Week 15 Recap: News Team, Jammers move on to Super Bowl V

Super Bowl V is set.

And despite huge Thursday night performances from Houserville’s Vincent Jackson and the Organ Thieves’ Phillip Rivers, neither team is playing in Week 16. (So much for panicking on Fridays.)

The Jammers overcame the big Thursday night dilemma with 36.3 points from Ray Rice to advance to his fourth JFL Super Bowl.

The News Team used Matt Flynn to advance to his first Super Bowl.

It was a wild Sunday and a disappointing Monday for the Organ Thieves.


News Team 112.1, Organ Thieves 104.5
It wasn’t quite the comeback the Eagles had, but when DeSean Jackson returned the game-winning punt for a TD, the News Team put himself into position to defeat the team he hadn’t been able to defeat all season.

Add in Matt Flynn’s 30.8-point performance and the News Team was on his way to Super Bowl V.

It was amaz…

Wait a second? Matt Flynn? Are you serious? First career start and he leads a fantasy team to the Super Bowl. Never saw that coming. And Nikish made the right choice because if he had started Tim Tebow, he would have been fuc…

Wait a second? Tebow? 28 points? Really. So you’re telling me that the News Team could have started Tebow, too, and still won?

OK, so who had Matt Flynn and Tim Tebow on their draft boards? Half the NFL didn’t even have Tebow on their draft boards in real life.

Flynn certainly wasn’t the News Team’s top choice for this weekend, but at the time, he was his only choice. So, he rolled the dice.

Flynn wasn’t much of a hero for the Packers. He had a decent game, but in the final 60 seconds, his inexperienced showed and they wasted several chances to drive on the Pats. Still, by this time, the News Team had enough points.

Especially with Adrian Peterson not playing Monday night — and because the Thieves missed out on the chance to move Peterson to the FLEX spot, he had to go with Toby Gerhart instead of maybe Devin Hester, who is apparently ridiculous.

The Thieves also missed out on double-digit performances from bench players Mike Sims-Walker (17), Danny Amendola (16.4), Steven Johnson (14) and Thomas Jones (14).

All outperformed LeSean McCoy, Mike Goodson, Reggie Wayne and Lance Moore — but who would have guessed that all four would have had bad weeks.

It was a rough way to end the season, but still, looking back, it was yet another great campaign for the Organ Thieves. With Phillip Rivers, LeSean McCoy, Adrian Peterson, Thomas Jones, Josh Freeman, Jeremy Maclin and Reggie Wayne on this team, there’s a big decision for keepers and an even bigger decision if any trades pop up.

News Team will soon start thinking about keepers, too, but not until next Tuesday. Until then, he’s thinking trophy. Literally. He’s wants to know how much one would cost.


Jimmy Jammers 150.4, Real Houserville 143.8
The keepers showed up, the defense that everyone joked about came through and the No. 1 draft pick, Roddy White, proved his worth.

It was everything the Jammers needed to beat a conference rival and head to Super Bowl V.

Ray Rice scored his fourth and fifth TDs of the season and went over 30 points for the first time this season, scoring 36.3 points to cancel out Houserville’s big 32.2 points from Vincent Jackson on Thursday night.

Larry Fitzgerald had his third-best week of the season with 14.3. points. His nine catches for 125 yards were both season highs. He didn’t score — not surprising with the lack of QBs they have in the desert — so he remains at five TDs this season, but he certainly showed up when the Jammers needed him most.

Outside of the two keeper picks, the Jets defense opened its game against the Steelers with a 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown that immediately put Houserville on the ropes. The Jets ended up with 25.5 points and have scored more than 25 points in three of the last four games.

And Roddy White (13.9 points) connected with Matt Ryan (26.1) for a late touchdown — one of three Ryan TDs — to bolster the Jammers’ chances of a comeback.

Heading into the Sunday night game, Houserville got a big interception return for a TD with the Patriots and Greg Jennings scored 9.7 points to make it close, but an early rushing score by BenJarvus Green-Ellis proved to be the difference.

Also making a difference was the return of Austin Collie. The Colts wideout caught eight passes for 87 yards and two touchdowns, keeping Jacob Tamme and Pierre Garcon off the scoreboard. That really hurt Houserville’s chances as the two roster spots combined for 10.2 points. Added with Peyton Manning’s 23 points — 18 of which came in the first half — and it was a disappointing day for the Ville and his Colts trio.

With the lead, the Colts started running the ball and Donald Brown ran effectively allowing Peyton Manning to rest his arm and Dawson to pull out his hair.

For Dawson, it’s a frustrating end to another great season. Last year, he got his clocked cleaned 154-5-101.3 in a loss to the World of Noise. Now, he loses to the Noise’s brother.

What’s next? My sister?

Ah, I’m just pulling your strings, Dawson. I do have some advice for you if you get back to the conference finals in 2011. Start Rashard Mendenhall. You’ve benched him to straight conference finals and he scored 17.1 points in 2009 and 16 in 2010.

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