Beatin' the system
Mayors are stretching the BDFL rules to their benefit
with Ty Montgomery coming out of the backfield
The Mayors
capitalize on an unfair advantage
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CITY
– Pushing the envelope. Thinking outside the box. Bending the rules.
Exploiting a loophole. Beatin' the system. A typical political move
utilized by Cronies for years. However, no matter how you look at it, you have to give
the Mayors credit for selecting WR-Ty Montgomery/GB with the sixth pick
in the 2016 BDFL Supplemental Draft after Week #7. Up to that point
in the season, the Packers had only experimented with him in the
backfield. Montgomery was drafted as a wide receiver out of Stanford in
2015 and he wears #88, so he looks like a wide receiver, but when he
lines up in the backfield and carries the ball 16 times for 162 yards
and two touchdowns like he did in Week #15, he's a running back by most
all definitions. The Mayors gamble pick and their vision of the future has led to
an anomaly in the BDFL that has never been experienced in the 22 years
of league play. There
have always been receivers who lined up in the backfield who occasionally
had rushing carries and rushing touchdowns (Percy Harvin in Seattle comes to mine), but nothing
has ever come close to something like
this. The BDFL does not make knee-jerk decisions, and will stick with
their executive decision from after Week #7 to allow Montgomery to be listed
as a wide receiver and get credit for rushing points due to the
uniqueness of his original 2016 position and the overall sticky situation, but expect new guidelines to
correct this anomaly in the near future. Editor's
Note: A quick WARTS audit shows that Montgomery has only scored
this season in the last two games (W14/6 pts. & W15/12 pts.) and his point total has
not changed the outcome of a BDFL game yet, but he did help the Mayors
with a higher seed position in the 2016 BDCS and in an ironic twist,
cost Iron Hand's Grenadiers an opening round BDCS vict'ry.
Big Daddy Championship Series (BDCS) -
Woosiers, Mayors, Armos and 'Nauts advance
Big Mullet Series (BMS) - Bullets, Wildcats,
Sloth Monsters and PowerSleds advance
