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Old 11-02-20, 11:29 PM   #10
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MONKEY THRILLER
...and we have a ballgame

Week Eight in the Subsim Fantasy Football League. Mark your calendar folks. When we get later int he season and start looking back, you can circle this week as pivotal in deciding the post season seeding. We've got upsets, unlikely victories and a shake up in the standings.

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Let' start with our match of the day.

As much as we would like not to start with it, we need to cover. last week we saw the Taipans implode. This week we get to watch the Who Dat Nation Rises scream "hold my bear" as they set about undoing the memory of the previous week. The nation were hosting the Guns of Hochuli in a game that the Nation needed to win to stay in the hunt against their divisional rivals. Coach Casey and the Gunners have once again shown a very quiet approach to the season as they systematically knock off the league leaders one by one and begin to crawl their way to the top. This week they got the Nation and handed them a lesson on football. There are so many low lights form this game, we're just going to give you the score. The Gunners hand the nation once of their worst ever defeats, thrashing the Nation at home 149 - 78.

In Saint Louis, the Helmand Nighthawks Deployed to the town were hosting the Black Cats. Earlier in the season the Cats got around the Nighthawks, but that hadn't stopped Mister Chris from coaching his team into the #1 position in the league - coming from behind in several games. This week the Nighthawks lead almost from the start as the Black Cats started no less than three (3) players who were out on vacation today. The Nighthawks, playing in a later game, were aware of the result of the Who Dat Nation Rises scores before they took to the field, and marched over the Black cats focused on the outright league lead. In a return to fine performance, the Helmand Nighthawks take the victory against the Black cats 154 - 96.

Having won their game, the Nighthawks were waiting on the result of just one game to determine where whether they had sole ownership of the league. For the seventh time this year, we have the Taipans yet another thriller, and for the sixth time this year, we're rewriting the report.

The Drunk Monkeys have shown that prior to this year, they have had the best damm ghost team in the league. If only they showed up. Well today, even playing with three 93) players out on vacation, they went after the Taipans. The Monkeys spanked the Taipans early and lead form the first change. At half time the Monkeys had blown the Taipans out by thirty(30) points and were looking like creating the biggest upset of the year. Late Sunday afternoon the Taipans had narrowed the gap after the Monkeys left the field, leaving the balance of the game in the hands of Mike Evans(WR). The Taipans stopped scoring with 25 seconds left on Monday Night, handing the Monkeys the most improbable win of the season. Monkeys win 138.3 - 137.04.

The Helmand Nighthawks have sole ownership of the league at 6-2 and are within three (30 games of clinching a play off berth. With divisional rival the Who Dat Nation Rises dropping to 4-4, they generate a tie with the Black Cats with the felines owning the tie breaker.

In the Surface Skimmers division, the Taipans lead the division but the Guns of Hochuli are hounding them at 4-4. The Drunk Monkeys trail them by a couple of games but are not yet eliminated form the playoffs given that no one on the division seems to be able to take hold of it.

Next week we catch the Amtrak and go down the California Coast to San Diego where the Australian Taipans of Southern California are hosting the Who Dat Nation. Bot these teams need to win the game to stay in touch with the Helmand Nighthawks, and more importantly, head for the more favorable seeding in the post season, In what would be the second favored combination for the Torpedo Bowl, these two teams need get their game on.

Each week, the Associated Subsim Writers (ASW) will nominated their Most Valuable Torpedo (MVT) of the week, the single player who proved decisive in their teams performance.

In the biggest upset of the year. For the effort of 167 rushing yards for 3 touchdowns, and 2 receptions for 63 yards and 1 touchdown for a total of 54.60 points, the Week Eight MVT goes to Devon Cook (WR) of the Drunk Monkeys.

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