CFFL Week 9

Out of the Home and Home series, the North battled the West and didn't fair well at all, while the South fought the East, and didn't fair much better either...

Mafia 29 Chislers 28
The Chislers were yet again victim to a kicker on Monday night.  This time it was Hauschka for the Mafia.  Rivers would throw 2 TDs and Britt and Brown would score as well, but the 8 points from Crosby should have been 11 if he hadn't missed a 48 yard FG.  The Mafia would be led by Matt Ryan's 16 points, but going into Monday Night they were down by 6.  Hauschka would have 4 extra points to make the game 28-26 late into the night.  Then Hauschka would nail a 48 yard FG to win the game for the Mafia.

Shark Eyes had 16 big points for the Mafia

Roulette 39 Mayhem 35 (OT)
In yet another OT game for the Roulette this time they came out on the winning side.  It was a dog fight though as two future Hall of Famers squared off and both scored 12 points.  Brees for the Mayhem and Rodgers for the Roulette.  While the Roulette got 2 10 point connections (one to Adams and one to Nelson), they needed every bit of those points as Beasley and Walker scored for Mayhem and both kickers scored 11 points.  Roulette being at home got first crack to break tie.  The one and only TD pass from Case Keenum was the deciding factor helping the Roulette stay in a 3 way tie in the East.

May be the only time he gets in the newsletter...

Krauts 29 Titans 25
The Titans surprisingly gave the Krauts a game, losing only by 4.  Krauts got 10 points out of a struggling Roethlisberger and 13 points from "Lamebo" Lambo.  Mike Wallace scored on a 95 yard TD pass that was the highlight of the game for the Titans in a losing effort.  The Titans playoff hopes are fading fast once again at 2-7, while the Krauts are in that three way tie in the East.

Mike Wallace's 95 yard TD score in a losing effort

The Fifty-burgers
Two teams topped the 50 point mark and were 2 teams you would have expected to do so.  First the Bums, who had an incomplete line up including one player short and a guy on a bye ended up racking up 57 points on the Crew.  This thanks to 12 points each from Elliott and Gore as their running game was unstoppable, not to mention 13 points from Cairo Santos "Todd Chontos"...In the other game the Dragons had their highest point total of the season beating the Juggernauts 50-18.  This was done in large part by 16 points from Manning including 2 10 point connections to Beckham.

2 10 point connections from these guys.

Around the League...Crush bounce back from their first loss of the season last week to easily put down the Animals 37-17.  Winston had a solid 12 points to start the game and rookie Mike Thomas scored twice.  Crush are now 8-1, holding a 2 game lead in the West...The Ferrets finally got some decent production out of Wilson (14 points), however they got little production from anyone else as they fell to the Sinistars 44-24.  The Sinistars got 24 points from Ingram and Evans...Cocktails kept pace in the East beating the Bees 39-25 led by their special teams.  Sturgis had 11 points and newly acquired defense Chargers scored twice!

2 TDs for Thomas helped the Crush move to 8-1

As we enter week 10 lets take a look at the current playoff picture:

Division Leaders                Wild Cards             In the hunt
Crush (8-1)                         Cocktails (6-3)          Chislers (5-4)
Roulette (6-3)                     Krauts (6-3)              Mayhem (5-4)
Wrecking Crew (5-4)         Sinistars (6-3)           Bums (4-5)
Dragons (5-4)                     Mafia (6-3)               Juggernauts (3-6)

Happy Election Night...