I'm not sure what to get Boyer for our five-year anniversary.Five years ago, he and I battled for the first JFL Super Bowl title, and with a 96-89 win, my Jammers won its first and only title.
Since then, I've been the Buffalo Bills of the 1990s, losing three Super Bowls.
For Boyer (10-4-1), it has been a much different story. He hasn't been back since Super Bowl I.
And revenge has to be on his mind.
The Jammers (11-4) won the low-scoring affair thanks to Fred Taylors' backup running back Maurice Jones-Drew who scored 31 fantasy points, rushing 19 times for 131 yards and two TDs. He was a back-up and kick returner for much of the season until Fred Taylor went down, giving the Jammers a nice back to go with the 2006 JFL MVP, LaDainian Tomlinson who scored 13 points in a Chargers' 20-17 win over the Seahawks.
Marvin Harrison also had a big day with eight catches for 112 yards for two TDs to score 23 points.
That was enough to beat Tom Brady and crew.
Yep, that's right. Boyer drafted Tom Brady in 2006 and he's been there ever since.
And now, Brady is looking to give Boyer his first Super Bowl title, making him the sixth JFL owner to win a Super Bowl title.
If the Jammers wins, he would become the first JFL owner to have won two Super Bowls. He'd also push his JimmyJam Fantasy League title total to five (2 football, 2 baseball, 1 hockey). Parker and Schiavo are tied for second right now with two JimmyJam League titles. Parker has won two baseball titles and Schiavo has a football and hockey title to his name.
I'll get recaps for this week's games later. It's late enough after all these damn power outages. As Jawz Attack said on Facebook Monday night, can't San Francisco pay its power bill?
Team Boyer 117.9, Channel 4 News 107.9
News Team did everything right, outside of defense.
The key to surviving the fantasy playoffs is starting your big dogs. You do that because you don't want to bench a top star and watch him go nuts. Then it's an offseason of regret.
News Team did just that, starting his top stars — the No. 1 QB, the No. 3 RB, the No. 6 WR and the No. 3 TE. He had them all in the lineup, but it just didn't work out.
Aaron Rodgers had a sub-par day — to his standards — with 26.7 points, which is 10 points fewer than his weekly average.
That just happened to be the margin of victory for Boyer, who takes down the reigning champion with six double-digit performances. News Team had just four.
Tom Brady was the biggest key to victory for Boyer, going for 34.2 points, defeating the mighty Tim Tebow. Finally, a formidable opponent for Tebow. Yeah, we have to be amazed at what he did during that six-game winning streak, but we also have to remember that he never faced a Tom Brady.
So now the Broncos are in quite the predicament. They have a QB who has officially ruined their draft status to get a better QB.
Neither one of these fantasy teams have that problem. Brady and Rodgers will certainly be back on their respective rosters next year.
For Boyer, the second keeper isn't as clear and that's because Marshawn Lynch has really turned into a beast, as he is nicknamed. He led the RBs for Boyer again this week with 17.1 points. He's hit double-digits, scoring more than 15 points, in seven straight weeks. During that stretch he has scored eight of his 10 TDs. He missed a game in Week 7, but outside of that, he's scored every week since Week 4.
His two scores Sunday helped put the News Team in a big hole that he couldn't climb out of.
News Team had a chance to pull off the comeback Sunday night, but Vincent Jackson only scored 9.9 points.
There were points on the bench that could have won this, but there's no way Nikish could have expected the performances the bench players had.
Especially Mr. Peyton Hillis. He was on my squad last season and he was the reason my team was almost good enough to beat Nikish last season, but I didn't keep him because I thought this season was going to be bad for Hillis. I actually thought it was going to be so bad I didn't even try to pawn him off for draft picks.
But I have to admit, I didn't think this season would be this bad for Hillis. He's scored two TDs in Week 2, missed Week 3, was awful in Weeks 4 and 6, and then missed five straight weeks. His return in Week 12 wasn't much better, and it wasn't until Week 15 that he scored double-digits again. He wan't just a bad on the field. He's passed on a chance to do a charity function for kids, too.
Greg Little and Toby Gerhart also had big double-digits weeks, but again, you have to start you main guys because there's no way you can count on those two to do something like this.
And because News Team wasn't the risk-taker in Week 15, he's heading home for the holidays. He'll keep his trophy until the 2012 JFL Draft, but he knows that the trophy is going North. Now it's just a question of whether it's going to Bally, Pa., or Allentown, Pa.
Jimmy Jammers 151.6, Sunday Slackers 118.5
This was a case of "No so fast."
Drew Brees was beyond ridiculous on Sunday, throwing for more than 400 yards and five TDs. He wouldn't stop passing, even after the Saints were clearly in control of the game. It was like Drew Brees knew that he had to help the Slackers out.
Unfortunately, for the Slackers, the rest of his team wasn't feeling the same motivation.
Five players were in single-digits, and his big dog RB Ray Rice stumbled to scores just 13 points on Sunday night.
By that time on Sunday night, the Slackers were all of a sudden in trouble.
Things looked great after Brees went for 51.9 points, but as the 1 p.m. games were closing, Reggie Bush busted loose for a 76-yard TD and his low-teen performance turned into a huge 28.1 day. That run alone was worth 16.6 points as it earned the two-point bonus for the 40-plus-yard TD and pushed Bush over the 200-yard rushing mark, earning him an extra bonus point.
Sproles almost had a late TD, too, but it was reviewed and overturned. Still, he finished with 23.7 points.
And the 51.8 points from the backs nearly equaled Drew Brees.
So then it was up to Matthew Stafford to hold up his end of the bargain. The Jammers made the right move benching Eli Manning, who was widely popular on fantasy shows all week. All the experts said start Manning despite his poor numbers against the Skins.
Forget that. Stafford was drafted to lead this team and he did just that, leading a second-half comeback against the Raiders while simultaneously leading the Jammers back to take a 29-point lead into Monday Night Football.
Stafford was almost as good as Brees, throwing for 391 yards and four TDs.
The Slackers had to be beside himself. He had the performance of the lifetime and the Jammers got 44 points from Stafford. Together, the QBs combined for a staggering 95.9 points. That's nearly 25 more points than World of Noise averaged throughout the season.
What? I can't help but get a dig in on my brother as we head into Week 16. I won't get to do it much more before we break for the offseason.
The Jammers had some high point totals on the bench, too, as has been the case for a couple weeks now so all cylinders are clicking as he heads to his fifth Super Bowl.
For the Slackers, 2011 was a step in the right direction, but things fell apart when Matt Forte went down. He was a little weak at WR and that weakness was exposed when his trio of Brees, Rice and Forte just became a duo.
The Slackers won't be dealing for players in the offseason; and maybe, he'll be dealing players for draft picks.
He may not have had the last laugh, but he accomplished a lot. He won a division title, ending the Jammers' five-year streak.
Next year, he'll look to start his own streak.
2012 JFL Draft Order
1. World of Noise (2-11)
2. Jawz Attack (4-9)
3. Chinese Organ Thieves (4-8-1)
4. Dottsville Toasters (5-8)
5. T-Money (6-7)
6. Fear and Loathing (7-6)
7. Graybill's Generals (6-8)
8. Real Houserville (7-7)
9. Sunday Slackers (10-4)
10. News Team (9-5)
11. Super Bowl VI Loser
12. Super Bowl VI Champion
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