For the second straight year and for the third time in four years, the final
four teams were the top four seeds. Best, Mo-ha and Deitrich held their
leads on Monday night and joined top seed Wallace in the final four.
Wallace 46 Outlaw 36
OUT box score -
WAL box score
Wallace is moving on the the Final Four for the sixth time, and for the third
time in four years.
Baltimore QBs scored 3 TDs including one to Priest Holmes as late season
pick-ups continue to contribute to Wallace's playoff run. Successful late season
acquistions continue to be a Wallace trademark. Once again, he is known as
"Mr December".
Outlaw (6-9) ends his season despite a good
game from Edgerrin James. James is the likely BRFL "Rookie of the Year". It was
inconsistent QB play that doomed Outlaw, who many thought had the best draft
of anyone.
Wallace (11-3-1) takes on division rival Deitrich (11-4) for a shot at
the Super Bowl.
Best 45 Peil 32
BST box score -
DP box score
Best is advancing to his seventh final four, but his first since 1996.
Best lead Peil 39-12 going into Monday night.
He added six points from Gary Anderson while Peil attempted to rally with
two Viking passing TDs and a fake field Goal from Green Bay's D. Best
built is cushion with 32 of his points on Saturday fron Carolina QBs (25)
and Charlie Garner (7).
Jonathan Linton added a score Sunday night. Peil also had a score from
Tim Brown and Mike Hollis had 6.
With the win, Best becomes the second BRFL team to win 100 games. It met
his goal of hitting the century by the end of the century. The only other
"Century Club" member is Jackson, who reached it in 1998.
Mosakowski-Hale 56 Jones Klingman 45
MOS box score -
JK box score
The Moha are going to their third final four in four years. Perhaps the talk
about how they haven't paid their dues will end. The defending champs won an
ugly division,
but came up big when they had to. Credit also goes to which one of them
remembered to start Mushin Muhammad on Saturday. His 19 points made the
difference after JK had scored 22 with Gonzales and the KC defense
in the early game.
Fake Field Goal TDs, a rarity in the NFL had an impact for both of these
teams. Dallas pulled off a fake, with Davis LaFleur running it in for a score.
The Mo-ha were credited with a special teams TD. Green Bay's fake field goal
netted points for JK. Although JK does not own the Green Bay D, he does
own the Green Bay QBs. Matt Hasselbeck, the holder, threw a TD pass. Hasselbeck
is the back up QB. Points are credited to the Green Bay QBs. Interestingly,
those were the only points a Green Bay QB scored Monday.
For JK this is the sixth straight playoff loss for JK. They are 1-7 in
their playoff history. They have never played in week 16.
Next up for the Mo-Ha (9-6) is Best (10-5).
Deitrich 30 Jackson 27
BUD box score -
CJ box score
The least experienced of the final four teams is Deitrich. He is advancing to
his second final four. His first was in 1995.
It's Christmas and Bud must be in a charitable mood. He game the day off
to Emmitt Smith (7), Albert Connell (6) and incredibly, Marcus Robinson (20).
That trio of usual starters would have salted this game away, but instead Bud
found himself sweating out Leroy Hoard. Hoard scored once and was stopped on
on the goal another time.
For Jackson the great season he had came crashing down in two short weeks.
During the year, he made brilliant and timely moves. Luck was also on
his side, but in week 14 he scored 8 in a loss to Best. In week 15, when
Bud's boners left the game for the taking, Calvin didn't seize the
opportunity. Had he submitted an early lineup, it might have included newly
acquired Patrick Jeffers who played and scored on Saturday. There's nothing
more painful in this league than exiting the playoffs with Splinter Squad.
Bud will play Wallace in week 16. Ironically, it might have been Outlaw
facing Wallace... In week 12, Wallace special reserved a kicker and a defense
on Wednesday night (Thursday was Thanksgiving) Bud was the only person who
noticed the early SR, but did not report it. He raised it as an issue two
weeks later. Had something been done about the early SR, Bud would have
won the game, the division, become the top seed, but would have LOST in week 15. So
here is his chance for to make Wallace play for his breaking the
rules.
