CFFL Week 1- 30th Anniversary Kickoff!

Owners gather at the Kilt

Here we go!  The CFFL's 30th season.  It all started with a memorable draft at the Tilted Kilt complete with Kilted lasses, giant draft board, Fantasy Bowl XIX trophy presentation (which later in the night a drunk bride wanted to drink out of), beer, food, fun and lots of laughs.  This was all to prepare us for another fun filled action packed season of Fantasy Football!

CFFL draft with Kilted Lasses!

Game of the Week:  Dragons 43 Killer Bees 42

Lynch went Beast Mode on the Bees

This game from the opening quarter looked like it would be a blow out as the Dragons attacked quickly with 2 Marshawn "Beast Mode" Lynch TDs to take a quick 12-2 lead.  This would continue throughout the day on Sunday as the homer kicker Caleb Sturgis would kick in 15 big points, Big Ben would add 4 and Zach Ertz, the big talk of the league, would add another score.  For good measure in the second half the Dragons would add a defensive TD from the 49ers.  Score was 43-10.

"Jim Fiest, or whoever does the preseason predictions can suck it!" said owner Randy Freeman of the Dragons after being picked to miss the playoffs this year.

But soon things would turn late Sunday night.  It started out with "Orange" Julius Thomas catching not one, not two, but THREE huge TDs for the Bees!  Suddenly the Dragon's owner was nervous.  He was already claiming they lost even though they still had a decent lead.  But the Bees weren't done as they got 14 more points from Andrew "Jebediah" Luck.  Now this game was certainly in question and the Dragons only held a 1 point lead going into Monday Night 43-42.

Luck brought the Bees back!

Monday Night would put the Dragons Reggie "Pan down I want" Bush vs. Victor "Salsa" Cruz and Eric Ebron.  The game went on and on with no scores.  Then late in the 4th quarter with time running out the Lions were driving.  Both Bush and Ebron were in the game. This certainly would be the game.  As luck would have it for the Dragons neither player scored and the Dragons hung on for the win!

Comeback and Roster Move of the Week: Wrecking Crew 28 Animals 27

Cutler connected early with an 11 point play!

While this game wasn't as thrilling as the Dragons vs. Bees match up it certainly had an interesting ending.  The game started out with a bang as the defending Fantasy Bowl champs connected on an 11 point play as Cutler hit Bennett for a TD and Gould added an extra point.  It looked like the Crew picked up right where they left off, but Cutler would only get one more TD pass and Gould would add 7 points and that would be it, 22 points.  Nothing from the Running backs.  The Animals countered with 5 from Malachi Dalton and 10 big points from Shayne Graham "Cracker ass cracker" and a TD catch from Antonio Brown.  Score was 22-21 Crew hanging on.

Private Benjamin

 Late in the second half the Animals got a TD catch from Kelvin "Private" Benjamin who looked like a man among boys out there.  This guy is going to be a beast!  Score was now Animals 27 Crew 21.  It was time to start dodging bullets like Neo for the Crew as they went up against Demaryius Thomas who didn't score (Thank you Julius).

Monday Night would come and the Crew staff were agonizing over if they should leave Gates in despite his hamstring.  They decided at the last minute to bench him in favor of Malcom Floyd.  So it would be the Floyd brothers pitted against each other as the Animals had Michael.  It started out with both Gates and Michael Floyd catching all kinds of balls.  However it would be Malcom that would be the only one to score a TD, a game winning TD at that for the Crew as they prevailed 28-27!

Malcom Floyd catches game winner for Crew!

Player of the Week:  "Orange" Julius Thomas - 18 points - Killer Bees
Thomas was the beneficiary of Peyton Manning this week, catching 3 TDs in a losing effort against the Dragons.

"Orange" Julius scores one of his 3 TDs!

Megatron snares in a TD

Around the league...Ferrets took care of business in week one defeating the Chislers in impressive fashion 30-14 thanks in large part to Calvin "Megatron" Johnson's 2 TD catches.  This coupled with the fact that the Chislers, known as the Green Bay Chislers or the San Diego Chislers, only got 8 points from their 5 players who played for Packers and Chargers....Roulette's Manning lead the Rooskies to victory over the Krauts in Berlin.  Manning's 3 TD passes was the difference.  Krauts were not happy only getting 4 from their new leader Aaron Rodgers...The Juggernauts had little trouble with the Cocktails in Italy.  This wasn't hard considering the Cocktails started a QB that wasnt even playing (Johnny Football).  The Bell Brother experiment by the Juggernauts proved valuable as both "Labia" and Joique Bell scored...Titans completed the Freeman sweep this week as they surprised the Mayhem 30-20.  Ryan Succop booted in 14 points for the Titans.  The Mayhem made it slightly interesting, but just ran out of time as Stafford threw for 15 points late in the game...Out west the Sinistars took the lead early and never looked back against the Mafia winning 37-22.  The Mafia was playing scared anyway after being predicted to win it all, a death sentence in the CFFL to the likes of the Madden Curse or the SI Cover curse.  Matt Ryan and Ryan Hauschka were the only players to score for the Mafia.  Sinistars benefited from the Bengals "Ted" Nugent's 15 points (lots of stalls in that game)...The Crush played a tight game against the Bums and were lead by Kicker Matt Bryant (13 points) and Vernon Davis (12 points).  They opened the game up late on Monday night as Rashad Jennings scored and then later Ryan "Glass Collar Bone" Mathews scored to put the game away 41-24.

Not sure if Mike is as crazy as Ted!

What to watch next week:
Big rivalry games next week will be the Wrecking Crew vs. Chislers and Dragons vs. Mayhem.  The Crew vs. Chislers is Brother vs. Brother and is the longest standing rivalry in the CFFL and dates back to the very beginning 30 years ago.  These teams play twice a year and have even faced off in 2 Fantasy Bowls, each winning one...Dragons and Mayhem have been facing off since the Dragons brought the Mayhem into the league in 2002.  Friends off the field but bitter rivals on the field.  These two should be great match ups.  

A familiar sight...
That's why its called the CHERRY Fantasy Football Leauge