Semi-Finals week resulted in more TBFL records than I care to comment on…This just in…Curses are real…The Sliding Doors of Playground Legends…Seeds 7 & 8 stay on top of the Empire Cup…lots of links…lets go…
When the Playoff Seedings were decided…Gasper and I kept going back over all the 1 point possibilities we missed in each of our 3 Tie Games to see where we could have swapped positions…no one wanted to be on the Hurricanes side of the bracket and face a huge buzz saw in Week 15…We both wanted to face Bay Area Thrashers and his “Beatable” line-up…Be careful what you wish for…
Jamaal Charles set the new Running Back and overall TBFL record with 59 points in 1 game…Dan Bailey’s 2 50 yard bonus earners gave him the Most Points ever scored by a Kicker with 20…and by benefit of the 4 Point Home Field Advantage…the 184 Final Score just eeks past X-Factor’s 182 from last season as the new Most Points Scored in a Single Game record…104 added on by The Army makes the combined 288 score the 5th Highest of All-Time and the most Combined Points in any game this season…The 80 point loss is the 2nd largest in TBFL Playoff history (HUR over UOG 149-66, 2012 Wildcard) and the worst defeat in Bubba Army team history…The Army reaches its Milestone 5th Playoff Loss…taking 13 Playoff Games played to reach that mark (61.5% Playoff Win Rate)…Bay Area Thrashers advances to their 4th Straight Fantasy Bowl (Hunter’s Crew is the only other team to even go to 4)…extending their own record with their 6th Championship Game Overall…essentially becoming the Mount Union Purple Raiders of the TBFL…
It’s official…Hurricanes is cursed…Maybe their opponents are putting their logo on Self Printed Madden Covers…Maybe they need to send some Rum and Cigars to Jobu….Maybe they need to complete Tin Cup’s Shank Ritual…At 53-25 (67.9% Win Rate) their Regular Season record is the best in TBFL History…resulting in 5 Playoff Appearances and 4 #1 Seeds in 6 seasons…but Post-Season success still eludes them…They end this year as the 2nd Fastest to reach 5 Playoff Losses with 8 games played (RNT, 6 Games)…It is their 3rd Straight season being ousted in the Semi-Final round by the Bandit Division…Fudgie Whales advances to their 1st ever Fantasy Bowl in their 4th Playoff Appearance…Their last Playoff Appearance ended in a loss to Bay Area Thrashers in the Semi-Finals of the 2010 Season 109-72 in their only Head-2-Head Post-Season meeting…
Poor Danny…Like Gwenneth Paltrow in Sliding Doors…his entire season could be different right now if Knowshon Moreno could have found 2…More…Yards…As we explained in the Week 3 Recap…Knowshon ended 1 yard shy of breaking the 3-Way Team of the Week Tie Game…and in Week 13 against Kevin…Moreno took a 4th Quarter carry from the Chiefs 4 Yard Line…for 3 yards…The extra yard would have been enough to make them an 8 Win Team and in the Fantasy Bowl Playoffs…where they would have outscored Everyone in Wildcard Weekend…and then taken down Hurricanes to emerge in their 1st Fantasy Bowl since 2006…Instead The Legends had to make short work of UO Grandmasters to advance to their 1st ever Empire Cup Final…
Money Inc got their 1st Win over another Bandit Division rival since Week 6 to ensure the Top 2 Seeds make it through to the Jamaal Charles Lottery…urrrgh…Empire Cup Final…The Money Men won the very 1st Cup Final in 2009…becoming the 1st of 3 different Bandit Division Cup Winners…They defeated the Legends in the Empire Cup opening round of 2010 99-79…before leap-frogging into 2 straight Fantasy Bowl appearances…These 2 Teams did not face each other in the Regular Season…so this meeting will determine their 2013 bragging rights…