BOOM GO THE GUNNERS
Cats Blackened.
Week 1 in the Subsim Fantasy Football League, and what an opening what it was. We've got a monster scoring spree by one team, not enough points by our defending champion, and for one team, their first opening week loss in the history of Fantasy Football.
Strap yourself in, as we go around the league and find out who got Romo-ed.
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I love the smell of scoreboards after week 1. Spectators have gone home, sports writers are putting their blurb together, and coaches are looking at their team asking "Bernanrd, what happened?"
Let's start with our match of the day with the Black Cats hosting the traveling Helmand Nighthawks. The Cats are the defending Torpedo Bowl Champions, and after a very purring off season, returned to the draft and were...fair. The Nighthawks make their first Rod Stewart Atlantic Crossing as they fly in to the rambunctious Cats Field. After contract negotiations, Tom Brady eventually won the starters job for the Nighthawks against the Cats Peyton Manning. Brady threw for four touchdowns before Peyton even walked into the stadium late in the fourth quarter. With a poor performance by their QB, it was up to the Cats Defense of the Panthers who showed up with 21 points, the best starting defense of the week. This game was all over before we even got to Monday Night, with the Cats facing a 40 point deficit before their first pick of the draft, Adrian Peterson (RB) even walked onto the field. The Nighthawks were playing Demarco Murray opposite Peterson, and the beat writers had this one put to bed before they ran onto the field. Nighthawks stun the Black Cats 141 - 78, and give rise to the question of "How long will Coach FYC put up with a substandard Peyton-formance?"
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Editors note: Peyton Manning, cut from The Black Cats Monday afternoon before the start of the last two games of the weekend. )
The predicted closet game of the weekend saw the Australian Taipans take their shortest "away" trip at 8000 miles. The Taipans are the most traveled team in the league, were hosted by the Who Dat Nation in Oregon. This was billed as one of the closest matches of the year with a fine sliver being placed between the two by bookies in Vegas. The Taipans were in good shape early Thursday night after Antonio Brown (WR) scored 33 points. The Nations running back duo of Mark Ingram and Chris Ivory did all the damage though, scoring a combined 43 points to the Taipans running backs 21. Having pulled ahead, it was only a matter of "how much" before the Nation last WR, Julio Jones took to the field to put the game out of reach. The Taipans loose their first opening weekend game in the past six year to the Sophomore Who Dat Nation Team. Final score, Who Dat Nation 182 Australian Taipans 153. Both numbers are impressive winning and losing scores.
The past few years, I have watched Coach Casey and his Guns of Hoculi team become one of the dominate forces in pretend football. He drafts well, rarely trades, selects the right players, and historically, has some huge scores. Monstrous scores. And this weekend was no different. On opening day the Gunners were hosting the Drunk Monkeys, a team they are well versed at seeing the red of their ....ummm....candy apples.

Monkeys come in guided by QB Ben Rothlisberger. Unfortunately, fantasy football is a team sport, and their Kicker Adam Vinatieri and the Defense of the Bengals scored for a combined 1 point. Gunners put their stamp on this game early with no less than three players scoring above thirty points. Shut the front door, the Monkeys were spanked early and the Gunners run away to generate a very impressive gap. (Commissioner McBee would have been proud to see this happen in his league.) Gunner stomp the Monkeys and put their authority on the league with a frightening win 169 - 136.
Already there is talk behind the stadium of who can stop the Gunners.
Next week's match of the day we travel to the Gunners home town where they host the Who Dat Nation. Both teams will be coming off impressive week 1 results, and one of these teams is in position to take an outright lead on the league, and it's only week 2. Both teams scored an impressive amount of points in week one, can they back it up in one of the most anticipated shootouts of the season.
So the league standings at the end of week 1 are, half the teams won, half the teams lost.
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.
It was hard to pass up the Monday night performance of 9 receptions for 141 yards and 2 touchdowns, for a total of 41.10 points Accordingly, the Associated Subsim Writers are pleased to present Julio Jones of the Who Dat Nation, the Week One MVT.