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!