CFFL 2021 Week 1

 As we embark on our 37th year of Cherry Fantasy Football League greatness we lose another franchise, for what reason, I don't know, but we gain yet another new franchise, the Weiland's Warbirds, or Whirlybirds...

The traditional divisional game match ups kick off the season.  Here is what happened, as you definitely want to get that first divisional win under your belt.

Cook back at it for the Chislers

Wrecking Crew 50  Animals 48 - Despite these two teams suffering major injuries to their running game before the season started, they ended up one of the highest scoring teams of the week.  The Crew managed to hang on to win behind 22 big points from Kyler Murray, as the Animals came up 2 points short with Waller scoring just one TD late.

Chislers 32  Ferrets 19 - The defending champion Chislers had little trouble defeating the Ferrets 32-19.  The Ferrets got a disappointing opening game from Number 1 pick Derrick "King Rat Tail" Henry, who couldn't find the end zone.  Old Chislers from last year had an average game, Allen only had 1 TD pass and Cook 1 TD run.

Dragons 55 Killer Bees 12 - Dragons were top scoring team of the week as they pounded their hated rival the Bees.  Russell Wilson hit Tyler Lockett twice for 2 10 point connections!  Ironically the only starting players on the Dragons that didn't score were Dolphins...

Dragons cash in on two TDs by Lockett

Thielen scores twice for Cocktails

Warbirds 26  Titans 21 - The expansion Whirlybirds win their debut game against the Titans.  It wasn't a stellar performance by any means, but when you play the Titans you don't need one typically.  The only points the Titans got were from their Kicker and QB.  Guess if they get any production out of their RBs or WRs, they might be fine.  

Cocktails 45  Juggernauts 29 - The Juggs had run out to an early lead behind their Cowboys Prescott and Zuerlein, who combined for 23 points.  Unfortunately, they wouldn't get much more scoring and the Cocktails would get 12 points from Thielen and 2 TDs from Josh Jacobs "Jingleheimer Schmidt after the game was already over.  

Sinistars 35 Krauts 28 - The Sinistars came back to win the game late, trailing 28-27 to the Krauts, after the Krauts got 12 points from Hopkins (interested in a trade?) and 6 each from AJ Brown and Montgomery "Burns".  Sinistars needed just 1 TD pass from Derek Carr.  It didn't look like they were going to get anything from Carr as he seemed to over throw all his WRs.  However he would eventually find the end zone on two deep bombs to win the game 35-28!

Carr was pumped after his come from behind win!

Iron Legion 45  Crush 32 - Legion took early lead and never looked back.  12 points from Cooper and 6 from Godwin gave them an early 18-0 lead.  Legion running attack didn't disappoint as Ekeler and Kamara both scored TDs.  A bright spot for the Crush was the performance of QB Matthew Stafford, who threw 3 TD passes, despite lots of question marks to start the season.

Cooper helps the Legion defeat the Crush

Whales 39  Killers 31 - The Killers tried to hang on against the Whales but just couldn't survive the Mahomes/Hill hurricane.  Getting a big lead to start the game with 16 points from "Good Ole" Tom Brady plus a Joe Mixon TD just wasn't going to be enough.  Mahomes would end up with 18 points including a TD pass to Hill for the dreaded 10 point connection.

How did Mahomes score this TD??

Player of the Week - Kyler Murray, QB, Crew - 22 points

Next week... Huge match ups in the North and South.  The most storied rival in CFFL history takes place as the Chislers take on the Crew.  Winner gets early edge in the division.  In the South, while not very storied, the Dragons and Warbirds battle for first place.  In the East the Cocktails renew their rival with the Krauts and will try to hand them their 2nd loss in a row...