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| Merry Christmas from the Cheerleaders of the CFFL! |
Crush 28 Mafia 21
TAMPA, FL - The Mafia ended up just short of making it to the Fantasy Bowl as predicted in the preseason. The Crush won a fairly uneventful game led by 12 points from Kicker Matt Bryant and only 4 points form Drew Brees. Jeffery "I WIN" tallied a TD as did Sammy "Davis Junior" Watkins. Mike Evans who has 11 TDs on the year and was tearing it up came up empty for the Mafia in the final game and Hauschka missed 3 FGs that could have won the game for the Mafia. The win propels the Crush, who barley made it in as a wild card, to Fantasy Bowl XXX. This is only their 2nd trip ever to the Fantasy Bowl over the past 29 years of being in the CFFL. Their last trip was in Fantasy Bowl XXII, a 41-37 victory over the Wrecking Crew...
Chislers 42 Animals 34
ORCHARD PARK, NY - The Chislers held on to win despite benching their best player. This game was a close on and pitted Father and Son against each other. "Luke, I am your Father!" Just like Empire Strikes back, the father would win this one too as the Chislers prevented the Animals to going to their first Fantasy Bowl. It was a wild one as the Chislers decided to keep Rivers on the bench (he would score 16 points), but the Green Bay Chislers played fairly well scoring 20 points (Lacy, Nelson, Crosby). Roethlisberger, starting for Rivers (who scored 16 points...) threw only one TD...and was to Animals Brown. Beckham would get 2 scores for the Animals and the game was 30-26 going into Monday Night.
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| Animals...I am your Father! |
The Chislers had Sanders while the Animals had Dalton and D. Thomas. Truly the advantage was with the Animals, right? Well no. The Animals didn't have the Chisler luck that seems to always rears its head in the playoffs. Sanders would score twice while the Animals would only get 8 points from "Malchi" Dalton and for the second year in a row the Animals come up one game short of a trip to the Fantasy Bowl.
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| Sanders 2 TDs sealed the deal! |
This will be the Chislers 10th trip to the Fantasy Bowl. They are 4-5 in the past 9 Fantasy Bowls they have played in, winning the last 2 in a row.
FANTASY BOWL XXX PREVIEW
Chislers vs Crush
This will be a game between two historical franchises in the CFFL. The Chislers are one of the original teams that founded the CFFL in 1985, while the Crush came into the league the very next year in 1986 as the Rebels. The Chislers are the winngest franchise in the CFFL with an all time winning % of .617. The Crush are not as their all time winning % is .464, 13th among the 16 current teams.
This is truly why people in the CFFL cry, "You just have to get in!" Its a match up of wild card teams. Both team barley got into the playoffs. Hell the Chislers had to win 5 in a row just to squeak in...but that has served them well as the team has been in playoff mode for nearly half of the season.
The last time these two teams met it was in Week 10 and was the game the started the Chislers winning streak as they hammered the Crush 65-19 behind multiple TD performances by Bryant, Nelson and Sanders. Lets see how they match up for this 30th Fantasy Bowl:
QBs - Rivers vs. Brees - Not even going to entertain the idea the Roethlisberger would get the start again over Rivers. Brees hasn't been the same and Rivers, when he gets hot he can put up a lot of points. Overall Brees has outscored Rivers 134-124. Slight advantage to Rivers as he is the hot hand right now.
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| "I don't know why that idiot benched me?" |
RBs - Lacy vs. Vereen - Not even close. Lacy, Lacy, Lacy. The Crush have been bit by the injury bug as Ryan Mathews and Jennings were out last week. If they are healthy this week this match up might be a little closer and the Crush could pull a sideways counter with Mathews. Advantage to the Chislers on this one.
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| "He best not bench me!" |
WRs - Bryant, Nelson, Sanders vs. Jeffery, LaFell, Watkins, Bowe? Eh...what? Yeah the combination of Bryant, Nelson and Sanders is truly a deadly trio of wide outs. They have combined for 218 points. The four mentioned for the Crush? 138 with Bowe not a single TD. Advantage Chislers...big time!
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| Bryant doing XXX for FB XXX! |
Kickers - Crosby vs. Bryant or Bailey - Will be a tough call for the Crush to decide who they go with Sunday, both are capable of kicking double digit points. Crosby has 130 points on the year and will certainly get the nod. With the Packers at home, slight edge to Chislers.
Defense - Packers vs. Cowboys - Not thinking defense will make a difference in this game and will call it a draw as neither team gets a defensive/special team score.
One for the thumb! All signs are pointing toward the Chislers capturing their 5th Fantasy Bowl Title. They may need to build an addition to the house for all the trophies.
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| Happy Holidays!! |
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