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In The Beginning...
July 05, 2008 (11:30 AM) The schedules are out and the P.F.F. is ready to start it's 2008 season. Schedules are the same format this year but just as always there are exciting match-ups throughout the 13 week regular season. Let's take a look at some key match-ups in the first five weeks of the season. We kick it off with the always big time rival of the Rush and the Blitz in week 1. The Rush are 9-5 in this series and the Blitz know that to ever even it out again, they must step it up. The Rush come into the 2008 season as the teams with the most wins in league history. Don't forget that the Blitz come into the 2008 season as the team with the most points scored in league history. Week 2 brings with it the Broncos and the Thunderstorms. The Thunderstorms lead this series 10-4. But, last year things may have started to change. The Thunderstorms won in week 2, then in week 12, the Broncos beat the Thunderstorms 124.8 to 99.1 and sured up that the Broncos would finish ahead of the Thunderstorms for only the second time in their storied 7 year history. The Kings and the Ballerz headline week 3. By week 3 we should get a feel for two things. One, are the Kings for real, or were they and are they a one hit wonder. This game will also set the stage for possibly who the Division stud is going to be. Kings are defending Champs and will be all season, but the Ballerz are 16 and 10 since Rick came into the league as a coach, and know he is the owner. Can he have the same success or even better? Week 4 is always a big week. Teams venture outside their divisions and prepare to battle Conference foes. Games that give you wins and losses, but more importantly, games that will decide Wilcard Teams. Two of those teams could be the Bengals and the Outlaws. The Outlaws beat the Bengals last season in week 9, 102.1 to 70.6. The Bengals are coming off a 3-10 record and 15th in the League. The Outlaws have made the Playoffs for 2 years straight and plan to get back. If history means anything, the Bengals are in big trouble. The Outlaws are 5-2 all-time against them. With a RB heavy team, the Bengals will make a push this season. Will the Outlaws be the team to boost them into a big winning streak? Or the team that brings them back to reality? Oh week 5. One of only three weeks were teams get to play teams from the "other" Conference. This week brings a big match-up. The Dream Team and the Blitz. Why is this a big game when the teams are on the opposite end of the spectrum? The Dream Team won their division last season while the Blitz finished last in theirs. Well, both these teams along with their owners have a lot to prove. Yes, the Blitz won a Championship 7 years ago, but the Dream Team make that up by being the 2nd winnest team in league history and only one game back from the all-time best. What they have in common is proving that they can in the Dream Teams case, and can they again in the Blitz' case. By week 5 teams should be in full swing. There will be no excuses for a loss by this time. There we have it. By the end of week 5 we will know whoe the great teams will be. Trust me, there will be a winless team after week 5 and a undefeated team. Which side of the tracks will you be on?
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| Playin' The Game As Champions! - July 10, 2008 (7:10 AM) What is the deal? It seems as though alot of us owners with longevity in the league have been doing a lot of other things other then pay attention to the football world. Talking around the league, you find many people that have had big offseasons, some life changing. What is the reason fore putting the greatest game in the world on the back burner? Can it be a comfort for the game? Can it be that we think we are so good that we no longer need to study? Are the ones that do care the most in the heat of the summer, stand a better chance of winning it all? |
Rush Owner Lives Football Mar 14, 2008 (9:01 PM) The off season is here and most are resting up and turning their attention to things other then football. Owner/GM of the Chicago Rush, Tanner Rowland, is doing just the opposite. It takes a lot of hard work to make the Playoffs in the PFF , especially 7 years in a row and 2 Championships during that time. Tanner is known in the Football World as a legend and he didn’t get that way by taking the off season off and relaxing. A typical day for Tanner is filled with football all day long. He wakes up and gets out of his football shaped bed with his football sheets and comforter. Then he slips on his football shaped house shoes. He makes his way to the bathroom where he showers and cleans his self with his football shaped Soap on a Rope. Then to the sink to brush his teeth with his toothbrush that yes, the end has a little football on it. Tanner makes his way to the breakfast table where his wife has prepared pancakes in the shape of, you guessed it, footballs. During breakfast Tanner reads US Today’s Sports section that always has great news and notes on the NFL. When breakfast finishes, to the computer he goes to scourer the Football websites from top to bottom. Of course when you’re as successful as Tanner has been, you have people. Tanner has inside connections to most NFL teams. Tanner and Adam Shine of NFL Network talk on a daily basis as well as Peter King, and many more. Spending a day working on building one of the greatest franchises in PFF History is hard and makes you tired. So after hours on the computer and the phone, Tanner moves it to his football shaped hot tub where he has a rubber ducky signed by L. Tomlinson floating around in the water at all times. His wife slips in next to him wearing a swimsuit made out of leather from the footballs that LT kept his record setting TD season. Speaking of LT, at about 7 PMon Thursdays nights, he shows up for drinks and fun with Tanner. Tanners wife drives LT home after each time because the whole Rush organization is high class and would never get caught up in criminal activity like Drinking and Driving. When the night is finished, Tanner puts on his football patterned boxers, kisses his 2 Championship Rings Goodnight and slips back into his football shaped bed. Before you get jealous of Tanner's lifestyle, please know that Tanner has sacrificed so much. A marriage, money, and heartache all for the success of one thing, the Chicago Rush. |
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Great Records Don't Buy Championships Dec 08, 2007 (12:17 AM) The Wolverines under direction of Mike Warner are looking great this season. After joining the league last season, Mike started his PFF Career with a 7-6 record and missed the Playoffs. This season a lot has changed. Mike has finished this regular season with an 11-2 record. His Wolverines are one of only four teams that have ever finished with an 11-2 or better. Let’s take a look at those teams. The Barracudas were the first of those teams to finish with a lot of wins. In 2003, they finished with a still League’s best 12-1. The good news is that the Barracudas can still say that no team has ever went 12-1 and not won the Paramount Bowl. That is exactly what the Barracudas did. They beat the Rush in Paramount Bowl III 108.7 to 67.7. And if you look at the bottom of the History Page, you will see, that the 2003 Barracudas still hold the honor of the best team in the History of the PFF. The 2004 Dream Team were the first team to finish with a 11-2 record. The bad news for them is that they lost to the 6-7 Twisters in the first round of the Playoffs. And this was no bad 11-2 team, if there could be one. The Dream Team finished 2nd in points and beat up most of their opponents. In fact, in one of their two losses, the Dream Team put up 111.0 points in a loss to the Barracudas who scored 133.4 points. The high point for the Dream Team was in week 13 when they beat the Outlaws 183.8 to 91.0. All this just to lose the next week to the Twisters 111.7 to 110.3 where they lost in the last 2 minutes of the Monday Night Game in a fluke play. The 2006 Fury was the next team to finish 11-2 record and just like the Dream Team, lost in the first round. The Fury weren’t quite as glamorous as the 2004 Dream team. They actually finished 4th in points for the season and had the lowest of high score for a week of anyone in their division and 10th in the league. But what they did have was players that got the job done. The Fury went 5-1 in their division in 2006, but only to lose to one of those division mates, the Miners, in the first round of the Playoffs 142.1 to 103.2. So, the Wolverines have an opportunity to be the first team in league history to finish the regular season at 11-2 and win the first round of the Playoffs. The Wolverines will be playing the defending champion Rush who look to be getting back to the Paramount Bowl. Will the Wolverines be the first to win, or will they be wishing they would have won one more game and finished 12-1? This week will tell all.
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Mar 12, 2008 (7:01 PM) The Kansas Kings are Champions of the Professional Football Federation. Owner, James Clendnin, is the Champion of the League. These are statments that some thought they would not hear. But after just 2 seasons back in the League James takes his team and wins it all. After a 3-6 start to the 2008 season, the Kings finish wins 7 wins in a row to win it all. The winning streak started against the Cheyenne Outlaws in week 10. Two weeks later the Kings would show the League that they mean business when they beat the tough Old Town Ballerz 183.7 to 122.4. The winning didn't stop their. The Kings finished off the regular season wit a win against the Silver Bullets 93.5 to 90.4. Then it came Playoff time. Week 14 was against the American Dream team who came into the Playoffs tied with the best record in the Red Conference. It was a close one, but in the end the Kings won it 128.4 to 122.2. In week 15 the Outlaws were no match. Then came the Paramount Bowl. The Miners would represent the Black Conference. The Black and all their past glory was put to shame. The Kings mopped up in the greatest game of the season by smoking the Miners 138.4 to 77.7. The question now will be can the Kings repeat or can they at least be a contender year in and year out? James says Yes. The League and the Fantasy Football World will be watching very close. Great job James and your Kansas Kings. |
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