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The Bulletin - Week 7

From underneath a rock in Media Void

Week 7 (Seven the hard way)

Gamblers 39 – PowerSleds 27

In the bowels of the Dolodome, in the shadows of Southern Electric Steel, and under the ominous cloud of the original Power Sled carrying Heavy Metal legends: Edgar Winter, Mega Death, and Judas Priest, the Gulf Coast Gamblers stole one of their more-impressive wins in BDFL hist’ry. This one will resonate. This win will echo past the 2011 post-season. The Dixie Mafia – called out – and challenged by the Mean Machine, stood up and illustrated why they are the “team to beat” this year in the Big Daddy Football League. “The Real Deal is back,” clamored one of the Gamblers after they escaped Fairfield with a hard-fought 12-point win. Indeed, and now all fantasy football fans will get to see if the Dixie Mafia can “keep it going” for the second half of the season. And, on the flip side, they’ll get a chance to see if the PowerSleds can rebound.

Bullets 35 – Grenadiers 14 (A.W.)

If you look up “A.W.” in the official, Webster, BDFL dictionary you’ll see a description of this game. The vagabond, city-to-city Grenadiers ventured down to Lowndes County to visit Brother Bullet and his Benton Bullets. And, it reminded the Bulletin of the old Charlie Daniels song lyrics: “If you ever go down to the Wooly Swamp, well, you better not go at night.” In this mixed metaphor, the “Wooly Swamp” would be Rebel Stadium, just off Highway 21, past the flashing light in Hayneville. What happened to the Commissioners team cannot best be described in a family publication such as this. “Put it this way,” said Bullet, “it’s an A.W. And, we all know what that stands for.” It was bad. Saints players Drew Brees and Jon Kasay had 29 of Bullet’s 35 points… and reveled in A.W., and the fact that this could be 2009 all over again, with the Bullets winning the BDFL, the Saints winning the Super Bowl, and Alabama winning the National Championship. “Gotta pull for that,” one red-blooded American stander-by was heard to say.

Juggernauts 30 – Wooden Warriors (previously undefeated) 27

Not since Jaimie Hand missed a potential game-tying field goal in 1981 against Cullman, has Hime let down the masses at Rocket Stadium. But, against the home standing JugTown Juggernauts, old Bocephus saw history repeat itself. Even though the Black Creek Wooden Warriors were the “visiting team” they probably had more fans in the stands, with friends, family, Hands and Slovenskys on hand. The Woodies attempt to tie things up in the final seconds against “Allyson’s Overachievers” fell short and the Wooden Warriors absorbed their first loss of the 2011 BDFL season. It was quite ironic. It was somewhat devastating. It was a hard (worm-sized) pill to swallow for the Woodies, especially to see the ‘Nauts pull a page out Jaimie’s book and head to Pasquale’s (and later Big Al’s) to celebrate their vict’ry.

Cheetahs 19 – Sloth Monsters 3

Speaking of “worm pills,” the Sloth Monsters took something in Week Seven that didn’t “sit well with them.” The result for Mukes was the “Toilet Seat Team of the Weak” award, a 3-point total, and a big loss at the hands and steel toed, Mac Sanderson, “roach-killing” boots of the Riverchase Cheetahs. This one was U-G-L-Y, and didn’t have an alibi. It was ugly. For the Cheetahs sake, it helped them “stop the bleeding” in what was an awful first-half of the season. And the Sin Wagoneers hope it will propel them to a much better second half of the season. We’ll see.

Slovaks 24 – the Blitz 10

Just when it looked like a possible, potential, and decent season for the Druid City Blitz, they “up and lose” to the lowly Fighting Slovaks. You just can’t say anything good about this game from the perspective of the Yuppie-Spangled Blitz. On the other hand, the Slovaks have now won two-in-a-row, and everyone in the BDFL is updating their computers with the latest software and virus-control mechanisms to brace for the upcoming round of cyber-babble that is sure to come from the Oak Mountain headquarters of ASlo & Company. The EuroTrash Talkers will probably have a field day with this one, and Fritz you’re to blame.

Dogs 16 – Woosiers 10

Things are bad in Brookside. Heck, they always have been, at least from the late 1940s until now. But, right now in Hayden it looks like the brink of Armageddon. Stores are boarding windows and shops are closing early. The traffic lights are blinking red in all directions and the Mayor is considering declaring “martial law.” The only shop operating as normal is WARTS. There behind sound-proof windows and Venetian blinds, the Master Woo is calmly plotting his second-half comeback in the BDFL. He isn’t letting a humbling loss to the Brookside Dogs deter him from his ultimate plan to win the BDFL with another patented late-season surge. So, while they are celebrating on the banks of the Five Mile Creek (which they should, after all, vict'ries are rare in Brookside), the Woo Crew is hunkered down looking to add depth at the Supplemental Draft and close strong in 2011.

Mayors 29 – Wizards 12

Bring on the Magic City Classic: Mayor Arrington was the “first in line” this morning setting up his spot in the tailgating line outside Legion Field for the upcoming Magic City Classic. The Mayors got the week rolling with a big win over the hapless Pasco County Wizards and now A.A. plans to keep the magic flowing right up until game time of the big one between SWAC rivals Alabama State and Alabama A&M, and until his next game in the BDFL.

Where are they now?

Johnny Manasco – Alive and well in Gardendale. In fact, he spent the last week working on a house on Hand Lane and paying a visit to D.K. and Mary Ann. Then he tailgated before the Alabama-Tennessee game with BDFLers Bullet and the Commish on the Quad. For those who don’t know: Johnny Manasco goes back 40+ years in connection with the Hand Brothers and other Gardendale residents (past and present). (1) He’s a former softball wiz, (2) a member of the GHS “Misfits of 1981,” and a former star players with the Pee Wee (7-8) Angles and Angels as part of an infield that featured Tommy Kinney, Johnny Belcher, Terry and Tyler James, and Bullet and Jaimie. His exploits with the team was captured in a folk song about the ball club in the late 1960s and early 70s, that begins… “Johnny Manasco…”

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