SLAB took care of business against Brian to claim sole possession of 1st place in the Steamroller race at 7-2. The Black Sox fell victim to the Reeducated Romanians, and Wide Open Beavers beat FU - as The Sox, Romanians, and Beavers are all 6-3 and one game behind SLAB.
Tim's Y2K Bugs are the new easiest team in the League - getting scored upon at a clip of 31.1 points per game.
Cals' Wide Open Beavers are still the toughest D to penetrate - allowing 19.2 ppg.
Gary's 12 Angry Men remains as the lone winless team.
The top scoring teams: SLAB (34.8) and Romanians (34.4)
The lowest scoring teams: 12 Angry Men (15.1) and Brian (15.7)
The League scoring average is: 25.7

GOPHERS GOLDEN ON SATURDAY

In a stunning result on Saturday, the Minnesota Golden Gophers knocked off previously 9th ranked Colorado College 2-1. Nate Miller tallied 2 goals and Adam Hauser notched 39 saves to help improve Minnesota to 2-5-1 on the season. In other games of note, BU swept Merrimack 5-2 (away) and 4-2 (home) over the weekend to extend the Terriers' record to 3-0 in Hockey East play. Also... the Minnesota gridiron team scraped by Penn State on a last second FG 24-23.

The Cane Division went 2-2 against the Pledge Paddle Division, and the Belt Division went 2-2 against the Hand Division.
Enough random babbling... on to WIR #9!

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**** GAME OF THE WEEK ****
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Crazed Beagles on the Run 24
Jock Itch United 21

In a game most worthy of GOTW standing, Gary Anderson came through on Monday Night as the Beagles overcame a 6 point deficit to win by 3. Hoard and LaFleur ran on empty under the national spotlight. Wally also got nice production from Jimmy and Hines. Ali got a big 15 from Elam and a good game from Huard, but was let down by the double-0's from Terrell and Antonio. The Beagles are right back in the hunt for a playoff berth. JIU might be done for the season.

mcnown 0 levens 3 hoard 0 jsmith 6 hines 6 wycheck 0 anderson 9
huard 6 jstewart 0 flane 0 towens 0 freeman 0 lafleur 0 elam 15
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Men in Brown 16
12 Angry Men 5

Terry Allen and Derek Loville sat out for MiB. Mistress Midori blocked (not well enough - obviously) for The Diesel. Rickey Dudley was a dud for 12 Pushover Men. Lady Olivia Outre matched Shannon Sharpe's 1999 season production in one game.
SCRUB W for Joe (1-0 in scrub games this year)

johnson 3 midori 0 collins 0 westbrook 0 mathis 0 drayton 0 peterson 13
aikman 0 murrell 0 bates 0 price 0 mcduffie 0 outre 0 stoy'vich 5
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Y2K Bugs 20
Team Desai 42

STUNNING!!! After suffering a shocking defeat to Brian last week, Tim's Bugs were routed by lowly Team Desai this week and extend their losing streak to 3 games. Flutie scored for the 9th straight game, and FTaylor continued his comeback... but MHarrison was held scoreless. Watters finally burst through for Shivan - and Garner, Keyshawn, and Morton were solid contributors. That's why they play the games! This was Team Desai's first non-scrub victory.

flutie 6 ftaylor 6 linton 3 harrison 0 bradford 0 sloan 0 conway 5
kordell 3 watters 15 garner 6 keyshawn 6 morton 6 santiago 0 hall 6
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Wide Open Beavers 46
Ferocious Underwear 18

Before Wang's helping of hubris became too heaping, Guru-for-life Cals reminded Wang just who the teacher is - and who the pupil is - when it comes to RFL. Before Moss even set foot on the Monday Night turf, Antowain, Donnell, and Tyrone did the spanking as the Beavers soiled the Underwear. Wang's gimpy Biakabutt escaped the spanking - as FU has clearly become a team of 3 scorers (Warner, Faulk, and Mare) and 4 0's. Cals has won 6 of his last 7 games.

cmiller 0 antowain 12 donnell 6 moss 12 rocket 0 tyrone 6 christie 10
kwarner 13 mfaulk 0 jjj 0 horn 0 armour 0 wetnight 0 mare 5
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Don't Call It a Comeback 22
Enid Furth Harmony 41

Kevin received strong showings from Peyton and Brien, but the other DCIAC 5 got Dolphin-ed. Stan's pig-in-a-blanket Olandis put up 15, and Brunell returned from a 3-week benching to lead EFH to their 4th consecutive victory. DCIAC has dropped 4 of their last 5 contests.

manning 12 oxendine 0 sedrick 0 thigpen 0 holt 0 gonzalez 0 brien 10
brunell 9 bynum 0 ogary 15 jreed 0 dmayes 6 byron 0 hanson 11
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Bladerunners 19
Upper West Side Stomp Mongers 39

After downgrading his QB slot from Bledsoe to Graham last week, Dylan figured he'd go QB-less this week (Goddess Jeanna handed the ball off to Emmitt and SDavis this week). UWSSM *still* managed to knock off Clark's B'runners. The B'runners were led by 15 from Rhett, but were let down by Favre. Dylan's team was led by Emmitt's 15 and Muhsin's 12 and was let down by Del Greco's 0.

favre 3 rhett 15 enis 0 rod 0 chrebet 0 brady 0 jacke 1
jeanna 0 emmitt 15 sdavis 6 connell 6 muhsin 12 alexander 0 delgreco 0
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Reeducated Romanians 34
The South Side Black Sox 27

This game featured big numbers from the PK's and a big-time duel between Bettis and Edgerrin. Thanks to 3 from Curtis Martin, Vesh went into the Sunday Nitro game with a 1 point lead. Things looked good for JoePa's Black Sox - as the Sox had Air McNair and Kevin "drafted ahead of Moss" Dyson to overcome the 1 point deficit and Tony Martin. However... Martin stumbled and bumbled his way into the end zone, and the McNair-Dyson duo put up a Robert Parish to seal the deal for the Reeducated Romanians.
SCRUB L for JoePa (2-1 in scrub decisions)

pederson 0 cmartin 3 bettis 12 ibruce 0 tmartin 6 walls 0 v'jagt 13
mcnair 0 ejames 12 rwilliams 0 dalexander 0 dyson 0 riemersma 0 kasay 15
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brian's bums 20
Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits 45

Dilfer and Kirby put up a good fight for Brian, but Brodz' SLAB was just too talent-laden to succumb to the upset bid. Hollis seems to have a lock on All-RFL PK honors, Alstott put up 9, and even Ready Freddie hit paydirt to steamroll the bums (not to mention the 18 from Jeff and Cris on Monday night). If not for 2 scrub losses, SLAB would be 9-0.

dilfer 9 kirby 6 bam 0 dawkins 0 marcus 0 glover 0 carney 5
george 9 george 0 alstott 9 carter 9 schroeder 0 freddie 6 hollis 12
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Bam Morris ContrOversy II - The Commish's Office Strikes Back:

A trade was blocked behind the scenes this past week. Commissioner Wang and Gurus Cals and Joebob all vetoed the original trade. Basically... the RFL Board of Directors clearly saw how one of the teams would have benefitted, but failed to see how the trade would have helped the other team involved. Wang proposed a slight modification to the original list of players intended to be traded. Had the 2 teams involved accepted this proposal, the trade would have gone through. However... Wang's proposal seemed to fall on deaf ears.

Also... Wang offered to accept the original trade if the GM with the apparent short end of the stick would state - with a straight face - that he honestly felt the trade would help his team. This offer also went unaccepted.

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RFL Playoff Picture
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Projecting to the end of the regular season, here are the 8 teams expected to make the playoffs - and their seed positions.

1) SLAB 12-2
2) Romanians 11-3
3) Y2K Bugs 10-4
4) UWSSM 9-5
5) Men in Brown 9-5
6) Black Sox 9-5
7) Ferocious Underwear 7-7
8) DCIAC 7-7

The following teams would appear to be left out of the postseason lambada:

9) Beagles 7-7
10) Beavers 7-7
11) Bladerunners 7-7
12) Enid Furth Harmony 6-8
13) Jock Itch United 5-9
14) Team Desai 3-11
15) Brian's bums 3-11
16) 12 Angry Men 0-14

Clearly... spots 7-12 are totally up for grabs. MiB and The Black Sox appear to be comfortably in. JIU seems to have no shot.

3 teams look to be favored to win the rest of their regular season games: Y2K Bugs, Romanians, and SLAB. FU might be the only "dangerous" opponent left for Y2K Bugs and the Romanians. UWSSM and SLAB face off in Week 14. With a little luck for UWSSM, perhaps this game will be contested with the Steamroller on the line.
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SEASON POINTS LEADERS
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QB
73 Peyton Manning (Don't Call It a Comeback)
70 Kurt Warner (Ferocious Underwear)
60 Brad Johnson (Men in Brown)

RB
72 Stephen Davis (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
66 Emmitt Smith (Upper West Side Stomp Mongers)
60 Edgerrin James (The South Side Black Sox)
57 Marshall Faulk (Ferocious Underwear)
51 Eddie George (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
48 Dorsey Levens (Crazed Beagles on the Run)

WR
77 Marvin Harrison (Y2K Bugs)
63 Isaac Bruce (Romanians)
45 Ed McCaffrey (Y2K Bugs)
45 Randy Moss (Wide Open Beavers)
42 Cris Carter (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
33 Antonio Freeman (Jock Itch United)
33 Terry Glenn (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)

TE
36 Wesley Walls (Romanians)
24 Tony Gonzalez (Don't Call It a Comeback)
18 Jay Riemersma (The South Side Black Sox)

PK
80 Mike Hollis (Skintight Leather Assless Bodysuits)
71 Mike Vanderjagt (Romanians)
65 Jason Elam (Jock Itch United)
65 Steve Christie (Wide Open Beavers)

be sure to check:
The Season Points Leaders page
...for an expanded list of scoring leaders.

Brian	Advantage	Gary
TDilfer		TAikman
TKirby		AMurrell
BMorris		KFaulk
SDawkins		JRice
MRobinson		OJMcDuffie
AGlover		RDudley
JCarney		PStoyanovich

Here we are... Week 10. The matchup we've all had circled on our RFL schedules since the start of the season! Will 12 ANGRY Men finally win a game?!?
How often have we seen Dilfer given an edge at QB? Brian also appears to have a slight edge at RB. Gary is given a slight edge at PK, but we all know how volatile PK production can be. The key should be in the pass catchers. Brian's trio of Dawkins, Robinson, and Glover put up 24 points 2 weeks ago. Gary's trio has 6 points in the last 5 games, but one would think that Rice, McDuffie, and Dudley are due to break out. The anticipation is KILLING me!

**** In a close one: 12 Angry Men by 1 ****

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