We are halfway through the season, so here is the first edition of the 2025 CFFL rankings:
1. Big Guns (5-2); beat MSG, Snappers
2. Multiple Scoregasms (5-2)
3. Sons of Liberty (4-3); beat Torpedoes
4. Deep Snappers (5-2)
5. Damn The Torpedoes (4-3)
6. Maulers (3-4); beat Factory
7. Freedom Factory (3-4); beat Mayhem, outscored Chumps by 92.5
8. Season 27 Champs (3-4); beat Swerve
9. DoubleSwerve (3-4); beat Mayhem
10. Electric Mayhem (3-4)
11. The Dirty Yankees (2-5); beat Weasels
12. Weasels (2-5)
I’ll be honest, I may not have the logjam of 3-4 teams figured out correctly but I think it’s right. In the end the only week that needs to be right is week 14 and we usually straighten things out by then.
Snappers 138, Mayhem 90.5: Snappers PK and DST = 48, Mayhem PK and DST = 2. Also Mayhem posted the season’s first double goose egg.
MSG 128, SOL 63: MSG only needed their RBs (Gibbs 33, Taylor 31).
Torpedoes 124.5, Swerve 91.5: I wasn’t following the scores closely but I imagine this one was close until Bo Nix went off in the fourth quarter vs. the Giants.
Maulers 110.5, Factory 103.5: Good week for A.J. Brown to finally show up.
Chumps 97.5, Yankees 87.5: Chumps PK and DST = 35, Yanks PK and DST = 7.
Guns 91.5, Weasels 73.5: Good week for Chris Olave to finally show up.
Ruminations and Cogitations (GOAT edition)
Awards: Hard Luck to Factory (103.5), Dumb Luck to Guns (91.5).
Week 7 Overreactions
- CORRECTION: There was a minor, almost unnoticeable misspelling in the week 5 overreactions regarding NFL Coach of the Year frontrunners, where “Shane Steichen” was mis-keyed as “Liam Coen”. We regret the error.
- Commish’s MVP rankings
- Hat Trick Cojones
- Jonathan Taylor
- Josh Allen
- Drake Maye
- I’m starting to worry a little about the Stars. Opening the season with three straight wins over the big division rivals was nice but they never looked great, and tonight they’re losing 2-0 at home to Columbus, and if not for Otter it would be much worse. There’s a lot of season left but they look pretty shaky right now.
- I still think Bucs/Seahawks could be the NFC Championship game but I’m liking the Rams more and more.
- UPDATE: the Stars lost 5-1. I’m officially worried now.
Team of the Week
| QB | Bo Nix | Torpedoes | 39 |
| RB | Jahmyr Gibbs | MSG | 33 |
| RB | Christian McCaffrey | Factory | 32 |
| WR | A.J. Brown | Maulers | 24 |
| WR | DeVonta Smith | Yankees | 24 |
| TE | Pat Freiermuth | FA | 25.5 |
| WR/TE | Oronde Gadsden II | FA | 25.5 |
| PK | Brandon Aubrey/Will Reichard | Chumps/Snappers | 18 |
| DST | Browns | Snappers | 30 |
| Total | 251 |
Top 5 Plays of the Week
5. When the Bengals needed a first down late, they turned to the legs of . . . Joe Flacco??
4. With all the talent the Eagles have it’s easy to forget they have a Heisman trophy winning WR
3. Quinshon Judkins housed the Dolphins
2. DaRon Bland did what DaRon Bland does
1. This just in – Jahmyr Gibbs is the fastest RB in the NFL
Next up, things I was stunned to learn last week.
I agree with this commenter:
Non-NFL Play of the Week: BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!
I can’t decide which was more incredible – that he hit the second home run damn near out of Dodger Stadium, or that it wasn’t even a strike.
It’s late and they haven’t posted the referee assignments yet, so no Hoch Watch this week. To be honest I think the gag (such as it was) has run its course. I’ll bring it back if he gets assigned to a prime time game or a Cowboys game, so that those of you that are so inclined can boycott accordingly.
I generally think the GOAT title is overused, and I’m leery of applying it to athletes or coaches whose careers aren’t even over. I’m especially leery in a sport like baseball that goes back more than a century.
But even I have to admit – Shohei is the greatest baseball player that ever lived.
I’m lucky I can say that I got to see him play when he was with the Angels, and saw him hit a home run against the soon-to-be world champion Rangers.
It got me thinking – what other GOATs have I seen live and in person?
I’ll start with the easy ones.
Hockey: Wayne Gretzky
I know I saw him with the New York Rangers at the end of his career, and I probably saw him with the L.A. Kings in the 90s, but I also remember my first NHL game was a Red Wings game in Joe Louis Arena against the mighty Edmonton Oilers of the mid-1980s. I’m thinking it was a preseason game but The Great One was there so that counts.
Honorable mention: Mario Lemieux. Just watching him skate was unforgettable.
Golf: Tiger Woods
This is the closest encounter I’ve had. I was at the Byron with my dad, and after watching Tiger tee off, as the gallery headed down the fairway, we somehow ended up inside the ropes walking directly behind Tiger and the other golfer and caddies and scoreboard carrier. We were probably 20 feet behind the greatest golfer ever. I remember being nervous as hell that we would be tackled or detained or at least yelled at but no one did anything.
I’m just realizing that for almost all of these I was with my dad. I’m sure there’s a Hallmark commercial in there somewhere.
Soccer: Lionel Messi
Messi has the best highlight of all my GOAT sightings.
F1: Ayrton Senna
I know next to nothing about F1 but I know that Senna was considered one of the greats. I saw him race in the 1985 Detroit Grand Prix where he started on the pole and finished second. I’m amazed but probably shouldn’t be that the entire race is on YouTube.
I don’t know if Senna was the GOAT but he died tragically on the track (not in Detroit) and that tends to elevate one’s status.
Speaking of which . . .
NASCAR: Dale Earnhardt
This was at the 1998 Texas 500. The only thing I remember is that I was in a corporate suite and we had a pool where everyone had to pick a different driver. I went with John Andretti – because, Italian – and he didn’t make it past the first turn before getting into a fiery wreck that ended his day. Earnhardt was also in the wreck and ended up finishing 35th.
NBA: Most of my NBA games were in the 80s and early 90s, but I never saw Michael Jordan play so I can’t say I saw the true GOAT. I saw most of the other greats of that era though: Kareem, Bird, Magic, Isiah, Kelly Tripuka. But I’m going with my heart on this one and saying that Dr. J was the GOAT. I saw his final game against the Pistons in the Pontiac Silverdome before he retired (it’s amazing how many of these were in mid-80s Detroit, or in this case the suburbs). I was with my dad of course, and he brought his camera.
Most of the pics were pregame warmups but he got one action shot.
That’s Bill Laimbeer fending off the Doctor with a flying elbow, with Adrian Dantley heading upcourt and Vinnie Johnson and Sidney Green looking on. I don’t know who the other Sixers are. Charles Barkley was on that team but he must not have been in the game.
NFL: This is the hardest one. We all know Jim Brown was the true GOAT but he retired before I was born so I never had a chance. I saw just about every NFL star from the late 80s through the 90s (Aikman, Emmitt, Irvin, LT, Reggie White, John Elway) but of that group I’ll say it was Jerry Rice, who did this while I was in attendance (grrrrrrr).
Somehow it must have been Barry Switzer’s fault.
Trivia question: Which current NFL division leader has a negative point differential?1
Uni watch – Apparently the Savannah Bananas play football now.
Of all the monochrome unis this might be the worst, or at least the hardest to look at. I swear it’s burning my retinas. Don’t look directly at them unless you’re wearing leftover eclipse glasses from 2023.
Bonehead Play of the Week: I heard someone say last week that Carson Wentz has to be coached and coached and coached to get anything decent out of him, and that the minute you ease up on him he goes off the reservation. I guess Kevin O’Connell took the week off.
Unfortunately the clip doesn’t include the replays where Greg Olsen was baffled that Wentz didn’t dump it off to the wide open back in the left flat.
Never forget that at the end of last season the Vikings had Sam Darnold and Daniel Jones on their roster but went with J.J. McCarthy and Wentz. Bonehead Roster Move of the Offseason?
The Commish Track is Sister Golden Hair by America. A little yacht rock never hurt anyone.
There was some chirping in the group chat last week about which college can claim the most NFL QBs. Of course Rick tried to claim about a dozen or so were from OU, but he was counting guys who transferred out and guys on NFL practice squads, none of whom count. Josh also chimed in about Oregon QBs and the two them both tried to claim Dillon Gabriel (why??????).
To settle this, I present the list of colleges that produced the 32 NFL starting QBs for week 7. Since a lot of guys transferred at least once, I’m only counting the school on their NFL bio, which is the last school they attended played for before being drafted. I’m also including guys who started but did not finish and may never start again (I’m looking at you Justin Fields).
The Bills and Ravens were on a bye so I’m including Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson. I know Lamar wouldn’t have started in week 7 but no one cares where Cooper Rush went to school.
3
Alabama (Young, Tua, Mac Jones)
Oklahoma (Hurts, Baker, Kyler)
Oregon (Gabriel, Herbert, Nix)
2
Cal (Goff, AA-Ron)
Ohio St (Fields, Stroud)
USC (Caleb, Darnold)
1
Clemson, Delaware, Duke, Georgia, Louisville, LSU, Miami, Miss St., North Dakota St., North Carolina, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Texas Tech, Utah St., Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming
Not present: UT, Notre Dame, Florida St., Florida, Michigan, A&M, Penn St.
Next week: colleges of the 59 Super Bowl winning QBs. What, you don’t think I’ll do it? Challenge accepted.
The Nepo Babe of the Week is Kate Hudson, daughter of Goldie Hawn.
We’ll end it with this one from Mitch Hedberg: “I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shish kabobs.”
Good luck to everyone (almost) in week 8,
The Commish
- Tampa Bay (-1) ↩︎
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