DFL Week 15: Are you ready for some Playoffs???

The playoffs are in full swing and we definitely are keeping things interesting this year.  In fact, I'd go so far as to say, I'm about as surprised as this kid:

Coupla upsets and a slumbering giant wakes up?  Hells yeah, we're ending this season right.

However, before we get into the good bad and ugly of it, I wanted to let you know that there is a new highlight player this year.  Veterans of the league may remember one "Noname McPeePeePants", whose real name escapes me a the moment.  See, I was playing Kookie a few years ago and it came down to Monday night.  He had just Tony FUCKING Romo and one receiver (McPeePeePants) left to play.  Dallas was sucking eggs the first half, so I thought that it was a no-brainer to win it.  Well, turns out Romo turned it on in the second half and McPeePeePants got the game winning touch down, which gave Kookie the win.

Why am I telling this story?  Well, in my other league, in the semi-finals, I had a 9 point lead going into the Monday night game.  Only Chris Buthole (Johnson) remained.  I figured that I  had a decent shot to win.  Butthole did nothing that night.  25 yards of rushing the entire night.  O wait.  There was on highlight in that entire game.  Butthole running 95 freaking yards to score a touchdown.  Must have been a trick play, right?  Only if you go to the Joe Paterno school of play calling which states that no matter what down, no matter location o the field, the most surprising play is to take your stuf RB and run him up the middle.  Which is what Butthole did.  Son of a ....  (Ironically, the guy that I was playing also had Tony FUCKING Romo on his team, but I was raging so hard at Butthole, that I hardly even noticed.  But it bears saying Tony FUCKING Romo.)

(And don't give me too hard of a time when I wander... I only have 2/3 of the games that I normally have to write about this week.  I get paid by the word.)

OK enough of that.  I'm back in this league.  So, the games were pretty exciting, no?  We'll get to that in a minute.  First off, let's talk about pick'ems.  Gentlemen, we have a dark horse emerging coming down the stretch.  Crutch, going 3-1 picks managed to tie Kookie for 1st place.  (Kookie only went 2-2.)  (Technically, the tie breaker goes to Kookie since he's got a higher correct percentage, though I don't really agree with that.) By going 2-2, I put some distance between myself and Ben (who went 1-3).  Also, high picks were Mike and Melanie with 3-1, and RA Dave lost a position by only going 2-2 this week.  Only 8 picks left and it's definitely coming down to the wire!  Keep 'em up, boys!  (And girls, of course...)  (Technically, And an I are still in it for first, but it's a long shot.)

We'll start at the top and work down...

First off, the 1 vs 8 seed:   Melanie versus Mike G.  Though Mike put up some pretty good bravado last week, he failed to knock Melanie out of the playoffs.  With only a 14 point spread, it was a lot closer than Yahoo! suggessted.  Both teams had solid starting line ups, though it probably is worth mentioning that Frank Gore, who was benched on Mike's team, also go an asterisk this week for recovering a fumble in the end zone.  (What's up with these asterisks?  Two in as many weeks!)

Next:  4 versus 5 seed: Patrick Versus Ben.  Patrick *finally* snaps his losing streak this week to advance to the semi-finals.  Everyone except his DEF performed admirably, though his DEF was going up against the #1 ranked Atlanta Falcons, who were charged up from last week's loss the the Panthers.  Ben finally got bitten for starting a Detroit QB, and the rest of the team just did "eh".  (To add insult to injury, Ben's benched kicker scored 20 points.  Sadly, even if Ben hit line up Nirvana, he wouldn't have beaten Patrick this week,e even if Patrick went the opposite and started his worst line up.)  Oddly, the 40 point beating wasn't the beat down of the week.

Beat down of the week came in the closest projected game of the week:  3 Seed versus 6 seed:  RA Dave versus Missy.  Missy quietly destroyed RA Dave by just her entire team going buck wild.  Dave's team just went "Bleh".  And speaking as the person who will be playing the winner of this game, let me say "Thank you, Missy" for taking Tony FUCKING Romo out of my path to the playoffs.  What's that?  She's got Butthole on her team?  DAMMIT!!!

Finally, The 2 seed versus the 7 seed:  Joy versus me:  I did it...  I took down the reigning champ.  After getting destroyed by her in our first match up, eeking out a 1 point victory in our second, I laid into her for a 30 point walloping.  What happened?  Well, BOTH of our QBs hit -1 points.  BOTH of our DEFs had around 30 points.  The real difference was my Kicker went buck wild (Joy's was shut out) and Andre Johnson decided to actually play.

Looking forward, in the Semi-finals, we've got Melanie versus Patrick (both higher seeds in the quarter finals), and Missy versus Phil (both lower seeds in the quarter finals).  Couple of things to mention:
1 - Yes, yes, yes, there are two other games going on in the consolation bracket.  However, I'm guessing that the managers playing them probably wont'be putting too much work in this week, so I'm not going to  hype it too much.  (Yes, I will still include them in the write up this season.)
2 - Missy versus Phil is the same match up that we had in the championship game a few years back.  Missy won because Akers missed a 40+ yard field goal.  LACES OUT, DAN!!!
3 - My winning streak against all odds is still rolling.  Come on inertia principle of luck!  (I think that if I win this week, I'll be tied for the longest win streak of the season.  You don't want to stand in front of that, do you, Missy?)
4 - At least we have more guys still in contention than we usually do at this point.  Go Patrick and Phil!
5 - On the plus side, Melanie versus Patrick looks like it's going to be a pretty tight game.  ON the minus side, Missy is set to give me one hell of a beating.  Do I get bonus points for knocking the back to back champ out of the playoffs against all odds?  Yeah, I didn't think so...

Good luck to everyone still in it.  But mostly to me.  :-)

(Also, as a heads up this week, due to the holidays, there are neither Thursday night nor Monday night games this week.  There is one Saturday night game though...)