CFFL Season Has Begun! Week 1 Review

Thank you NBC!

The CFFL season has kicked off and what a week it was starting on Thursday night...Thank you NBC for this shot! 


Player of the Week: Payton Manning of course.  I mean wow!  7 TDs tying the NFL record for TDs in a game joining some pretty good all time CFFL players.  I mean who could forget the Y.A. Tittles performance in that 1962 CFFL Game?... Manning is better than ever and is teamed up with Peterson on the Roulette and gives this team a real chance at a run at the title. 

Game of the Week:  Wrecking Crew 34  Animals 33 - The Crew hung on late into the night to outlast the Animals by one point.  The Crew apparently got a little "Chisler Luck" in this one.  After only getting 4 points from Newton (Crew passed on Luck for Newton...d'oh!) and getting 6 each from Gore's Knee, Marshall, and Gonzalez it was coming down to the night games starting on Sunday as the Animals had Romo and Austin versus "Team Bailey".  While Romo got 2 TD passes none went to Austin, and Bailey got 12 points thanks to plenty of "stalls" from the Cowboys.  Onto the Monday Night Games and the Animals were down by 8 with only the Houston Kicker Bullock left.  More "Chisler Luck" in this one as he missed a field goal in the first half.  Then they took off a filed goal in the second half after a penalty ultimately scoring 7 points coming up 1 point short.  "Better to be lucky than good in this league" said owner Roy Cherry of the Crew.

Comeback of the Week (and Bonehead move of the week): Mayhem 42 Titans 32.  After getting 12 big points from A.J. Green and then 6 from Brandon Myers on Sunday night the Titans lead the Mayhem 32-26.  Two problems.  First, Mayhem had 5 guys playing Monday Night (Vincent Brown, McCoy, Andre Johnson, Texan Defense, and Ben "taste of" Tate).  McCoy scored to tie the game and then Vincent Brown and the Texan Defense both scored to put the game away.  Second, the Titans benched starter Eli Manning for Tannehill...wait, what? Yes.  Tannehill had 4, Manning had 16! Titans would have won the game with the Mouth Breather.  Hence why Titans continue to be at the bottom of the league.

Impressive Performances: The Roulette are going to be tough this year.  As one owner said on Sunday, "All they need is a decent kicker and will beat teams with 3 players".  That's a fact.  The Sinistars scored a respectable 39 points was no match to the Roulette's 65.  Manning had 28.  Peterson had 18 and Greg "The Leg" Zuerlein had 13!! Oh and the Defense threw in 6 for good measure.  Goodness! 

Dragons also racked up 60 points beating a pretty decent Bees team lead by Andrew Luck's 14 points (man I should have drafted him instead).  It was a well rounded attack by the Dragons.  Rodgers had 12, Cruz salsaed in 18 big points!  12 from Witten and 6 each from Julio Jones and McFadden.  So that's 30 points from one game (Giants vs Cowboy game).  Wow!

Jughead strikes again for the Chislers

In other games...Chislers picked up right where they left off, winning the opener against the Ferrets 38-17 lead again by Jughead River's 16 points.  Ferrets only managed 17 from kicker and QB Biz lat. RB and WR shutout...Krauts won a ho-hummer 23-10 over Juggernauts.  Krauts started good last year too and then finished last.  Juggs Rookie and 2nd year player experiment not working yet...Bums continue to defy the critics and took out the heavily favored Twins 40-29. Waiver wire of the week was Julius Thomas picked up right before the game and scores 12 points....Crush beat the Mafia 36-31 lead by 12 points from Welker...

Key Games of Next Week:  Wrecking Crew at Chislers and Dragons at Mayhem.  Both are huge rivalries.  The Cherry Brothers have been battling for 29 years in this league including 2 Fantasy Bowls.  Winner gets early edge in the North Standings.  Dragons and Mayhem typically battle for that Sad Sack South division every year, close friends, bitter enemies. Dragons on a roll though this year.