HEARTBREAK AND THRILLERS
The Close Scores Continue.
Week Twelve and if you want thrilling football, heartbreaking wins and another Coach complaining they didn't get an MVT (
despite winning the MVT weeks prior) then Welcome to the Subsim Football League. Let's start with some of the better matches of the weekend.
In the first of the Toilet Bowl games, the Wild Boston Terriers were hosting the heartbreak losers of the year, Show Me Your TD's. McBee's franchise QB Aaron Rodgers came out and threw for over 344 yards, and despite Mookie's QB Phillip Rivers only scoring 3 points, it was all on the shoulders of Peyton Hillis, lifting the blouse up so we got a real good look at just how rounded the TD's are. Final score, Show Me Your TD's 115 Wild Boston Terriers 85. The end result breathes life in Mookie's season as he stays alive in the run to the post season.
The Reapers have been involved in some interesting games this year, and their week 12 match is no exception, up against the Broncolo's, trying to stop their five week loosing skid. The Reapers came out and scored a modest 86 points and watched as the Boncolo's slowly closed in. On Monday night, it was down to a five point game with the Broncolo's still to run Frank Gore. Gore ran 52 yards before injury forced him out, allowing the Reapers to win 86.86 - 86.15. Another close one again for the Reapers (their fourth) but we're not done yet.
The thriller of the week, early season favorites Helmand Nighthawks came out on Thursday night and scored 99 points with Tom Brady, Wes Walker and Jason Whitten. The Australian Taipans gave up having only scored 39 points, but, Chris Johnson forgot to show up in Houston, so did Vincent Jackson did in Indianapolis, and suddenly, the Taipans had run down the Nighthawks. With two catches to Vernon Davis, the Taipans come back from a record 60 points behind to finally win the game 106.39 - 103.57. If Whitten had one more yard, the Nighthawks would have stopped their seven game losing streak.
Elsewhere in the league, the BP Badasses continue to dominate, as they head towards 1500 points for the season, 200 points ahead of the nearest team. If you wanna beat The Badasses, you have got to have everyone scoring, and unfortunately for the Really Ded Poets, Mike Williams was on the same bus as Chris Johnson. The Badasses roll the Poets (did another coach mention MVT and loose?) 140 - 112.
Slowly but surely, the Dragons have put together a winning streak of 3 games, rolling over the gallant South West Rockets, who will fight out first pick of the draft with the Wild Boston terriers. The Dragons beat up on the Rockets 121 - 98, helped by their San Diego defense scoring 26 points.
Every Given Sunday became the second team to assure them self a post season appearance, when they edged the Takky Glue 83 - 54. The EGS stay in control of the Surface Skimmers division at 9 - 3, one game ahead of the Dragon at 8 - 4, whom they meet next week. Should the Dragons win, the divisional winner will not be decided until the following week, where EGS could be relying on other games to win the division.
So the table as we head into the second last week of the regular season looks like this. The divisional winners and the top two seeds advance to the Championship Round, while the next four go to the Consolation Round.
1. BP Badasses 11 - 1 (Divisional Winner, assured Championship round)
2. Every Given Sunday 9-3 (Assured post season appearance)
3. Dragons 8 - 4
4. Takky Glue 7 - 5
5. Ded Poets 7 - 5
6. Mudville Nine 7 - 5
7. Australian Taipans 7 - 5
8. Reapers 6 - 6
On the bubble:
9. Show me Your TD's 5 - 7
10. Broncolo's 4 - 8
11. Helmand Nighthawks 4 - 8
Each week, the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) will nominated their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance. And it won't be a Really Ded Poet as they won it six weeks ago.
The Associated Subsim Writers are pleased to present, for the effort of 131 rushing yards, 3 TD's, 6 receptions for 68 yards, for a score of 38.70, Peyton Hillis of Show me Your TD's the Week Twelve MVT.
