A quarter of the way through the jewball season. Crazy how quickly the season goes by. So much has happened and yet so much is still on tap to happen as the season goes on. But one thing that has emerged in this young season is that the rookies are firing on all cylinders and Week 5 was no exception.

In game1 it was dark of yaron, bz, fish, justin, schiffer, rook, and zada vs colors of spreadies, bert, daveo, djcp, prime, stella, and Steve-o. This was a rare double urkel game for both daveo and djcp and rewatching the footage and differing viewpoints was pretty cool. I believe dark went up early with yaron throwing a td to rook. But colors tied the game up quickly with a mandel to daveo long ball, immediately followed up with a pick six by prime to give colors the early 2-1 lead. But yaron then put his foot on the gas and hit tds to zada and then an absolutely gorgeous bomb to fish to make it 3-2. Yaron followed that up with another td to rook and it was dark up 4-2 early. But them dark started to falter. Another int by prime led to a mandel to prime td after a nice drive. A stella int of yaron on the next drive led to a beauty deep ball from mandel to djcp to tie the game at 4. After a dark punt, Mandel was set up for a game winning drive. And the newest jewballer qb did not disappoint. marched colors down the field with some screens to prime, some curls and slants to djcp and stella and capped off the drive with a bullet throw to bert in the endzone to take a 5-4 lead. Dark would have a chance to tie on their last licks drive and drove down to the 5 yard line with a chance. on 4th and goal a bullet from yaron to fish could not be handled and landed safely to the floor. A huge come from behind win for spreadies and colors. Spreadies now 2-0 in his first two starts with 10 tds and no ints…..impressive stuff from the taxman. But now that he was mentioned…..jewball to prime for the 2 ints (and pick six) and receiving td. By all accounts prime was everywhere in this one.

Onto game 1b and it was the return of the zinnbin and the start of the zinnbinzinn. Yes it was colors of pray, zinn, rabin, zinny, Evon, tbd, and kut vs. dark of avenger, berk, crumble, paddles, rafiki, spiegel, and tom. Hard to remember the full back and forth but it continued in the theme of no defense. Colors went up first after a zinn interception led to a pray to zinn long ball to make it 1-0. But then avenger started running and basically never stopped. Throughout the entirety of this game no one could grab his flags and he raced down the field to tie it at 1 apiece. Colors drive stalled but first play of dark possession avenger gets picked by zinn and returned for a td to make it 2-1 colors. But as mentioned, Avenger answered right back. A few runs and then a deep ball to crumble made it 2-2. Dark would come right back and take the lead after a long drive and a zinn to pray trick pass for a td to make it 3-2. Avenger could not be stopped and ran over the entire colors defense for a 60 yard rushing td to make it 3-3. Finally, Dark’s defense got a stop. On fourth and long inside the redzone, pray gets picked by berk and dark is now set up to take the lead. A beautiful corner route by crumble pulling it in over zinny and it was 4-3. But colors weas hanging around and marched right back down the field short passes to goldberg and kuti and tbd and ended with a td from pray to zinn. Dark came right back and the avenger went back to the formula. Run behind paddles. another 70 yard rushing TD and it was 5-4 dark. I don’t remember how but dark somehow got the ball back which led to an avenger to berk pass across the middle and then a flip back to avenger who ran it in to end up with a passing td and receiving td on the same play! Colors would try to keep it close and after a nice drive were set up on the five yard line to try and keep it a one score game. But a zinn pass intended for zinny gets picked by avenger to end this one 6-4. Jewball to avenger for an all time stat line of 3 passing tds, 3 rushing tds, a receiving td, and a pick.

After a little shuffling due to injuries and guys having to leave game 2 was dark of yaron, fish, kut, spiegel, tom, paddles, and rook v. colors of pray, Crumble, justin, prime, mandel, whiskey, and rabin. The game was competitive for about 45 minutes with yaron hitting rook, tom and fish for early tds and pray hitting justin and crumble and running one in to keep it at a tie game at 3-3. The rest of the game is a blur. Dark kept throwing the ball over the middle to rook… over and over again. When they weren’t doing that, they were handing it off to him and fish with paddles mowing people down in front of him. Defensively, dark started to rush four with the game out of hand and colors had no answers. Well…. they had one answer…. get the ball to spreadies. Mandel did his best to bring colors down the field but once the field shrunk, dark just sent the house and then colors had no answers again. I believe six sacks on the day for the dark line. All in all, a close game turned into an onslaught and dark wins this one 6-3 after rook added two more receiving tds and a rushing td. While a jewball can go to the whole dark team…especially paddles and yaron…. The Rook was unstoppable all game with 4 total tds and probably 15 catches on the day.

Who wants week 6? IJWT. Happy donut month. #bringthecommishdonuts
Happy birthday J and Wizard!

P.s. obvs wished the wizard happy bday yesterday but the level of work and time and energy and love that the wizard puts into us is truly remarkable. Nothing can really get done without him and his input and speaking personally it is truly appreciated everything you do Steve-o. Iyh to many more happy and healthy!

Almost a quarter of the way through the Jewball season. Crazy how time passes but for two teams it was opening day. Trolls v. Bareback Broncos. Both teams missed their captains but understood that sometimes you just gotta get the games in. Props to Logic and Goldberg for that. Broncos were also missing legs and decided to run it with 7 and a little help from baby zinn. Trolls were at full strength minus Captain Evon. After a draft night of some excitement it was finally time to see who can back up their trash talking. And the game started quick. Broncos scored first on their opening drive on a deep ball from Avenger to Crumble, who is quietly having an impressive start, to go up 7-0 early. A few plays later it was gronk to steve-o to make it 7-6 after a failed extra point. The game would stay like that for a while. Between sacks, interceptions and stalled drives it was around 9 am and Avenger throwing two early picks to berk and gronk throwing one to landy. Combine that with the trolls line sacking avenger on almost every play and it looked like this was going to be a defensive or inept offensive struggle. But in true jewball fashion, something clicked just like that and the game went from 7-6 to 46-7 in under 30 minutes. Jewball’s newest addition started racking up yards both on offense and defense. Mighty did his best to stop him but eventually Will was inevitable on his way to a touchdown and a pick six. Tack on an insane chase down flag grab of mighty and Will made his presence known. Berk kept doing berk things and added a td of his own along with a bullet pass from gronk to kut. Finally, in the closing minutes Steve-o added a pick six and Gronk added one more td to fellow cronie vegh on a ridiculous gronk-like two handed backwards throw to close this one out. Broncos lone td would come on the opening drive and would be shut out the rest of the way. 46-7 final for the Trolls. I want to give this guy a jewball as much as he wants one but when he’s good, it’s kinda annoying for everyone else. Gronk with the five tds and one sack of his own was magnificent. Huge shoutout to the line of kuti and paddles who not only kept gronk in a clean pocket all day but racked up ten, yes ten, sacks of avenger. (the footage will be reviewed to see how many kuti took on bad snaps :))

In game 1b it was another new beginning for jewball as Spreadies went under center to try his hand as a jewball qb. To say it went well is an understatement. It was dark of pray, daveo, prime, kagan, akiva, spiegel, and rabin vs. Colors of Mandel, bz, davengier, rook, O, zada, and ice. As was the theme on sunday…..defense was non existent. Can’t really remember who scored and when but mandelbread led his team on a perfect 7/7 drives all ending in touchdowns. Not one punt on the entire day. He ran when needed, he maneuvered the pocket, and found the open man consistently. At the end of it, ice had two scores, davenger had one, rook had three, and mandel ran one in himself. Dark stayed in the game for the most part but unfortunately could not string together enough scoring drives to stay in this shootout After they scored on their first four drives and with the score 4-4, colors got a stop and never looked back. A final score of 8-4 after a pray ill advised lateral ended up in bz’s lap for a touchdown. For dark, daveo had himself a pretty touchdown on fourth and long and prime added three incredible scores in the losing effort. The second one was a hook and ladder from daveo to prime that a premature flag pull was called on. After some discussion we re-did the play and prime scored again….on the exact. same.play. Pretty incredible stuff from prime. But the story of the day was spreadies absolutely dominating and earning himself his first jewball. That elusive fifth qb may have just been found. Good stuff mandel!

For game 2, I don’t even know where to begin. Yes, continuing in the theme of the day this game had even less defense than the other two. It was dark of pray, berk, rabin, ice, blitz, kagan, and kut vs colors of yaron, crumble, paddles, mandel, prime, tom, and new comer rafi cohen. With this much scoring the order of tds gets fuzzy but I believe colors scored first on a mandel rec td. Dark answered back with a deep ball from pray to ice to make it 1-1. next play Ice with a pick six to make it 2-1. Yaron then followed up with what felt like giving the ball to prime on almost every play and let him wreak havoc. And he did just that. A long drive ending in a touchdown to tom.2-2. Dark answered with a nice drive but a crumble redzone int ended their chances. Colors then took the lead with a prime receiving touchdown and a number of patented stiff arms to peoples throats. 3-2. Dark answered with a pray rushing td and then a huge turnover on downs followed by a bullet from pray to ice to make 4-3. No idea what happened next but time seemed to be moving in slow motion as after all that scoring it was somehow only 1030. Dark somehow went up by two scores on a long ball to berk to make it 5-3. Colors answered with another prime receiving td to make it 5-4. But this wasn’t even the half of it. The scoring went on. Dark 6-4 on a kagan 70 yard td. Colors made it 6-5 on a crumble td. dark back to it on a pray rushing td to make it 7-5. colors 7-6 on a yaron rushing td followed up by dark 8-6 on a pray run and lateral to ice for a rushing td. At this point, the game should be over……but no it was somehow only 1105. Ten minutes for yaron to work his magic and in the span of two plays… a long ball to rafi cohen to make it 8-7 followed up by yaron picking off ice on a trick play and laterling to prime for a PICK SIX… just like that it was 8-8. Dark would have to score to end it. A methodical drive of curls to kagan and blitz. followed by slants to kuti, berk and ice made it 3rd and goal from the 4 yard line. The play was called and a screen to rabin with ice lead blocking would end the game…..except rabin ran a slant and the play broke down. After watching game 1 the only way this game could end also was on a two handed pass. Berk hauled in the basketball throw from pray to give dark the 9-8 win in this wacky and wild game. Jewball to iceman in this one for the 2 receiving tds, 1 rushing td, and pick six.

Who wants week 5?
Jordan/Curran 2026! Jewball hates D.

With the jewball season now in full swing, it was time for the return of leagues. Yes, we love to whine and complain about it (and of course blame the captains) but it brings another flavor to our regular weeks of jewball. Leagues brings an extra intensity while bowl games bring a level of “chilledness”. It’s part of what makes the jewball season tick. And what a start to leagues season it was.

In game 1a it was Yaron’s Black Panthers vs. Stella’s Liquid Courage. LC started with the ball and after a few runs and throws to rook and stella, it was pray taking off up the middle with a lateral to spreadies to make it 6-0…..or not. A flag pulled by Kagan just before the lateral saved the would-be touchdown and LC stalled in the red zone. After a 3 and out by BP it was LC driving down the field again. Pray found zinny wide open to set them up in the red zone yet again but LC could not punch it in thanks to a mixture of the sun and daveo/kagan blitz monster. BP would finally score first on their next drive with a long ball from yaron to stats to make it 6-0 and add on the extra point to Ice to make it 7-0. LC went right back to it and a long throw to stella and a few dump offs to mandel set up a 25 yard strike from pray to stella to make it 7-6. Extra point no good. Two plays later it was Stella with a pick to set LC up again in the red zone but a three and out kept the score at 7-6. BP followed that up with a nice drive of their own but on third and 6, Big O chased down yaron on back to back plays for a sack and incomplete pass and LC was set up once again. This time they finally took advantage. After a zinny catch and run, it was zada from 12 yards out, breaking tackles to make it 12-7. A diving Djcp two point conversion made it 14-7. LC needed it and he gave it. BP went back to their physical game and pounding runs and screens with prime and ice looked like it would be a devastating formula for the LC defense. But once again on third and short it was mandel with a batted pass and Oren with a chase down of Yaron on a run to give LC the ball back. This time it was a broken play on third and long to Rook make the score 20-7. an extra point to spreadies and it’s 21-7 with 15 minutes to go. But yaron rallied the troops and went right back to pounding the rock with ice and prime. four plays later it was a prime screen from a yard out to make it 21-13. With ten minutes to go all LC needed to do was score and the game would be….iced. But the double urkels of Davoe and Djcp had pray confused and a toss meant for urkel ended up in the hands of other urkel and a pick six for daveo on prays first int thrown of the season (thanks Logan). All of a sudden it was a game again. Two point conversion no good and 21-19 LC. A score could still potentially ice the game. After a few short plays, it was 4th and 6 inside their own territory setting up a choice for LC. Punt and play defense or be aggressive and go for the win. After a defensive timeout by Daveo 🙂 LC decides to go for it and what a choice it was. Pray scrambling to the left flips a throw over the heads of everyone and it is rook streaking down the field with a convoy of djcp and zinny to walk it in for his second TD of the day and a 27-19 lead for LC. However, a two pt conversion was batted down by Kagan and BP had a chance. On third and forever with their backs against the wall, Yaron throws a missile down the sideline to BZ and BP stays alive. Two plays later on third and goal from the 11, it’s BZ again in the corner of the endzone over Stella to make it a two point game. A 2 point conversion would be needed to go into OT. Yaron drops back and throws up a jump ball for ice….. but this time Stella did just enough. Incomplete and LC holds on for the win. A down to the wire game to start leagues. Jewball should probably go to rook in this one for the 2 late touchdowns but…… its going to Big O. Dominant on O line all day and turned back the clock with two beauty chase downs of Yaron for sacks along with a couple of batted passes. A jewball to you my friend.

In game 1b it was dark of Fish, Bert, crumble, goldberg, Paddles, mighty and tom vs colors of avenger, berk, blitz, fischler, justin, kut and the wizard. Fish getting his first start at qb for jewball and shaking off that rust ended with a pretty impressive day. Can’t say i saw all of it (or any of it) but every time I looked over it was Mighty running free with the ball in his hands on his way to a four touchdown day. A smart move by the rookie qb. However, on the other side Avenger was having himself a day and when he is on there are few better. 5 tds with 2 to berk and 3 to the new kid fischler/baltimore for avenger. Add on a Steve-o pick six of fish and it was a 6-4 win for Colors. Jewball to avenger, from all accounts he was absolutely lights out. Prob has something to do with the nice note he found on his football.

In game 2 it was dark of pray, berk, blitz/justin, paddles, O, prime, and tom vs colors of Yaron, crumble, fish, justin, kut, legs, mandel, and rook. If you’ve been in Jewball for even a little bit, you knew exactly how this game was going to go. Fresh off a league game loss, yaron was going to dominate. And dominate he did. First score of the game was a pick six by crumble off of pray. A pray rushing td one play later tied it up at a one a piece. Unfortunately for dark that would be it for a loooong time. Yaron proceeded to hit back to back to back to back tds to legs, mandel, and fish and ran one in, and the dark offense was of zero help. 3 sacks by legs and a batted ball that led to a rook pick kept dark completely out of it offensively. Even the few times they made it to the red zone and had what was a sure td on a strike from pray to berk, he was stopped at the half inch line to keep dark out. with the score 5-1 and the game all but over, finally dark punched one in on a short pass to prime who broke through bodies for a 65 yard td. 5-2. Dark would have one last drive to try and make the game at least a bit respectable. But when it rains it pours and a jump ball for Justin ended in one more pick six for good measure by Fish to end the game at 6-2. In a game we all should have seen coming, Yaron and co dominate. Jewball to legs for the three sacks, a td, and two batted balls for ints. Legs was a force.

Who wants week 4? IJWT. Van expressway. Happy bday Ice and J. Garlic Mayo is not Mayo.

With week 1 in the rearview mirror it was full steam ahead with the jewball schedule. A beautiful sunny Sunday morning with three more jewball games on tap.

In game 1a it was dark of pray, blitz. daveo, kut, mighty, bz, and steve-o vs. colors of avenger, bert, ice, spira, tom, vegh, and zinny. Colors took the ball first but after going for it on 4th and 12 on the opening drive could not convert. After video review post game the call was correct. Ice was short of the sticks and dark took over with a short field. Two plays later it was steve-o standing alone in the corner of the endzone for a 1-0 dark lead. Avenger and dark would strike back right away with quick runs and tom being a majestic horse in the middle of the field. 6 plays later it was Zinny on a screen to the house with ice lead blocking to tie it up at 1. However, on this day the dark offense could not be stopped. After a couple of short plays to kut it was daveo on 4th and 2, who picked up the first down and a lot more on his way to a 65 yard touchdown. 2-1 dark. Avenger went right back to work and after a deep ball to vegh and a couple of hand offs to ice, found zinny in the middle of the endzone to tie it up at 2. Unfortunately for colors that would be it for a while. Dark scored 3 more unanswered with deep ball tds to bz and daveo followed by a screen to mighty for a long td weaving and bobbing through the defense like a rat. dark’s defense became smothering and bz and kut each wrapped up two sacks a piece to keep avenger in check. After another turnover on downs, it was pray to blitz for a ten yard td….but wait blitz stumbled and falls down at the one. next play it was bz for his second td of the day. 6-2 dark. Finally, colors put together a scoring drive with a pretty slant from the $75 man to ice from 8 yards out to make it 6-3. Fish then stepped in as avenger had to leave and led a nice drive but no score. props to him for coming early. Finally, on the last drive it was the rat again who caught a slant in mighty traffic and took it to the house. 7-3 final dark. Jewball to BZ for the two tds and dominant d line play all day and just completely unlocking dark’s defense.

In game 1b it was both a throwback and a new era in one. On one dark side it was rabin at the helm leading, paddles, spreadies, prime, justin, stella, and zada vs. new rookie davenger leading his colors team of berk, kagan, portal, spiegel, tbd and new kid fischler. a lot of interceptions in that one and ultimately it came down to who made less mistakes. Rabin turned back the clock for a couple of plays leading to two deep tds to Stella and Rabin added another score with a flip to prime for a 45 yard score. On the other side davenger kept hitting berk for slant after slant that he took for big yards and a score Berk would add another on a pick six. I believe the score was 3-2 for most of the game. But in this game of interceptions there was one that proved to be better than the rest and ultimately the winning score. On 2nd and long from their own side of the field, Davenger went back to pass and threw a pick to…. Rabin. Rabin scampers ahead for a pick six to make it 4-2. Colors would make it a close game with another berk td (giving him six already on this young season in just two games) to make it 4-3. Colors would get their last lick to tie it up but a final drive stalled in the red zone on a Justin batted ball to end this one at 4-3. A lot of deserving jewballs in this one and to be honest berk was a monster for colors. But you can’t spell jewball without Dr. Rabin Rahmani pray’s dad. And on this day he threw three tds and had himself a pick six. Jewball to the godfather of Jewball. Enjoy Doma team Dark.

In game 2 it was dark of pray, crumble, kut, legs, logan, prime, and tom vs. colors of yaron, ice, kagan, paddles, spreadshies, blitz and fish. Only week 2 but this was one of the better games we’ve had thus far. A back and forth tight contest that came down to the wire. Yaron got hurt on the first play of the game and a mixture of tbd and speigel (eligibility czar!) filled in for him on defense. Colors took the lead first on a deep ball to ice who bullied crumble (more on that later) to haul it in for a 1-0 lead. Dark answered right back with two deep shots to legs, who hauled in both to tie it at 1 a piece. After a couple of three and outs on both sides, yaron found something that worked and stuck with it. A flip to fish with ice blocking proved deadly and fish ran it in from 60 out to make 2-1. Dark again answered back, this time with a long drive and a td to Kut on 4th and goal to make it 2-2. Yaron went right back to the drawing board and a screen to fish with ice lead blocking for another long td made it 3-2. Dark had to get moving and use the new rookie crumble they did. Hand offs, screens, slants, they put the ball in crumbles hands and he picked up big chunks. Wasn’t just on this drive, but all day. Interestingly, Each touch by crumble ended the same way… with ice grabbing his flag after a gain of 20. But crumble did not crumble. He got up, shook off the crumbs and did it again. Leading dark down the field into the redzone. A pray scramble from 15 out tied the game at 3. Next drive, dark got a big stop on third and 10 to set up a 4th and ten for yaron and colors. The options were punt and give dark one more chance or go for it and try to end the game right there. They went for it and a slant from yaron to fish came up a yard short with Logan making a wolverine-like flag grab to stop colors. Now was dark’s chance to take the lead. After two plays for no gain it was third and goal and a long pass from pray to Logan was just a bit too far. It would be 4th and goal from the 15 for dark’s last chance at winning this game. This time it was a bullet from pray to legs at the goalline who secures the catch in traffic between ice and blitz to give dark the 4-3 lead. Colors had one more chance and drove down to the 20 after a few dump offs from yaron to mandel got them big yards. On first and goal it was a screen to fish again who got stopped at the 5. Another screen to fish but this time crumble and Logan stopped him at the 1 and no TBI to bring up 4th and goal. With a chance to tie the game up a shovel pass from yaron to ice was knocked away at the last second by pray to end this one at 4-3. Legs is definitely deserving of a jewball with the two tds and two sacks in this one but despite having no actual stats on the day it’s going to crumble. The dude was tough as nails racking up catch after catch and playing all day incredible defense (along with a huge pass breakup on the final drive of the game). Crumble Welcome to Jewball!.

Who wants week 3! IJWT. Happy Bday J. Blame the captains. Cancel leagues.

There is nothing and I mean nothing like waking up early on a Sunday morning and just being able to smell football. Showing up to the field before half the world is even awake. Putting on the cleats and just seeing smiling face after smiling face of jewballer walking through the gate. Football was officially back. At a new field for the first time in years. All the months of nice warm weather faded away and we had a cold wet sunday morning. Wouldn’t trade it for the world. Coming off the heels of the draft, jacks SZ, and the OT softball kiddush and melava malka of a lifetime, it was only fitting to culminate that in a jewball week 1 sunday.

In Game 1a we had dark of Pray, Bin, Daveo, Davenger, Spreadsheets, prime and tom vs colors of yaron, berk, Evon, kut, logic, spira, and stats. Yaron took the ball first and said hey it’s week 1 no one can grab flags. And indeed no one grabbed flags. A curl to stats ended in a first play 75 yard touchdown to start the day. But dark would answer right back. After a methodical ten play drive, a flip to prime from the 2 yard line tied the score at 1. Colors went back to the same formula and this time a handoff to Berk ended in another 75 yard touchdown to make it 2-1. Unfortunately for colors that would be the last time they would score for a while. Dark’s offense tied the game at 2 with another long drive ending in a spreadsheets 5 yard out at the pylon. Colors had the ball back but after yaron tried forcing a deep ball to berk and was picked by pray. Three plays later it was a prime screen that he took the distance from 40 out to make it 3-2. After a colors punt, it was pray hitting tom on a 60 yard deep ball to make it 4-2 dark. After another pick by dark it was another deep shot from pray to prime to make it 5-2. two minutes later it was pray running behind the new rookie paddles… who showed up regardless of the fact he wasn’t in the game and stood there in the rain for a chance to get in and injured stats in the process (RS! stats)….. for a 35 yard rushing td. 6-2 and the game was all but over. But as we looked at the clock to see how much time remained…. It was only 9:00. Dark had somehow scored too fast and yaron had a look in his eye of…. Cool yaron. in under 35 minutes yaron managed to hit berk for two impressive tds and a long catch and run td to kuti and cut the score to 6-5. Dark had a chance to ice the game but on 3rd and 6 a dump off to daveo was dropped and on 4th and 6 a turnover on downs in the red zone. Yaron now had a chance. On 3rd and goal from 7 a bullet slant to berk was caught to tie the game. Dark now had a chance to win it or go home with a tie no one saw coming. After a few runs and screens to prime, it was spreadsheets with a big catch to set up daveo for the game winning td catch and run and redemption. 7-6 dark in a shootout. Jewball to prime on the three tds and being a force in short yardage situations all day.

In game 1b it was dark of gronk, blitz, ice, spiegel, kagan, Steve-o, and vegh vs.colors of avenger, bz, justin, mighty, zinny, tbd, and zada. I love writing recaps about games I didn’t see just as much as Logan loves watching leagues before doing TBI but every time we looked it over it was either mighty or ice with a big play. Did see one beauty vegh pick six where he absolutely jumped a route. Avenger tossed three tds, two to mighty and one to justin and ran one in. and Gronk threw two tds to blitz for a final score of 5-3 colors. Jewball to mighty for the 2 tds and 2 ints and brought one back for a pick six. The rat doing rat things in year 17! Obvs have to talk about something that happened during the game…… guys we don’t make silly calls. Jewball has never played with personal fouls. If you see a dumb take, say something. We’re all out there to play football and have fun. Only a few people wanna spend their Sunday mornings arguing and fighting rather than playing football. That’s not what we do. So don’t make dumb calls, don’t defend dumb calls, and respect the calls when they are made and move on. I don’t know or care at this point what happened but keep it in mind. Most of all though COME ON TIME. A few rookies showing up at 820 and then needing to sit drives out here and there because they weren’t ready to play yet isn’t a thing. Dumb takes. Love you.

In game 2 it was colors of dachs, crumble, ice, kut, waldo, legs, and blitz vs. dark of yaron, pray, prime, whiskey, paddles, and bert. With the rain pouring down now at this point, hockey dachs was just dreaming of ice and hit him early and often for a quick 1-0 lead. Not to be outdone, Yaron hit pray on a 70 yard bomb to tie it at 1-1. Three plays later hockey dachs had himself a fast break and put it in himself for a rushing score. 2-1. That’s when dark just imploded. drops, interceptions, sacks. Waldo with 2 ints and ice with a third and colors started running the score up. After a beauty td to waldo on a fade, dachs doubled up with another td to ice and then one to legs to make it 5-1 colors. A hat trick of sorts. Dark finally answered back with a yaron dump off to bert who took it the distance and looked like a dog chasing a stalker on his way to a 50 yard rec td. 5-2. But dachs answered back with another td to legs and the game was all but over. Dark pulled their goalie and on the last play it was pray to gronk on a pretty fade at the front pylon to put dark out of their misery. 6-3 final and jewball to hockey dacks with the 5 tds thrown and 1 rushing td.

Week 1 is in the books and BH what a Sunday it was. 3 games. 36 jewballers out there. Incredible way to start.

IJWT. Who wants week 2? eh huh lol 😂. Love you.

SEASON PRECAP

It is crazy to think that one year ago Jewball started off on a new journey. We called it the Succession. Jordan went off to the holy land and I was left babysitting all of you cry babies….just kidding. But with Jordan not being here on a regular basis, it was on all of us to truly bridge the gap from past to future. To make this transition as seamless as possible. And BH We did exactly that. That is not to say there haven’t been challenges.. of course there have been but we have braved every storm (literally) in a way that only Jewball knows how to do and that’s with perseverance, energy, and absolute in both mentality. It’s not just a love of the game of football. It’s a love for the people in this group and the strength of those bonds that keeps Jewball running like a machine. It’s time to finally wake up from months of nothing and say IN to everything Jewball has to offer.

Speaking of challenges…I am cognizant of the date while I’m writing this. Three years ago today has no words to describe it. It was a gut punch to everyone and it was months and years of pain and agony for our brothers and sisters everywhere. But I think like many of us we became more proud and more emboldened to say I’m a jew. I believe Rabin came up with the name Jewball 20 something years ago, but wearing my JEWball sweatshirt and shirts around made me feel somehow more special. It’s who we are and it’s our identity. Whether it was Jordan arranging for bbqs for soldiers or yakir raising money for boots for soldiers or old time jewballers like joey (I forgot his jewball name) reaching out to raise money. Jewball stepped up in our own way and that deserves some reflection. To be cliche but it’s in the darkest moments that you can see the light. But that’s what we always have done. I’m not sure the dark moments are over but at least we can be a small Island of hope and positive energy in this world.  It starts with football but it certainly does not end there.

8 years ago I got a text from a spicy fellow who asked- “hey sholom (no clue who that is) wanna play in this thing called Jewball”? Next thing I know I’m standing in Gries park with a handful of Jewballers and 193ers. Some kid named De’Ante asked me my name and I hesitated, do I say sholom or prager. I was pringle. That was it. Whether I showed up for any more games or not I would forever be Pringle. But to me that was the hook. A group of guys who had a love for the game of football as much as I did but could have a good time both on and off the field. Guys who cared for each other no matter what. Of course the name has changed a bunch over the last 8 years, to its current FGD iteration, but the Jewball world has not. It has grown into something that Rabin and Jordan and the Oracle could never have ever imagined. Even if you take away every other amazing thing this group does, we are the pinnacle of football and that’s not going to change as long we keep our foot on the gas. So hit that sign up button every week. Make sure that you’re starting your season off on the right foot. It was a long summer but now is the time to shake off the rust and get back into it. Rookies, we were all there once. I promise if you show up week in and week out and go to work, you will be guaranteed to have the best moments and memories of your lives. You’ve only just dipped your toe into the jewball pool…. go full cannonball you will not regret it. The bonds and brother hood we form here don’t break once you’re off the field or chat. You can be anywhere in the world, literally, and meet a fellow jewballer and instant connection. It could be someone you’ve never met or played with and immediately you’re talking about games or events that occurred on this island that we get to be a part of.

So whether you’re a rook or a vet, week 1 is finally here. The only hard part is starting correctly. Say in both to football and bowl games, say in both to the extra curriculars we have, but most of all- say in both to jewball.

We got draft night tomorrow night to see who will win leagues because if you win the draft then well…. Let’s get this season started off with a bang.

Who wants Week 1. IJWT. Huh? eh lol

SEASON RECAP

GROWTH. No I am not talking about my ever expanding waistline in the land of Jewball. I am talking about growth as a person both on the field and off the field but most importantly as a Jewballer. For all intents and purposes we were all rookies this year. Our leader and commish was off to Israel and there would be a new beginning, new chapter for Jewball to start. Of course, Jordan is one 15 minute voicenote away but to say it would be difficult without him is an understatement. Jordan has navigated this Jewball island for 25 plus years and led us to the promised land (l’havdil). An FGD was taking over and now it would be a team effort of all Jewballers to make sure we continued the Jewball ways. To succeed in the Succession.

Taking on a new role is always difficult and it certainly wasn’t easy for me to be called “commish”. The Commish is Jordan….not me and yes I knew there would be challenges ahead… But after looking back at this 25-26 season, I can honestly say there is nothing I love more than being a Jewballer. I’m not going to say there weren’t stresses or late night phone calls because of a last minute cancellation, but watching this group of people come together week in and week out and doing what we do best cannot be put into words. It truly is a team effort every single time. Whether it’s Yaron always being at the field 15 minutes early and setting it up with minimal complaint or steveo always helping with everything that goes on behind the scenes or even zada with the weekly signup posts or the party planning committee helping with every Jewball event or the MJSA or safe space chats where I can just simply vent about how much you guys all piss me off….there is nothing that I would rather be doing. It truly is one of a kind experience that cannot be explained in normal language. To have a group of guys who are always ready to lend a hand and help out so we can succeed as a unit is something remarkable. I for one, can personally say the growth that I have seen from myself has been mind blowing and nothing that I ever could have predicted. Enough about us and me though….. the most important thing is we BH had another tremendous season of Jewball

This season was a long one yet somehow feels like preseason was last week. Walking onto the field in early September in the rain to play a 4 v 4 and then watch the smiling faces of more and more jewballers showing up for a week1 preseason rain game…. you just knew the season was going to be something magical. We had new rookies, new players and new personas that would all be put through the test of the Jewball season. We had Lego, Landy, Spiegel, Berk and then some late carryovers from last season in Kagan, Avenger, portal and most of all cool yaron. But of course as we all know, it’s not how a season starts… It’s about who makes it through the 20 plus week and 50 plus games of football that we have from September through April.

The Jewball season always starts with the talks of leagues and the draft. While certainly not the main focus of the jewball season it has become a staple of the jewball season. With two new captains in the works and three returning ones it would be a race to the finish line. Of course, winning draft night is meaningless, the games on the field would determine the champion. Not going to rehash the whole league season but it culminated in an all out playoff chip tourney just a few Sundays ago. While injuries mounted and replacements had to be found, it was GM v SP and the one seed Gorillaz v BLOP. An injured Green Machine made quick work of the randomly assembled Semi pro. On the other side, Gorilaz and Blop were in a heated battle. 13-6 with Gorilaz driving. A few plays later it was prime, knocking down a pass intended for Mighty to send the improbable BLOP to the Chip. To the grass we went and what a chip game it was. GM jumped out in front as the Avenger to ILNS connection stayed strong on this day (6 tds for ILNS). It was 19-6 and time was running out for BLOP. Prime and Zinn though had other plans in mind. A pick by zinn, a screen pass to prime, a two handed throw by dachs followed by another pick by zinn and it was 19-12 and BLOP with a chance to win it. A slant to zinn from 15 yards out made it 19-18 and it all came down to the extra point. BLOP would go for two to take the lead. If they miss, GM would be the 25-26 Jewball League Champs. Dachs drops back, looks right and throws to the left to an open zinn in the back of the endzone. Unfortunately, Gronk (filling in for Oppen?!?!) was there and bats the ball down and giddily states “I could have let them win” before running off the field. The Daveo led Green Machine are the Champs. Green machine was battle tested. They lost Iceman early on in the season and then lost Oppen right before the playoffs. They dealt with injuries, no shows and cancellations. Throughout it all though one GM with some crazy ideas stayed strong (and made the commish crazy) to win it all. But it goes deeper than that. While Daveo led his team, he had a new rookie jewballer who was an absolute constant for Green Machine throughout the season. I am not going to go into the stats but Avenger played through some real sh$t. pun intended. He somehow played every game despite injuries, work, making bad calls (jk Avenger) and just managed to keep winning through it all. Whether he’s the new jewball villian or not, time will tell, but for now he is a Championship Game MVP and Jewball Champion. Despite my lobbying, Avenger was not ROY and the answer perplexes me. Avenger won a chip, had great stats and really took the leap into jewball land this year way more than last season. But fortunately for jewball, and it makes me say BH how lucky we are every day, that the only reason he didn’t win it is because of a guy by the name of Legobomb.

I don’t think we have ever had a rookie come in with so much hype as we have Lego. I also don’t think we have had a rookie come in who has taken to the jewball way and felt like he’s been a jewballer for 10 years as much as Lego. Lego came in and not just wowed us on the field but wowed us off of it as well. Between his football game and chat game there is no one more worthy of having the ROY title than Lego. He won a bunch, he chatted a bunch, he stickered a bunch….but most of all he Jewballed a bunch. He came in with minimal ego and maximum talent. It’s been a wonder to watch him play and also to grow throughout the season. While the title of ROY isn’t something you can win year after year, it is something that cements your status as a jewballer and something that shows you are truly one of one. While ROY has been a relatively new award except for 2012 Steveo, you join the likes of Ernie, Zinn, Ice and (me! ;)). While we only had you for about 15 games this season, what you have accomplished was truly amazing and something that will be quite difficult to repeat. We of course are more than happy for you and your future wife and we wish you nothing but simcha and mazel, but it is slightly bittersweet that we will be seeing a limited amount of Lego on the field next season. Iyh we will get what we can and of course the chat goes beyond time zones. I have no doubt that while you may not physically be here we will absolutely feel your presence. The race for the 27-28 MVP awaits your return.   

While this season has been one of real growth for me. We were also tested a bit. Between injuries, weak signups, and weather we powered through despite it all. As Jewballers always do. While the snow brings us something that we crave, the snow bringeth but it also taketh. We had three incredible snow games this year (and one prancing ice bowl), the most I believe we ever had, but after the third one….. the snow took away football. Four weeks of nothing. The temps dropped and snow turned to blocks of ice and were quite literally Iced in. But like I’ve said, this season was one of growth and while the snow would delay and kick our games into April, Jewball would not be stopped. We were onto the next idea, yes fields were checked daily, but the Jewballers needed something and the SuperBowl breakfast would come in the clutch. Kuti has been a jewballer for who knows how long, but being able to play on his team this year and see first hand as “commish” everything he does behind the scenes for jewball was eye opening. Obviously I knew most of this beforehand but for some reason it was different now. Not only does he open his home to us for SB breakfast but he is always the first person to offer to help set up, cleanup, prep etc for every single jewball event. Between Chanukah parties, Waldo 7b, BBQ’s, purim hot dogs and the list goes on (and yes I realize it is mainly food related now) Kuti is the man behind it all. He does it all with a smile on his face and absolute love for Jewball. On top of that, at 42 years old he still signs up for both every week to play line. Playing line for three plays is hard enough (my shoulder found out the hard way) but two whole games without complaint is something that should truly be applauded. For that, it is abundantly clear to me that Kut is the Jewball Man of the Year (MOY?) He represents Jewball in everything he does. To be honest, I don’t think I have ever seen him not in his jewball sweatshirt. While his settling of rookies has taken a slight dip, there is no one more deserving to rep the title of MOY more than Kuti.

Speaking of in both, it started as something that was an actual meaningful phrase…. it quite literally meant “I am signing up for both games on sunday”.  As a rookie, I remember times when Jordan would not grant my in both and I would be upset. Following a few of those occasions, Prime and I began to say In Both for everything and it truly became a way of life. Yes, it still does mean we are going to try and play an insane amount of games throughout the jewball season but it is not just playing in the games that means “in both” it is playing in the games with a ferocity that only someone with a full in both mentality can bring. Therefore, it is only fitting that we award someone the In Both player of the year. Someone who truly personifies signing up for both, playing both, but also living it as a way of life. There are a bunch of guys who I could think of but no one comes to mind clearer (whiter?) than Bartender. He truly was a man on a mission this year to play as much football as possible and to become a completely different player than he was last year. The motor and the drive to succeed was intoxicating. Kagan you are now the racist, the CPOY, The In Both OY and a champion. Keep elevating your game bro.

While I can probably go down a rabbit hole and talk about every single jewballer and how they had an impact on my rookie commish season, the hour is late and hopefully no one cares that badly. I obvs need to shout out my league team and everything we were able to accomplish- stats, sam, djcp, kut, vegh, storm, schiffer, and solo it was an honor to play with you guys this season and looking forward to many more games in the future. I know Solo said he’s retiring, and I am choosing not to believe it, but if this was your farewell tour it was a pretty magnificent one. You were dominant this season. While we missed the ultimate goal of a chip we hope to see you back next season regardless of what you may have written in the chat. You will always be one of the best to ever do it. Right up there with the likes of munch oppen dk/legs. Two other shoutouts that absolutely require mention are the captains. Yes, they deserve a ton of blame. But they also deserve a ton of credit. Leagues aren’t perfect. We all know that. But they are an integral part of the jewball season and they give us an intensity of games that is unmatched with other weeks. Captain Stella, Kut, Prime, Rook, and GM Daveo…. you guys made me crazy but it was so worth it. Thank you for stepping up and being the leaders for leagues that we needed.
The last shoutout goes to someone who I absolutely despise. He makes arcade games about me. He makes fun of my golf game and my weight. But most of all he thinks he’s cool. I guess I didn’t fully understand what Jordan meant when he said that having a partner to help with field set up and other things make such a huge difference. But Jewball would not function without yaron. I could go on and on about what a terrible person he is but we need him and to have him be someone who contributes so much time, effort and money into jewball is incredible. Thank you yaron. A very special thank you steveo as well who keep the website running and makes sure we don’t miss a beat when it comes to all things jewball. The wizard really is a one man show behind the scenes.

There is one more award…. and I have procrastinated in writing this recap because of it. There are so many guys who are MVPs when it comes to Jewball. But mvp is not an award to be given out lightly. It is a signal that this person, this player, this jewballer is the best of the best. Not necessarily only in talent on the field but that they personify what a jewballer is and they have reached the pinnacle of that success. This year, after the dust all settled, it came down to two people. The never aging rat in Mighty and the always staying young Zinnvader. Both guys are truly deserving of the award. Both guys have played through everything and dominated the 25-26 season. While I can get into the Stats and break down the numbers, what both mighty and zinn do on the field isn’t always computed in a number on a screen. The amount of times QBs have to say “hey dont throw it there” which then leads to someone else getting a sack or int or the amount of times they get double covered so someone else can get open and catch a TD just shows how much attention one needs to pay them on the field. To still perform and lead the league in tds and a bunch of other stats just goes to show you how incredible these two players are and how lucky we are to have them as jewballers.

While Jordan and the Advisor to the Commish had their own thing going, Mighty is my bath buddy and someone who I really look up to when it comes to football. He’s been one of the best players in a league full of incredible talent for the past decade. He is going up against guys half his age and still playing every play with the same intensity as he has always had. While I have known mighty since before jewball, back to the old football and basketball days in KGH with his dad, I didn’t understand the legend of mighty until more recently. Yes, Jordan likes to make sure we all think of him as someone who thinks he’s better than us, but Mighty has been nothing but supportive this entire season. Whether it be private messages with ideas about jewball or on the field discussions on actual gameplay, I have learned a ton from Mighty this past season. To showing up in an elf suit for jesus bowl, to monsey for Lego, or to just come back to film game 2s or watch from the sidelines, he absolutely personifies jewball through and through and it is a privilege to be able to share the field with him week in and week out. He is our reigning mvp and for good reason and deserves every bit of this year’s MVP award. But now that I have spoken about mighty…. I guess you all know where I am headed.

5 years ago a skinny athletic kid scoots up to a jewball game… yaron calls his mom and the rest is history. Now he is a Jewball MVP. It’s hard to argue that Zinn could not have won MVP in past years. He certainly had the numbers for it and before Lego he was probably the last rookie who just bought into everything we do here with such a youthful exuberance. He has been the most dominant player in jewball since he joined. While this isn’t strictly a numbers award, Zinn led the league in tds this season with 27 while only playing 19 games at wr. add to that 3 rushing tds, 5 passing tds and 7 ints on defense, this season was all around for zinn. Yes, while he may have struggled with time occasionally, he was always there to jump into game 2 when needed and to bring plus 1s whenever we had some trouble getting to 14. He has become a leader both on and off the field well beyond his years. Personally, I don’t know if I have ever played against someone who you have to account for where he is on the field as much as Zinn. Someone wise once said that we have gotten so lucky that some jewballers feel like they’ve been created in a lab. Now that is not just referring to on field talent. That is referring to a Jewball state of mind as a whole and Zinn personifies that to the max. Zinn, like I said for Lego, we are so freaking happy for you on your wedding iyh, we are def a bit saddened that we won’t see as much of you on the field next season. I sincerely hope that you and dobs carpool each and every week together and that you continue your dominance with us and we see many more mvps in your future. I could go on and on and talk about how good of a player Zinn is but we all know it. There was some poetic justice last year when Mighty finally won MVP in Jordan’s last season despite arguably deserving a whole bunch of times before that. In that same vein, passing the MVP from one guy who could have won it every year in Mighty to another in Zinn feels somewhat surreal as a rookie commish. Therefore, with whatever power Jordan vested in me and without creating an ego (I hope)…Zinn, you are officially the 2025-2026 Jewball MVP. “From Roy to MVP – the Invader Scoot Story”. IYH many more of these in your future. Zinn, wishing you nothing but simcha and mazel as you start out your new life together with your kolloh.

One final final note- Jordan…… I have no idea how or why you entrusted me with this but I hope that we made you proud from afar. The two weeks we got with you here was incredible and we were truly blessed by that. Just a personal thank you for guiding us from afar and making sure that we just keep getting better and better. From the bottom of my heart we miss you and thank you for guiding this world we get to be a part of. Thank you.

While the offseason might be upon us, the Jewball world has no end. We got Weddings, 7bs, kiddushes by daveo, Ernie events, MidSommar, softball, golf, ultimate and the list goes on. In the words of our new TBI theme song- “football, friendship…..from the league to the laughs… you know we’re gonna win”. Let’s keep winning the offseason iyh and keep grinding out the days till the next season starts. To all the injured guys now’s the time to get healthy and put work in. Let’s come back stronger than ever and keep one upping ourselves from the season before. Let’s grow together as a unit, as jewballers. FGD out. 

Who wants Week 1???????!!!!!!

The categories below are made to give respect to those who we believe have earned the highest Jewball achievements of the season. While some polls are limited to choices, some have write in ballots. Please consider what these players do on the field, what they do for their teams, the stats they accumulate, and how they impact the game each time they walk on the gridiron. Please note that the overall MVP award is a distinction given by our commissioner during the season recap (although he does consider the vote). Please only vote once. Make every vote count!! (Note: Most performance categories carry a 10 games played minimum)

Week 21 3/15/26

It’s weird sitting here after the last regular game of the Jewball season has been played. No signups to post. No teams to send out. The randomizer has been put away for the year. Yes, we still have league playoffs and a chip but as we all know that is separate from Jewball. Our 20 week (this year 21) season came to an end with three games and perhaps the craziest and most beautiful thing we’ve ever done.

In game 1a it was Blop v. Gorilaz. Blop flying high after clinching a playoff spot in their defeat of the Stogies the previous week and gorillaz looking to win and lock up the 1 seed.  Admittedly, I saw almost none of the game…..although the good news is there wasn’t much of a game to speak of. Everytime I looked over it was Lego zipping a pass to another wide open wr or mighty scampering down the sideline for a big gain. Gorillaz opened the scoring first after mighty took a short pass to the house to make it 6-0. Blop moved the ball well during the first half but just could not punch it into the endzone. Next drive for Gorillaz it was Lego to Goldberg to make it 14-0. Blop drove again but a drive ending int to lego on a wobbly pass gave Gorillaz the ball right back. Gorillaz scored one more time to mighty on a bullet throw from lego to make it 21-0. Zinn took over for blop at qb and had a solid drive and a crazy catch by prime up the sideline but a redzone stall kept the score at 21-0. Gorillaz would keep the shutout intact. Jewball to mighty for the 2 scores and just making play after play in this one. All gorillaz needed now was a Semi Pro loss and the 1 seed would be theirs.

In game 1b it was GM v SP. The last time these teams saw each other it was Week 1 of leagues and it was a game winner from Avenger to Berk to win it on the last play of the game. This time the game would come down just as much to the wire. Green Machine took the ball first and had a new toy to replace Iceman for this one. He’s a kid a lot of us know from Tuesday nights and arguably one of the best players we’ve played with. Levy stepped in and Avenger went right to him. The first time, a great bat down by storm, but the second time it was a post corner run to perfection and it was Levy off to the races on a 75 yard TD to open the scoring. Extra point to levy as well and a quick 7-0 lead for GM. SP took the ball but went 3 and out and avenger and GM went back to work. After a few more avenger to levy throws, the SP defense caught on and a deep ball intended for levy was picked by pray and SP was back in business. Three plays later it was pray up the sideline following blocks by an all nighter solo for 6. extra point no good and it’s 7-6 GM. The next drive for GM started with more of the same, mixed in with a few avenger runs. It was 4th and 1 from the 49. Everyone on the planet knew where the ball was going… to levy. Except Avenger pumps and tosses a soft touch pass over to Fish (who was somehow also filling in for iceman) and takes it to the house for a 13-6 lead. SP would not go down without a fight and took the ball looking to answer right back. However, a pass intended for solo got stalked down by Bert (filling in for oppen) and picked by avenger. GM now had a chance to take complete control of the game. Thankfully for SP, GM turned it over on downs and they had the ball right back. No harm no foul. SP started to drive and three plays in it was a wild run around backyard football moment with stats leaking over the top for a pray to stats touchdown to cut the lead to 13-12. The lack of extra points for SP keeps them away from tying it up. GM would answer right back with a 8 play drive capped off by a leaping TD by fish to make it 19-12. SP did nothing with their next drive and the game was now on the line. A GM score would end it. A stop would give SP one more chance to try and win it. On third and long, Avenger throws a deep ball intended for levy into double coverage and the ball gets batted around before falling into prays hands and returned for 25 yards to give SP one more chance. Some say avenger was sacked before the ball was thrown yet others say the ball was off. No one really knows and it was determined it was too late to fight it out. One thing for sure is that we always go by the teammates. If someone on the same team determines that the other team is correct, that’s it. No need to argue it out.  SP would take the ball with a chance to win it. On first and 24 from the 49 pray launched one to portal who catches it in stride and looked like he would score right away to end the game…. except fish came flying in from nowhere to track down portal at the 2. SP would need to punch it in. Two plays later it was Solo with a beautiful hands catch to make it 19-18. Kut and Co now had a choice, go for two and win it or 1 and play for the tie. The Dan Cambpell in Kut won and SP would try for two to win the game. Pray dropped back and a well timed third rush by daveo right up the middle forced a quick throw. It was one on one with Avenger and Portal. Rookie on Rookie. Roy on Roy. But Avenger wanted this one badly and he jumped right in front of portal to knock it down and end the game. Jewball to Avenger for the 3 tds thrown and the game saving play at the end. (Fish probably could have gotten it also but no jewballs to a guy who’s not yet in jewball).

Both these teams and Blop v. Gorrilaz will see each other again when the playoffs and chip happen 4/19 IYH.

I believe this was probably the first time in Jewball history that our games not only ended exactly at 9:30 but even a bit before. It was 9:22 and there was work to be done. Tables needed to be set up, food picked up, and wine selected. Yes maybe both games end up differently if we play the full allotted time (and start on time) but we were onto more important things. It was time for a 7b, probably the first LHS turf has ever seen. Waldo and Rafa walked in and it was time to celebrate with the new couple in the only Jewball knows how. Slassy. Yes, this was not a typical Sheva Brachos. This was an on the field quick hitter but was just as beautiful and meaningful as any other. While people ate, Lego and Waldo gave us some inspiring words that every Jewballer lives by….. don’t forget your roots. Everything we do is built on a foundation from the guys before us and the vets before them. It is on us to make sure that the next generation of jewballers not only plays and contributes but that they take this family and keep on expanding on it and making it thrive. That’s the foundation that we’re built on. It’s why we called this new “Era” the succession because we want to see jewball succeed beyond our immediate wants and needs. Waldo wishing you and Rafa nothing but the best and Iyh we will see you back on the field whenever you’re in town. Mazel tov. After the brachos were said and a dance on the field it was time for game 2. One that our very own chosson waldo would be playing in.

Game 2 had some guys leaving early and others jumping in but the teams ended up like this: it was red/white of yaron, goldberg, kut, legs, stats, storm, zinn, and tbd vs. black/yellow of pray, levy, kagan, justin, prime, portal, bin, rook, steveo, and of course waldo. Prime Justin and Kagan left early but this game was not a pretty one early on. The first score of the game was a tipped pass that bounced off rook and levy and landed in the waiting arms of zinn for a pick six. one play later a tipped pass by legs landed in Kutis’ waiting arms and it was a shovel pass from yaron to goldberg to make it 2-0. The game would stay that way for a while. Black/Yellow could find no solution for the pass rush of kuti and legs and TBD and no matter how hard he tried, pray could find no solution on how to throw a ball to waldo. (4 missed tds according to the glasses vid smh). Eventually, Yaron hit zinn on a deep ball with zinn making a zinn-like catch over levy  and sliding into the endzone to make it 3-0. Black/Yellow had no success throwing the ball so pray and co decided to just run. And run they did. Pray rushed in two to make it a 3-2 game and a little life was back. Maybe just maybe they would pull off the miracle with 15 minutes left to play. Unfortunately, the next drive was a methodical one by red/white and ended in a yaron to zinn quick slant to make it 4-2. Black/yellow would take the ball back looking to just keep it close on what would be their final drive and they turned to the only jewballer who had seen it all… Rabin. Rabin took over at qb and went to work. In classic jewball fashion though the first play was a backward pass to waldo who then threw a deep ball to pray who then lateraled to rook to put black/yellow inside the redzone. Rabin then hit rook in stride to bring them inside the 5 and capped it off with a quick roll out toss to portal for the last td of the jewball regular season. The man who plays for stats had the last one of the season. Kinda fitting that the longest tenured Jewballer hits a rookie to end the jewball season….. the roots and foundation from one generation to the next. 4-3 was the final and jewball to zinn for the 2 tds and pick six. Could’ve been yaron for the 3 tds and just all out balling in the last game of the season  A cool yaron game 2 sighting to finish it off.

Jewball, we still have three games left. Two Playoff games and a Champion to be crowned. The 25-26 season is not done just yet.