Week 3 started with some late last minute sign ups and a late saturday night posting of the teams but ended up with some of our most competitive games yet on this young season.

In the first early game it was jewballs last qb phenom in dachs set to square off against the new phenom in lego. lego had his work cut out for him going up against ice, bz, dobs, landy, tom and oppen but he had his own weapons of prime goldberg, e, whiskey, justin and rook to match the fire power. although the final score of this game, 7-5, would make one think there was no defense….. there were 7, i repeat 7, interceptions thrown between the two qbs. game got started with dachs picking apart the defense and hitting a quick score to ice only to be immediately countered with a beautiful lego td to rook over the outstretched arms of dachs at safety. I don’t know what the score was when the ints started but seemed to be a tie game through most of it. however everytime we looked over from the other side of the field someone new was running the wrong way with the football. first prime ices iceman leading to a rook pick six and then ice takes one away from lego leading to a dobs td. whether it was the pressure from oppen or the swarming defense lego was throwing some picks. the only thing to do when you get to play both sides though is if you throw a few, you better get a few back on d and that’s exaclty what lego did, fast forward a few plays lego picks off two from dachs leading to tds for goldberg and a real pretty one to prime in the back of the end zone. dachs took a one score lead late in the game throwing another td to ice for his third of the day. Lego had a chance to tie on his last licks drive of the day. and as he drops back to pass he sees what we described as “dachs running the most perfect crossing route”. He loads up, fires… and dachs takes it back for six to seal the deal. second game in a row where dachs makes a huge play on defense seal the deal. the rookie finally takes his first L of the season in what seemed to be an incredible game all around. Jewball to the iceman and current td leader with the 3 td 2 int game. strong stuff from ice cream.

In game 1b it was yaron v pray. the most classic of jewball qb matchups that weve had over the last few years. This was a tight one back and forth as well with yaron opening the scoring with a td to schiffer and colors marching back down with a pray td to kagan on a quick slant past the blitzing mighty. Yaron answered back right away with a methodically long drive and a td to mighty. stella wilmer captain stogie answers right back with a td of his own on a screen pass barreling his way in to tie it at 2. yaron marches right back down and hits none other than the rat who does it again -weaving through the defense for another td giving dark a 3-2 lead. colors gets the ball back and pray calls his own number, dancing through traffic and picking up incredible blocks from stats spiegel and ernie on his way for a 70 yard rushing td to tie the game at three. yaron again having himself a day throws a td to schiffer to make it 4-3 dark. thats when the game started to slip away for colors. Pray on a third and long heaves one deep to stella but underthrows it and mighty makes the jump on it to pick it off. Immediately after, yaron throws an absolute bomb to new rookie akiva to make it 5-3. it was back against the wall time for colors after going for it on fourth and forever and not converting. yaron got the ball back with a chance to ice the game with a first and goal from the 15. but between spiegal and bert on the line, colors gets a huge sack, pushes yaron out of the redzone and manages to get the ball back. first play of the next color possession ernie makes a circus type catch and runs it in from 40 yards out to make it a 5-4 game. Dark gets the ball back. a score would end it as it’s 935 and the game is over by 940. yaron is one of those guys who never sees color. he treats everyone with the respect and dignity that they deserve. on this drive he refused to see color as well and throws a perfect shovel pass to…. stats at the five yard line. the biggest play in the biggest moment made by stats to set colors up for a game tying opportunity with first and goal from the 5. after a couple of incompletions. colors punches it in on a quick slant from pray to ernie that the muppet secures to tie the game at 5. Ties are not wins and they are not losses. Ties are ties. they are an ugly but necessary evil at times. however there are times that ties feel like a loss and times that ties feel like a win. for colors this one felt like a win. down 5-3 with 2 drives left and came all the way back to not take a loss. no jewball for this one but huge shoutout to bert and speigel for the clutch line play down the stretch and ernie and stats for the game saving td and int respectfully. schiffer was prob gearing up for his first jewball had dark pulled it off but only an honorable mention for now.

one final note from the game 1 is that both games started after 810. Guys….game starting at 8 means exactly that…game starting at 8. yes is there an unwritten grace period for a couple of minutes. sure. but that doesnt mean show up at 8 or 815. it means be there at 755, cleats on and ready to warm up so we can actually start at 8. were coming up on week 4 – lets fix this, especially with leagues coming up next week.

onto game 2 where avenger was making his first start of the season at qb. he lined up with his bro- davinger, iceman, justin, logan, prime and stella against yaron pray lego (at wr) kagan tom danny/stats and oppen. Danny made his long awaited return to the field. unfortunately it was short lived and on the third drive of the game he tore his patella tendon. rest up and feel good danny. wishing you a full recovery! but This game picked up where the other left off with an int by yaron to start the game, followed by avenger saying I dont want any free drives and proceeding to throw the ball about 75 yards directly up in the air for an int to pray. it was basically the opposite of a rabin screen pass. unfortunately yaron and co did nothing with that drive and it was avenger scoring first with a td to iceman. yaron finally started moving, hitting a td to stats and a few missed flags later he was in the endzone. yaron scored again on a td to pray leaking from tight end to make it 2-1. aveneger answered immediately with a quick slant to prime and a quick spin and stiff arm later he was down the sideline to tie it up at 2. the game stayed at 2-2 for a while but that doesnt mean there wasnt any action. it really started before the game when lego ripped his shorts and asked logan for a new pair. then logan flag grabbed lego before the pass was thrown. finally logan just wanted to be 100000% sure that lego wasnt wearing his shorts and went for a full investigation. with lego hobbled and on one ball he moved to tight end. and yaron started feeding him. finally the scoring drought broke with a yaron pass to stats who lateraled to pray and blocked stella in one motion for a td. as the hour was getting late avenger had a chance to tie and threw a deep ball to prime who also decided to flag grab lego as lego intercepted the pass effectively ending any chance for dark to come back. Yaron threw a late td to tom to seal the game in a 4-2 final. Jewball to stats for this one. although he only had the one td. the flip play he had was the go ahead score and was just an increidble play. beyond that, he somehow tracked down every flag on defense, got trucked by ice on a block, and literally left his blood all over the field and ball. Awesome game stats!

Last but not least, we finally have an in both player of the week. as everyone knows playing both is tough, its physically and mentally draining, yet there’s nothing like it. Its an adrenaline rush that just makes you want to keep going. However, i get to say that from a position of playing qb or sometimes wr. I cannot imagine what playing both as a lineman might feel like. and i dont mean a rotating linemen. i mean a guy who literally does not leave the offensive or defensive line AT ALL and somehow still manages to bring it every. single. play. Oppen you are the inaugural first ever in both player of the week. While i didn’t see much of game 1 i did see dachs standing in the pokcet with no one near him every play. i also saw lego dancing around trying to avoid you. in game 2 it was more of the same. you were asked to play tight end and your answer was just a simple “no im an offensive lineman” in an almost military like tone. only one sack on the day for you but two W’s in a dominant performance. take this week off. you deserve it.

We got leagues this week. GM. v SP and Gorilaz v. Stogies. followed by a late game. Who wants week 4!

Week 2, like week 1 before it started off as a hot one. Beautiful day to start off but by 830 it was 80 and the sweat started pouring down. unluckily for defenses everywhere so did the points. a combined 30 tds were scored in the 3 games played.

In game 1a yaron led his squad of dk, portal, stella, walkman, waldo, and zada to an absolute rout of gronk and colors in a 7-2 win. Hard to watch and play at the same time but saw a bunch of missed opportunities by colors including A LOT of drops. but on the other side yaron was slinging it including one absolutely beautiful catch and throw between yaron and portal. portal finished the day with 3 rec tds and then yaron decided that everyone should have a td on the day and literally went onto throw a td to 5/6 of the other players on his team. props to stella for 2 ints. (not sure how but dk threw two ints……no clue) Unfortunately waldo and walkman both got hurt in this one. feel better guys and we’ll see you back out there soon iyh! Jewball to yaron for the 7 tds no ints and 1 int on defense. Cool yaron showed up and balled out.

One other note from that game is kagan and E. both replaced the injured guys who had to stop playing. E literally showed up out of nowhere and walked right back to his car, cleated up and played ball. theres not many things better than coming out to watch some football and then being able to hop into a game. kagan on the other hand somehow has a knack for just showing up and trying to get into as many games as possible. not that we want any injuries god forbid but having a guy who is willing to just come and show up and hope to play is amazing. very very rookesque. thank you guys!

In game 1B, we got off to a 6s start due to some late arrivals. and colors and co jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with pray throwing tds to ernie and vegh. after 2 early ints, dachs finally settled in and remembered that he had zinn on his team and started doing the thing where if zinn runs really fast and you can throw the ball really far it will probably be a td. quick strike from dach to zinn made it 2-1. however despite that, colors marched down the field and took a 3-1 lead with a pretty toe tap td by vegh. for some reason the game turned then and dachs just started clicking. some quick runs and outside curls to rook, stats, and bz (and a few more tds to zinn) had us in a tie game. thats where the quick scoring exchange started. pray with a deep shot and an iceman mossing of rook and sruli made it 4-3. right back at it, dachs has a quick drive culminating in a thread the needle type throw to rook to tie it up at 4. a few mighty catch and runs down the field finished off with an ernie td made it 5-4 colors. it was 9:28 and everything was pointing to our first tie of the season. dachs has another quick drive capped off with a screen to stats and bz bulldozing the corner on a lead block into the endzone to tie it up. after deciding each team would have one more drive. colors took the ball and with mighty and ernie on the line methodically drove down the field to the 10 yard line. however thats when dachs, who is known for his size and strength, perfectly blitzed up the middle and wound up with a sack to give colors a tough 4th and goal from the 15. colors cant convert and dachs takes the ball back with a chance to win it. on the first play dachs drops back and throws an absolute dime to zinn crossing the middle of the field….however ice man is running over and has a play at the ball…he dives…..and the ball just somehow squeezes right by his outstretched hands into zinns chest. Whether it was the speed of the ball or the iceman finger…..the ball bangs off zinns chest and colors may have just caught a huge break. Except when playing against zinn you cant assume that normal things will happen and instead of the ball falling to the floor or being intercepted it somehow hits off his chest and follows him up field landing softly back in his hands 10 yards away and no one in front of him for a wild game winning touchdown. an amazing game capped off by an amazing play. Jewball should prob go to zinn but its gotta be dachs for being down 3-1 and going on to throw 6 total tds and coming up with a huge sack when it mattered most.

onto game 2 and our rookie phenom lego bombs second start. the challenge was set with yaron ice zinn rook prime tom and justin/stats set to go against lego pray gronk schiffer kagan daveo and dk. yaron took the ball first, and similar to dachs in game 1, realized that zinn is faster than everyone  and after a quick strike it was 1-0 early. some controversy as kut may have been settling some rooks down during the play but nonetheless lego was down early. however like the methodical qb he is, lego got to work quickly and led his team down the field with short plays wrapping up in a crack run to the left for a td. yaron gets the ball back and gets to work throwing a pretty pass over the middle to…. gronk… who reaches up and snags it out of the sky – no jumping required- and returns it for six. 2-1 colors just like that. after a dark 3 and out lego gets the ball back and hits a deep shot to pray who unfortunately is too fat to outrun the defense and is caught by rook at the 15. two plays later lego rewards pray for the effort with a quick strike to the back of the endzone for another td 3-1 colors. another 3 and out and lego goes back to doing lego things and havs a ziggy zagging run for another td, 4-1 colors. Yaron made it 4-2 after again remembering that zinn is fast. but lego would not be denied and as zinn said “throws the ball on a different atmospheric plane than anyone else” to gronk for another td. 5-2. yaron scored once more to zinn on another crazy tip play similar to game 1. zinn somehow keeps two feet in to make it 5-3. but as was the story of the game. Lego. Didnt. Stop. after breaking zinns ankles, and rumbling for a 65 yard run, a quick slant to pray made it 6-3. with five minutes left the game was all but over – but gronk did gronk things and picked off another pass and flipped to dk for a td return leading to a final score of 7-3. two games for lego. two 7-3 wins. gronk def deserving a jewball but after snubbing lego last week its the Lego man zagelboss. 3 tds thrown 2 rushing tds and just play after play with poise and confidence. someones gotta settle the rookie down.

no in both player this week because no one won two games according to my calculations. The first one will have to wait till week 3.
Whether you’re sitting in a hut for the next week or waiting for yaron to call hike we got pitom bowl this sunday. no stats no real sign up. just good ole fashioned fun football. Will post a poll on thursday. Lots of football left to be played this year and the start of league games right around the corner. Good YT guys! JBFL

Week 1 was finally here. The moment to start anew. The first game of the season, yes there was preseason, but this was the first real taste of football. no more choose ups, Real sign ups, real teams, real in boths and mighty’s favorite real stats. The teams were ready and after a rainy night the sun was out shining, begging us to play except 8 am came and went without football. Two early games scheduled but only 24 guys on the field… then to make matters worse new rookie tight end speigel gets hurt warming up with yaron. It’s 810 and no football has been played yet. Finally, like a white in shining armor.. the kagan boys arrive to save the day. one game starts with 7s and the other with 6s.

on the far side we had new rookie phenom the lego man leading his crew of bert, logic, mighty, rook, bz, and steveo against yours truly, kut, tbd, prime, schiffer, captain stogie, and special k who eventually morphed into portal. Lego took the ball first and after a brief pre-snap convo about the jewball rules just started ripping the ball all over the field. Pass after pass in perfect spots for his wrs and leading to an opening drive score to captain toilet paper, Mr. Charmin Logic. After a 3 an out by colors, lego back at it once again uses his lego legs to run one in for an early 2-0 lead. Finally, colors gets a drive going with some short passes and runs and scores on a sneaky tight end leakout to kut to make it 2-1. However, Lego wasnt done. on the very next drive they march down the field yet again and retake a 2 score lead with a td to the man in the bushes to make it 3-1. Colors needed to answer and quick. After a few quick throws and runs colors gets into a 4th and short, pray scrambling desperate to keep the drive alive and put points on the board lofts a toss to a curling kut but like the stalker he is bert is standing between pray and where he wants to go and rips the ball out of the sky for an int. after a rook screen for a td, colors finally got back on the board with a td to stella and after a stella int one more to schiffer to close the gap and make it 4-3. However, with about 20 minutes to go and the hope finally back in colors hearts, lego lofts a deep ball up the left sideline that gets tipped by pray, then by schiffer, and falls into the lap of mighty who runs it in for the 6th score of the day. they’d tack on another after TBD pfeffs a ball up in the air that lands in rooks lap and leads to an incredible throw and catch from lego to logic for his second score of the day. and just when you thought they were done scoring and as the chumash play is just about getting started at 935, mighty catches one more td just for good measure for a final score of 7-3 an absolute domination by dark from beginning to end. The obvious choice for jewball is lego and in true recap fashion thats exactly why he wont get one. Bert the jewball is all yours. a td, a pick, and 2 sacks. It was a teambert kinda day.

On the other side we had a new rookie qb get the start for zinns squad and after two early ints they made the switch to zinn. Yaron capitalized on those two ints with tds to dk and goldberg to take an early 2-0 lead but that was all they could muster for the day. Zinn marched down the field and picked a rushing td himself and one for stats. Finally, the drive that i did see, zinn had the ball for last licks and methodically made his way to the redzone for a quick tight end curl to daveo to win it. Jewball to zinn for having a complete stat line of 1 passing td, 1 rushing td, 1 int thrown, and 1 int caught. was a sack short of the cycle. Unfortunately, the ageless old man spira did go down with an injury. Maybe it’s just me but nothing pumps me up more than getting a spira breathless vn while he’s running or training or cycling. He really is the Jewball version of David goggins. Someone will need to carry the boats in his absence. Refuah shleima spira, jewball needs you out there and were looking forward to the comeback part 2 next year!!

In the late game it was the return of dax sheppard and the long awaited reunion between the curl man and his bro. Unfortunately, feit wanting revenge coming off his championship loss was feeling it. Feit was dinking and dunking the ball all over the field to his wrs and opening the scoring with a beauty jump ball by ice man for a 1-0 lead. Dachs not one to go down early throws a beautiful slant right into the hands of…. avenger…. who returns it for a pick six giving dark a 2-0 lead. finally dachs and co get on the board with a long stiff arming td to prime only to be answered back immediately by avenger with one of the wildest stop and go tds. Literally he stopped and started again about 15 times on his way to a 60 yard td. Colors cut the lead back to 1 with a long dachs run and lateral to pray for a td but feit would not be stopped. After a call up to tony romo in the booth and colors playing a man defense, feit calls a tight end handoff to bk who takes it 70 yards for a td. feit added one more to berk to put them up 5-2. on the other side we did dachs no favors with 4-5 drops and just miscues all day. a late td from dachs to pray cut it to 5-3 but was too little too late. a jewball to feit for the 3 tds and no ints. called a great game jimmmm.

Because i have to write recaps now, there is another award that I wanna do. Not sure it’ll be a weekly thing but anytime theres a player who plays both and not just physically plays both but dominates the games in a way that is meaningful and comes away with two wins deserves some recognition. Its the In both player of the week. This may have as long a run as praymakers but we’ll see. Unfortunately for this week the only guy who almost qualified was Ice with 5 ints and a rec td through two games, however, only one win to show for it… better luck next time.

Who wants week 2!