Brodz' SLAB falls from the ranks of the unbeatens to leave Tim's Y2K Bugs, Wally's Crazed Beagles, and JoePa's Black Sox as the remaining frontrunners for the Steamroller Trophy.
Cals' Wide Open Beavers and Vesh's Romanians got their 1st wins of the season - leaving Gary's 12 Angry Men and Stan's Enid Furth Harmony as the lone winless teams.
The top scoring teams: Y2K Bugs (41.3) and UWSSM (38.0)
The lowest scoring teams: Brian (11.3) and Jock Itch United (13.7)
In the first OT game of the season, Wally's Beagles and Dylan's Stomp Mongers were deadlocked at 32 at the end of regulation. The Stomp Monger bench was shutout by Wally's fine D, and Tim Couch threw a TD pass to win the game for the Beagle subs.

GIANTS RB's SCORE REPEATEDLY

Leshon Johnson (Wide Open Beavers) and Tiki Barber (Team Desai) actually scored TD's this week, but their respective GM's left them on the bench behind lesser RB's (NKaufman and RWatters, respectively). Why have such premium RB talent ride the pine?!?
The Hypothesis Division went 3-1 against the Proof Division, and the Postulate Division went 3-1 against the Theorem Division. After 3 weeks of the '99 season, the Postulate Division is languishing at the bottom of the League - while the other 3 Divisions have all been equally proficient.
Enough random babbling... on to WIR #3!

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**** GAME OF THE WEEK ****
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Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits 27
Recharged Romanians 33

In a tight game most worthy of the GOTW spotlight (FINALLY!), Terry Glenn's Sunday Nitro bumblin' and stumblin' at the Giants' goalline results in SLAB's first loss of the season. Walls continues to lead the Romanian squad in scoring (24-20 over Vanderjagt). Bettis is still stuck in the body shop. If Vesh can get one of his Eagle QB's to assert himself, the Romanians could be about the same as if they were QB-less. Brodz got a strong performance from his backfield, but the receiving corps dropped the ball in this game. Scrub L for Brodz.

batch 7 egeorge 6 alstott 9 ccarter 0 tglenn 0 freddie 0 hollis 5
pederson 0 cmartin 6 bettis 0 conway 6 ibruce 6 walls 6 vanderjagt 9
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Men in Brown 13
Ferocious Underwear 33

The bitter rivalry between Joebob and Wang was played out between the white lines this weekend. Knowing that Wang is a true Cowboy fan, Joebob loaded up with Redskins (Johnson-Westbrook) and a former 'skin (Allen). But Joebob's formerly nameless jokers fell single-handedly to Wang's former Honor Council casualty in Ann Arbor, Touchdown Timmy B. Terry Allen leads Terrell Davis 18-6 on the season. Who thinks Biakabutuka will score again all season?!?

johnson 0 tedavis 0 tallen 6 westbrook 0 mathis 0 egreen 0 gramatica 7
plummer 0 mfaulk 12 biakabutt 15 qismail 0 rmoore 0 sharpe 0 richey 6

JOEBOB FINALLY NAMES TEAM
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The team name is MEN IN BROWN. The significance behind the name is to honor the heritage of IFEJ. The whole team is behind it except for T. Davis. I guess his poor performance is his way of fighting the name. However, a closed door meeting with T. Davis and some subtle threats to his job security (to THE DIESEL) seemed to have changed his mindset. I think we'll begin to see the real TD next week. - Joebob
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Y2K Bugs 44
Enid Furth Harmony 19

Stan's EFH is still scrapping to earn its first victory of the season - despite getting their first RB points of the season (and the first points from Tim Brown).
Tim's Y2K Bugs continue their march towards the Steamroller. Harrison and McCaffrey are poised to sweep All-RFL honors. Flutie and Longwell have been steady.
GClark was a DNP for the Niners, so Jakob the Liar filled in.

flutie 3 lphillips 9 sbennett 0 harrison 15 mccaffrey 6 sloan 0 longwell 11
brunell 3 robsmith 3 kirby 3 tbrown 9 jlewis 0 jakob X hanson 1
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Wide Open Beavers 29
12 Angry Men 22

Cals gets off the shnide with his first victory of the season. Gary's 12 Angry Men continue to make Foge Fazio look bad by dropping to 0-3. Moss *finally* scores his first points of the season, and Wide Open Beaver Christie put up big points from the PK position. Despite Dudley's first 6 of the year, Gary continues to be plagued by lack of production from the RB's and WR's.

mirer 3 antowain 6 kaufman 0 moss 6 crowell 0 tyrone 0 christie 14
cunningham 3 murrell 0 hanspard 0 rice 6 reidel 0 dudley 6 stoyanovich 7
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Don't Call It a Comeback 44
Team Desai 17

After falling to the lowly Brian's Bums last week, Kevin bounces back by thrashing a Team Desai squad embroiled in an ownership power struggle. DCIAC uses a 21 from Peyton (and a 666 from Means, Holt, and Gonzalez) to roll to their highest point total of the season. Snehal is questioning ShiviD's loyalty to Kordell and Pickens. The thought of another Dan Reeves-Tommy Maddox "infatuation" comes to mind.

manning 21 huntley 0 means 6 thigpen 0 holt 6 gonzalez 6 stover 5
kordell 0 watters 3 garner 6 keyshawn 0 pickens 0 santiago 0 hall 8
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Bladerunners 25
Jock Itch United 4

Clark's Bladerunners snap their 1-game losing streak and stop Ali's 1-game winning streak. Favre, Enis and Vinatieri lead the way for Bladerunners. Elam was the only point scorer for Jock Itch United. JIU - another of Fazio's Favorites - has 0 points from the RB and TE slots through 3 games. Scrub W for Clark.

favre 6 dillon 3 enis 6 eggreen 0 rod 0 salexander 0 vinatieri 10
harbaugh 0 lane 0 vardell 0 freeman 0 owens 0 coates 0 elam 4
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Upper West Side Stomp Mongers 32 (0)
Crazed Beagles on the Run 32 (3+)

Sunday Nitro excitement galore as Dylan needed a single point from Bledsoe to even these 2 Steamroller contenders at 2-1 each. Bledsoe came up empty as Terry Glenn tripped over a leprechaun at the Giants' goalline. And on the strength of Couch's bench TD pass, Wally's Beagles march to 3-0 - while the unlucky Stomp Mongers fall to 1-2. Stephen Davis scored a 2nd consecutive blackjack for Dylan. Wally's Beagles featured a balanced attack - led by Jimmy, Gary, Leroy, and Shane. Scrub L for Dylan.

bledsoe 0 sdavis 21 duce 0 connell 0 muhsin 3 mcgee 0 delgreco 8
jblake 0 emmitt X wjackson 0 areed 0 darnay 0
matthews 6 levens 3 hoard 6 moulds 0 jsmith 9 wycheck 0 anderson 8
tcouch 3 cmcnown hward dboston cleeland
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The South Side Black Sox 21
brian 8

After rising up from the ashes to stun DCIAC last week, Brian's Bums sink back to their woeful ways this week. Your humble WIR Editor just hopes the Bums won't rise up again in Week 4! JoePa's Black Sox got an inspiring performance from O'Donnell against the Jaguars. Brian's Bums only got PK points and perhaps Young's last 3 of his career. Scrub W for JoePa.

o'donnell 6 ejames 0 cway 0 dalexander 0 dyson 0 riemersma 6 kasay 9
young 3 bam 0 schlesinger 0 stokes 0 mccardell 0 glover 0 carney 5
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Depth Chart ContrOversy (averted):

Jock Itch United GM Ali submitted only a starting lineup for week 3 - penciling in a wounded Priest at one RB position. When Priest was a no-go for Sunday's game, the old JIU depth had Fred Lane listed as the #3 RB (ahead of James Stewart). Whereas a few GM's might have wanted their depth chart to read this way this weekend, a majority of GM's might have ranked Stewart ahead of Lane (due to circumstances surrounding FTaylor and TBiakabutuka heading in to this weekend's games).

Sure enough... Stewart out-performed Lane by quite a bit on Sunday, but neither scored any RFL points. So, this contrOversy was averted.

Send in DEPTH CHARTS instead of starting lineups!

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 (Shivan "Why did I draft Tiki Barber instead of Byron Hanspard?" Desai, Wally "Why did I draft Frank Wycheck?" Grayeski, Joe "It's time to wash Wetz' car!" 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: Dave Brodkin, GM, Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits
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Dave Brodkin, GM of SLAB and the East Coast Wiseguy on RFL's Board of Directors, joined RFL in 1990.

Brodz has had an up-and-down RFL history, but most of his peers respect Brodz for all his ups in the recent years.

RFL Week in Review Editing Staff: Dave, what was your first reaction when I suggested starting RFL back on 12C of BU's Warren Towers in the fall of 1990?

Dave Brodkin: When you enlightened us with your idea at the first floor meeting in the big lounge, I thought, "who is this dork? and don't they have anything better to do in Minnesota?" When other floor members showed interest, I reconsidered in a show of social spirit. I still felt the $10 GM fee was too much, as did my 1202C roommate. As a result, Joe "Brown Wonder" Pynadath and I co-GMed our first franchise together, a little fact many were not aware of.

RFL: Did you have any idea that it would evolve into a pursuit that would dominate your every waking hour for the next 10 autumns?

DB: (raises eyebrows) I thought it would be a mild nuisance that would fizzle sometime during the first season. Another prediction that didn't come true was that you would marry someone with dance rhythm equal to your own.

RFL: OK, please explain this horrific Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuit. Is this what you wear to bed at night, or perhaps just out on the town occasionally?

DB: While Bear Bryant wears his old-man brimmed (Houndstooth) hat and Jerry Tarkanian chews on his towel, I have a custom-made skintight leather assless bodysuit. I wear this suit in the owners box at the Brodkin Colloseum while watching SLAB demolish unsuspecting opponents. Occasionally, I roam down toward the sidelines. The contour of my buttocks reminds my players that they too should always strive for perfection.

RFL: Brodzz, RFL Intelligence has discovered that you were recently engaged to be married. Do you fear that your new pre-marital status will coerce the the RFL Gods will smite any chance of RFL success, just as they have done with another notable veteran GM?

DB: I hope not, but once you finalize your depth chart, everything remains in the hands of the RFL gods. I realized this truth after my Luscious Brodkin's 45 points and 24 bench points failed to win Aglione Bowl VII. I will, however, continue my September ritual of climbing Mount Rotisserie and sacrificing a Fantasy Football Preview magazine. Nancy has been appointed Executive Vice President in charge of Team Love.

RFL: How did you resist the opportunity to take over as RFL commissioner this year, when it was so attractively planted on your offer table?

DB: Everything happens for a reason. A new dawn has risen for the RFL, which I believe will go down in history as the Wang Empire. The web page is unbelievable and its upkeep impeccable. I suggest we put Mr. Wang on an incentive-laden salary with perks including private jet and full-time female escorts. To ensure the future of RFL, we need to ensure that our commissioner does not suffer burnout that plagued a past commissioner.

RFL: So, you started med school this fall. A former RFL great, Dr. Andrew Wagner, dropped out years ago to enhance his chances of completing med school on time. How will Med school affect your RFL addiction?

DB: I think the real question is how will RFL affect med school. As you know, managing an RFL squad is a full-time job, and that can take its toll on medical school. I admit I find myself saying things like, "How did he know the liver was in the abdomen? I thought it was in the thorax." But alas, P stands for pass. And as they say in the profession, P equals MD. In RFL, P most certainly does not equal Aglione Bowl Championship.

RFL: You once rented a parking space in Boston's South End for your Surprisin' Plymouth Horizon, whose blue book value was roughly equivalent to the monthly rent on the parking space. Meanwhile, your roommate parked a gigantic Ford boat out in free parking, able to get a spot closer to the apartment every night. Then this roommate went on to add yet another Aglione Bowl title and another Steamroller trophy to his already impressive RFL trophy case, while you still stand titleless. Do you harbor any pent up aggressions, is there any need for this rommate to file for a restraining order against you?

DB: (chuckles) Titleless? Ahhh, I fear this roommate is exhibiting - what we call in the medical profession - selective memory. That's right. I believe it was back in December of 1992 (rubbing chin) when The Brodkin Citgo Machine beat the your own Z-bomb 23-21 in Aglione Bowl III with my last minute replacement, Kicker John Carney, making the difference. My trophy case resides in the Brodkin Family Compound on the coast of Hyannisport.

DB: And one more comment. Thanks to Tim Purwin for a gracious compliment in the informative interview from RFL WIR #2.

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
36 Peyton Manning (Don't Call It a Comeback)
21 Steve McNair (The South Side Black Sox)
21 Drew Bledsoe (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
21 Brad Johnson (Men in Brown)
21 Brett Favre (Bladerunners)

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

WR
51 Marvin Harrison (Y2K Bugs)
27 Ed McCaffrey (Y2K Bugs)
15 Jimmy Smith (Crazed Beagles on the Run)
15 Derrick Alexander (The South Side Black Sox)
15 Michael Irvin (Ferocious Underwear)
12 Keyshawn Johnson (Team Desai)
12 Torry Holt (Don't Call It a Comeback)
12 Isaac Bruce (Recharged Romanians)
12 Terrell Owens (Jock Itch United)

TE
24 Wesley Walls (Recharged Romanians)
6 Tony Gonzalez (Don't Call It a Comeback)
6 Troy Drayton (Enid Furth Harmony)
6 Ricky Dudley (12 Angry Men)
6 Jay Riemersma (The South Side Black Sox)

PK
30 Mike Hollis (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
29 Adam Vinatieri (Bladerunners)
25 Steve Christie (Wide Open Beavers)

Tim	Advantage	Dylan
DFlutie		DBledsoe
FTaylor		SDavis
LPhillips		ESmith
EMcCaffrey		MMuhammad
SDawkins		AConnell
TDrayton		TMcGee
BConway		ADelGreco

Purwin will be missing MHarrison, and FTaylor might still be dinged up. Dylan will be at full strength. This game looks like a huge mismatch in favor of the Upper West Side Stomp Mongers - with edges at the QB, RB, and PK slots. Purwin's edge at WR will be weakened by the absence of Harrison.
Despite being the 2 highest scoring teams in the League, UWSSM looks to even its record at 2-2 - while easily knocking Y2K Bugs from the ranks of the unbeatens. If Dylan's string of bad luck continues... it will be because Flutie, McCaffrey, and BConway perform above and beyond the call of duty.

**** In a laugher: Stomp Mongers by 11 ****

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