The Bulletin

From underneath a rock in Media Void

Living under a rock - By definition means to be oblivious, or ignorant, to what happens in the outside world. It is used to describe a person who doesn’t know something that any “normal” human being is supposed to know, usually in relation to recent events.

Media Void - Is a ficticious city in a ficticious country which is free from all types of media and information. Where everybody in the city/state wanders aimlessly around uninformed about everything from the news, to weather, to sports and politics.

Week 15 - Big blowouts as all the favorites win except the Wizards

Big Dance Begins with Big Blowouts:

The once mighty Fairfield PowerSleds might by mighty again. Mad Jack’s Mean Machine opened the Big Daddy Championship Series with a big, old-fashioned, A.W. against the Gulf Coast Riverboat Gamblers. This one was never really even close. The Sledheads started the heavy metal power train early in the week, and didn’t let up until the “dealing was done.” As for the Gamblers, who appeared to be at the wrong table all night, it was a tough end to a pretty good season. But, pretty good doesn’t cut it in the BDFL. So, Kenny B.’s hopes of a BDFL title in 2017 are gone, and the Sleds look like to team to beat.

Wildcats Whip Woo Crew:

Another surprise team that maybe tough to beat in the Big Dance, is the resurgent Western Hills Wildcats. After years of mediocrity interspersed with complete ineptitude, the “James Gang” looks to be playing some real football in 2017. In the opening week of the BDCS, the Wildcats whipped the Smoke Rise Woosiers (according to WARTS) 43-25. That’s just a few points short of an A.W., but enough of a margin to make the rest of the BDFL rank and file stand up and take notice of what could be brewing in Five Points West.

Mayors Rally on Monday Night to Survive and Advance:

It could be a theme that location is playing a factor as the bracket starts to play out in the BDCS. A team from Fairfield, one from Five Points West (Fair Park), and one from the Magic City are moving on to Round Two in the Winner’s Bracket. The Magic City Mayors rallied on Monday Night Football to defeat the pesky Commissioner and his Mineral Springs Grenadiers, 35-29, in a real grudge match at Legion Field. So, if you take a pre-GPS map – a paper, multi-fold map – and draw lines from Fair Park to Fairfield (exactly Southern Electric Steel’s old site), and the flag pole at Legion Field, you’ll find a “Bermuda Triangle” of fantasy football fortune. (However, it could be a trap-a-zeta-zoid.*)

Freebirds Fly High in A.W. of Brother Bullet:

*The trapezoid or octagon or rectangular, quadupod is formed when you include Black Creek or the center of the old, New Castle Dynasty. There sits the Fultondale Freebirds as the last team left in the “Final Four” in contention for the Grand Daddy Trophy as the potential champion of the BDFL. In the first round of the playoffs, the Freebirds jammed past the out-of-tune Bullets in A.W. fashion, 35-10. The Benton Bullets had bagged their way into the Big Dance, and were no match for their younger brother on this occasion. Bullet captured the “Toilet Seat Team of the Weak” award and will not play out the string for the remainder of the NFL regular season. Meanwhile, the Team Formerly Known as the Black Creek Wooden Warriors will rock on as the Freebirds to the next round of the playoffs, hoping to once-again get their hands on the vaulted Helmet O’ Silver.

Mullet Series Doesn’t Disappoint – Till, Hill, Hill:

In the Big Mullet Series, the proverbial losers from the BDFL’s regular season got together (like they always do this time of year), and they probably had more fun than the Dudes in the Big Dance. The Duncanville Armadillos – who really had no business in the BMS – lambasted the Blount County Blue Deacons, 30-10. Bishop is playing with “less than house money,” running the old Slovak franchise down the stretch, so it’s understandable that he didn’t get the “Toilet Seat” award. The Brookside Dogs are at home in the BMS, and proved it by whipping the Wizards, 28-22. Elsewhere, the Druid City Blitz and the old bartender (Mukes) met at Harry’s in T-town to face off in Round One of the Big Mullet. The Fritz Gritz Blitz topped the Son of Slim, 25-16. Finally, the Southside Cheetahs beat the defending champion Jugtown Juggernauts, 21-15.

WEEK 15 in the Jr BDFL - “It’s all about the kids.”

The excitement in the second round of the Jr. BDFL playoffs centered on another Overtime game. The top-seeded Lowndes County Labradors rode a 57-yard Todd Gurley run, and a 27-point individual performance, to barely squeak by the Canton (Ohio) Bulldog Woofers in OT, 46-46. The Selma Southpaws edged the 2nd seeded Rebel City Netters, 34-32. The Winston County Walkers proved to be too much for the Future Slovaks of America, 57-31, and the Shades Mountain Grizzly Burrs roared past the Birmingham Barn Burners, 42-24. The Week 15 scores and the Junior League Bracket are below.

Round Two (2) Scores in the Jr. BDFL:

Updated Playoff Bracket: