Soooo Week 7 is over and we are seeing who is setting up to be the most useless. AintReba’s dream season continues, TBIAC is close on her tiny little boot heels and the rest are flailing away week by week searching for continuity, or good decisions, or healthy players or just for the FFL Gods to be kind. Lots of fake foosball to be played. Let’s get to this weeks recap of This Is Serious Business!!

In the early game this week, the FFL Gods were watching, and judging, and conniving and just plain mean, at least to the Cats. 118-85. Stroud was horrible, Diontae was worse and the Jets D, the most useless. Big Diesel clearly sacrificed a rotisserie chicken, or something, to appease the Gods and they returned the favor with 26 from Breece and Mixon and 18 from Tee. This game was over before it even started. On to the next game (after running by Murder Rat Kroger for some of that special chicken).

In the battle for Oaklawn, two heated enemies faced off at Enron Memorial Stadium, just down the street from Jerry’s compound, and Hunkys. Not sure why that was the geographical reference point Nizz used as directions, or why he knows it so well… But back to football of the imaginary type. TBIAC fought through terrible QB play with 32 from Gibbs, 26 by Saquon, and Bowers (maybe the TE1) 19. Nizz, with his 4th head coach of the season started off hot with Kyren rumbling for 19 and Pitts shocking us all with 13. Tucker, the Great One, kicked in 13 and Phi D went off with 22. The rest of the team didnt respond to the new coaching staffs pregame pep rally. Harrison Jr 5, Tank 0, Mostert (most experts #1 waiver wire pickup this week) 3. 124-102, Nizz goes down like his Head Coach’s chance of a new contract. The Capt rolls on. Oaklawn is his playground now!

In the Sunday Night game, the little FFL team that could, did…again. 3 in a row. As we learned last week, that’s called a winning streak! Team Pigg hosted the diminutive brawlers to his home field, frozen and devoid of fans. And lost. 147-129. Pigg played a great game, but the FFL gods are fickle. 21 from Allen, 16 by Najee and Coop caught 16. Godwin (RIP)13 before the end of his season happened. 17 kicked by Seibert and a monster 26 from the Denver D. But, as we all know by now, it wasn’t enough to stop the miniature footballer. 22, 26, 19, 18, 14, 17, 15, 9, and 4. Solid game by both, but there is only one winner and it wasn’t Pigg.

In a game that all (Screamin A Smith, Bayless and George Dunham) agreed was the trap game of the week, the Commish rolled into the Broken Spoke (not much of a stadium, more of a honky tonk) to face off with the undefeated, top scoring, loudest smack talker in TISB, AintReba. DFUN came out swinging, taking an early lead. Jacobs 20, Njoku 23 and Amon 25. AintReba countered with 0 from DSmith, 2 from Koo and only 9 from JCook. Monday Night came along and the experts looked like experts… DFUN was up 45. Reba only had two players left. But their names were DHenry and Lamar. So the audience watched, silent, worried, excited. There was talk of saving the game tickets to hand down to their grandchildren. Selfies were taken, tears were shed. This was the week! The curse was going to be lifted, and by the least imaginable team in the league. DFUN began to celebrate. Too early. Lamar was everywhere all at once, running and kind of throwing the ball. The win % went from 72-68. DHenry was bottled up, struggling to get past a stacked box. Lamar tossed another TD and the % dropped again. There was hope in the stadium that night. Halftime came and DHenry had 8 points. Then it got real, like the nightmare Felix has had every night since. DHenry breaks a long run, Lamar keeps passing TDs. Then the King does it again, and Lamar does it again. And then again. Jackson ended the night with 5 TDs and 34 points, DHenry 169 yds and a touchdown for 25. Commish falls by 15, 124-139. No lead is safe in TISB. And no one is safe from the terror we call AintReba.

What Felix see’s in his FFL nightmares….

Another week of FFL, another week of winning and losing. Most of the Niners are broken, the ‘Boys are terrible and it’s still 90 freaking degrees in late October. Sooooo, it’s only upward from here, hopefully. New week, new chance of not becoming the most useless. You know we are looking at you…

In response to the question of 2 wins in a row being a streak, the great Canadien philosopher Shoresy said the above. Beautiful words, we can all agree. But the meaning was you get the dub anyway you can. Cheat, scratch, claw, or in one of our colleagues case…..stop playing terrible FFL. “ESPN breaking news alert music” LO has won again!!! Two in a row, and as we learned from Manager Lou Brown, that’s called a winning streak! Some people are used to winning, AintReba and TBIAC, but the rest of the league has struggled with putting wins together. But our litțle slugger did it! Let’s find out how in this weeks edition of This is Serious Business!

In the most apparent trap game in the history of FFL, Nizz came to town planning on helicoptering out with an easy W. And who would blame him? LO, still drunk on last weeks victory, was bound to fall back to earth and the pits of TISB, also known as FFL hell. But we allllll know what happened. Nizzle wasn’t prepared, was overconfident, and didn’t have a good game plan. LO was ready. AJBrown 23, Hurts 21, London 19 and Chase 12 to go with 28 from her special teams. Nizz countered with 28 from his K/Def. Cedee grabbed 16 and Love 25. Time Out, let’s time warp to the end of the game…. Team Governor Nathan Nizzle III Esq. stormed onto the field and fired his third coach of the season. Over a loss? Seems like an overreaction even from the Al Davis of the FFL. What happened? Oh yeah, forgot to mention the former head coach started Nick Chubb who hasn’t played since blowing his knee out last year and JTaylor who was injured and OUT prior to kickoff and Marvin Harrison concussed himself before scoring a point. Talk about overconfident!! LO wins, Nizz loses, and Jason Garret is back on the street looking for a job, and a ride home to Highland Park.

Week 6 had our Northern participant landing in Lil D and enter the hallowed halls of Courtney E Burke memorial stadium. This turf, though not frozen like Team Piggs, has seen some great football, not always from the home team. This week was no different except the Cats came to play! 140-120. Kyler sucked, Conner sucked, but Bijan, Diantae, Garret and JK didn’t. For Pigg, Mayfield was great, Dowdle some how got to double digits, Godwin exploded for 35 and Siebert kicked 15. Back and forth game, fighting and clawing for that one inch, and 14 points from the Bears D finished it for the home team! Good game, good win, tough loss. Pigg flies home before they close the airport due to blizzard conditions.

AintReba won again. Big D gave it a valiant effort, but goes down as the 6th victim of the tiny reckless driver this season. 158-141. Good news for BD is he scored the second highest points of the week. And lost.

And in the Sunday Night finale, DFUN loaded up everyone in his tiny electric car and headed south to Bernie Madoff coliseum to take on the Capt. On paper, this looked like another easy W for TBIAC. But the Commish had spent the previous days on the computer, signing up for FantasyPros, ProFantasy, FantasyforPros, and ProsdoFantasy and one fantasy site that turned out to be NOT football related (you can ask him about that). All the best nerd minds and keyboard gridironers came together and calculated the best possible team. Not sure what data was used, but it spit out a starting QB in one Dak Prescott and his $60 mil paycheck and his 3 total points. He did not get injured. He, like them ‘Boys just suck. WOW. But Deebo did what Deebo do, scores or gets hurt, this week he chose 20 points. DMonty 21, Amon 13, Boswell 17 and GB Def 12. TBIAC stat line didn’t look that good, especially for him. Evans 5, Moore 6 and Saquon 7. But breakout rookie Bowers caught 16, Kamara 17 and rookie sensation JDaniels 20. Fairbairn 12 and CLE D 14. When this intrepid reporter looked up at the scoreboard, two things stood out. The brain-trust of digital ballers started CRidley. What did they know? Some matchup scenario? Some inside knowledge gleamed from the intra-web? Ridley’s stat line- 8 targets 0 catches 1 rush 9 yards. Total…0.9 pts. Terrible call Coach! And the second choice may have been worse. Purdy and his 24 watched Dak fail over and over again. Worst call Coach. Final score 108-111. 3 point loss could have been easily won by DFUN and his geek squad. But it wasn’t.

As for salaries in the NFL and building winning teams…..

Ok, one third of the way into the season, AintReba is undefeated, followed closely by TBIAC, then everyone else is fighting to stay at or above .500 (though some say Pigg ain’t fighting very hard😂). Still plenty of time to get healthy, pick up a player or even, God forbid, make a trade. Week 6 is wrapped, 7 is coming quick. Let’s get ready to play some fake computer football!!!

Week 5 has come and gone. As usual we had some good games, and some bad. But remember that is early on in the season and anything can happen!!!! (Ex. AintReba winning, Sam Darnold undefeated, DFUN not in last) ANYTHING can happen. The ‘Boys won in the last seconds, SF lost to the Cards in the last seconds and Aaron Raaawwwdddggggeeerrsss got his coach fired (rumor). Boston RedSox coming back 0-3 to beat the Yankees is probably the biggest shocker this reporter has ever witnessed. But maybe the Vandy over Alabama? It’s tough to say. But this week we all watched in amazement, wonder and awe at the biggest game of our FFL season. A talentless team, with no direction or management, came together on one given Sunday and played her tiny little heart out. It doesn’t matter if this brave, talentless FFL governor won or lost. It only matters that she tried. It’s all about the ❤️

And if you thought we were not in wonky fantasy football times…..

Playing way up north, in the frozen tundra, Nizzle arrived at CampingWorld.com stadium via private helicopter (rumor is that is was Jerry Jones’s helicopter, they are neighbors-just sayin) and was ready to lay down the 6th worst score this week. And he did! Team Pigg did him one better. 7th worst score. 110-103. A nice coaching move by Nizzle starting Trey Sermom, 18 and the infuriating Pitts, 15. Pigg rallied with 21 from the DEN D. That’s it. But at least he had nothing on the bench. Nizzle, after a five course meal at the Chateau de Riche, flew home to his uptown condo, smoked a celebratory Cuban and fired his entire coaching staff.

TBIAC v Big Diesel. A battle for 2nd place in the playoffs. Two hated rivals who may have never met? Well, they squared up in the swanky confines of Big D, just in sight of Jerry’s helicopter landing pad. These two teams did not disappoint. Knowing they are playing for the first runner up spot in this years playoff, both coaches were ready to go! Mahomey continues to disappoint with 13, also continuing to disappoint is Breece, 6. But Hubbard surprising 17 and Aiyuks surprising 22 and SF Defs surprising 16 put the former west coaster Big Diesel, in the drivers seat. Then he drove straight into a brick wall of FFL greatness! 19 from the rookie Daniel’s, 20 from Swift, 27 by DJM and 23 from the other rookie Bowers. TBIAC showed up ready to fight and in that fight, he won 149-130. Good teams, good game, sure we will see them go at it again!

AintReba’s revenge train came hurtling down the tracks and straight onto Nashville Broadway Street, injuring many Vandy fans who were stilll celebrating their crazy win over Alabama. A little, lowly school with no football history took on the biggest bully on the block. And when the game was over, little ol’ Vandy was tearing down the goalpost and celebrating like a bunch of drunken college students, as they should! Would the lil ol’ Cats do the same? Lots of heart, and injuries versus the unstoppable songstress. Will the goalpost come down? No. 147-117. AintReba wins, again, and Cats lose again. Just another week in TISB! Maybe it’ll happen next week, but it probably won’t.

And in the game no one was waiting to see, winless LO took on the surprisingly winned DFUN. Tickets were free and still no one came to watch. Most fans figured they would wait to watch these two meet up in the Sacko Bowl. But, like Vandy and Bama, things can happen. And it definitely happened this week at DFUN stadium (no one has purchased the naming rights as of now). The Commish slowly walked out of the tunnel, followed by a weary, beat up group of FFL’ers. Dak 16, Jacobs 16, JJeff 15 and Kelce finally stopped looking up in the suites to catch a look at his lover, and actually caught some footballs, 16. And now back to our title “It’s about the heart, not the talent”. LO is absolutely not a talented team. Winless all season, no good players and an aversion to trades. But she is a fighter! She rallied her club of not really lovable losers and played their tiny little hearts out! TLaw 21, Rhamondre 19, London hhhhuuuuuuugggggeeeee 33 and 27 from the Minny D. She even left Mooneys 31 on the bench. 183-84. Almost a 100 point swing. Not sure this veteran reporter has ever seen a beating like this! It was alllll heart….. and a terrible DFUN team.

Week 3 is done and it was a doozie. Last second wins and losses, jubilation and sadness. Some continue to climb the FFL mountain, others have stumbled and one took a flying header off of Mt Sacko (you only get one tiny guess😂). What we do know is that every season has its challenges. Some guys fall off, some emerge, some just suck (Cowboys). But we carry on, making changes, waivers, trades (🤣). The FFL gods are fickle and if you don’t believe this humble sports journalist than look at this-

It was a great week of matchups and we are all looking forward to week 4 (maybe not everyone). But this is the week 3 recap for TISB, so let’s see who was ready for a fight and see what happened!!!

AintReba, undefeated (still the hardest words ever written) took on TBIAC, also undefeated. Ali vs Frazier, McEnroe vs Connor, Brady vs Manning, Caitlyn vs Angel…it was NOT. 167-114. AintReba is running wild! Highest point total and un-lossed. Lamar 25, DHenry 30, Kmet 25, Metcalf 20 and on and on and on. The Capt tried to hang in with the diminutive FFL heavyweight but Evans 7, Hill 5 (suffering from no “Hawk” Tua) and McBrides 5 made the judges tally as one sided as the score. Can this continue? Will AintReba go undefeated and set the single season scoring record (unofficial records say the Cats scored 49,322 points in 2019), or return to her natural level at the bottom of the league? We shall see…

And now to the interesting games of the week! In our first Faaaammmmiiilllyyy Feeeeeuuuudddd of the season, DFUN traveled all the way north to the frozen tundra of Pigg stadium. These two reallllly hate each other and it showed on Sunday and even more on MNF! Dak tossed 29 in another embarrassing loss, Montgomery 21, JJeff 20, Amon 20 and rookie sensation Nabers 28 , put DFUN in the lead. Pigg fired back with 20 from Moss, Harris stumbled and rumbled for 13, Cooper snagged 27 and 26 combined from Butker and PHI. Monday morning DFUN 145 Pigg 122. Then Josh Allen took the field on MNF and ran wild, scoring 30.92. 152-145 final. Heartbreaking loss for DFUN and redemption for Pigg! Both are now in family counseling (doesn’t look good). Side note- how in the world did DFUN get JJeff, Amon and Nabers? And still lose?? Amazing…

So week 3 is in the books! Some great, last second, heartbreaking, jouful moments were had. More to come for sure. AintReba is on top at 3-0, TBIAC, CCats and BD at 2-1, DFUN, Nizz, Pigg are 1-2. Plenty of time to fight and claw for that “one inch”, that last push, that playoff run. Lots of FFL to be played. Injuries and busts and old age (Andrew’s) and TSwift (Kelce) and concussions and…… Welcome to This Is Serious Business!!!

Roll credits….

More credits…

LO is 0-3

The end.

Till next week…

Wow what a week. Wins and losses and losses and losses, and surprises! Kupp, CMC, Deebo, Tua, Puka etc all out or D or IR. Did you draft for this massive loss of talent? Are you savvy enough to pick up the next Gamechanger? Did you know anyone got injured? It’s a fair question😂. Did you know Henry, Gesicki and Ching Okonkwo were top 10 TEs? How about Dobbins, Mason and Stevenson as top 4 RBs. WR is a little easier- Collin’s, Godwin, JWilliams and Nabers are your leaders. Not exactly how the draft went but that is how FFL go! Lots of curveballs this week but the strong will survive (AintReba), and the weak will play for the ultimate trophy in all of make believe sports…”The Sacko!!!!! (Early prediction is Nizzle fighting for back-to-back last place finishes vs ). Sorry, the polls say it’s just Nizzle. No one else in the early results. Ok let’s get to the Week 2 recap in THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS (crowd roars)!!!!

Week 2 saw DFUN bounce back from the horrific loss in game one (to the Cats) by crushing the 49er loving Big Diesel 146-121. Achane and Breece canceled out each other, neither Dak or Mahomey were any good, Adams and JJeff were equal but Aiyuk (guess who drafted a 49er) was outscored by Amon 22-8. BD will fall to 1-1 while DFUN wins his last game of the season.

Upset of the week, Cats drive to Highland Park to play in Jerry Jones private backyard football stadium. It only seats 29,000 fans so we apologize to anyone not able to get tickets. Vegas spread was Cats-19, and Kyler came out swinging with 28 followed by Conor at 19, Rashee 18 and Bijon 16. But Kupp only had 7, an injury and an unknown future. Awesome. Nizzle saw the opening and skittered through, getting past terrible QB play and watching Harrison Jr blow it up! CeDe 19 and a 13 point swing at K/DEF was enough to send the Cats slinking back to the Suburban dumpster fire in which they dwell.

Week 2 is in the books! 2 teams are unbeaten, 4 are halfsies and 2 are un-winned. It’s a long season with more injuries and breakouts and disappointments (Cowboys) to come. Strap in and get ready for the ride!!

Over the unbearably long off season, two members of This is Serious Business went to their heavenly home, or hell, I’m not judging. Our West Coast friend Vina Mites, was lost to us this summer. California raised their tax on FFL ownership. 40% to the state for every Win. Too rich for the poor Cali-kid. Godspeed VM, we will all miss the easy “dub”! VaderPug was arrested, charged and found guilty of FFL fuckery. Won’t go into details, to spare the innocent minds of this blogs readership, but let’s just say “black magic, beastiality and even porch pirating” were mentioned. 25 to life was the verdict, but after the Supreme Court saw what he had done to TISB, he was promptly put on a military cargo plane and was last seen headed south. Guantanamo? Venezuela? The Silos in Waco? We may never know the truth.

The draft was held again at the official TISB golf course resort. A place where the beer flowed like wine and FFL brains instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. A little place called Corinth, or north Lewisville, it’s hard to tell which it is. As usual, some made it some did not, but ALL did not pay😂. We should probably do that sometime (I accept Apple Pay). TISB is now a ppr league so a learning curve will probably hit the entire league for a few weeks. Once the sea legs are back we will see who will “ never lose again” and who takes home the “Sacko”!!!

I’ll just leave this here for the beloved readership to peruse…

Let’s get to week 1 in This is Serious Business!!!

Team Pigg v the Big Diesel. Pigg walked out of the draft room and lit a giant Cuban cigar, grinned at the reporters and didn’t say anything (you have to know Trey😏) led by a 100% draft rating and Josh Allen at qb, Pigg squealed into the season with 31 from his leader. 22 from Godwin, 16 for RWhite (that’s a fluke, the Commish is faster than that guy). Big Diesel countered with a terrible 15 from Mahomie, 18 from Breece and Walker and 26 large from Mixon (who’s still not in jail). Looked like an easy W for Pigg, but because the Commish made insane, unsupervised, crazy kicker rules, Moody hit 26 for BD. And, oh yeah, Pigg had the first empty roster spot of the year😭👏🏽 with CMC not playing. Tough loss for the #1 seed, but we play on. BD 137 Pigg 99.

DFUN vs the Lil d Ceiling Cats. This is what FFL is alllllll about! Dominance. Records from all TISB seasons will show the Cats have never lost to the Commish despite his collusion, mirror leagues, Fantrax changeover and scoring insanity! Will this be the year it all changes? No. 151-102. Brutal beat down. Caleb Williams failed in his first NFL/FFL start, AmonRa was AmonNot and the Kelce regression has started. The Cats had 32 from Kupp, 33 from waiver wire pickup Minn D and 19 from JConner (before his yearly injury). Just another W for the Cats, and one more L for the Commish. Different season, same outcome.

In the Sunday night game, TBIAC made the long drive to Denton to meet Laces Out at Jerry Webb Memorial stadium. Lots of pregame hype for both teams, none of it warranted. Saquon started his new FFL journey by scoring 3 tds and this weeks game was over just as it began. Tyreek had 26 points and one arrest, Evans caught 23 and JGibb ran 17. Laces Out tried their little heart out but just couldn’t keep up with the high flying Captain. Hurts was meh, 16, AJones rum led for 18 and AJ Brown grabbed 22. But, Williams ran for 3 entire points, Fergie had 4 before leaving the game with an injury, and Drake London, FFL preseason all star with his new and improved QB, new head coach, new coordinator…. same result. 3.5 points. Aubrey was the lone high spot for the tiny dancers, kicking in 21 even after getting robbed of his 72yard attempt! Final score 135-117. Good game, bad matchup for the LO team.

Week one is over, 4 happy owners, 4 angry owners. Who will be the first to make a trade (not Steph)? Who will play a rookie QB in his first ever nfl game (felix). When will Nizzle sell his team for an obscene profit and start his own league? Can Trey make it through hunting season and FFL season at the same time (probably not). Soooo many questions, many many weeks to find the answers. Good night and good luck! Welcome back to This is Serios Business season 27 (ish)!!!!

It’s that magical, sad time of the year. Christmas brings family and friends together for a day while FFL brings family and friends together for months. Both will be gone soon. There will be happy memories from both, and bad ones (LGB passing out at the table from too much eggnog, BD destroying his tv while watching the Niners, Nizzle02 dressing up as Ebenezer Scrooge, again). But memories have been made, stories to be told and overall, fun had by all, mostly. Thanks for fighting and clawing and cheating all season long… we have a good group of team owners. Let’s get to week 16 in “This is Serious Business”!

AintReba hosted LO for the third installment of “Catfight”. LO, after a strange and disappointing week 15 was looking for revenge over Nashvilles favorite singer/songwriter, one to escape the Sacko Bowl and second, revenge for stealing her RB in the mirror world debacle that caused LO to lose to the resurgent (on the last week of the season) Cats. Soooo, a lot at stake, tempers we’re high and the claws were out! 132-72. Terrible game. AintReba, despite looking all season as if she could not bear to lose her trophy, came out swinging her tiny little fists and connected with an early haymaker. Josh Allen 20, DSmith 23, Higbee (?) 21 and Lenny rumbled for 16. LO countered feebly with Patterson 3, Z Jones, 1 and Herbert 5. Game over, AintReba is out of contention. LO looks towards next week in her final opportunity to not add her name, again, to the most beautiful trophy in all FFL sports.

This will be remembered for decades as the worst championship game ever. 91-70. The #1 seed and #1 scorer got 70 freaking points. The winner, LGB, would have lost every other game played this week. Terrible.

Will Pigg rebound in his first playoff appearance? Will Vita-Mites take home the bronze in his first season and first playoff appearance? Cousins battled Minshew, Mixon versus Saquon, Sanders ran with Cook. JJeff caught balls against Godwin. DST went completely to VM with 23 total and Pigg only 13. But, Gerald Everet (?) took home a big fat ZERO and Dawson Knox had 38yds and a TD for 9. That was the difference, a freaking TE!!! A reminder that every play, every player can be the difference between wining and losing. Pigg takes 3rd place and a cash prize, VM falls to fourth and gets a coupon for a walking tour of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, reality star’s only. Sooo, that should be fun.

In the Lock of the Week, TBIAC draws the easy out that is known as DFUN. Predicted to win by 13, the Greenville Avenue Gangsta strolled into Denton ready for revenge. He did not get it. DFUN exploded for 126 points even with his RB Drake scoring 0. TBIAC had a good game from Goff and KingHenry and that is it. Shocker!! DFUN leaves the Sacko Bowl and TBIAC has one week to prepare his team for the angry little owner LO. Whatever happens next week, it’ll be more exciting than our so called championship game🤣

So, we are down to two team, vying for the title of Sacko Bowl Champion (actually the loser, but winner in that they get the trophy, the painting which will be displayed prominently in their house for an entire year and their named engraved for all history to remember). Good Luck and Godspeed to both.

It’s playoff season, my how time has flown by. Remember when LO was on an epic win streak? When VM looked like he might shoot to #1? When DFUN won that game? When Pigg realized he might go to the winners playoffs for the first time (that was last week btw)? Well, we are here, bittersweet, but all great FFL season have to have a conclusion. Someone goes home happy and someone takes home the Sacko and is happier! Skill and knowledge is a must, but the FFL gods are fickle, and every week is a new season. It’s go time for every team. Survive and advance, or in Sacko case, survive and exit. Week 1 of the playoffs have happened, let’s get to it….

In the best game of the week, Pigg v Nizzle02. Piggs first playoff appearance, Nizz #1#1. As we have seen soooooo many times this year, it was D/ST that made the difference. Pigg had Joe Cool with 22 and JJeff 18. Nizz got 9 from Danny Dimes and 2 from DAdams. Pigg ran Mixon for 5 and Sanders for a fat zero. The #1 #1 got 11 from Jacobs and 10 for Pollard. Flex went to Montgomery 21 over AJones 16. 75-64 Pigg. McPherson kicked 9 versus Carlsons’s 7. Sooooo, 84-71. Will Pigg survive and advance? No. CAR D scores 1, Nizz’s DEN D 15 big ones. Final 85-86 in a soul crushing first round knockout. The dreaded #1#1 moves on, Pigg falls to consolidation round.

In a shootout LGB hosted VM in a terribly small stadium in a suburb somewhere no one cares about. Both QBs went off, Hurts for 34 and Fields 23. RBs Saquon 18, Dillon with a shocking 19. Cook 23 CMC 19. Theses two were going at it!! 100-96 VM at the end of position players. Here we go again with the DST. The Cali newcomer had PHI D with 12. LGB had 19 from GB (also a shock). Soooo, LGB with a one point lead. Kicker time- Gould 3, Maher 12. Game over. 127-115. LGB moves on to face Nizzle02 and VM faces off with Pigg for the 2nd loser trophy.

Enough said

After coming so close to the winners bracket, TBIAC falls to the Sacko Bowl Tournament to face Big Diesel who also had dreams of championships . Both had good teams that just fell short. Luck? Bad luck? FFL Gods displeasure. Yes. Not much of a game. 119-91. Mahomey 30, Zeke 13, Kittle 21 vs Goff 14, DHenry 22 and ABrown 18. But Def was the big difference this week. SF 15 SEA 0. BD is out and TBIAC goes on to the second round of the Sacko Bowl.

After a weird alternate universe waiver wire snafu, little LO faced off with the all time wins leader CeilingCats in a revenge game from last week. Winner exits the Sacko playoffs, loser moves on. A mirror version of the league had to be made to create the playoff bracket. It was a trial run on one team (not LO) and it worked. Unfortunately it also made a schism in time where a player was picked up on waivers by two teams in two alternate universes. Usually this wouldn’t matter at all because the waivers are done by week 3 in this league. But as luck will prove out, it might have. Cats v LO. Geno 15, Herbert 8. JConner 15 Ekeler 13. Najee 14 Patterson 11. Chase 12 Tyreek 12. Evans 8 Wadle 17. Taysom 10 Friermuth 0. Etienne 10 Lockett 6. Easy win. JTuck kicks 5 and Bass gets 6. Easy win. DAL Def -1 ARI Def 11. Not so easy win 90-87. The player in question in the weird alternate universe was JMckinon, who AintReba got and LO lost. He scored 26. Luck? Bad luck? Collusion? No. Nothing nefarious, just a technical snafu. AintReba would have gotten McKinnon in waivers due to priority, because she is terrible 🤣 but still an unfortunate event. LO will try to exit the Sacko Bowl next week against her now nemesis AintReba in an epic week 16 Grlz FIGHT!

1. Make sure you have paid up ya cheap bastards (jk about the cheap bastards part😂) but pay up if you haven’t yet!

Week 16 will see the two most hated teams play one another (Nizzle02 v LGB) for the big ugly trophy and Pigg travels to the beach to take on VM for the consolation prize. DFUN and AintReba reenter the contest after their one week punishment and take on surprise contestant TBIAC and not so surprising LO. Should be a fun week, stay warm, light a fire and don’t forget to pray to Shiva to deliver you a FFL W!

They don’t hate to lose.

In a game that didn’t matter, this game proved to matter less than that. Nizzle02 107-79 over DFUN. Niz goes into the playoffs in the dreaded #1 seed with the most points scored. Dreaded. Yes. No #1 #1 has ever won the tournament. Is this the year? Will DFUN take home the Sacko? Is this his year? We will find out!

LO breaks her second half of the season slide with a big win over the sad Cats 111-98. But still goes back home, aka, the Sacko Bowl where she will meet the Cats again in week one of the Losers bracket. Easy win again? Or revenge game for the all time wins leader Cats? Who will float and who will “fill em in”. The Sacko will sort it out next week.

Pigg, high on playoff fever, got a wake up call from our Sacko Queen, AintReba 104-101. Pigg stays in the Winners bracket but lost precious seeding while Reba will have a bye week as punishment for being on the bottom, as usual.

The new guy, Vina-Mites, laying on a chaise lounger under his coastal cabana drinking a nice Rose from Napa slid into the Playoffs knocking off early season favorite TBIAC, 88-72. With both teams fighting for a spot on the Winners side, they both just floated in to week 14 and the final score reflects that.

The current Champ (contested) LGB took on Big Diesel looking to solidify the #2 spot while BD was fighting to get into the tourney. It was a real Dawg fight till the end, but LGB got the W and the playoff spot will Diesel gets sent down to relegation hell.

Sooooo, the regular season is over. Playoffs and the Sacko Bowl are upon us. 4 teams in, 6 fighting to not take home the most famous trophy in FFL history (and the worst painting in the world, dogs playing poker on black velvet). Let’s all thank the Commish for fighting through our platform change, our dumb questions and for screwing up the last week with some alternate version of our league (if you don’t know don’t worry about it, we persevered🤣). If you haven’t paid, please do (not sure I have, was planning on winning it all as usual 😩)

The winners bracket will be Nizz v Pigg and LGB v VM in week one. In the Sacko Bowl, DFUN and AintReba will take a bye week while Laces Out hosts the Ceiling Cats and TBIAC welcomes Big Diesel. Don’t forget the Saturday games, get your team ready and start hating to lose! This is Serious Business 2022!