CFFL35 Week 1

The draft is over.  The long off season is over.  The brutal preseason is over.  Its time to kick off the 35th year of the Cherry Fantasy Football League!!

McCaffrey scoring one of his 2 TDs Sunday

Wrecking Crew 35  Chislers 28 - GREEN BAY, WI -- The six time defending champion Chislers kicked off their season against their long time rival the Crew.  The Crew was able to escape the typically deadly Ram attack of the Chislers (Goff, Kupp, Woods and Zuerlein) who all scored just 16 points.  Crew's running attack, which was expected to be their strength, didn't disappoint scoring 18 points between Mack and McCaffrey.

Ferrets 44  Animals 36 - ANN ARBOR, MI -- The Animals traveled to the Ferret Den only to find the Ferrets had a lot of biting and scratching in them.  However that is typical for the Ferrets in the first week.  They got points out of all their skill players except Gallup with TY Hilton leading the way with 12 points.  The Animals got to within 2 points when Hopkins caught his second TD of the night, but the Ferrets would put it away when Sanders caught a late TD pass.

Dragons 54  Mayhem 45 - MIAMI, FL -- This game turned into a real shoot out in the South.  The Dragons getting 12 points from Rivers, Ingram, Jeffery, and Lutz and the Mayhem getting 15 from Gostkowski, 12 from Henry and then 18 huge points from Watson as they stormed back into the game.  But the 12 points Dragons got from Lutz would prove bigger.

Rivers celebrates the Dragon victory

Killer Bees 26  Toledo Titans 21 - TOLEDO, OH -- What was suppose to be a QB duel between Rodgers and Roethlisberger, turned out to be a kicker battle between Butker and Prater.  But the reality was that wasn't even a battle as Butker outscored Prater 16-9. 

Juggernauts 18  Roulette 11 - ROME, ITALY -- The ho-hum game of the week.  With David Johnson and Saquon Barkley on the field, fireworks and lots of scoring was expected.  Instead a lot of zeros were on the scoring sheets.  Carson Wentz, however, came to play and threw for 3 TD passes.  It would have been much worse for the Roulette had the Juggs started their 10 point connection of Wentz and Jackson.  Jackson caught 2 of the three Wentz TD passes.

Rookie Jacobs front runner for All Nickname Team

Cocktails 47  Krauts 0 - BERLIN, GERMANY -- The Cocktails came into Berlin and completely embarrassed the Krauts in front of their home crowd.  The Cocktails rolled out an impressive running attack with Chris "Johnny" Carson (12 points) and Josh Jacobs "Jingleheimer Schmidt" (12 points) to go along with last years MVP Mahomes' 12 points.  The Krauts even started a kicker that wasn't going to play.  There will be a lot to answer to in Berlin this week.

Bums  40  Killers 31 - SAN DIEGO, CA --  The Bums had an emotional home opener dedicating the entire season to owner Burt Carlson, who passed away before the beginning of the season.  They came out fired up getting 18 points from Watkins, 6 from Thielen and 6 from Westbrook all in the first half.  It seemed like every TD that was scored early Sunday was a Bum.  The Killers would attempt a comeback with Brees 2 TD passes but ultimately would come up short. 

Watkins was a man on mission Sunday scoring 3 times

Sinistars 25  Crush 15 - SEATTLE, WA -- The Sinistars, in their home opener, would have little trouble with the Crush thanks to 8 points from Wilson and 11 points from kicker Robbie Gould.  But more in large part due to the line up decisions of the Crush.  First of all how do you bench Brady and Dorsett in favor of Jameis Winston and Anthony Miller (who??) Brady and Dorsett would combine for 24 points. Oh, and Ekeler with 18 points sat the bench too.  In total, the Crush left 56 points on the bench.  Ouch...

Player of the Week:   Deshaun Watson, QB, Mayhem -18 points  and Sammy Watkins, WR, Bums - 18 points

See you next week!