CFFL Playoffs Round 2

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all.  Its the most wonderful time of the year.  The playoffs are in full swing and Fantasy Bowl XXIX is right around the corner.  Here's how the semifinals ended up.

R.C.Wrecking Crew 34  Alex's Animals 19

Romo "Says What?"  hurts his back

This game was to guarantee a North Division team would be represented in the Fantasy Bowl for 18 out of 29 times in the history of the CFFL. This game pitted the kickers versus the QBs in a classic cry for stalls!  Animals had Romo while the Crew had kicker Bailey.  The Crew had Newton while the Animals had kicker "Bat" Gano.  The result was the Animals up 13-10 as Romo had 2 TDs to Newtons only 1.  The Animals would get a TD catch from Demaryius Thomas to go up 19-10 but the Crew countered with Jimmy Graham "Cracker ass Cracker" leaving the score 19-16.  No scoring would occur during the 4:00 games giving the Crew some hope for a come back.

Gore celebrates his TD that sealed the win

Sunday Night saw the Crew and Animals put Marshall and Jeffery "I WIN" against each other.  Jeffery had been the Crew's thorn in their side stealing TDs away from Marshall.  However this night it would be Marshall that got the lone TD of the game to pull the Crew into the lead 22-19 going into Monday Night.

Monday Night would see three players playing to wrap up the game.  The Crew had Frank Gore "Knee" and Tony Gonzalez versus the Animals Crabtree.  Crabtree was having a heck of a game and it looked like he might score, but each time the 49ers got close others scored.  The Animals needed a TD bad from Crabtree to make it to their first ever Fantasy Bowl.  As time ticked down the 49ers made another drive into the red zone.  Two straight power runs by Gore and the Crew got a TD to go up 28-19, an insurmountable lead late in the game.  They added a Gonzalez TD for good measure to make the score 34-19.

It was over for the Animals who made a valiant run to try to make it to their first ever Fantasy Bowl as the 8th seed in the playoffs.  Marshawn Lynch was shut down by the Crew defense and put up a great goal line stance keeping Lynch from the endzone.  Romo hurt his back in the game and would have been out for the Fantasy Bowl, leaving the Animals with no option at QB.

The Crew managed to make it to their 6th Fantasy Bowl with Cam Newton not exactly on a hot streak, scoring only 4 points each week for the past 3 weeks.  They will need him to do better if they want to win their 3rd title in Franchise History.  The Crew have lost 3 straight Fantasy Bowls (FB XXII Crush 41-37 (freaking Robbie Gould), FB XXV Krauts 38-23, and FB XXVII Chislers 55-39).

Barcadi's Bums 38 Russian Roulette 27

"I threw 51 TD passes? cool.."

The Bums had been red hot lately scoring  over 50 points the past two weeks and now faced the Roulette who had the big names of Manning, Peterson, and Megatron.  What has helped the Bums in their quest was Jamaal Charles who had a record 5 TDs last week.  This week he would only score once and maybe open the door for the Roulette to beat the Bums.  Peyton Manning did his part scoring 16 points for the Roulette and breaking the record for TD passes by a QB formerly held by Tom Brady when he played for the Animals in 2007.  However Manning didn't get any help from the rest of the team except for Greg the Leg who had 11 points.  That would be all they would manage to score.  Peterson came up empty as did Calvin "Megatron" Johnson.

The Bums had a huge counter punch in Andy "Malachi" Dalton who matched Manning TD for TD getting 16 points of his own.  And when it looked like the Roulette was making a come back with Manning's TD passes one of them went to "Orange" Julius Thomas for the Bums.  Add another TD from Pierre Garcon and 4 more points from Hauschka and it was lights out for the Roulette.

Uh oh.  One of the 4 TDs went to this Thomas

Manning says farewell on a disappointing end to the season 

The Roulette who had so much promise by drafting Manning to go with Peterson then trading for Calvin Johnson.  This team was dangerous before the trade, but when they got Johnson it seemed like a lock for them to go to the Fantasy Bowl.  But they could first never catch the Sinistars in the Eastern Bloc Division and fell short of the Fantasy Bowl by one game.  So back to the drawing board for the Roulette but next year Manning will be back and you can't count out a team lead by Peyton "the Forehead" Manning to be contenders once again.

The Bums have been on fire lately.  Many look at Jamaal Charles as the one that helped the Bums on their run to the Fantasy Bowl as he has scored 12, 30 and 6 points and has had the best year of his career with 19 total TDs, however Malachi Dalton also has come on fire lately. He has posted 18, 8, and 16 points over that span as well.  Pretty potent duo.

Malachi red hot like his ginger head

This will be the Bums 3rd Fantasy Bowl since they entered the league in 1986 and first one since 2001.  They lost their two Fantasy Bowls, FB III to the Jewels 35-29 and FB XVII to the Crickets 26-12.  Third time a Charles...eh, I mean charm?

Even Santa takes time to catch a CFFL playoff game