TAIPANS GET ONE BACK AGAINST WHO?
Do Gunners Own the League Yet?
Week 3 in the Subsim Fantasy Football League. And between a rewrite of all three games, and the amount of traffic leaving the Superdome tonight, it's a wonder that anyone can get a Fantasy Football Report written, but we have. We'll tell you about the almost greatest comeback ever seen, who almost coughed up a furball and which team was lucky to be playing the Ghosts this week.
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Wee 3 in the Subsim Fantasy Football league and the Taipans finally come home to their opening game. After having been marginally beaten on two different continents, the Taipans were trying to stop the landslide by getting one back against their Week 1 rivals, the Who Dat Nation. The Taipans started brilliantly on Thursday night with the New England Defense scoring 27 points (who'd have picked that?) Taipans have been decimated by injuries early ( haven't we all heard that before) but they went out and finally declared their weekend over at 162.20. Coach Pioneer said to the Coach Fuel For Blood "You think you're good enough, come and get it."
Holy crap, Drew Brees (QB) and Devonte Freeman (RB) went after the Taipans, collectively scoring 75 combined points, and only needing Brandon Cooks (WR) of the Nation to bring in the last remaining five or so points. Uh, hello, calling Mister Cooks, where were you? At a lousy 3.9 points, Cooks failed to deliver the last piece of one of the biggest run downs ever seen in fantasy football, to leave the Who Dat Nation short by 1.16 point. From 90 points back they ran down the Taipans but come up 11 yards short. Taipans narrowly get one back, beating the Who Dat Nation 162.2 - 161.04.
Coach Pioneer said after the game "We we're lucky."
Our Match of the Day this week was the Black Cats hosting the Guns of Hochuli. The Furballs and the Gunners only meeting this year drew considerable interest from around the league as they watched one spartan and one almost spartan go blow for blow. The Cats were relying on Cam Newton (QB) who scored modestly, however, it was the selection of Kelvin Benjamin, currently on PTO to attend the Presidential Debate, which shocked the league, scoring a big fat score of 0. With a final tally of 122.68 points, the Cats were not yet assured the victory with the Gunners RB of Mark Ingram still to play. Ingram came out and played, ran, caught a touchdown and a 2 point point conversation to swing the Monday night final result to the Gunners favor. A closer than expected win for the Gunners after Big Ben (QB) choked earlier in the weekend on a furball. Final score Guns of Hochuli 128.48 - Black Cats 122.68.
The Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) are not yet convinced on either team being the dominate force this year, so we'll have a look at one more game, which was also decided late Monday night.
The Ghost Team of the Drunk Monkeys were hosting the Helmand Nighthawks back on the North American continent after a one game home stand in England. The Nighthawks, surprisingly, only put up 123 points. The Monkeys' even though they started suspended RB Le'Von bell, still had Julio Jones (WR) to play on Monday night, and this game also looked like it was going to down to the wire. From the broadcast booth, I repeatedly had to check the tally sheet on Jones throughout the night just to make sure I wasn't missing any catches. Only 1? Who the hell only brings in one catch on a Monday night? Oh, that's right, the Drunk Monkeys, who had a chance to steal a game from the Nighthawks, but fell short. Nighthawks win this one 123 - 114 and can count themselves lucky to have done so.
So after a quarter of the way through the season, let's check the Arnold Palmer Memorial Scorecard and see where the leaders and bogeys lay.
The Guns of Hochuli at 3-0 lead the league and hold a two game lead in their division. Unless the Ghost Team returns to life, the Gunners are in a two horse race to win that division.
The Black Cats and the Helmand Nighthawks are tied at 2-1 both within the league and within their division. The Surface Skimmers division this year looks to be a scrappy affair, where any of the three teams could win the division.
The Who Dat nation and the Australian Taipans are 1-2 and in their respective divisions and need to do some work to catch up. The Nation are two games behind the Gunners, while the Taipans who have scored more points than anyone else, and have also had more points scored against them than anyone else.
The Drunk Monkeys sit at the bottom of the ladder at 0-3 waiting for their coach to show up, again.
Next week, we go back to merry old England as the league makes the Who Dat Nation cross the world from their game in Australia, as the Nighthawks host the Oregon based team. Both teams need a win to stay in contact with the Gunners, and yet, both teams do not need a loss.
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.
For the effort of 205 passing yards, 4 touchdowns and the important 22 rushing yards for the win, for a total of 33.40 points, the Associated Subsim Writers are pleased to present Aaron Rodgers of the Australian Taipans the Week Three MVT.
