DRAGONS WIN.
...in a low scoring Torpedo Bowl.
They came into the season as the defending champions. They fought through some big victories and at least one one major upset to finish as the number #3 seed in the playoffs. And then it fell into their lap, they won their first playoff game and were handed, what most expected was a gift match up against Every Given Sunday. But they did it the hard way through 7 minutes of Monday Night overtime, to become back to back Torpedo Bowl Champions.
Let's find out how...right after this commercial break.
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Welcome back. We join the Dragon team as they begin celebrating their second Torpedo Bowl win. Between beers after the game, Coach Rick said "Ughhh, blah erg Sunday huh, blur blur blur, duh Dragons win."
(Translation: "Well done Sunday, they played hard, but on the day, Dragons win.")
In one of the lowest scoring games of the season, the Dragons beat Every Given Sunday 67.43 - 62.89, but they needed from Thursday - Monday to get it done . Every Given Sunday made some late changes to their team (coincidentally on Sunday) removing their injured tight end Jeremy Shockey and running back Michael Turner. By Monday night, their entire season was resting on the boot of Ryan Longwell. Despite some high scoring games across the league, this game was an all round low performance effort, with most players in the Torpedo Bowl only earning single digit scores. The missed point after attempt by Longwell only punctuated the lack of scoring, giving the Dragons, their second championship.
Had Every Given Sunday played to their 8-6 divisional winning level, they could have pulled off the upset of the season.
In the bronze medal game, both Helmand Nighthawks and the BP Badasses more then made up for the low scoring Bowl game, turning it into a thrilling gunslinger match, as the scored rolled up to a Nighthawks win 115.96 - 112.32. In their first season as an expansion team, the Helmand Nighthawks after dominating the regular season, clearly earned the Rookie of the Year Award, if we had one.
Two other games were played to determine the Consolation Bowl placings in the league.
In the 5th place game, The Ded Poets and Mudville Nine (the Nine starting one RB short) needed all of the weekend before Adrian Peterson finally scored a 1 yard touchdown run on Monday Night to put the Ded Nose of the Poets in front. The Poets and Nighthawks showed that the internationally based teams can be a force...if they can survive the draft.
And the battle continued on down the line, the Wild Boston Terriers just too strong for the Green Beans, dominating them and asserting themselves as a deservedly higher seed then the winner of the 7th place game. Final score Wil Boston Terriers 126 - Green Beans 85.
But we cant conclude the last game of the Subsim season without the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) nominating their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance. The player who lifted their team to victory, quite possibly, may end up taking the "lower division" NFL MVP.
For 264 passing yards and 2 TD's earning a (relative) high score of 16.73 points, the Torpedo Bowl MVT is Phillip Rivers of the Torpedo Bowl Champions, the Dragons.
For the Subsim Football Network, this is Gut Wrench reporting from the Dragons Clubhouse where the beer is flowing, the strippers are working, and there's not a camera to be seen.
See ya next year.
