CFFL Semifinals
#1 Deep Snappers vs. #7 The Dirty Yankees
Previous result: Snappers def. Yankees 123-95 in week 9
#5 Big Guns vs. #6 Maulers
Previous result: Guns def. Maulers 107.5-100 in week 9
Gator Bowl
#2 Electric Mayhem vs. #4 DoubleSwerve
Previous result: Swerve def. Mayhem 113.5-112.5 in week 5
Ruminations and Cogitations (Piss Missile edition)
This was the highest scoring week 15 we’ve ever had, and our second-highest scoring week ever.
Among the highlights:
- Total points = 1331 (#2 all time)
- Average score = 110.9 (#2 all time in a week where all teams played)
- Average margin of victory = 45.3 (#3 all time)
- Snappers’ 161.75 is the highest score ever in a CFFL Playoff game
- Snappers, Yankees, Guns, and Mayhem posted four of the top nine all-time postseason scores
- Since you were no doubt wondering:
1. 175 – Usual Suspects (2013, week 15)*
2. 162.25 – Fightin Texas Irish (2018, week 14)*
3. 161.75 – Deep Snappers (2025, week 15)
4. 145.75 – Maulers (2021, week 17)
5. 144.25 – Weasels (2020, week 14)
6. 141 – The Dirty Yankees (2025, week 15)
7. 139.75 – Damn The Torpedoes (2019, week 14)
8. 138 – Big Guns (2025, week 15)
9. 137.75 – Electric Mayhem (2025, week 15)*
10. 137.5 – Electric Mayhem (2023, week 16)*
* Gator Bowl
- The highest-scoring week you ask? That would be Week 4, 2018 with 1338 points.
- Remember when I pulled the weekly scores going back to 2001? And you thought I was wasting my time . . .
Congratulations to the week 15 winners for finishing in the money. Here’s how it currently looks:
| Draft fees | $900 |
| Transaction fees | $835 |
| Total | $1735 |
| Champion | $742.50 |
| Runner-up | $408.74 |
| Semi-finalist | $204.38 |
| Semi-finalist | $204.38 |
| #1 seed (Snappers) | $100.00 |
| Gator Bowl | $75.00 |
Team of the Week
| QB | Trevor Lawrence | Yankees | 44 |
| RB | James Cook | Yankees | 29 |
| RB | TreVeyon Henderson/Travis Etienne | Snappers/Maulers | 28 |
| WR | Amon-Ra St. Brown | Chumps | 28 |
| WR | Nico Collins | MSG | 20 |
| TE | Kyle Pitts | Guns | 39.5 |
| WR/TE | Trey McBride | Snappers | 31 |
| PK | Jason Myers | Mayhem | 24 |
| DST | Ravens | FA | 27 |
| Total | 270.5 |
Other playoff notes
- #1 Snappers were the only “home” team that won in week 15. The only other time that happened was in 2003, when #1 seed Maulers cruised to their first title.
- This was only the second time in the last 21 years that the #6 seed beat the #3, and only once has the #6 advanced to the championship game (also in 2003).
- Including the playoffs MSG went 10-2 against everyone else but 0-3 vs. Yankees.
- I’m still investigating but there’s something wrong with the results. Chumps had Brandon Aubrey in their lineup but somehow lost? I can’t figure it out, I mean Aubrey was drafted in the 8th round, which everyone knows is a guarantee of playoff success.
- Even more confounding, the stats say that Aubrey isn’t even the top-scoring PK in our league, and that the #1 PK was . . . undrafted?? That can’t be right, because if that’s true then that means . . . drafting a PK in the 8th round wasn’t a sound strategy?
Top 5 Plays of the Week
5. A 44 year old grandfather threw a TD pass
4. Aidan Hutchinson had a near pick 6
3. Your weekly Josh Allen wonderthrow
2. The Ravens pulled off a relay handoff in the middle of an interception runback.
- I’ve watched this Caleb Williams throw several times and I still can’t tell if it’s brilliant or stupid.
So this happened on Sunday . . .
I was walking by the TV when Brady said that and literally did a double take. Apparently it’s ok to say “piss missile” on national TV now. Good to know for when I get my next broadcasting gig.
Trickeration Of The Week
The best part of this Cowboys fake FG is the flip by Bryan Anger.
Week 15 Overreactions
- The Saints’ last three games are home vs. Jets, at Titans, and at Falcons. They could easily win all three and finish 7-10, which should earn Kellen Moore some Coach of the Year votes.
- In my day, Texas had five high school divisions with one playoff bracket each, resulting in five state champions. Now they have six divisions with two brackets each, so there are twelve state champions, which is totally soft. I’d expect that kind of thing from California but this is Texas dammit.
- The sound you heard when Mahomes went down was Tony Romo’s crest falling. I don’t know how he’s going to make it through the rest of the season.
- Commish’s MVP rankings, unchanged from last week.
- Josh Allen
- Matthew Stafford
- Jaxon Smith-Njigba
- Drake Maye
- CORRECTION CORRECTION: In week 7 I wrote “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.”
I turns out that too was a misspelling, and that ‘Shane Steichen’ was also a mis-key that should have read ‘Liam Coen’ after all. We regret the double error.
Non-NFL Play of the Week
DeSoto made one hell of a goal line stop on 4th and 2 with :04 left to advance to the state championship game.
The Commish Track is Battleflag by Lo Fidelty Allstars (NSFW)
Speaking of Brady, I’m wondering if this is the first time that the top announcing teams on the two Sunday networks weren’t the #1 teams. For my money, the #2 CBS team of Ian Eagle and J.J. Watt is better than Nantz/Romo, and on Fox the #2 Joe Davis and Greg Olsen pairing has it all over Burkhardt/Brady.
I can at least admit that Brady has gotten better and maybe someday will be a #1 analyst, but he’s still way behind Olsen. Maybe Amazon can push Al Michaels and Kirk Herbstreit out the door and lure Davis and Olsen away and give them the national broadcast they deserve.
Last year we didn’t have a year-end event because my marriage was ending and I was moving out of my house. Fortunately we won’t have that problem this year!
If we stick to our usual plan of getting together for a divisional playoff game it will be the weekend of January 17-18 at Texas Live in Arlington, so plan accordingly.
Trivia question: Name the only current CFFL franchise that has never played in the Gator Bowl bracket, i.e. they’ve always made the playoffs.1
The Nepo Babe of the Week is Gracie Abrams, daughter of J.J. Abrams. Until a week ago I’d never heard of her, until I found out my 11 year-old niece wanted her album for Christmas. So there you go.
Programming note: next week’s R&C will be a little late. I’m planning on getting it out on Wednesday afternoon but I will still set up the championship game on Tuesday.
We’ll end it on this “There are only two things I can’t stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people’s cultures, and the Dutch.” — Nigel Powers (Michael Caine), “Austin Powers in Goldmember”
Good luck to everyone (almost) in week 16, and may the best team win.
The Commish
- Multiple Scoregasms has made five playoff appearances in five seasons. ↩︎
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