In four days, the season with open with the Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens traveling to the Denver Broncos.
Are you pumped? I am.
It will mark the official start to the eighth season in JFL history. We’re so close to double-digits and I’m excited that we’ve come this far. We’ve got great stability and we look strong moving ahead.
We’ll have a change in keeper rules next year, but outside of that, everything will remain the same. We will not expand as the seven potential owners on the JFL waiting list — some of whom have been on there for five years — have come together to create the JFL 2.0. Their league logo is a picture of me when a red circle with a line through it.
Funny.
But it’s a telling logo. It does provide insight on the one key thing they’re missing — me.
Yeah, I know that sounds a little egotistical, but what would the JFL be without the Jargon? It’s what ties us together and keeps up going each year.
I look forward to another year of full previews and recaps. I plan to continue what I did late in the season last year, and that’s channel my roots of the JFL Jargon. A weekly preview will no longer be the matchup-by-matchup, mega-monster preview. I admittedly got carried away with that. It was a burden to write and I’m told it wasn’t being read in its entirety anyway.
So, I hope everyone enjoys a full season of fun weekly JFL columns on the NFL and the league that will be easier to get through — like they use to be.
And, what will I be writing about this year?
Good question. If I had to give one answer right now, it may be about how competitive the JFL is going to be this year.
The teams are much more even in 2013 and after looking over everyone’s roster, I can make cases for why every team could make the playoffs — even the World of Noise.
There are some who have much better cases, but the fact remains, everyone has a good chance to start.
Of course, once we find out who is this year’s A.J. Green and who is this year’s RGIII, that could change, but that’s why we love this game. Right now, on Sept. 2, we all look at a few players on our roster and think, “I have the next A.J. Green.”
Unless you’re the Graybill’s Generals, who looks at his roster and just says, “I have A.J. Green.”
And that’s why he’ll compete in what is by far the craziest division in the JFL this year. The Chinese Organ Thieves, Channel 4 News Team and Graybill’s Generals all have teams that will be feared week in and week out.
The preseason poll doesn’t show it because the Generals were the popular pick for last, but in my mind, last place in this division could be 7-6 — which was a playoff record for the NFC East.
The Organ Thieves won the NFC West poll with 26 points and eight first-place votes, while the Spacklers, Slackers and Houserville all won their respective divisions.
The AFC East was the only division voted the same throughout. The Super Bowl champion Slackers were the unanimous pick for No. 1 with nine first-place votes. The Jammers got nine second-place votes and the Jawz Attack, who finished ahead of the Jammers last year, landed in last with nine third-place votes.
NFC West DIVISION PREVIEW
1. Chinese Organ Thieves......26 points (8 first-place votes)
2. Channel 4 News Team........17 points (1 first-place vote)
3. Graybill’s Generals........11 points
NFC East DIVISION PREVIEW
1. The Spacklers...............25 points (7 first-place votes)
2. T-Money.....................17 points (2 first-place vote)
3. Dottsville Toasters.........12 points
AFC North DIVISION PREVIEW
1. Real Houserville............25 points (8 first-place votes)
2. World of Noise..............15 points
3. Fear and Loathing...........14 points (1 first-place vote)
AFC East DIVISION PREVIEW (Coming at 7 p.m.)
1. Sunday Slackers.............27 points (9 first-place votes)
2. Jimmy Jammers...............18 points
3. Jawz Attack..................9 points
Are you pumped? I am.
It will mark the official start to the eighth season in JFL history. We’re so close to double-digits and I’m excited that we’ve come this far. We’ve got great stability and we look strong moving ahead.
We’ll have a change in keeper rules next year, but outside of that, everything will remain the same. We will not expand as the seven potential owners on the JFL waiting list — some of whom have been on there for five years — have come together to create the JFL 2.0. Their league logo is a picture of me when a red circle with a line through it.
Funny.
But it’s a telling logo. It does provide insight on the one key thing they’re missing — me.
Yeah, I know that sounds a little egotistical, but what would the JFL be without the Jargon? It’s what ties us together and keeps up going each year.
I look forward to another year of full previews and recaps. I plan to continue what I did late in the season last year, and that’s channel my roots of the JFL Jargon. A weekly preview will no longer be the matchup-by-matchup, mega-monster preview. I admittedly got carried away with that. It was a burden to write and I’m told it wasn’t being read in its entirety anyway.
So, I hope everyone enjoys a full season of fun weekly JFL columns on the NFL and the league that will be easier to get through — like they use to be.
And, what will I be writing about this year?
Good question. If I had to give one answer right now, it may be about how competitive the JFL is going to be this year.
The teams are much more even in 2013 and after looking over everyone’s roster, I can make cases for why every team could make the playoffs — even the World of Noise.
There are some who have much better cases, but the fact remains, everyone has a good chance to start.
Of course, once we find out who is this year’s A.J. Green and who is this year’s RGIII, that could change, but that’s why we love this game. Right now, on Sept. 2, we all look at a few players on our roster and think, “I have the next A.J. Green.”
Unless you’re the Graybill’s Generals, who looks at his roster and just says, “I have A.J. Green.”
And that’s why he’ll compete in what is by far the craziest division in the JFL this year. The Chinese Organ Thieves, Channel 4 News Team and Graybill’s Generals all have teams that will be feared week in and week out.
The preseason poll doesn’t show it because the Generals were the popular pick for last, but in my mind, last place in this division could be 7-6 — which was a playoff record for the NFC East.
The Organ Thieves won the NFC West poll with 26 points and eight first-place votes, while the Spacklers, Slackers and Houserville all won their respective divisions.
The AFC East was the only division voted the same throughout. The Super Bowl champion Slackers were the unanimous pick for No. 1 with nine first-place votes. The Jammers got nine second-place votes and the Jawz Attack, who finished ahead of the Jammers last year, landed in last with nine third-place votes.
NFC West DIVISION PREVIEW
1. Chinese Organ Thieves......26 points (8 first-place votes)
2. Channel 4 News Team........17 points (1 first-place vote)
3. Graybill’s Generals........11 points
NFC East DIVISION PREVIEW
1. The Spacklers...............25 points (7 first-place votes)
2. T-Money.....................17 points (2 first-place vote)
3. Dottsville Toasters.........12 points
AFC North DIVISION PREVIEW
1. Real Houserville............25 points (8 first-place votes)
2. World of Noise..............15 points
3. Fear and Loathing...........14 points (1 first-place vote)
AFC East DIVISION PREVIEW (Coming at 7 p.m.)
1. Sunday Slackers.............27 points (9 first-place votes)
2. Jimmy Jammers...............18 points
3. Jawz Attack..................9 points
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