Week 9: Bud Starting to Chill the Champagne
BUD's magic number is 1 for clinching the BRFL regular season title.
He has a three game lead and a tie breaker on STP and OUT, a three and a
half game lead and a tie breaker on DP and WAL.  CZ, at 4 back is slightly
in the race - by virtue of the fact that he hasn't played BUD.  BUD would have
to go 0-4 down the stretch to have a chance at being overtaken. Also, BUD's
schedule is soft, as 6th ranked CZ is the highest rated team BUD has yet to
play.

BUD 31 OUT 29 For the third week in a row, BUD has managed a 2 point win.
The difference between BUD being 9-0 and 6-3 is 9 points!  This isn't the "blow
out BUD" we saw in the early season, this is "lucky BUD", teetering on the
brink of staffing the "splinter squad" with a bad QB choice. Now that he owns the
the BRFL record for most wins since the start, the '72 Dolphins are next!

BST 33 STP 22 STP blew a chance to overtake OUT by losing to BST on a
Monday night. STP tied the game early on with Reviez FG, but BST got two
quick TDs right before the half to put him away. The latter was a Kramer to
Conway hook-up that was their 6th combo TD in the last three weeks and the only
one in the BRFL this week.

CZ 18 TAL 12 This was an ugly one, and so was this BR 20 BAR 11.
these were the two lowest combined scores in the league this year. The NFL had
been fairly high scoring up until this week. We should note that BAR is 0-9,
only one game away from tying the record for worst start and is likely to get
the record next week with 9-0 BUD up next.

DP 38 JK 30
With the scores so low, the "Dick Bell" of the league was none other than
his old Pop Warner league adversary DP, who's 38 points is the lowest high score
since week 9 of 1991 when JK (then just J) had 35 (really, I looked it up). 

CJ 37 WAL 19 It was a dog day for CJ except for about a half an hour
period when Carl Pickens scored twice and Herman Moore three times. These
and the Curtis Martin's two TDs were the only multi TD games in the BRFL (no
one has Mack Strong).

GTS 27 MOS 20 Another shrewd pickup for GTS in the tradition of Johnnie
Morton and Rocket Ismial: The Philadelphia D had 10 points. These moves may not
be what has turned around GTS fortune in recent weeks.  It may be the fact that
he has been starting inactive members of the Cleveland Browns. For the last
two weeks GTS has started Michael Jackson twice and Lorenzo White once, neither
in uniform, but no matter as GTS won both games. Jim Brown, Leroy Kelly and
Ozzie Newsome might be in his line up this week vs DP.

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