CONGRATULATIONS
ROUNDER 17
THE 2008 PFFL CHAMPIONS!

Weekly Conference Winners

TEAM OF THE WEEK

West

DOWNTOWNERS

FINAL WEEK - PFFL TOTAL POINT CHAMPIONSHIP

PFFL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RESULTS

	FIRST		SECOND		THIRD
	West Conference		East Conference		Central Conference
	Rounder 17		Tommy Guns		Syndicate
	126		116		111

     The elusive second championship remains at large with the Syndicate failing to win back to back championships. Not a bad two years though! The projections did indicate a third-place finish but their potential points reveal history could have been made. They actually had the highest PP total of the three of 156! Now don't get me wrong, according to the projections they made no mistakes. But had they thought outside the box on their third RB and gone with Derrick Ward over De'Shaun Foster, they tie the Rounders with 126 and their #1 rank would have made them the #1 team in the PFFL for 2008. Had Gore played . . . well, we'll never know. But hey, we have finally found the right combination of medications for Mickey so lets not dwell on this and set off a relapse.

     There were two things that were true about the Tommy Guns effort to win their first championship: One, the projections favored their players over the other two for week 16 and two, the strength of their team was their running backs so it probably would come down to how they performed. Pierre Thomas should have had a monster game and 19 points isn't bad mind you, but I can imaging the frustration the Guns must have had watching Robert Meachem, Deuce McAllister, and the final straw, someone named Mike Bell get rushing TDs. The final blow came when Michael Turner contributed just 13 and their horse AP even less with 11. We said they would go as their RBs go and as a whole they were average at best; consequently, so was their score.

     As championship games go this one was kind of tame but officially it did come down to Monday night. The Syndicate had a 111-105 lead over Rounder 17 and 111-87 over the Guns, but both opponents had Aaron Rodgers left and the Syndicate was empty. Hey, Brady went down in the first quarter! Rodgers didn't though and it was basically over early - unless the Guns who also had Robbie Gould could get 18 kicking points. Well it wasn't out of the question but with just three in the first half we weren't holding our breath in the second. In week 13 we stated that the Rounders had the kind of players to go all the way - but also the kind that needed good matchups. Well their matchups were not all that great this week and the fact that they put up their worst score of their four postseason games maybe proves out the theory. We also stated that the Rounders had the players to force other teams to put up a good number to beat them. Neither of their opponents broke the league average hence the victory. The bottom line is with a playoff game average of 132 they weren't going to give it away. They produced the opportunity to give it away though when they opted to use Joe Nedney over Stephen Gostkowski; a decision that cost them 11 points. Had the Syndicate's Andre Johnson and Steve Smith produced or the Guns RBs play up to their potential, that decision could have cost them a championship. Let's stop right here because the what-ifs belong to the losers and not the 2008 PFFL Champion!

	FIRST		SECOND		THIRD
	East Conference		Central Conference		West Conference
	T Bones		Steve Irwin Crocodiles		Irish Talbots
	145		101		90