get your own Free Home PageWeek 1: Snubbed Emmitt sends message to JK?
BUD 58 JK 20 During his 60 yard TD scamper the first time be touched the ball, Emmitt Smith raised his index finger. If you believe that Emmitt is on line and tuned into this site, he might have been saying, "you should have drafted me first, JK..." JK, of course, cast sentiment and his 22 touchdowns aside and opted for the SF QBs instead. Emmitt's Monday night 4 TD masterpiece was only icing on the cake for BUD. The 27 points set a BRFL record for a running back and the 58 points set a franchise record for BUD. WAL 52 BST 28 After 6 frustrating losses, WAL finally handed it to BST. Jason Elam's 17 points put him over the top Sunday night, but served as a painful reminder of what might have been last year, when Elam was benched in a 45-44 loss to BST in the playoffs. BR 37 CJ 19Dan's ALWAYS the man in week 1... 3 scores in the new stripped down QB point system is nothing to sneeze at. CJ now knows why Randall was marked down to the 7th round. GTS 45 STP 19 GTS Michael Jackson scored 15, but STP's New England QBS were the ones making HIStory...Bledsoe recorded the league's first bonus point for a 300 yard passing game - the only point he got. DP 47 OUT 18 Twin 14 point performances from Fryar and Davis paced DP. OUT might be wondering if Philly plans to cut Ricky Watters and his 37 yards. CZ 38 BAR 17CZ and TAL TAL 22 MOS 12 had the honor of welcoming the new guys in the league. BAR and MOS can take consulation and take first pick on claim day with the weeks low scores.
Week 2: No winners in a big shootout for the top
DP 41 WAL 41 The winner of this game would take the top spot in the standings, but as fate would have it, there was NO winner! Robert Brooks ran wild Monday night with 15 points, exactly the total that WAL needed to catch DP. Brooks scored on TD passes of 5 and 99 yards. However, he dropped a third touchdown late. BUD 25 BR 12 BUD had to figure that he would lose the top spot to the winner of the WAL DP game because he only scored 25, but since there was no winner, he remains on top by default. GTS 29 CJ 22 Just behind BUD is another 2-0 team, GTS led by Jerry Rice's 14. STP 22 BAR 20 STP's Rashaan Salaam scored twice on Monday night, and BAR's Mark Ingram dropped a TD pass late in this battle to avoid last place. OUT 31 CZ 16 Outlaw didn't start Ricky Watters (1pt), but he did start Derek Loville (7Pts), Watters' replacement on SF. JK 43 TAL 35 Payback time! JK reaps revenge for last years stunning TAL week 14 53-46 win.MOS 63 BST 21 Congratulations to MOS in winning his first game. In such a fashion that the league is wondering if he's really a member of the BOWDEN family. (Bobby, Terry and Barry?). Elway and Miller clicked 3 times and Pitt's D recorded a season high 16 points as BST was held for the second straight week without a player TD. Unlike Bobby and Terry though, MOS can really claim that he has no way of preventing his players from scoring so much. give an excuse that his team "needed a workout" after only scoring 12 in week 1.
Week3: BUD catches TAL on Sunday night
BUD 57 TAL 47 Cris Carter scored late in the game and Emmitt Smith dashed in from 35 yards in overtime to allow BUD to overpower TAL. Hard-luck TAL has scored 82 points in back to back weeks and lost both. (WAL scored 84 points in back to back weeks in 91 and lost both). BUD is 3-0 and tops the league because GTS went down CZ 40 GTS 28. CZ "kicked" his way past GTS thanks to Morten Andersen's 14 points. WAL WAL 30 MOS 19 moves into 2nd thanks to a huge blunder by MOS: Terrell Davis and his 19 points are on the "splinter squad".OUT 42 BAR 36 played a flawless game. Each made the most of their lineups and OUT made a great move by pulling Vincent Brisby and replacing him with Brett Perriman and his 7 points. Also jumping off the New England bandwagon is STP, who replaced Bledsoe with Blake and roared 36-17 over Jackson. STP was also the beneficiary of the NFL play of the week where James Hasty of the Chiefs returned an INT in overtime for 64 yards (thanks to an official that screened the reciever). BST 27 DP 13 DP loaded up on the Chiefs/Raider match up and paid dearly, allowing BST to escape with his first win of the year. BST has still recorded no TDs a starting player.
JK 35 BR 16The battle of the big time QBs was won decsively by Steve Young, who recorded the BRFL high 18 points thanks to three TD tosses and a 1 yard plunge. With QBs devalued this season, a QB hitting paydirt on the ground is a nice bonus...but it begs the question if Young had 284 yards passing and 20 yards rushing does he get a bonus point? Nope.
Week 4: CJ...Last? Somethings got to give
OUT 38 CJ 15 By the time you read this, there probably will have been a blockbuster trade or two. The hot "Flavor of the week" will have been snatched up by a team not used to being last, CJ. The winningest team in BRFL history has laid a goose egg so far in 1995. The only team in the league with less than 100 points. Way less. It was another typical beating in week 4. OUT got respectable scoring and CJ couldn't get out of the teens.BUD 65 STP 28 Robert Smith throws a shoe but runs 58 yards in the "play of the day", but he sits wasted on BUD's bench AGAIN scoring three of four weeks for nothing. BUD had two backs off and could not find room for Robert Smith. Maybe one Smith is enough, like if the other is EMMITT Smith. And maybe AVERAGING 51 points a game is enough, after all BUD does not want to give the appearance of running up the score. Poor STP, got a taste of the big boys after fattening up on the winless guys.
BST 54 BAR 40 Call this one a "defensive struggle"... BAR Min d scored 20 and BST OAK d scored 17. The difference was that BST got his players on track and they scored some touchdowns.
WAL 32 CZ 24 Does this match-up stir memories? They must be meeting for the 99th renewal of this classic series...Perhaps a little of his patented Monday night magic for CZ to pull an upset? Nope- Barry Sanders was held in check. Wallace remains a close second to Bud thanks to another solid week from Aikman to Novacek.
DP 23 MOS 19 Trailing 17-15, DP got a quick three from Doug Brien Monday night and was able to turn the lights out on this snoozer. MOS has to learn to spread it around scoring 12, 63, 19 and 19 this year.
BR 52 TAL 20 They laughed when he special reserved Houston QBs. They threw four TDs. They thought Hampton was done. He scored 4 TDs. And Gary Brown? Well, he still hasn't done much. But you Tuesday scavengers take note. That guy you are looking for, Brown's replacement, who scored twice Sunday, is buried on BR's Roster. His name is Rodney Thomas. No one's laughing.
Week 5: Punt Return helps BUD dodge GTS
BUD 25 GTS 16 The league had hopes: Big Bad BUD had a slim 17-16 lead over GTS going into Monday nights BUF/CLE game. BUD has CLE D, but GTS had Leroy Hoard and Michael Jackson. However, early in the game, Derrick Alexander returned a put 69 yards for a TD and BUD had a bigger cushion. Jackson made it interesting for GTS, and nearly got him 10 points. Jackson dropped an easy pass in the end zone and THREW a pass that was intercepted in the end zone. BUD holds on, proving that if you can't hit 50 every week, you better be lucky when you don't. 5-0 speaks for itself.DP 42 BR 37 Perhaps BR didn't really care when a wide open Tony Martin dropped a pass late in the 4:00 game. He had a sizable lead at the time, but then the Raiders took the field... DP's QB/Tim Brown Combo netted him 31 points and that dropped pass became the difference.
WAL 34 BAR 26 WAL nearly acquired Carl Pickens from BAR last week, but for Chris Warren. Both Warren and Pickens scored THREE Tds this week. Pickens went to CJ instead, and WAL was disappointed. However, THIS win would have not been possible if the Pickens/Warren deal had been done.
CJ 67 TAL 35 Last week, we were harping on the fact that CJ was winless and had scored ONLY 76 points. What a difference a week makes. The Pickens deal started a wild week for CJ. His bottom feeding netted the STL QBs and the OAK d. The total for his new guys: 40 points. He won't have beaten TAL without them. Poor TAL, he's lost his last 4 and his opponents have AVERAGED 55 points.
OUT 43 MOS 26 The fact that the Atlanta Falcons are 4-1 is surprising. The fact that OUT is 4-1 is also surprising. The reason OUT and his QB team are winning is that neither has played anyone good. The Falcon opponents are a combined 2-17 and OUT's are a little better at 5-15.
CZ 55 BST 18 Another "reality check" for BST it is called CZ. He usually plays him coming off a big week and he usually ends up scoring low. Steve Bono's bizarre 76 yard run was one of the highlights for CZ. It was the first time that a QB has ever earned a bonus point for a long TD run. This was the sixth win in the last seven games for CZ over BST.
STP 36 JK 23 Speaking of six out of the last seven... STP has once again beat his arch rival: JK. STP is officially off the New England bandwagon and is going with Cincinnati from here on out. Coates was traded to CJ for Garner and McCardell.
Week 6: OUT's "Second String" Nets him Second Place
OUT 56 BST 44 OUT's "second string" went wild in the second halves of the late games Sunday and blew past BST. Playing without four usual starters due to the NFC West Bye week, OUT got surprising production from special reserve QB, the Giants, (not his first choice) with 14. Brett Perriman scored twice, Harvey Williams ran and threw for 2 scores. Ricky Watters stayed out of the end zone, but racked up three bonus points in yardage. For BST, it was the fourth "honor roll" defeat, and his first ever to Outlaw in six seasons.BUD 46 WAL 35 The BUD Juggernaut rolls on, turning back second place WAL. Bud is third team to start 6-0 in the 10 year history of the BRFL. CZ in '92 was the last to do it, Bratcher in '90 set the record with an 8-0 start. WAL had hopes of duplicating his 5-0-1 start of '91, but to no avail.
JK 42 CJ 37 Want to guess what game these guys were watching? The Washington/Philadelphia game was it's usual name biting scorefest. Both QB's were involved and get this, JK SR'ed the WAS D/st and CJ SR'd WAS ret specialist Brian Mitchell and low and behold there was a punt return for a score! The WAS D and PHI Q reserved by JK were formerly on CJ's starters, but the real difference in the game might have been another former CJ player, Charlie Garner, traded this week, who scored 3 Tds!
STP 40 BR 22 Charlie Garner, languishing on CJ's bench and then traded to STP, went wild because he "needed a Tennessee Owner" according to STP. Garner's 20 along with fellow alum Fuad Reviez's 5 was enough to turn back BR. More bad news for BR, Dan Marino will miss the next game due to a knee injury.
TAL 49 GTS 25 Scoring 49, might have made TAL a little nervous. He had lost one game with 47 and his last four opponents AVERAGED 55 points. Fortunately he caught GTS on a down week. GTS's showing would have been better if he had started the Colts and not CUT Floyd Turner (12 pts) at gametime. This score was nearly identical to the 49-24 TAL win in '94.
DP 33 BAR 32 This was a BRFL nail biter: tied 28-28 in the 4th QTR of the Monday night game, DP's Lin Elliot kicked a 49 yard FG to put him up by 4. Then BAR's Shawn Jefferson hauled in a bomb down to the four and BAR had to settle for just a John Carney extra point on the ensuing TD. DP 32 BAR 29. Later San Diego drove and Carney kicked a field goal and the game was 32-32. The Chiefs scored a late TD and the extra point put DP back on top 33-32. In overtime, the Vanover punt return allowed DP to escape after SD made a couple forays near field goal range.
MOS 40 CZ 35A rule of thumb is that a average kicker will get you six points a game. Suppose CZ had a kicker this week? He special reserved the OAK kicker Cole Ford, who was playing in the place of the injured Jeff Jaeger. Jaeger replaced Ford this week and CZ has a goose egg in the K slot.
Week 7: Bud makes the right call in 51-49 win
BUD 51 CJ 49 CJ had to feel pretty good leading 49-5 at 4:00 on Sunday, but then, he was playing undefeated BUD. BUD has made a lineup change just prior to kickoff, changing QBs from BUF to NO so everything was on the line at 4:00. As CJ watched in horror, NO threw 4, one to Early, Emmitt got his usual 2 and BUD's special reserve D, Carolina notched 12 points, including a three point bonus for a defensive shutout. Bud's QB swap netted him four points and therefore is seventh straight win, one short of the league record for wins since the start of the season. CJ remains in 13th place at 1-6.BST 44 JK 27 The buzz all week long was the trade of Jerry Rice to JK by GTS. This paired Rice, the draft's 4th pick, with the SF QBs, the top of the draft. However, this expensive combo, lost out to BST "bargain basement" duo of Curtis Conway (13th and last round) and Chicago QBs (free agent pickup). Rice/SF clicked for 1, while Conway/CHI clicked for 3.
STP 30 TAL 15 STP is a very quiet 5-2, Simple formula to success, when his opponents average 21 points as they have done five times, he wins. When they average over 50 points, as they have done twice, he loses. Michael Haynes scored 12 to pace Stroupe, and TAL recorded his season low for points.
CZ 52 DP 20 The "1995 Geritol Bowl" was won by CZ in convincing fashion as he scored 14 points with the KC's QBs - DP's favorite team. And this week he remembered his kicker, after scoring 0 with Cole Ford last week and having Morten Andersen injured this week, he picked up John Kasey, who netted him 14.
BR 32 GTS 11 Bernie Kosar stepped in to replace Dan Marino and awarded BR with 19 points, the top QB total this season. The departed Jerry Rice didn't effect GTS as two of the players he acquired inthe deal, Irvin and Bonial, netted him 6 points, the same that Rice scored this week.
MOS 44 BAR 20 BAR is 0-7, only the second team in BRFL history to start with seven losses was hit hard again by MOS, who did most of his damage on Monday night with a 2 TD strike from his Elway/Miller combo.
WAL 35 OUT 34 Issac Bruce strutted his stuff Thursday night as OUT jumped to a big lead over WAL, but it didn't last as Jason Elam went on a field goal binge Monday Night, and his last, meaningless, kick in a 27-0 Bronco win, was the difference in the WAL/OUT game. WAL returns to second place and has become a model of consistency scoring between 30 and 35 points his last five games and going 4-1.
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