Brady's Babblings

Greetings and a BIG Aloha from the Commish. Maui was, well lets just say, Maui was Maui. Awesome golfing and awesome beaches. To top everything off, the food and the bars with the great Mai Tai's and Pina Colada's kept me going and forgetting about football for a while. The time difference is 4 hours so the games were played early so that I could play late.

When I first arrived at my condo a week ago Saturday, I turned on ESPN 2 to get caught up on scores at 10:30 pm. Much to my surprise and delight, the replay of the Alabama versus Southern Mississippi game was on. During this replay, I also saw my star RB Ahmed Galloway tear his ACL and end his career. I saw some of the scores and really did not know if my team was going to be passed the torch and earn pansy of the week honors. I would just sit back and hope for the best!

I managed to get a call from Jeff Snyder while I was at a luau on Monday night. My deepest and heartfelt sympathies go to him and his family as his father in law passed away at the young age of 57. I checked in with him Friday after playing 18 holes at the Plantation Course at Kapalua. I only had about 30 minutes to chat with him about the league before teeing off for another 18 holes on the Bay Course. Much to my surprise, I found out that while the cat is away, the mice will play. After working with Jeff to get one problem after another resolved, I was able to go play some more golf. Here is the recap from week #4. It will be a shortened version since I have not had time to find coaching blunders and such.

The Cossacks are back from Siberia with a victory! Up and down the line up, the Cossacks unscrewed the vodka and celebrated in convincing style. Maybe the cold and blustery winds of Siberia were too much for our Native Americans. They got zero out of their top pick Diedrick as Nebraska was off this week. Like I said, I don't know if coaching blunders came in to play, so I will leave it at this.

Coaching blunders aside, I was relieved to see that pansy of the week broke tradition and was not handed down to the Elephants. The Contributors gained this honor for a second time in 4 weeks! It is no wonder how this was attained when your kicker nets you a negative 1 point! The Death were led by 2 PAC 10 runners Smith of Oregon and Alexis of Washington. Maybe I should rewrite that sentence so that some of you don't get confused with the dead rapper 2 Pac! Smith and Alexis posted 42 points, enough to beat the hapless Contributors. The only coaching blunder was for McSwain to not make the trip and to rely on ASST Coach Uhl to draft. I think John will make the draft next year after this year's fiasco!!

After starting out the year with pansy of the week honors, the Dragonfarts have been rolling. Led by FSU QB'S who posted 27 and another 24 from the Virginia Tech defense, Rusch's Dragonfarts on parole from Canyon City University, posted a huge win against the Stingrays. All Merv needed was for his team to help out his on again off again RB MCCLENDEN. All this running back did was gain 40 points. On most weeks, when you have a player get 40 points, you kind of expect to win. A 0 and 1 from a RB and TE do not help. There is no I in team. You need all members to produce to win!

In what turned out to be the biggest scare of the season for the Mighty Titans, was one of the highest outputs for 2 teams in a single game. Who is going to stop the Titans? All around scoring by both teams that required a calculator to tally the scores. Al and Russ, my hat is off to you both for taking the Titans to the limit. Jeff, slow down. I, the Commish was posting scores like this last year until I ran into a buzz saw in the playoffs. Save some points for when they are really needed!

Lucky for the Commish that pansy of the week did not follow past traditions. Cows had the title in week #3 and were supposed to hand it down to their opponent. Lucky for the Elephants that Jacobs WR Florida had a big game to save them. Mr. Driver, oh how do you miss Luke Staley. 3 of the Cows posted zeroes when a combined 7 would have earned them their first victory!

The Maulers are trying to keep pace with baby Bro's Titans by winning again and being in the Top 6 every week. A big 27 from Louisville's defense was enough with all around scoring to defeat the Pride. The Harry and Larry show put up a respective 73 points. RB McKenzie of USC netted a zero so I don't know if a coaching blunder kept the Pride from winning.

As I said in the beginning, this would be a short report due to the fact that I was not in town for the games. I hope recap will add a little to your day!

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