins and any others they earn with their frozen lineup will stand.
Ironically we spent more time figuring out what to do this situation than Brian did on his team.
Moved to the Top of the Page I shouldn't have to bring this up again, but ... Because we continue to have violations of the league code (below) that have diminished the quality of league participation, I ask that everyone read this again and try to live by the code.
Owners' Responsibility Code
If you can't be a responsible owner, I suggest a public Yahoo or ESPN league where fair weather owners are expected and anonymous.
Annual Post Draft Review ...has been drafted and posted. Week one's follow up comments are added. Here is the link.
Trash Talk Policy
New Team Name Origins
New Division Names This season we commemorate the fact that the NFL is going to the dogs:
The Lottery is Complete Results are on the draft announcement page. With that, the divisions are set: Odd picks in the Doberman, Evens are fed to the Pit Bull.
Upgraded Draft Results Page For the counters in the league, the 2006 Draft Page is enhanced with positions for each player.
Nazi Notes
Fantasy Football Video Library
All Time, Top 10 Draft Lines Revisited
Rule Change: Seeds for Championship Round First
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Fantasy Footnotes
Week 10 Titan's coach Jeff Fisher suffered a broken leg in the 1985 season which forced him into his first coaching job with the Eagles. Who is the current NFL head coach who's tackle pushed Fisher into his current multi-million dollar occupation?
A. Steeler Coach Bill Cowher did the damage. Week 8 The late, great Walter Payton retired the year before this league started up. His son, Jarrett is now playing for the Titans. There is one player who was selected in our original draft in 1988 that has been lineup worthy in 2005. Who? The Answer is Vinny Testaverde
Believe it or not: Vinny once had a 100 yard rushing game.
Giant QB Phil Simms was also playing back in '88. His son Chris starts for the Bucs this week.
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