Armadillos claw to top
Dallas defeats Wisconsin, tied for Division lead;
Syracuse upset — sets season low score

Dallas came in to week 8 with a mission: make Whiz out of the Cheeseheads. The Armadillos made good on that mission, with a 47-41 win over Wisconsin. Dallas and Wisconsin are tied at 5-3 atop the Cappelletti Division. Most impressive, however, is Dallas’ 5-0 record within the division. Dallas is the only team in the league that has an undefeated division record.

And the schedule has a real treat for us: we don’t have to wait very long for the rematch, as Wisconsin and Dallas play each other again in Week 9.

The biggest upset of the week belongs to the Keystone Longfellows, who knocked off Syracuse 39-6. The Blizzard came into the week tied for the best record in the league and also holding onto the point lead. They lost both of those distinctions but gained another distinction — low team score for the season. The Blizzard’s 6 points also shattered the team’s all-time low score of 13 points, set in week 3 of 1993 and matched again in week 12 last year.

Syracuse drops one game back of Pennsylvania, who upped their league-best record to 7-1 with a 76-59 win over the Big Carolina Bang. Carolina’s record evens at 4-4 as they drop two games behind NIKEtown. The Knights beat the Newport Beach Nightmare by a 56-25 count. NIKEtown ups their record to 6-2 and leads the Paterno Division.

Miami also evens their record with a solid 71-63 win over New York. The Muffdivers have pulled to within one game of Wisconsin and Dallas, who are tied for the division lead. New York, the 2-time defending point champions, see their record dip to 3-5 and will face a severe uphill battle to make the playoffs this year.

New Denver ups their record to 3-5, as they defeated Richmond 29-19. The Studs are tied with the Griffons at 3-5 at the bottom of the Cappelletti Division. Richmond drops to 2-6 and is in sole possession of last place in the Engle Division.

And finally, the Mercer Mustangs beat the team formerly known as the Pittsburgh Pachyderms who we are now calling the Mission Viejo No Llamos. Mercer’s 25-19 win ups their record to 5-3 and they stay 2 games back of PA in the Engle Division. The No Llamos drop to 2-6 and are 4 games behind NIKEtown.

 

 

Help wanted/needed
A plea for guest writers/columnists

Remember those fun, free-wheeling days when we had our weekly “guest editorials” in the Fantasy Football Flyer?

Due to my impending move in three weeks, and the fact that I have to find a job in Boston sometime soon, I’m not gonna have quite as much time to write fun little stories and sidebars for the Fantasy Football Flyer. It takes quite a bit of time just to update the scores, standings, stats, etc., each week.

So here’s a plea: if any of you would like to write guest editorials or columns to fill up this space in the FFF over the next few weeks, I’d be more than happy to accept your submissions. I’ll even go through and fix spellings and grammar. I’m even getting better at translating liebermaneese, so who knows what is possible.

And yes, Eggo, you never wrote your scheduled guest columns a couple years back while every other owner did. So, I want everyone to CLICK HERE NOW to email Eggo and persuade him to share some of his witty repartee with the rest of us. Go ahead, just type in (or copy and paste from here…) “Please Eggo, we’d really like you to write a column for the Fantasy Flyer.”

Go ahead… click now. You’ll be glad you did.