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WEEK 8

Nuthin' Fancy

Picked up in the WORM Hole, Joshua Dobbs has been a pleasant surprise for the BC Freebirds

Freebirds cut the power off on the Sleds

RICKWOOD - Nuthin' Fancy is the third studio album by the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on March 24, 1975. It was recorded at the WEBB IV Studios in Atlanta except for track one (Saturday Night Special) which was recorded at Studio One in Doraville, Georgia. Originally containing only eight tracks, it was Skynyrd's first album to reach the top 10, peaking at #9 on the U.S. album charts. It was certified gold on June 27, 1975, and later certified platinum on July 21, 1987. This was the band's first LP with new drummer Artimus Pyle and the last album with guitarist Ed King, who left the band in the middle of their "Torture Tour" in May of 1975. The album is best known for its only single, "Saturday Night Special", an anti-cheap-hand-gun song that peaked at #27 on the U.S. Billboard charts. The single got a big boost prior to the album's release by being featured in the opening scene of The Longest Yard movie staring Burt Reynolds in August of 1974, a whole nine months before the single was even released from the Nuthin’ Fancy LP. As part of Lynyrd Skynyrd's strenuous 90-day, 61-concert schedule aptly entitled the "Torture Tour", the band headlined a concert at Birmingham's Rickwood Field on July 4, 1975 to help promote the Nuthin' Fancy album. This was the second of three summer concerts by the band that would be hosted by the venerable baseball park on the Magic City's westside. The last one in the summer of 1976 was the infamous Skynyd concert that the City of Birmingham had the power cut-off on the band before the show was finished. The real Lynyrd Skynyrd went down with Ronnie Van Zant and other band members and crew in the tragic plane crash on October 20, 1977 near Gillsburg, Mississippi making the 1976 Rickwood concert, the last show the band ever played in Birmingham. In Week 8 of the BDFL, the Black Creek Freebirds did "nuthin' fancy" in their 41-19 defeat of the Fairfield PowerSleds at Rickwood Field in a so-called neutral field match-up like they play in Skynyrd's home town of Jacksonville, Florida this time of year. In other noteworthy BDFL games during Week 8, the Shades Creek Sloth Monsters got their first win of the season while the Brookside Dogs picked up their first loss of the season.

 

Saturday Night Special by Lynyrd Skynyrd from The Longest Yard (1974)

 

WEEK 8

Final Scores

FRE

PS

41

19

WIL

VUL

35

15

SM

GRE

32

10

GAM

BEL

26

29

BUL

DOG

 29otv

29

CHE

MAY

27

26

ARM

BAN

25

24

JUG

BLZ

6

28
 
COMPLETE SCORING DATA FROM THE ALADDIN SCORING SYSTEM

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Keeping Score

Lambeau Field Scoreboard

This is how they used to keep score at Lambeau Field in Green Bay for the Packers and Visitor

The Aladdin Scoring System (@$$)

TITLETOWN - "Aladdin" is a Middle-Eastern folk tale with a genie in a lamp, magic carpet rides and a shot at three wishes. It is one of the best-known tales associated with The Book of One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) despite not being part of the original text. The story was added by the Frenchman Antoine Galland in 1710 based on an old folk tale that he heard from the Syrian Maronite storyteller Hanna Diyab. The BDFL incorporated and established the Aladdin Scoring System (@$$) in 2019 once Woosier's Accurate Real-Time Scoring (WARTS) system was retired. The "Aladdin" name was derived from the magical software designer simply known as "ADARRING". The league's goal for scoring games has always been to be as close to real football as possible. The BDFL has never been sucked into points per reception (PPR) and points for yardage and other BS forms of scoring that leads to unrealistic player point totals and ridiculous game scores. Nothing upsets The Commissioner of the BDFL (Iron Hand) more than BS stat-type scoring in fantasy football. In real football a touchdown is worth six (6) points, the same as in the BDFL. A field goal is worth three (3) points in real football, the same in the BDFL. A safety is worth two (2) points in real football, the same in the BDFL. The same can be said for two-point conversions (2) and extra points (1). Since the league's conception, passing touchdowns have been split equally between the quarterback and the receiver (3+3=6) with the mindset that both players contributed to the six (6) point touchdown. The BDFL's only scoring caveat is the reward of "double the points" for plays over 50 yards. This was done to reward big scoring plays and for the fun of it all. With @$$, the BDFL tracks every player in the NFL each week to ascertain their BDFL point total and record this value in @$$'s magical scoring machine. As a result of this highly disciplined scoring system, the BDFL has had realistic game scores for 28 years and counting. To prove how well the BDFL has done with managing the league's scoring system, consider that in the NFL last season (2022) the average team scoring was 21.9 points per team per game (24.2 in the BDFL). The BDFL's slight scoring increase over the NFL can be traced to the league's unique point reward policy of "double the points" for all scoring plays over 50 yards. We go through this math exercise to prove a point. The BDFL has perfected how scoring should be tabulated in fantasy football. Period. End of story. The rest of the fantasy football world is living on Fantasy Island in La La Land with Tatoo, far, far away from pro football reality. Thank you for helping keep the BDFL as the leader in the real world of fantasy football.

 
 

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