CFFL Week 7

Here is a brief recap of Week 7's action... sorry for the shortness and lateness of this article..

Game of the Week: Dragons 39 Titans 38

Floyd scores game winner

In game one of the Brother Battle home and home series, the Dragons won a nail biter!  After getting 10 points from Newton, 12 from Miller and 11 from "Todd Chontos" Santos, the Dragons were still trailing the Titans going into Monday Night 34-33.  The Dragons had Michael Floyd and the Raven D, while the Titans had Raven Kicker "Mother" Tucker.  It would look like the advantage would go to Titans.  But just like last week against the Crush, the Dragons were able to pull off another improbable win as Floyd caught a TD pass while Tucker only kicked in 4 points and the Ravens went for 2 on their final score of the game!!

Other home and home series:

Chislers 39 Animals 20 - Chislers took the first game from the Animals getting 26 points from Rivers and Gurley.  Another win and they are right back in the playoff hunt

Gurley scores 1 of his 2 TDs!

Ferrets 34 Wrecking Crew 28 - With 14 points from Brady, the Ferrets had no problem defeating the hapless Crew who have been in Fantasy Football Line Up Hell, never starting the right combo.

Cocktails 36  Roulette 22 - Cocktails keep pace with the Krauts with the first win in the Battle for Mother Russia.  Roulette need to get their potent 11 point connection of Ryan, Jones and Bryant going again.

Krauts 56 Juggernauts 20 - Per usual the Krauts beat up on their "friend" the Juggs getting 12 points from Jordan Reed and 16 from The Blair Walsh "Project"

Bees 40. Mayhem 32 - The Bees won the first game in OT when they got 8 points from back up kicker Andrew "Ball Park" Franks.  A wasted day for Mayhem WR Landry who had 2 big scores.

Crush 21 Mafia 11, Sinistars 21 Bums 11 - In one of the strangest coincidences, both games in the West were exact same score.  In fact they were both 15-11 going into the Monday Night game where the Crush got a TD from Forsett and Sinistars got a TD from John Brown. 

CFFL Week 6

Week 6 action in the CFFL:

Game of the Week: Dragons 20 Crush 17

Beckham wins it for Dragons

While this wasn't the most high scoring exciting game, it certainly had an interesting ending.  The Dragons held only a 2 point lead 14-12 going into the Monday Night Game and it looked bleak for the Dragons as the Crush had Eli "Mouth Breather " Manning and the Giant Kicker Josh Brown "Eye".  The Ace in the hole was Dragons' Beckham, but any TD pass to anybody but Beckham would be curtains for the Dragons. The impossible happened!  Giants scored on their first drive of the game as Manning hit Beckham for the TD to make the score 20-17.  However surely the Giants would score again...a Field Goal?  Manning TD to someone else... right??  They would not and the Dragons pulled off the upset win!  This unfortunately was only the 2nd win for the Dragons and the Crush are only 1 game behind the Mafia and Bums in the West.

Bums 36  Titans 34
Another thriller at the end the Bums won with a TD pass on Sunday Night to Gronkowski to win the game despite the Titans early 12 points from Ingram on Thursday Night.  Gould had 14 for the Bums to help the effort.

Mafia 37  Bees 20


Colin Bin Laden

Mafia whacked the Bees getting 8 points each from Kaeperick, who went from Bizlat to Bin Laden look, and Forte. 

Mayhem 39 Sinister 25
The Mayhem won their 5th game to go 5-1 and pull to a 2 game lead in the South.  Stafford led the team with 16 points!  The Sinistars are now 2-4 and have pulled the plug on the season offering up players for draft picks...

Ferrets 34 Juggernauts 23
The Ferrets survived the potential of a 10 point jam between Bradford and Matthews on Monday.  Getting 12 from Brady on Sunday night helped.  The Juggs are now 1-5 after trading a bunch of players away last year for a ton of draft picks.  Will they try it again?

Cocktails 30 Wrecking Crew 27
The Crew just couldn't hang on with the Cocktails and Luck threw 3 TD passes to win the game.  If only a few of those went to Fleener it might have been different.  Devonta Freeman continues to be a fantasy stud and already has 10 TDs on the season.  Rumors have it the Cocktails are working on several trades to make a big run a the Fantasy Bowl in only their 2nd season.

Freeman has 10 TDs on the year already!

Animals 41 Roulette 29

Ivory and Fitzpatrick of the Animals

A bright spot in an otherwise dismal season for the Animals as they racked up 41 points over the Roulette who's 10 point connection of Ryan and Julio Jones has gone cold lately.  Animals MVPs of the game were Fitzpatrick with 14 points and Hopkins who had 12. 

Krauts 46 Chislers 28
The Chislers couldn't survive the blitzkrieg of the Krauts as kicker McManus kicked in 14 while Rodgers threw for 2 TDs and Jones flipped into the end zone for another.  The Chislers still haven't had a single point from any of their RBs, both starting or on the bench.

Player of the Week: Matthew Stafford, QB, Mayhem
Stafford threw for 4 TDs in the Mayhem's victory over the Sinistars.

Next week is the beginning of the dreaded home and home series.  Lets take a look at the implications of this freaking thing...

Chislers vs. Animals: Playing for pride mostly.  Both teams only have 2 wins.  However if one sweeps and moves to 4-4 they are right back into the playoff hunt!

Wrecking Crew vs. Ferrets:  Typically the worst 2 weeks in the Ferrets season, but this year should be different.  Look for the Ferrets to sweep and keep at least a 2 game lead over the Animals or Chislers. 

Roulette vs. Cocktails:  Oh man!  The battle for Mother Russia.  Should be a good series.  Roulette are a game behind and will need these two games.

Juggernauts vs. Krauts:  Krauts should roll over this series and continue to take advantage of the Russian battle to move into first place all alone.

Mayhem vs. Bees:  Bees will need to sweep this one to catch the Mayhem who are 5-1 and 2 games up.  Will Bees finally bench Manning (28 pts) for Winston (35 pts)?

Dragons vs. Titans:  The traditional brother battle.  Little to play for, except if the Dragons can move to 4-4 and get in the playoff mix!

Mafia vs. Crush:  Crush are only 1 behind the Mafia. Sweep puts the Crush by 1.  Mafia might get Roethlisberger back. 

Bums vs. Sinistars:  Bums lead division.  Sinistars are only 2 games back and with a sweep could be 4-4 and yet they are ready to throw in the towel and trade players for draft picks.

Week 4 in the CFFL

Mrs. Tannehill

Blow outs galore....

Titans 31. Mafia 11 - Titans get a surprise victory over the Mafia. Tannehill tossed in 2 scores and Justin "Mother" Tucker kicked in 11.  Only Crosby and the Lion Defense scored for the Mafia... who's getting whacked?

Dragons 31 Sinister 8 - Cairo "Todd" Santos, for the Dragons, made it into the record books with 21 points for a kicker.  That tied 2nd place all time with Gary Anderson, Chris Boniol  and Jeff Wilkins.

Ferrets 30 Roulette 16 - The Ferrets managed to muster up some old fashion Chisler luck playing against Ryan and Julio Jones, the deadliest 10 point connection.  Ryan and Jones combined for only 4 points.

Krauts 37  Wrecking Crew 15 - The Crew couldn't survive Jeremy Hill's 20 points or the fact they had 35 points on the Bench. Or the fact that Rodgers only had 4 points!!  McManus for the Krauts also hit double digits with 11.

Hill tallied 20 big points!

Juggernauts 32 Animals 6 - Juggernauts finally get a win with all those draft picks.  16 points came from kicker Catanzaro "CantStandYa".  Both teams combined for 58 points on the bench.  30 for Animals and Juggs QB Bradford had 12 points on the bench.

Cocktails 54 Chislers 24 - Two weeks in a row Cocktail RB Freeman scored 3 TDs!  Benching Luck for Cousins proved worthy as Cousins scored 10 points.  Rivers finally played like expected with 12 points. 

6 TDs in 2 weeks!!

Bums 26 Bees 18 - Bums win despite Starting Teddy "Two Gloves" Bridgewater and Prater  (combined 8 points) vs. Foles and Gould (22 points).  This was the Bees first loss of the season but still are in first in the Sad Sack South, tied with the Mayhem.

Crush 22 Mayhem 13 - Crush hold on vs the Mayhem handing them their first loss of the season as well.  Eli "Mouth Breather" Manning lead all players with 12 points.

Once a mouth breather always a mouth breather

After 4 weeks here is how the division are stacking up:

North:  Are the Ferrets running away with it?  With the Crew and Chislers a former shell of their championship selves and the Animals devastated by injury to Romo, the door is wide open for the Ferrets.  With Brady, Lacy, and Megatron they should keep rolling along.  They have a 2 game lead with all other teams sitting at 1-3.






South:  Bees and Mayhem couldn't capitalize on each other losing and still remain tied for first at 3-1 as the Titans and Dragons got wins to move to 2 games back.  When will the Bees start Winston over Manning?  Winston currently has outscored Manning 30-24...wait what?  If Dragons can get healthy (Adams and Lynch) they may be able to make a move.

East:  Truly toughest division in the CFFL.  Roulette, Cocktails and Krauts are all 3-1 and rank 1-3 in total points scored.  Cocktails have a hell of stable of backs (Peterson, Blount, Freeman).  Roulette have Ryan and Julio Jones not to mention Jamaal Charles.  Krauts have Rodgers and Jeremy Hill.  hard to argue those aren't the top 3 teams in the CFFL right now.

West:  Bums lead the west by one game over Mafia and Crush and just 2 games over Sinistars .  None of these teams have any real stand out players.  Bums likely the best team with Cobb and Gronkowski...and the chinless one Foles .

Key Match ups next week:

Ferrets at Cocktails - Battle between 2 division leaders.  Ferrets travel all the way to the Mother Land to face the Cocktails that have a lot of fire power. This will be a good test to see how far along these teams are.

Mayhem at Bums - another match up between division leaders.  Fitzgerald and Joseph Randle for the Mayhem vs. Cobb and Gronkowski for the Bums.

Week 3 CFFL

50 burgers and nail biters.... This week in the CFFL...

50 Burgers:

Charles...Chisler killer

Roulette 58  Chislers 32 - The Roulette didn't have any problems spinning the chamber and coming up with one bullet left for the Chislers and that bullet being the Jamaal Charles "In Charge".  Despite a second week in a row the Chislers getting multiple scores from their defense (Cardinals).  Last week they got 12, this week 14...what the heck!?  Well the Roulette paid no attention to that as they have one of the deadliest 11 point connections in Matt Ryan, Julio Jones, and Matt Bryant, who hooked up for 2 11 point connections.  But then Jamaal Charles, who loves to play against the Chislers (went off on 4 TDs vs them in playoffs one year), scored 3 times to give them the 58-32 dominating win.

Blount rushed for 3 TDs!!

Cocktails 50 Animals 32 - Another North team gets lit up by 50 points by an Eastern Bloc team.  It seemed like every time we looked up a Cocktail RB was scoring.  Blount scored 3 times and Peterson scored twice.... Oh not to mention on the bench was Devonta Freeman who scored 3 times.  Add in 8 from Luck and 6 each from kicker Scobee and the Colts D you have a what is now called a Fiftyburger! 

Game of the Week I:  Bums 24 Dragons 22
Dragons were in the lead, 20-6 going into Monday night after having Palmer score 8, Beckham 6 and Raven D 6.  They still had Davante Adams "Family" and Cairo Santos "Santana" vs Cobb of the Bums.  Ouch, Cobb had a career day scoring 3 TDs while the Dragons only managed 2 points from their kicker and couldn't hold to the lead losing 24-22. 

"Hard to eat corn on the Cobb with no f'ing teeth!"

Game of the Week II:  Wrecking Crew 34  Juggernauts 33
In a must win game for both teams the Crew had to hang on to the bitter end of the week to squeeze out a win.  Getting 20 points from their kicker (Hauschka-14) and defense (Vikings-6) helped put them in the lead over the Juggernauts 34-31.  Just one TD catch by Kelce would give the win to the Juggs.  He would get a 2 point conversion to make it a one point game, plus he dropped a pass over the middle that would have been a for sure TD. 

Rodgers a 20 point night!

Player of the Week:  Aaron Rodgers, QB, Krauts 20 points.
Rodgers single handedly won the game versus the Ferrets by scoring 20 points on Monday night with the game tied at 12.  The Ferrets had Lacy and Starks to counter Rodgers, but Rodgers didn't want anything to do with the running game.  A minor set back for a good Ferret team, although during the loss there was some conflict between ownership and the General Manager of the organization...

Around the League... The Mayhem almost pulled off the Shutout, maybe the first in the history of the CFFL as they were leading 19-0 going into Monday Night.  Mafia kicker Crosby managed to kick 8 points to prevent the shutout... Bees remained undefeated by beating the Crush in a shoot out thanks to a 12 point play and 27 points from their D and Kicker.  Lockett returned a kick for the Seahawks for the 12 point play while the defense also posted a shut out.  Gostkowski continues to be a top kicker in the CFFL...The Sinistars, who could have been a slight underdog with Tyrod "End" Taylor as the starting QB vs. Titans.  Well Taylor played like he had a chip on his shoulder and scored 12 points to give the Sinistars a 47-27 victory over the winless Titans. 

The dreaded 12 point play!!

Their is definitely separation in the South already as the Freeman Brothers of Titans and Dragons are 0-3 and the Bees ad Mayhem are 3-0.  Rest of the divisions there are only 1 game leads after 3 weeks...

Russian Roulette 3-0:  Roulette have the best 10 point connection in the league with Julio Jones and Ryan and have posted 58 points twice!


Lenin and Stalin rocking out

Molotov Cocktails 2-1:  Luck, Peterson, Blount, Freeman, and posted 40 and 50 Point weeks.





Think she is a Cocktail fan?

CFFL Week 2

Week 2 is in the books...

Game of the Week I:  Mafia 41 Bums 32

Big Ben threw for 14 points!

This was a shoot out between two Wild Wild West teams with the winner going 2-0 and leading the West.  Mafia had Roethlisberger vs. Teddy "Two Gloves" and Big Ben edged Two Gloves by only 4 points 14-10, 14-10.  Neither team got any scoring from their Running backs (Forte, Hyde vs. Morris).  Both TE matched each other with a TD each.  Gronk for the Bums and Eifert for Mafia.  The Bums got more scoring from their Defense/ST (Browns) and Jackson snagged a TD.  The score was 32-28 in favor for the Bums going into the Sunday Night Game.  Bums had Cobb and Mafia had Crosby.  Crosby booted 13 big points to win the game 41-32!

Jones might be the free agent of the year!

Game of the Week II: Roulette 28 Juggernauts 23
In the second game of the week, the Roulette survived the Juggernauts despite a 2 TD performance from David Johnson of the Cardinals who had a rushing TD and a Kick Off Return for a TD to make the game 22-22 going into the Sunday and Monday night game.  The Roulette broke the tie with a TD from James Jones to make it 28-22.  The Juggs would only get one point from their Kicker Vinatieri, who you would think could have managed at least 7 points.  The win puts the Roulette at the top of the Eastern Bloc 2-0 and the Juggs remain winless despite all those draft picks.

Players of the Week:  Fitzgerald, WR, Mayhem and DeAngelo Williams, RB, Crush, both with 18 points.
Larry Fitzgerald caught 3 TD passes in their defeat of the Dragons 37-28, despite Carson Palmer's 4 TD passes.  Oh yeah, they play on the same team so 3 of those TD passes went to Mayhem's Fitzgerald... burn...
DeAngelo Williams scored 3 TDs in the Crush's defeat of the Sinistars 34-18 as he has filled in nicely as Bell finishes his 2 game suspension.

Fitzgerald was the dagger in the Dragon's heart

Snap!!

Around the League:  Ferrets are starting to look like the early team to beat as they easily took care of the Animals 38-24 as Brady led the Ferrets with 12 points along with Sanders who also had 12.  The game saw the Animals lose Tony Romo for a good part of the season with a broken clavicle.  Lacy also left the game with an ankle issue but should be okay... The Chislers used a little old fashion Chisler luck as they got 2 TDs from their Cardinal Defense to defeat the Crew 33-21.  Neither team looked very threatening as Rivers and Brees have looked ordinary.  In fact Brees is living up to the old "Noodle Arm" tag he got years ago... The Cocktails lose a game they really looked like they were going to win going into Monday night only down 16-11 with Luck, Allen and the Colt D.  All of them came up with goose eggs and the Krauts came away with the victory in Leningrad like they did 70 some years ago... Bees needed only 2 players to beat the Titans 28-16 as Peyton Manning scored 12 and Gostkowski had 16...

"Oh no!  I did what??"

CFFL Kick off 2015

The CFFL kicked off its 31st season with many teams looking to dethrone the 5 time champ Chislers and hope to see a different picture than this every year...

Cherry Brothers!
Co-commish Roy presents to Chisler Owner Rick

Game of the Week:  Roulette 58 Krauts 43

Julio Jones snagging 1 of his 2 TDs

In the top scoring game of the week the Roulette capitalized on their 10, make it an 11 point connection.  The Krauts appeared to be in control and driving deep into the Russian territory with Rodgers 12, Hill 12 and rookie Kicker McManus 13. It was 43-12 going into the Sunday Night game.  The Roulette would get 12 points from Witten to make it 43-24.  Enter MNF and the 11 point connection from Atlanta of Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and Matt Bryant.  As stated in an early blog, they were ranked the top 10 point connection in the league, and that was proven correct!  They didn't connect for just one, but 2 11 point connections!  Bryant would finish with 14 points on the day and the Roulette drove the Krauts out of Russia and back to Berlin!

Gronk catch TD...

Player of the Week:  Rob Gronkowski, TE, Bums - 18 points

...Bibi...

It was a good thing he had 3 TD catches versus the Crush considering the Bums only got 10 points from the rest of their team (Cobb-6, Prater-4).  And luckily the Crush weren't much better as Manning and their two RBs Dorsett and Williams came up blank.

Player of the Week Runner ups: Tom Brady, Ferrets - 16 and DeAndre Hopkins, Animals - 14 points.  Both from the North and tired of playing second fiddle to the Cherry Brothers, Chislers, and Crew, Brady and Hopkins performances helped them dispense of the Cherry Brothers with ease; Ferrets 37-19 and Animals 50-23.

Hopkins destroyed the Crew

Lockett scores a 12 point connection!

Around the CFFL...Cocktails, living up to the preseason hype destroyed the Juggernauts 40-10.  The Juggernauts, who had 5 extra draft picks, had a disappointing start to the season scoring only 10 points, 6 coming from the defense! (Rams).  Luck had 9 for the Cocktails, including a 10 point connection to Allen.  Eastern Bloc top three combined for 141 points.  Cold War has returned?.. Mayhem had no trouble with the Titans, who normally start out strong, 26-11.  Only points for the Titans came from QB and kicker... never a good thing... Bees and Dragons squared off to a close one, but with a 12 point connection coming for the Bees when Lockett returned a punt for Seahawks, which was the Bees D/ST the Dragons would need 2 scores from Beckham on Sunday night down 28-21. Beckham put up goose egg....Mafia out lasted the Sinistars 36-23 as Tyler Eifert led the way.  It didn't hurt that Sinistars top player Dez Bryant broke his foot and never found the endzone...

Big next week: 
Ferrets at Animals - both teams are 1-0 and winner in driver seat for division
Krauts at Cocktails - The Krauts try to march again into Russia, this time to Leningrad.

Random hot NFL chick

CFFL 10 Point Connections

The 10 point connection.  Something that has been an establishment of the CFFL since the mid to late 90s.  This year there are now 14 out of the 16 teams have a 10 point connection and even some have a back up 10 point connection!

Probably the greatest 10 point connection of all time was the Chislers of 1998. They had two 10 point connections for Randall Cunningham of the Vikings; Cris Carter and Randy Moss.  In fact of the 34 TD passes Cunningham threw 29 of them went to either Moss or Carter (17 and 12 respectively).  That was pretty impressive.


The Crew were famous for the Colt connection with Peyton Manning.  In 2003 they had Manning and Harrison who connected 10 times and in 2004 it was Manning along with Brandon Stokely and Dallas Clark (10 and 5 TDs).

The Ferrets in 2007 took the field with Tony Romo and Owens who connected for 15 times, perhaps the second best duo.  That same year the Mafia struck gold with Favre and Jennings who hit paydirt 12 times. 

Then there was the invention of the 11 point connection, drafting the kicker of the same team to go along with the 10 point connection.  This began with, of course, the Chislers in 2009 with Rivers, Gates and kicker Kaeding (aka Gabe).  This gave them 11 point connections with TD passes and relieved the pressure when the Chargers would stall in the red zone. 

And let's not forget the very latest trend, the Sideways Connection.  This is defined as having the QB and RB from the same team, getting a 10 point connection with a pass to the RB, plus you are in good shape if they run instead. 

Of course the disadvantage of all of this is if you pick a connection from a lame ass team that doesn't get many chances.  Then you are in trouble.  Take for example the year I drafted Carson Palmer and Chad Ochocinco.  That was brutal!

Here are this years 10 point connections starting with what I believe are the top 2 10 point connections followed by the rest in really no particular order.

Roulette:  Matt Ryan and Julio Jones - Really the only one that has the QB paired with their number one WR.

Titans:  Tannehill, Jennings and Jordan Cameron - Despite all the good natured ribbing of the Titans they probably have the second best 10 point connection since they have 2 main targets.

Chislers: Rivers, Melvin Gordon (sideways connection), Floyd, plus the kicker for the 11 point connection.


Crew:  Brees and Colston

Animals:  Romo and Williams

Ferrets:  Brady and "Queen" Amendola

Cocktails:  Luck and Allen

Mafia:  backups Kaepernick, Smith, Davis, and Hyde (sideways)

Mayhem: Stafford with Corey Fuller and Eric Ebron


Juggernauts:  backup Bradford and Matthews

Krauts:  Rodgers and Ty Montgomery

Dragons: Newton and Funchess and backups Palmer and Gresham

Bums: Bridgewater and Patterson - this could be a good one this year