TAIPANS WIN IN THEIR THIRD STADIUM IN THREE YEARS
...but its only Week one
Week One in the Subsim Fantasy Football League.
...and it's the first rewrite of the season. Unbelievable.
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We'll talk about the last minute stadium hire by an international team, the stadium of the other international team, and as always, the best damm ghost team in the league and their stadium play.
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Lots to get through tonight. Lets start with the Taipans and the Black cats. At draft day the Taipans were still without a stadium. With the Australian continent in lock down and flights out of the USA to Down Under continuing only through Europe, it became apparent that the Taipans would need another stadium to host them this year. Last year they Taipans were in the Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego. The Q was demolished after their final game last year, and the expectation was that the Taipans would be able to return home, That wasn't to be so the Taipans took a lease on the Los Angeles Coliseum, one time Olympic venue. The Taipnas have a lease until the Covid restrictions in Australia are lifted.
The Taipans opened their campaign against the Black Cats,a team that they have consistently failed to put away. The Cats being a bogey team, particularly on opening day, was always in the forethought of everyone as both teams took the spotlight on Monday night. When Mike Evans (WR) only scored four (4) points for the Taipans, you could already hear the whispers beginning that this was going to be another implosion by the Taipans. The Cats had Chris Goodwin (WR) come out and dominate the Taipans wide receiver,s, but as good as he was, the depth of the Taipans this year carried them through until Sunday when they just blew out the Cats. With only Lamar Jackson (QB) scheduled to play on Monday night, the reach for the Cats was just too great, and the Taipans claimed their first victim of the year with a blow out. Final score, the Australian Taipans defeated the Black Cats 186-132.
Now, I will be the first to admit, that while watching the Thursday night broadcast of the Taipans- Black cats, I was not paying attention to the news ticker across the bottom of the screen until about 9pm when I realized that the Drunk Monkeys had put up 100 points. The Guns of Hoculi were hosting the Monkeys on opening night double header, and the Monkeys had stacked Thursday night with most of their players. This was a tactic not previously seen, so I switched over to watch Dak Prescott (QB) run out a 109 point lead over the Gunners. I thought that Josh Allen (QB) would guide the Gunners back into the game, but the Monkeys continued to pile on points well into Sunday afternoon. On Monday night the Monkeys still had Darren Waller (TE) to play but it was all over by that time, and just a matter of "by how much". The Dunk Monkeys, show their red rump to divisional rivals the Guns of Hoculi and decimate them with the highest scoring game of the week. Could this be the year the Monkeys ascend to the top of the tree? In week one, they account for the Guns of Hochuli in a 204 - 149 point landslide.
204 points scored by the Monkeys, unbelievable.
And now to our feature game of the week. The defending Torpedo Bowl Champions, the Helmand Nighthawks finally return home to Wembley Stadium, England, after they spent a year in exile while Covid took hold of the 2020 season. The fans were pumped to have their defending title holders and again, this years immediate favorite to win the Torpedo Bowl. Coming to town were the Who Dat Nation lead by Coach Fuel For Blood. Coach Fuel made some last minute changes prior to the flight to England and brought in three new players, cutting three from their draft. Opposing them was Danica Patrick's former boyfriend, Aaron Rodgers (QB) now sporting a haircut that makes hm look more like a member of The Grateful Dead than the Helmand Nighthawks. Rodgers (QB) played pitifully, scoring only 2.82 point. Like everyone else, I thought that the mark Andrews (TE) and Justin Tucker (K) would just run out the clock for an easy win against the Nighthawks, but like everything else, you never know what's going to happen. It came down to the final minute for Tucker (K) to make a distance kick to close the gap, but instead, they continued to run closer to the goal posts. When the game went into overtime it was just a matter of whether Andrews (TE) and Tucker (K) would get their hands on the ball. When Andrews (TE) needed to catch a pass, it was incomplete, resulting in a change of possession on the next play. In the end, the Nation just didn't have enough points against the Nighthawks, and Mister Chris's team goes home with the w. Final score, Helmand Nighthawks 130 hold off the Who Dat nation 125.
So where does that leave us at the end of Week 1, half the teams are 1-0, the other half are 0-1. Next week we go to Carolina where the Black Cats will be hosting the visiting Helmand Nighthawk. The Cats, even though it's only week 2, need a win to get on the board as their divisional rivals have a softer schedule than they do.
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.
You look around the league and there were a lot of scores worthy of this weeks award, but , our recipient's award has to be taken into account given the final score that the team put up. For the effort 10 receptions for 105 yards and 1 touchdowns, for a total of 32.50 points, the Week One MVT goes to Darren Waller (TE) of the Drunk Monkeys..
