WILD MONDAY NIGHT
...and who picked the Nighthawks to be 0-3?.
Week Three in the Subsim Fantasy Football League .... and if you weren't watching on Monday night, you missed one of the wildest and most exciting finishes to a week, ever recorded in the Subsim Fantasy league.That comes after a systematic demolition in a couple of other days.
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After opening the season with two home games the Australian Taipans slither into Texas where it was hot...hot, so hot...to mean divisional rivals the Guns of Hochuli. Coach Casey had ordered up a scorching hot day of 112 for the Taipans match and gave the sunny side of the Pearland Stadium. Taipans didn't care, they're from the subtropics and it was just another hot day to be playing. And played they did. Tapians jumped out to early lead on Thursday night and were never headed again. The Gunners, fired back early Sunday morning with with Buffalo (Def) racking up 32 points - to be the highest scoring person on the team. Drinks were brought out early as the Taipans cooled off on Monday night rolling up the scoreboard a few more points. Final score at Pearland Stadium Australian Taipans defeat the Guns of Hochuli 148 - 117.
In South Carolina, the Black Cats welcomed the Who Dat Nation Rises to town for a hurricane rain soaked match. With the traditional bog of the Cats home field the Nation from the Pacific North West - where it always rains - rode into town and shot the Cats to pieces. This wasn't even a close match, even with both teams started less on running back. The Cats had a sniff to steal this game with Joe Burrow (QB) on Monday night, but, it's becoming a case of "which Joe Burrow is going to show up?" This week it was the one who sucked, and couldn't throw a long bomb to save the team. Final score in the south, The Who Dat Nation Rises to defeat the Black Cats 133-102.
Time after time we talk about it, just how good could the Drunk Monkeys be if Coach Thad showed up to the game. They have a great leader with Lamar Jackson as QB. But the rest of the team just played a lazy ass monkey game. The Banter Brigade that crossed the pond are showing that in their second year int he league the have potential championship aspirations as they accounted for the Monkeys. Final score, Banter Brigade 165 - Drunk Monkeys 84.
Our final game of the week was the best of the year so far. A local derby in Wembley, the Helmand Nighthawks were uncharacteristically 0-2 for the season needing to stop the losses. The Boss team, another of our second year team, were 2-0 and were looking to put the Nighthawks way down the ladder and open up the game differential. This was rugged "all through the the weekend" type of game with the teams having appearances in all time slots. On Monday night, the Boss team had closes out their scoring leaving the Nighthawks a 32 point deficit to overcome. Shouldn't be too hard with Jaylen Hurts (QB) and Chris Goodiwn (WR) still to play. But it was. Hurts looked like he was playing hurt and Goodwin looked like he was calling Tom Brady to come back. The Nighthawks only needed three touchdowns between the pair of them and maybe 270 yards to make this a competition. But they came up short. In the first major upset of the year, the Boss team defeats the Helmand Nighthawks 136 - 128.
So lets take our first look at the table and see where we stand.
In the Surface Skimmers division the Australian Taipans sit out front at 3-0. One game behind them are the Banter Brigade at 2-1, one game back again at 1-2 are the Guns of Hochuli , and holding down the wooden spoon are the Drunk Monkeys at 0-3.
In the Sub Simmers division, the Boss team are also 3-0 and share the league lead. One game back from them at 2-1 are the Who Dat Nation, one more game back at 1-2 are the Black Cats, but all the finger pointing is being done at the Helmand Nighthawks who sit at the bottom of the division at 0-3. This is unprecedented in Nighthawk history, their worst start ever, and I would have to think long and hard for the last time that the Nighthawks lost 3 games in a row. But this is also one of the powerhouse teams of the league, who has the potential to put on a charge and finish as the number 1 seed - even from here.
Next week, we go back to Oregon where the Who Dat Nation Rises start as underdogs to the Guns of Hochuli. Unlike other leagues, there will be no "Toy Story" gamification of this match, or any other match. This is serious football folks, we don;t make stuff up.
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.
This one is a little weird this week. For the effort of 18 receptions for 215 yards, and...then passing 49 yards for 1 touchdown, for a total of 53.46 points, the Week Three MVT goes to Keenan Allen (WR) of the Australian Taipans.
