Big Blue wins the 2003 BFFL Championship 60-47

Big Blue, in his first season in the BFFL kicks some serious ass at the end of the season, winning 6 games in a row to take the 10th Beltway Super Bowl Championship. Ladainian Tomlinson scored 27pts, Fred Taylor had 9 and Randy Moss scored 8 to lead the Blue past the Seminole Nation. It was the first time a "BFFL rookie" has taken home the championship. It was a tough game for the Nation as they could not keep up as Steve McNair scored 0 pts, Marvin Harrison and Anquan Boldin scored 1 pt each.

This is part to the Commish end of the year speach, "Well it's been another exciting year in the BFFL. Can't believe it's been 10 years that we've been doing this. Congrats to Ed and the Big Blue on winning it all. Condolences to Steve and the Kings of Nothing on their unfortunate winning of the Toilet Bowl Trophy. Also, Congrats to Chuck and Julian on a fine season. Once again the first place team in the regular season doesn't win it all.

The 2003 playoff chart.
Here's the final order of team after the playoffs.:

1. Big Blue
2. Seminole Nation
3. Snoozers
4. WYDs
5. RBB
6. Spoilers
7. Lombardi Mania
8. Kings of Nothing

After the game Ed had this to say, "Even if I had not won the championship it has been a great season. I enjoyed competing with you guys and look forward to next season. Many thanks to Steve for bringing me on board."

After the game Chuck was gracious in defeat, "Guys just got back into MD from Detroit....Congrats Blue (Ed).Tomlinson did it and it looks like everyone else played in neutral. A great season for me."

There was a bit of trash talking going on before the game: Big Blue, "This game is a close as it gets. If I were to set a spead I would call this a pick'em. If there was a home field advantage, which there is not in this wacky passion of ours, I would make the 'Nole a slight favorite. Should be one heck of a matchup! The numbers are in. They have been crunched, examined, reviewed, prognosticated, whatever you want to call it. The prediction is set. Here it is and I hope I am wrong. Da'Nole 116 Blue 108. "

Chuck had this to say before the game, "I did not want to be facing Blue this week. What a perfect schedule set-up for Blue; I have the Lions, Raiders, and Cardinals facing his three-headed machine. But thanks to the Broncos victory of Sunday Night, there is incentive for three of my players. And after the Pats put Bledsoe to shame, Trent Green will be sitting down by the end of the first quarter. In addition, the Cardinals have played tough at home in front of 200 fans. My four-headed horsemen of Alexander (first road victory for the hawks), Boldin (what more can I say but thank you, Dale), Harrison (Revenge and first place of the AFC South), and yes Jamal LEWIS will provide the road to victory. Its my fourth season in the league and first opportunity for the title. With optimism, Its wire-to wire for the Nation"

Dale, I am sad to say that we will have a repeat winner of the Toilet Bowl, with both of us having our names already on the pink seat. I can't believe that there were 3 upsets out of the 4 games this week. Although the Big Blue win over the WhoseYourDaddies was only a mild upset.
I know that I was rooting for you to win because I don't want to face Ahman Green and (maybe) Clinton Portis in the Pink Bowl. I thought I had a better chance to beat Jeff in the last week. My team is also imploding and I guess that is why we give a last place trophy out, to remind us how bad our teams were at the end of the season. I have lost 2 in a row and you 3 in a row, so it is only fitting that one of us takes it this weekend.

Toilet Bowl Wrap up, The end of the Kings of Nothing 72-40

Congrats Ed, way to come into the league and kick some serious a$$ in the playoffs. Your team peaked at the right time, while about 5 or 6 others peaked too soon. Having brought you into the league, I am happy for you, but sad for myself because I finished in LAST PLACE. Tough luck Chuck, I was rooting for you to knock off the F-ing new guy! I can't believe it and the ole Red Ball Blitz wins the Tidy Bowl and ends up in 5th place after a 0-10 start! WOW.

I will have to come up with some new ideas on the Toilet Bowl Presentation. Hey we had 3 guys at the End of the year party, it was fun, except for the fact that none of my players were scoring:

Other Losers on my team
Stephen Davis, 5 total pts in the last 3 weeks of the season.
Santana Moss, no more than 3 pts in the last 5 weeks of the season.
Travis Henry, 10 total pts in last 3 weeks of the season.
Duece McAllister (he gets mentioned twice) total 17 pts in the last 4 weeks of the season. He has 4 of his worst 6 games of the season in the last 4 weeks of the season.
No I am not bitter at all....

We will see if I can get out of the basement next year, as I became the first ever team to go from First to Worst this year. Next year, First to Worst to First!
Any ideas for the new team name?
Kings of "S" seems like a good idea,

Dale end of the year speach, Well, another torturous season for L-Mania is over.....

We started out good (thanks to Jeff and Bill) and finished with a sigh of relief (thanks to Steve). I really don't think I could have handled carrying the Porcelian Prize in the trunk of my car for two years in a row. I have to admit, though, that is came in plenty handy a few times when I was in the middle of nowhere and needed to take a dump.

On that note, let the mind games begin for the 2004 season.....

L-Mania was one of five teams (L-Mania, Blue, WYD, The Kings, and the Snoozers) that were very evenly matched this year and it was a blast trying to compete. I don't think I can remember five so evenly matched teams in one season that fought so hard to get into the playoffs. I came so close to getting into the top tier, I really don't have much to complain about. With Red Balls and Spoilers having bad years, I was really hoping to take advantage of that. I am sure that those are two teams that will be determined to have better seasons next year.

One last thing.... thanks to Greg and Steve for doing "The Commish" and
"Vice-Commish" thing so well. You guys make the league run very
smoothly. You guys have kept the league together for ten years. Now that we
have this great web site (that you found), I don't see why we can't go
for ten more.

One of these years, L-Mania will show up at the end......

Week 16, first week of the playoffs, Seminole Nation and Big Blue to meet in the BFFL Super Bowl X. This match up should be one of the great BFFL Super Bowls as Big Blue demolished the WhoseYourDaddies 97-55 and Seminole Nation won 100-80 over the Snoozers. In previous years having the #1 seed in the BFFL playoffs was not always a good thing, but this season the Nation poured the points on with the RB duo of Jamal Lewis, 28 pts and Shaun Alexander 21 pts. Anquan Boldin added 17 and Tennessee DT added 12 for the Nation. The Snoozers were led by Priest Holmes 22 and Laveranues Coles 17, but fell a little short. Big Blue predicted his victory over the WYD early in the week, via email "Blue 94 WYD 89". He as not too far off! After the game Blue was talking championship, "My prayers to the Fantasy Gods rings true. I am a devotee to my faith. I must rewrite the BFFL record books. The game against the Nation of 'Noles should be a great one!"

In the Toilet Bowl Bracket the 2 underdogs, Red Ball Blitz and Spoilers pull out the victories sending Lombardi Mania and Kings of Nothing to the Toilet Bowl game. The Red Ballers won 56-47 in a low scoring game where Dale had 2 players score 0 pts. Dale entered the playoffs with only 3 RB and Clinton Portis was in the starting line-up even though he was out for week 16. His other RB, Correll Buckhalter, was suspended for 1 game by his coach for missing a team meeting and being late to their walk through. Dale responding to Big Blue's prayers being answered, "Bah Humbug... Fantasy gods... I think I'm beginning to know how Bill Murray felt in "Groundhog Day". The Red Ballers scored their second highest score of the season, just when they needed it to avoid the pink seat!

Before the other game, Steve had a predicted a victory for the Kings of Nothing. As soon as he sent the email, he knew that he probably jinxed himself, and it came true. Spoilers 80 Kings of Nothing 67. Steve had this to say about his devastating loss to the Spoilers, "Thanks a million Bill and the Spoilers for sending me to the Toilet Bowl game for the first time in since 1997. That Detroit DT with the 2 TD's, Marshall Faulk, 22pts and Keenan McCardell 17 pts were too much for me." Bill responded, "Better you than me, Steve! Phwew, I was just hoping not to pull a Saints and wind up in the Toilet Bowl."

Two things are for sure, we will have a new name on the Championship Trophy, either Chuck or Ed and we will have another repeat winner of the Toilet Bowl Trophy. Steve could have his name on there twice or Dale could have his name on there for the 3rd time and second year in a row. Good luck to all in week 17!

Week 15, Al Falcons started to think about what might happen after the first week of the Toilet Bowl Playoffs. "Dale, tough luck on last night, at least it ended early and you did not have to wait until 1 AM to find out the results. Hopefully you and I can win next week and meet in the Tidy (not tiddy) Bowl game. The Spoilers have been hot and I will have to get my team on track this weekend in order to avoid the Toilet Bowl Game. I suggest you do the same!"

Then the predictions started to come out with Big Blue lobbing the first bomb, "Blue 94 WYD 89. Fasten your seatbelts boys it's gonna be a wild ride!"

Another prediction from Al Falcons, "Kings of Nothing 55, Spoilers 54 as Bubba Franks accounts for 19yds receiving and 1 pt and drops a sure TD in the end zone on Monday night!" Now I am sure that I have jinxed myself this weekend!