BRIAN, 12 ANGRY MEN, FEROCIOUS UNDERWEAR PULLING UP THE REAR
The scoring drought continues for Fred Taylor, Jamal Anderson, Ricky Williams, Randy Moss, Jerry Rice, Shannon Sharpe, and Chris Boniol. Ben Coates scored in real life (on the field, on the street corner outside Joebob's crack house in Allston, and in the bedroom of Joebob's crackhouse in Allston), but Ali benched Coates in favor of Dave "won't score again all season" LaFleur.
2-0 Teams: Tim's Y2K Bugs, Wally's Crazed Beagles, JoePa's Black Sox, and Brodz' SLAB.
0-2 Teams: Cals' Wide Open Beavers, Vesh's Romanians, Gary's 12 Angry Men, and Stan's Enid Furth Harmony.
Another observation... the Tako Division swept all 4 matchups with the Sake Division this week.

FIGURE THIS...

The New York Football Giants have the most active RB's (4) on RFL depth charts! The 1ST PLACE Detroilet Lions have 3 - plus the retired Barry Sanders.
Before Brian "Pototo" Grayeski's recent dumping of Charles Way, no fewer than 4 RB's on the most feeble of feeble NFL offenses graced the rosters of Don't Call It a Comeback (Gary Brown), Y2K Bugs (Sean Bennett), Brian's Bums (Way), and Team Desai (Tiki Barber). The sad fact of the matter is that the 2 BEST Giant RB's weren't even on an RFL team! Joe Montgomery, their fine rookie RB from Ohio State, is looking to bust out as soon as he can get a firm grasp on the G-men's "elaborate" offensive (and I *do* mean *OFFENSIVE*) scheme. And Leshon "All-Big West at Northern Illinois" Johnson was recently signed by Wide Open Beavers.
Enough random babbling... on to WIR #2!

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**** GAME OF THE WEEK ****
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The South Side Black Sox 21
Ferocious Underwear 4

Wang continues to demonstrate his poor GM skills as he benches 19 points (Emanuel and Mare) behind 4 points (Moore and Richey). Edgerrin moves ahead 18-0 over The Rick in the Black Sox' own rookie of the year race. Plummer and The Rick are battling for "worst 2nd round pick of the year" honors.

graham 3 ejames 9 rwilliams 0 dalexander 3 dyson 0 riemersma 0 opie 6
plummer 0 a-jabbar 0 biakabutt 0 irvin 0 rmoore 0 sharpe 0 richey 4
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Joebob's nameless buncha jokers 34
Bladerunners 16

Joebob gets his first W of the season and hands Clark his first loss. The 666 of TDavis, TAllen, and MWestbrook was all Joebob needed to put away the Bladerunners. I would compliment Joebob on his late round acquisitions of the Brad Johnson-to-Westbrook combination, but I don't want to get his IHS going too early this year. Clark's Curtis pEnis flashed his 2nd 9-incher of the season.

johnson 9 tedavis 6 tallen 6 westbrook 6 mathis 0 chmura 0 gramatica 7
favre 0 dillon 0 enis 9 eggreen 0 dedric 0 brady 0 vinatieri 7
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Y2K Bugs 34
Repugnant Romanians 16

Marvin Harrison surges into the RFL MVP lead with a BLACKJACK against the Repugnant Romanians. Y2K Bugs move to 2-0, and Fred Taylor hasn't even scored yet! If Purwin can get a #2 RB and a TE, it's all over. Vesh's Walls looks to have an early lock on All-RFL TE, but a TE alone isn't enough to beat real RFL competition.

flutie 6 taylor 0 sbennett 0 harrison 21 mccaffrey 0 fauria 0 longwell 7
pederson 0 cmartin 0 bettis 0 conway 0 tmartin 0 walls 12 vanderjagt 4
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Wide Open Beavers 14
Crazed Beagles on the Run 23

Mirer vs. Matthews... what is this?!? the USFL?!? Antowain justifies his 3rd round selection status by putting up 9. Levens trumps Antowain with 15. Wally's Beagle D is holding opponents to 7 points per game!

mirer 0 antowain 9 kaufman 0 moss 0 calloway 0 tyrone 0 christie 5
matthews 0 levens 15 hoard 0 moulds 0 jsmith 3 wycheck 0 anderson 5
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Don't Call It a Comeback 24
brian's nameless bunch of bums 26

We certainly cannot call DCIAC's Monday night performance a "comeback"! Brian bounces back from a shutout loss in Week 1 by posting a most respectable 26 in Week 2. 26 was barely enough - as Kevin's Jamal Anderson fails to score against the weak Dallas Running D. DCIAC sidetracks Huntley's drive for an All-RFL RB position by benching his 6 in favor of Means' 6 - allowing SDavis and EGeorge to catch Huntley at 21. No comeback means a SCRUB LOSS for Kevin.

manning 9 jamal 0 means 6 thigpen 6 edwards 0 gonzalez 0 brien 3
young 6 bam 6 schlesinger 0 stokes 0 mccardell 0 glover 0 carney 14
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Team Desai 18
Jock Itch United 19

Ali benched Coates (and his 12 points) for "breaking team rules." Rumor has it that Coates was seen frequenting certain off-limits establishments in Allston during the week - and after Sunday's game. This benching nearly cost Jock Itch United its first W of the season, but GM Ali must be admired for taking a firm stand on morals over wins and losses - a lesson certain IFEJ GM's could certainly learn a thing or 2 from. SCRUB WIN for JIU.

kordell 6 watters 3 garner 6 keyshawn 0 pickens 0 santiago 0 hall 3
marino 3 priest 0 flane 0 freeman 0 owens 12 lafleur 0 elam 4
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Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits 34
12 Angry Men 13

Brodz' SLAB gets strong performances from Eddie George and Mike Hollis to get off on 12 Angry Men. Gary's squad - a preseason favorite of the pollsters - is completely fogged in with internal team dissension. Rice is griping about a lack of touches, Dudley keeps dropping passes, and Hicks is complaining about his minutes. 12 Angry Men has the look of a team ready to BLOW!

greasy 0 egeorge 15 alstott 6 ccarter 0 tglenn 3 freddie 0 hollis 10
cunningham 12 murrell 0 hicks 0 rice 0 mcduffie 0 dudley 0 andersen 1
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Upper West Side Stomp Mongers 42
Enid Furth Harmony 20

After last week's tragic scrub loss, Dylan signed Ace Wasabi (of Ace Wasabi's Rock-n-Roll Sushi) to inspire the TE-less Stomp Mongers to victory. Stephen Davis was all the offense UWSSM needed to send Stan's EFH to their 2nd straight defeat - despite Stan's making the correct call in picking up a scoring TE for the week. Dylan *dropped* Stephen Alexander (and his 12 points) so that he could employ a 5 WR lineup and had Dylan not benched EMMITT and Muhsin in favor of Duce and Connell/Jackson, UWSSM could have scored 75 this week!!!

bledsoe 15 sdavis 21 duce 0 connell 0 wjackson 0 ace X delgreco 6
brunell 0 robsmith 0 jjj 0 dmayes 9 tsimmons 0 drayton 6 hanson 5
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Free Agent Call-up ContrOversy (Part I):

Once again there seems to be a little confUsion regarding the free agent pickup procedures.
1) from the kickoff of the 1st game of the weekend through 9am PST on Tuesday, all dibs are placed in a queue. When I get to work on Tuesday morning, I resolve the dibs one round at a time from the worst team up to the #1 team. So if you have more than 1 "trade" you would like to make, please rank them in your order of preference.
2) from Tuesday at 9am PST until the 1st kickoff of the weekend, free agent pickups are essentially 1st-come-1st-served. The only exception to this rule is a 24-hour "grace period" from when I post the latest transactions on the RFL site - to when the free-for-all begins on those most recently dropped players. Please be sure to reload/refresh the RFL Transaction page once or twice a day if you want to keep on top of the latest moves.
Please call Cals at (800) VIK-INGS with any further questions regarding this matter.

Free Agent Call-up ContrOversy (Part II) - Averted:

On Sunday morning (*before* the kickoff of the week's 1st game), Joe Parker sent in an email calling up a 3rd QB (Neil "I've always *dreamed* of milking MILLIONS of $'s from the Jets" O'Donnell) to offset the loss of McNair. Joe did not indicate a change to his depth chart. So... O'Donnell - being the newest QB on the roster - was automatically slotted as the #3 QB (behind McNair and Graham). Had the point difference between Graham's 3 and O'Donnell's 6 come in to play, this contrOversy would not have been averted!
Please keep this depth chart slotting of free agent call-ups in mind when sending in for transactions.
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I did not receive ANY objections to my proposal to kill Option #2, so we all only have 1 option when it comes to submitting weekly depth charts. If the player plays a single play, he counts.

Entry fees (new info!):

We'll try something new this year. Since we are all respectable MEN in this league, save for the obvious exceptions (Shiv-man "Why did I draft Tiki Barber instead of JJ Johnson?" Desai, Wally "Why did I draft Cam Cleeland?" Grayeski, Joe "It's time to pickup Wetz' Dry Cleaning!" Pynadath - to name names), I will not collect entry fees until the end of the season. Once we know where all the RFL bucks should go, I will tell each GM where to send his $. Anyone got a problem with that?

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RFL GM Profiles: Tim Purwin, GM, Y2K Bugs
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Tim Purwin, GM of Y2K Bugs, joined RFL for the 1995 season. His Undertakers United finished 6th last season (winning the scrub bowl), his Fiends Uv Carnal Knowledge placed 13th in 1997, his Disgruntled Postal Workers finished 9th in '96, and I don't remember what his '95 team did - but they probably weren't very good.

Tim met David Wang and Pat Callery on North Campus in Ann Arbor at some point in early 1995. Tim was (and still continues to be?) the master researcher for Wang's former advisor and frequently came over to Cals' and Wang's for BBQ - and to do his laundry.

Tim thinks he can apply a Wolverine "Hail to the Victors" mentality to RFL, but we're playin' on Sunday's now, Tim! Tim's strong draft earned him a tie with Wang for 3rd in the RFL '99 Combined Preseason Poll.

RFL Week in Review Editing Staff: You've had some interesting Draft strategies in the past. Can you please enlighten those of us who weren't aware of them?

Tim Purwin: Well... first I had the thought that if I drafted 3 or 4 of the top TE's in the league, other GM's would have to deal their top QB's or RB's to me. The next year... I figured that I would draft 5 or 6 of the top WR's - forcing other GM's to deal their QB's or RB's to me. For some strange reason... guys wouldn't deal Emmitt or Watters or Favre or Bledsoe to me for Carlester Crumpler or Jackie Harris or Keith Jackson or Vincent Brisby or Qadry Ismail or Harold Carmichael.

RFL: What was your strategy heading in to this year's Draft?

TP: I was drafting next to Joebob on the wrap-arounds this year, so I knew I could pick up his mistakes just *after* his picks - and I could take the player he wanted just *before* he picked (e.g., M Harrison over H Moore, E McCaffrey over C Collins, etc.). Please note the 46-20 ass-whoopin' I put on him last week! ...just like Michigan over Northwestern in the Big House!!!

RFL: Which GM do you respect the most in the League?

TP: That's a really tough one... but I'd have to say Dave Brodkin. Brodz' squads are consistently among the top 2 in the League. Plus, he balances his masterful GM skills with work/med school and all the pretty ladies he has around him at all times! I could *maybe* do the same, but we don't have that many pretty ladies in Michigan.

RFL: The Wolverines look pretty strong so far with victories over Notre Dame and Rice and Syracuse. Will Michigan return to the Rose Bowl this year?

TP: Michigan will have tough games with Illinois and Indiana this year. The Fighting Illini and Hoosiers always play Michigan tough. If they get past those 2 games, the balance of the schedule is filled with cream puffs (Penn St, Ohio St, Purdue, ...). I'm happy that Michigan won't have to play the Golden Gophers this year. They whipped somebody 55-7 on Saturday!

RFL: There are no Wolverine alums on your team this year. Why?

TP: I had plenty of Wolverines on my Draft board (Hoard, Riemersma, Toomer, Griese, Harbaugh, etc.), but they were all going too early in the Draft. I also had my eye on Dreisbach and Woodson on the Raiders, but they probably won't blossom until 2000. As long as I'm talking about 2000, there's this Daugherty kid from BU who's looking GREAT as a QB in the European league. He could very well be another Flutie next year!

RFL: If you were ever to go to Boston, what sites would you like to see?

TP: I don't know all that much about Boston, but Cals and Wang told me about a few places I should check out. The 2 places that stick out in my mind are Dorchester and West Roxbury. Cals and Wang told me that these 2 areas were the most "quaint" and "beautiful" sections of Beantown. I was warned of one of Joebob's enterprises in Allston. I don't want to go there.

RFL: What is your favorite color?

TP: Green. Er... I mean Maize and Blue! Oops!

RFL: What's your favorite pizza?

TP: Cottage Inn Pesto Primavera!

This has been an RFL interview. The rights to all proceeds made from this interview belong to the RFL WIR and exclusively to the RFL WIR.
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SEASON POINTS LEADERS
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QB
21 Steve McNair (The South Side Black Sox)
21 Drew Bledsoe (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
21 Brad Johnson (Joebob's Jokers)

RB
21 Richard Huntley (Don't Call It a Comeback)
21 Stephen Davis (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
21 Eddie George (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
18 Edgerrin James (The South Side Black Sox)
18 Curtis Enis (Bladerunners)
18 Dorsey Levens (Crazed Beagles on the Run)

WR
36 Marvin Harrison (Y2K Bugs)
21 Ed McCaffrey (Y2K Bugs)
15 Derrick Alexander (The South Side Black Sox)
15 Michael Irvin (Ferocious Underwear)
12 Keyshawn Johnson (Team Desai)
12 Terrell Owens (Jock Itch United)

TE
18 Wesley Walls (Repugnant Romanians)
6 Troy Drayton (Enid Furth Harmony)
0 Everyone else

PK
25 Mike Hollis (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
19 Adam Vinatieri (Bladerunners)
16 Al Del Greco (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)

Brodz	Advantage	Vesh
BGriese		DPederson
EGeorge		CMartin
MAlstott		JBettis
CCarter		IBruce
TGlenn		CConway
FJones		WWalls
MHollis		MVanderjagt

Brodz' SLAB is off to a fast start with wins over preseason media darlings Ali (#1 by Foge) and Gary (#1 by Cals). Vesh's Romanians are shellshocked following the loss of Testaverde in Week 1. Will Brodz continue undefeated? Or will the Romanians stop their slide? These 2 teams look fairly even in the QB and RB matchups. The telling blows should come in the WR and TE matchups. Brodz appears to have an edge with both CCarter and TGlenn over IBruce and CConway. Vesh has the preliminary MAJOR advantage of WWalls over Ready Freddie. In a game that will be more close than one might think...

**** The bottom line: SLAB by 3 ****

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