CFFL 2024 Champions: Deep Snappers
Congrats to Snapperheads on winning the 2024 CFFL Championship.
For once, the football gods were fair and just. Snappers’ 2024 regular season ranked among the unluckiest seasons since the creation of the Commish Luck RankingsTM. They finished 3rd in scoring and 2nd in the Breakdown rankings but finished with only a 6-8 record due to multiple weeks of drawing their opponents’ best score. But everything fell Snappers’ way in the playoffs, as they averaged 115.75 points against the 5th, 6th and 8th seeds to take home their fourth CFFL Championship.
Fair play to Maulers, who nearly pulled off a miracle title run from the #8 seed until Chuba Hubbard went on IR after the rest of Maulers’ RBs had already played. For balance must be maintained, and if the football gods are benevolent to one, they must kick the other in the nuts.
Ruminations and Cogitations (Championship edition)
The final transaction fees came to $845, and thanks to our new payout to the #1 seed half the teams in the league finished in the money. Add that to the $900 in draft fees and the total payout comes to a record $1,745, broken down thusly:
| Champion | Deep Snappers | $747.50 |
| Runner-up | Maulers | $411.24 |
| Semi-Finalist | Electric Mayhem | $205.63 |
| Semi-Finalist | Sons of Liberty | $205.63 |
| #1 Seed | The Dirty Yankees | $100.00 |
| Gator Bowl | Big Guns | $75.00 |
| Total | $1,745.00 |
Anyone not listed above will be sending payments to Carl via PayPal. Emails will go out to everyone this week with details. As voted on at the draft, the payment deadline has been moved up to January 15, 2025.
With the season concluded the CFFL year-end gathering is nigh upon us. If we stick to the usual plan we’ll meet up the weekend of January 18-19 at Texas Live in Arlington to watch a divisional round playoff game. More details to follow.
The 2025 draft order is set:
- Big Guns
- Season 27 Champs
- Weasels
- DoubleSwerve
- Maulers
- Damn The Torpedoes
- Multiple Scoregasms
- Electric Mayhem
- Freedom Factory
- Sons Of Liberty
- The Dirty Yankees
- Deep Snappers
I look forward to emailing the list out upon request multiple times next summer.
These players reached SERVICE = 3 this year and will be returned to the draft pool in 2025:
| RB | James Cook Kenneth Walker |
| WR | A.J. Brown DeVonta Smith Tyreek Hill Garrett Wilson |
| TE | Travis Kelce |
Top 5 Plays of the Year
5. Just Lamar doing Lamar things
4. The Madden Glitch
3. Garrett Wilson had the Jets’ lone highlight of the season
2. Josh Allen ran to daylight on 4th down to give the Chiefs their only loss
1. Jayden Daniels. Hail Mary.
BONUS: Fat Guy TD of the Year
All CFFL 1st Team
| QB | Lamar Jackson | Weasels | 401 |
| RB | Saquon Barkley | Torpedoes | 315 |
| RB | Derrick Henry | Yankees | 283 |
| WR | Ja’Marr Chase | Mayhem | 254 |
| WR | Justin Jefferson | Chumps | 201 |
| TE | George Kittle | Yankees | 188 |
| WR/TE | Amon-Ra St. Brown | Maulers | 188 |
| PK | Chris Boswell | SOL | 183 |
| DST | Broncos | FA | 164 |
All CFFL 2nd Team
| QB | Josh Allen | Guns | 373 |
| RB | Jahmyr Gibbs | MSG | 264 |
| RB | Bijan Robinson | Snappers | 245 |
| WR | Brian Thomas Jr. | Factory | 179 |
| WR | Terry McLaurin | SOL | 169 |
| TE | Brock Bowers | SOL | 186 |
| WR/TE | Trey McBride | SOL | 173 |
| PK | Brandon Aubrey | Torpedoes | 176 |
| DST | Vikings | Mayhem | 151 |
- There were no repeat first-teamers from last year.
- Sun God was a second-teamer last year, and is the only player from either of the 2023 All CFFL teams to repeat in 2024.
- Ja’Marr Chase provided the biggest positional advantage by outscoring the next closest WR by 53 points.
- Chris Boswell and the two DST’s are the only undrafted players to make the lists, further proof that spending any draft capital on either position is a waste. Much like an NFL team drafting a kicker (see: Jake Moody).
- Pretty amazing that Trey McBride is the #3 TE despite not catching his first TD of the season until week 17.
The Non-NFL Play of the Year was a no-brainer for me.
Commish’s Best Overreactions for 2024
Week 5: If SMU beats Pitt on November 2, they’ll play in the ACC Championship Game.
Week 8: The Cowboys are 3-4 on the way to 6-11 (missed it by 1)
Week 9: In the morass that is the NFC West, I’ll take the Rams.
Week 11: The NFL is much more interesting with Famous Jameis starting each week. I hope he never leaves. (I stand by this.)
Week 13: The worst part about the Heisman House commercials is that they force me to acknowledge the continued existence of Tim Tebow.
Stat of the Week
The Commish Track is Expressway To Your Heart by The Soul Survivors, the second Commish Track this year that was covered by the Blues Brothers.
Commish’s Worst Overreactions for 2024
Week 1: Joe Mixon will win the 2024 rushing title.
Week 2: The best division in the NFL is the NFC South. Even with Carolina.
Week 5: It took a few weeks but Derek Carr finally Derek Carr’d, so who’s next? I’m looking at you, Sam Darnold.
Week 12: Right now SMU is in the playoff, but even if they win the ACC Championship the committee will find a way to keep them out.
Week 13: I’m starting to think that maybe, just maybe . . . CeeDee Lamb is a tad overrated.
Trivia question: How many CFFL teams have won multiple championships?1
The Pro Football Hall of Fame released this year’s list of 15 finalists plus five senior candidates. For your benefit Commish has broken down the list into helpful categories.
No-Brainer
Adam Vinatieri, K
They’ve Got My Vote
Antonio Gates, TE
Steve Smith, WR
Darren Woodson, S
Sure, Why Not?
Jared Allen, DE
Willie Anderson, OT
Terrell Suggs, DE
Reggie Wayne, WR
Alums From Mayhem’s 2002 Championship Team
Torry Holt, WR
Fred Taylor, RB
They’re Guards, So Who The Hell Knows?
Jahri Evans, G
Marshal Yanda, G
Yeah He Was Great But He Retired At 28
Luke Kuechly, LB
“OVERRATED – CLAP, CLAP, CLAP-CLAP-CLAP”
Eric Allen, CB
Eli Manning, QB
Senior Guys I’ve Heard Of, So Yes
Mike Holmgren
Sterling Sharpe
Senior Guys I’ve Never Heard Of, So No
Maxie Baughan
Ralph Hay
Jim Tyrer
The 80s Babe of the Week is Bo Derek. I’m cheating a little by including the famous pic from “10” which was released in 1979, but anyone who nitpicks me over that has issues that I can’t help with.
I try not to post too many swimsuit pics, but believe me this is tame compared to most Bo Derek pics of that era. Happy Googling!
Our final Dad joke is a very fitting one, for me anyway: Why do chicken coops only have two doors? If they had four doors, they’d be chicken sedans.
Thanks to all of you for another great season and I’m already looking forward to the draft in August. Let’s effin’ go!
The Commish
- Four active teams (SOL 6, Snappers 4, Maulers 3, Mayhem 3) and two inactives (Schizophrenia 3, Ghost of Shaun Alexander/Andrew Luck 2). ↩︎
Ruminations & Cogitations 
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