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Week 1 Results [GFL]

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'18 Houston vs. '19 Kansas City The Texans romped over the Chiefs for 3 straight quarters as DeShaun Watson hit 70% of his throws for over 300 yards. Mahomes, who didn't do so bad himself, struggled getting into the endzone until the 4th quarter. By then, it was too late to overcome the 21 point deficit. More detrimental to the Chiefs was their inability to move the ball on the ground, whereas Miller and Blue gathered up over 100 yards for Houston. The Texans take home a W, 38-28 . '07 Indianapolis vs. '05 Jacksonville After a solid first quarter, the Jags tied with the Colts after solid effort on both teams. Rushing had an impressive 89 yard KO return for Indianapolis, but Jacksonville kept the ball moving fine. What happened for the 3 quarters that follows is anyone's guess. Leftwich and Gerrard both had no issues completing passes, averaging over 80% on the day. But they couldn't come up with any endzone throws, while Peyton Manning found Wayne for a 10 y...

Alternate Universe, Alternate League

 In an alternative universe, where Donald Trump is not president and Vince McMahon never wasted his millions on reviving the XFL... Today at a special press conference outside Madison Square Gardens, the super-rich leaders of CLAWS, the world's super-conservative effort to reform sports, announced a new effort in entertaining their fans. Donald Trump and Vince McMahon announced that Conservative Leaders Against Wussy Sports has organized a high tech effort to simulate a football league that will put the best teams in NFL history against each other. The goal is to not only entertain fans with teams that don't complain about politics, but also build towards a historic showdown of epic proportions when champions from each Conference face off in the Greatest Ever Bowl.  Despite some initial delays organizing the effort, the league, passionately known as the Greatest Football League, will eventually play games on the same planned 2020 schedule as the now-defunct NFL.  The team...