Highest Scoring Team ($15)
Scallon Express
Coach John
156.41 pts (narrowest margin of highest scoring team ever - John edged out Drew by just 0.13 pts)
Highest Scoring Player ($7)
BRIAR’S HAUNTING CHORUS
Coach Drew
CeeDee Lamb - 39.9 pts (CeeDee Lamb was the highest scoring player during last year’s rivalry week as well. Guy lives for rivalry week.)
We didn’t have any last minute victories this year, but Rivalry Week did bring some SPOOKY shocks to the league.
PINEVIEW LEGENDS
Chris could not pull off the upset this year, losing to Nelson 85-107, and falling to 2-6, now having lost six consecutive games, as he races to the bottom of the league. Aaron maintains his two game lead in the BSC.
IOWA FALLS TRANSPLANTS
Jesse needed just 8 points in last night’s game to beat Ewoldt for the 4th consecutive time and it was not without a bit of drama. After a slow start for his Tyrone Tracy, he would exit the game with a shoulder injury, questionable to return. According to a Giants trainer, Tyrone was on his phone in the medical tent and would receive a text message of this photo:
Tracy immediately returned to the game and would proceed to rip off 100+ yards rushing and the Giants only touchdown of the game, before being knocked out of the game again with a concussion. It’s safe to say Tracy left it all out there last night for his coach, and the Aspen Dummies would put away the Course Rangers yet again, 121-104. Jesse now climbs to 5-3, winning five straight after his 0-3 start to the season.
FAILED MATHEMATICIANS
Despite Jesse’s fifth straight win, incredibly, he remains in third place in X-IA, as both coaches he trails would handle their end in Rivalry Week. Good Will Hunting, the leading contender for IFL Regular Season Champ, would send the Commish’ back to his precious Havahd Yahd, winning 144-111, thanks in part to an out of nowhere THIRTY BURGER from Bo Nix. You really can’t make this stuff up. Hunt has now won seven consecutive games after losing week 1.
MOST INTERESTING MEN IN THE WORLD
And right behind Hunt, is the Doc, who would best his junior Most Interesting Man in the World Qualley in a hotly contested 130-124 bout and who moves to 6-2, good enough only for second place in the unreal X-IA division. Qualley would fall out of first place in Papa Jord’s with his loss. Though even when Qualley doesn’t win, he doesn’t lose.
CY-HAWK
How fitting is it that in a year when the Iowa State Cyclones are having a historic season, and beat the Hawkeyes so convincingly that even TC couldn’t deflect, the Scallon Express would absolutely flatline TC, putting up a league high 156 points to TC’s 109. It’s Scallon’s first win over TC in eight meetings and it keeps him alive in the Boy Scout Cylones division at 4-4.
RICHARD BROS
The benefactor of Qualley’s not-winning and TC losing, is Jord, who would rev his HIMmy Jayden Daniels on his big little bro Austin 142-118, sending him to 2-6 and climbing out of the three-way tie betwixt Qualley, TC and himself in Papa Jord’s very own division.
BACHELOR PARTY ABSENTEES
Once again, the battle between frenemies Drew and Brady does not disappoint, as Brady would go up big headed into SNF 132-99, with Pickens yet to play, and though Drew still had CeeDee Lamb and Najee Haris yet to play, Brady was feeling good heading into the Cowboys game…
So much so in fact that he even started calling me out…
But after a 40-point $7 Player of the Week performance from CeeDee, the script had completely flipped, and now Drew was up 139-132 with a projected 62% chance of victory. Just like last year, in pure desperation, Brady would dip his toes into the world of sorcery…
It’s a wizard battle that Brady never stood a chance in, and probably just to show off, Drew disguised his incantation under what seemed like a simple injury curse, but what was in reality an inability for George Pickens to touch his left foot down in the end zone. Sounds impossible, right? Take a look…
That is the scariest thing I’ve seen my life and I just re-watched the Blair Witch Project. Needless to say those points from George Pickens there would not have won Brady the game, but it’s just another countless example of the universe bending to Drew’s will, and always by his own dark hand. BRIAR’S HAUNTING CHORUS would clean-up ALL-TIME D 156-144. Drew climbs to 4-4, in a tie with the Scallon Express, and two games back from Nelson in the BSC. Brady, would fall to 3-5, and would leave him contemplating alternative paths to the playoffs beyond a division win.
JANE’S BASMENT
All that excitement and our biggest upset of the week was also not a particularly close game as Nick’s 0-7 squad would lay the lumber on Curtis, 140-84, establishing dominance in his own mother’s house. Clearly this was Nick’s Superbowl this season, as it was the first time he had scored higher than 96 points all year, behind 20+ point games from Purdy, Kelce and Ridley. Curtis has had a rough go of it of late, now having lost four straight, and having the lowest PPG over those weeks, at just 81 PPG. Still, he remains just a game back in the CdS and the division is completely up for grabs.
Not much change here but the BSC and PJ are all knotted up in the middle through 8 weeks.
Chris and the Commish go 7-2 in Rivalry Week Pick ‘Em. The Commish extends his lead to 5 over the pack, and Chris burrows his way into the thick of things.
