CFFL Week 8

 Happy Halloween!  After the home and home series the divisional races have become very interesting.  In the North after a sweep of the Ferrets, the Animals are now tied with the Chislers.  They have won 6 in a row now.  In the South the Warbirds have taking control after they swept the Dragons and leaped frogged them for first.  The same thing happened in the the East as the Juggernauts swept the Sinistars to now take a one game lead.  They are starting to live up to their name scoring over 40 points in both games.  Legion and Whales both swept their opponents ending the Crush and Killers season for the most part.  

Week 8 action:

Wrecking Crew 31  Chislers 25 - The storied longest rivalry in the CFFL lived up to its billing this week.  Chislers took lead with Burrow throwing for 12 points including a 10 point connection to Chase.  With the game 25-18 the Crew would get a Parham "RumHam" TD catch to tie the game!  But they couldn't get another point from kicker Cairo Santos "Todd Chontos" Sunday night.  Crew's only hope was for a Jacobs score.  They got that score on Monday Night Football to win the game! Crew's season still looking bleak at 3-5.  

Jacobs scores the game winner!

Animals 49  Ferrets 21 -  Animals showed no mercy mauling the Ferrets behind 18 points from Gus Edwards.  He was solid around the goal line scoring from 1 yard, 7 yards and 1 yard.  "A.B." Cee Dee Lamb scored twice as well.  Animals are starting to live up to the preseason hype and are now 6-2 tied for first in the North.  Ferrets fading fast.

Lamb scores twice for the Animals

Warbirds 28  Dragons 24 - Warbirds swept the Dragons and now are leading the South.  They got 16 points from star QB Jalen Hurts.  8 more from Etienne but not much else from other teammates.  This could be troublesome going into the second half of the season.  The Dragons couldn't find a single point among 4 WRs.  14 points from kicker Riley Patterson on MNF made this game closer than it really was.

Hurts scores 16 big points for the Warbirds

Titans 34  Bees 18 - Titans won their 3rd in a row after going 0-5 to start the season.  It was pretty easy beating the Bees considering they only had 12 points before Monday night.  Titans got 8 points from Mac Jones and both RBs scored (Hunt and Swift).  With Waddle, Wilson and those RBs they could see some more wins in the future.

Mac Jones leads the Titans to victory

Juggernauts 43  Sinistars 35 - This was like old school football.  Both teams leaning on their running game.  Sinistars got 6 points each from Ekeler and Breece Hall.  However, the Juggernauts got 24 points from their backfield.  Kamara had 2 scores and McCaffrey had 2 and now has scored at least 1 TD in 16 straight games!

McCaffrey is a scoring machine!

Cocktails 36  Krauts 29 - The Cocktails got things moving in the right direction last week beating the Krauts and staying in the playoff hunt.  A.J. Brown scored 2 more times proving he was very dissatisfied with the Crew organization.   Tua scored 12 points and Cameron Dicker "The Kicker" booted 12 points late Sunday for the win!

A.J. Brown hauls in 2 scores for Cocktails!

Legion 33  Killers 32 - The Killers lost a heartbreaker, most likely ending their playoff dreams, plus they lost QB Kirk Cousins for the season with a torn achilles.  The Killers just had to survive the Sunday night game with Herbert and Allen.  Allen didn't score but Justin Herbert got just enough for the Legion scoring 12 points for the win. 

Hurts wins the game with his 3rd TD pass of the night!

Whales 10  Crush 7 - A couple of weeks ago I had said I thought we had one of the lowest scoring games in CFFL history when the Juggs beat the Crush 11-10.  Well we have a new leader in the club house.  The Whales needed a last second meaningless (well not meaningless to the Whales) FG from their kicker Matt Prater to win the game 10-7.  Interesting that the Crush were in both of these snoozefests.  

Seemed meaningless to the game, but not the
Whales or any gamblers...

Player of the Week:  Gus Edwards, RB, Animals - 18 points