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1999 BRFL Year in Review |
1999 in ReviewNevertheless, the ones that were able to adapt to the weirdness of the
season, recover from injuries and play the matchups to their advantage were
the ones that prevail. Withour further ado, here are our season awards...
ChampionBest wins for the second time. He was 3-4 at mid-season and went on a 9-1 stretch run including the last 7 in row. Yes, he still has his soul... Thank You Steve Beuerlein!Most PointsNot quite the record 838 of the Mo-ha from 1998, league runner up Deitrich gains small consolation knowing that his 751 led the league and is the seonc highest of all time.MVPSt Louis QBs, Mo-ha. Who's he on draft night. Kurt Warner stunned the football world in 1999, and made the Mo-ha completely forget about losing number one pick Terrell Davis. Credit the Mo-ha for being ahead of the curve. With St Louis as their QB team the Mo-ha won their division and became the first team to score over 700 points in back to back seasons.Honorable Mention Rookie of the YearConsidered a reach by Outlaw in the second round when backs were disappearing like crazy, Edgerrin James at season's end was the only thing playoff bound Outlaw had going for him.Free Agent Pick up of the YearMo-ha claim of St Louis QBs in week 2. Kurt Warner had a three TD game in week 1, but it was against a bad Baltimore team. The Mo-ha claimed him in week 2, the bye week. Other teams in the BRFL probably didn't start noticing Warner until week 3, when he tossed four TDs.SR of the YearJackson used Carolina QBs in week 6, but couldn't keep them. Their 25 points made Best take notice and he claimed them rode them to the championship.Play of the YearOlandis Gary scores a TD in overtime and allows JK to slip past Peil 28-22. Overtime is usally ment for kickers, but this play gave JK the critical tiebreaker to get into the playoffs as a second place team and send Peil in as a points qualifier. If Gary does not score, JK misses the playoffs and Stroupe gets in.Game of the Year99 wk 16 Deitrich 33 Wallace 28Another OT game decided on TD. Bud gets an overtime TD from Washington's QBs and holds off Olindo Mare on Monday night to earn his first Super Bowl trip. The loss avenges two previous losses to Wallace, one a controversial one where Wallace makes SRs on Wednesday night. Upset of the Year99 wk 7 Talbot 47 Best 19This was a mild upset at the time, but got bigger in retrospect. After never scoring more than 18 points in a game all year, Talbot stuns Best. After the game, Talbot goes back to his usual losing pattern, save for upsets of Bud and Wallace. Best wins 9 of 10 the rest of the year and becomes the BRFL Champion. Most Points Game and Most Points By Both Teams Game99 wk 17 Best 79 Deitrich 48Usually the BRFL Super Bowls were flat, low scoring affairs were teams play converatively and superstars are rested. Not this year. Fewest Points Game and Biggest Blowout99 wk 14 Deitrich 67 Talbot 3Talbot put the exclaimation point on his horrible season with this stinker. The three points did not come courtesy of a kicker. Talbot's kicker, Richie Cunningham, was cut earlier in the week. A First Round to ForgetHere's final wrap on the BRFL first round draft. A pretty sorry lot.
However, give it up for the second round. Not a bust in the bunch, and some real studs.
Will everyone try and trade out of the first round next year? Sleepers and BustsWas there any bigger sleeper than Kurt Warner? I mean ever? The night before the draft, St Louis QB Trent Green is lost for the season. At the draft someone made mention of Warner, and someone else jokingly commented if he was the old Seahawk running back from the early days of the BRFL...How about Bud's Stephen Davis? He was actually the second Redskin back taken in round 8. JK took Skip Hicks a full 40 choices higher in round five...No one had a better stretch run than Steve Beuerlein. He scored 93 points the four weeks money was on the line.Excluding season ending injuries, the following were among the year's biggest busts. Terrell Owens failed to score for 12 weeks. Ricky Williams scored twice all year. Outlaw got more milage out of 10th round pick James Stewart than he did from Fred Taylor. Adrian Murrell was picked in fourth round and scored 1 point all season, in week 1. InfirmaryThe following were lost with season ending injuries.One Man's Trash...The following players were cut during the course of the season and hit it big elsewhere.
Transactions up in 1999Transaction totals soared in 1999. Lots of people using the SR.Ironically, not a single trade. Most active? Cynthia Jackson would be proud. For the first time ever, Calvin Jackson was not the most active. The Mo-ha did one more transaction than Calvin. Followed by Deitrich, Wallace, Best and JK. Team Wrap-upsThis is a new feature on the team archive pages. It gives the season wrap-up on each team.
Random NotesThe Rich got Richer Overall standings. Three teams slipped below five hundred lifetime inthe BRFL: Outlaw, Stroupe and Talbot. There only five teams with an above 500 record lifetime: Mo-ha, Bud, Jackson Wallace and Best. These teams were the top five teams in 1999. Scoring declines in 99 Scoring soared in 1998 to 6979 points or 38.3 average per game. In 1999 that figure was 6622 points or 36.4 points a game. We did have four teams score over 700 points this season compared to just two last year. What If... Every year there is a guy that says what if... It is usually Jackson. What if Calvin had started Patrick Jeffers in week 15, or is Leroy Hoard had scored that second TD... He would have had a romp in week 16 keyed by Jeffers and Hoard and would have been playing for the championship. He would have lost... What's a QB Worth Now a Days Anyway? The final four teams: Best, Wallace, Mo-ha and Deitrich all started QBs other than the ones they drafted first. Only Bud, who drafted Washington started a QB that they drafted. For the Super Bowl, Bud then dumped Washington and started Atlanta. Players on a Yo-yo Best dropped and later picked back up: Ron Rivers, JJ Johnson, Jonathon Linton and Tim Dwight. Linton and Dwight started in the Super Bowl for him and scored a combined 28 points. Dive to the bottom The last two champions, Mo-ha and Best, drafted from the 12th spot. The 1997 champ, Ricker, drafted second to last. Free Fall Talbot scored 465 fewer points in 1999 than he did in 1998. That's more points than four teams scored this year.
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Forum Highlights(?)It was a lively year on the forum. Things got rolling in week 4 when Bud special reserved four QBs in an attempt to force JK to find a real loser. JK was incensed: "Is this what they teach you at Cisco?" Bud started his normal QB and hammered JK. The bad blood circulated in the forum all season. The Mo-ha sharks were drawn to the blood and put their two cents in at every turn in an attempt to humiliate rival JK.Another controversy erupted in week 14, when Bud exposed Wallace for making a decisive Special Reserve on a Wednesday evening, about 4 hours before it was legal. It was Thanksgiving weekend and Wallace was thinking about the Thursday games. No one had noticed the error as the commissoner and league statistician were not checking too close due to the holiday. However, the fact it was brought two weeks after the fact rendered the arguement groundless, as there is some responsibility in "policing of one's opponent". These two incidents will lead the constitution to be "Bud Proofed" next Fall. We also have to mention the "Mo-ha" cares campaign. A phony charitible organization that served as a front to humilate Jones. That served its purpose for the week 15 win over Jones, but the foundations funding was cut off in week 16. The Prognostigator And for those that gave the prognostigator a hard time about his picks, let me remind you that he was 53-36-2. |
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