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Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Catching up with the Commish

 

Stay classy, Texas.

A strange season rolls on. Alabama suddenly can't play defense. Notre Dame is undefeated. Florida looked like world-beaters until their defense imploded. Pity KBronie who has longed for an offense to go along with Florida's strong defense for several years. Now this. 

Big 10 play starts this weekend. Something seems inherently unfair about this. Whereas the Big 12 and the ACC have been putting on shit-show after shit-show for weeks the B1G has been practicing their asses off doing things like, oh, live tackling. Real blocking. Scrimmaging. We'll see what the quality of play is like. 

So, yeah, unfortunately we need to talk  money. 

"In these difficult times' many of the BRFL Faithful have lost track of their debts. I've had questions from them about how much they owe, which makes my life a lot easier. So here's the rundown:

Everybody who won money has been paid.

Those who lost money: 

  1. BroFro $10 Paid cash
  2. Kitten $10 Paid Venmo
  3. DPo $70 Paid BJ
  4. Snottie $130 Paid PayPal
  5. Obama $160
  6. SkHank $235
  7. SockPuppet $325 Paid check
That's the story. Get me your dough when you can. Checks are fine. PayPal. Cash. Randy always on my shit about Venmo, I have an account but don't understand it. 

I don't think I'll recap any of the fucked up games from last week. I will say that Mike Leach, yes, that Mike Leach's day in the sun in the SEC was pretty short-lived. KJ Costello, his QB, tossed 6 INTs, I think 2 were pick sixes. So much for the Air Raid Offense. 

Friendly UK LB helps Costello keep track of his picks.



No clue what will happen this week. 
BTW, BRFL World Headquarters mailing address is:

30 Fair Street
Cooperstown, NY 13326

Good tidings, BRFLers,

Jimbosuke
Commissioner for Life




Sunday, September 27, 2020

Weird Season Week 4

Without Joe they kind of blow.


 Greetings, Brothers and Sisters.

It's week 4 and what have we learned? Well, one thing I've learned is that sportscasters hyping up their delivery like they just pulled their faces out of a dinner plate covered 4 inches deep in blow doesn't make up for not having fans in the stands. "Holy SHIT, Irv. That punt travelled FIFTY YARDS in the air!!! I need another bump, Irv!" 

It's just not the same.

Oklahoma. Their DC, who got a 400K pay raise after last season, got flamed by a depleted, Covid-infested KState squad. That's two years in a row. Well, last year they didn't have Covid, but still. Here we are. This masked man is Lincoln Riley, the head man, who will definitely have to pull something magical out of his ass to make the playoffs this year and justify his 9.5 million annual paycheck. Hard times in Norman.

"What was your cousin the realtor's number, Honey?"

Mike Leach. Yes. That Mike Leach, and Mississippi State make their SEC debut by air-raiding the fuck out of reigning National Champion LSU. Bad days on the bayou. 



 

And Texas isn't that great. OT win over TTech. Who coaches TTech? Name one player on TTech. I can't either. Hook 'em horns? Meh. Oh, Department of Pettiness: Please note, when I write of Texas I write with some considerable personal animus. Not only do they have two notorious douchebag ex-TOSU coaches (the head man, Tom Herman, a five-star asshole, but now also Chris Ash, late of the Rutgers HC job, who is the defensive coordinator and not feeling so great today) but they are arch recruiting rivals with TOSU. Here is Bijan Robinson, a freshman RB recruit, who Texas beat TOSU out for.  If he's going to keep doing shit like that, well, he's all yours, Texas.

Wait, what about Florida? Holy Shit. Playoffs much? Curb stomping of Ole' Miss. But, WTF, Emory Jones? 1 for 3 for 30 yds and an INT? Another much sought after TOSU recruit who chose Florida. Luckily they don't seem to need him. Happy days at Casa Komronovich.

Keep it real, Friends,

Jimbosuke, Commissioner for Life




Thursday, September 17, 2020

The B1G is Back

 

Joe Milton got game.
 

Wait. What? The B1G is going to play? Well, that was a long run for a short slide. Dabo didn't waste any time being an asshole. So Dabo. Dumbo, it's not about you. It's about Meechy. And TOSU. And Oklahoma. And Texas. Auburn and Alabama and LSU, the team that whipped your ass last year in the final. Does Clemson play N. Carolina this year? That could be an "L" for the Tiggers. Stay classy, Dilbo. 

It's great to be back. 

Jimbosuke

Commissioner for Life



Friday, August 7, 2020

Opting out

 

And they have begun to drop like flies. 
First, Micah Parsons, one of the best LBs in College Football. Until he wasn't because he is opting out on the 2020 Covid season. Say good-bye, Happy Valley. 
Hey, Purdue, counting on Rondale Moore eviscerating Ohio State again this year, like he did in 2018? NOT SO FAST, my Friend. Rondale is opting out. (This one's a head scratcher but, hey, Purdue is going to suck this year.)
How do you think Mike Locksley, the Maryland coach, feels? His starting QB and 5 other guys are opting out. 
This season is rapidly developing into a shit show of Biblical proportions. 
Ohio State and scUM will play October 24, if the season lasts that long. Maybe at 3:30 so the game ends under the lights.
And Jim Harbaugh is already being a little Bitch about The Game.

What's wrong with this picture? Look to the right. Those are cleats. Jordans, to be specific, a brand Evil scUM has a contract with. It is commonly held that Harbaugh never takes his cleats off. When he's on the plane he wears cleats. When he's in the locker room - cleats. He lost a 5 star O-line prospect because he made his in-home visit wearing...cleats. 
Keep it weird, Jimmy. Always.

Jimbosuke, 
Commissioner for Life

Monday, August 3, 2020

Make Believe


See this guy? He's Caleb Farley, the Virginia Tech cornerback who is ranked the #1 cornerback prospect for the 2021 NFL draft.
Here's a question for you. Do you think Caleb is going to suit up for the Hokies this year?*
(Answer at the end of this post).

Here's a little something from elevenwarriors a few days ago.

NOT SO FAST, my Friend. Here's an article from today's Wall Street Journal.

And then we have this desperate nonsense. I mean really.

Personally, I don't see a college football season happening this year. Honestly? I don't think it should. Everybody talks about how, when young people get Covid it "doesn't affect them much". Except when  it does. There have been many articles and interviews with college athletes who have had Covid and they often say it is months before they get their stamina back and some still haven't. So, as we know, this is all about the TV contract money, the money that home games throw off (though, really, how much will that be? Ohio State is going to put only 20% of the asses they usually put in the Shoe for home games).

So, I've talked to some BRFLers. I'm the Commissioner for God's sakes.
The question is, do we pause the BRFL and bag this season? This season which promises to be a shit show and where the results will be based on, basically, the same  odds as those of throwing a dart at a board blind folded and nailing the bullseye?

I vote we bag it. So do Randiddle, McLovin, BroFro and KBronie.

Let me hear from you.

And, also, let  me see your checks so people can get paid.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

* and the answer is fuck no! Caleb's not playing. At all. Are you crazy?

Friday, July 10, 2020

It doesn't look good.





Shit be getting real. This is a bad, bad sign. And it turns out you can't pick Yale this season, even if you wanted to. I had not heard that people were even considering bumping the season to Spring 2021, which I still don't think would work because I doubt we'll have an effective vaccine even by then.
But, and much more importantly for us, that would be a nightmare scenario BRFL draft since many players eligible for the 2021 NFL draft would doubtless skip the college season.
While there are coaches and administrators who still don't get it the evidence for cancellation of this season is adding up. The last I heard the BIG had trimmed back to a "conference only" season which is a pop-corn fart away from a "no games" season.
To be honest, when I first started hearing about this "novel coronavirus" I wasn't that impressed. And now? It's weird. We've kind of become almost used to it. Until you get reminded of the depth of the fallout even at places like Stanford.
In the end the fallout from this (cancelled) season is going to be bigger than most of us imagined. For everyone who got fat off the NFL's unpaid feeder system that was and is college football, the convergence of Black Lives Matter and College Football (um, Black players)/Covid 19 is bound to shake things up.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Sunday, July 5, 2020

Cue the Somber Music


This is a picture of Shaun Wade, arguably Ohio State's best DB, getting ejected from the Clemson game. This was a travesty of replay justice. But I headline this little BRFL missive with this picture to illustrate how quickly situations can change.

There will be no BRFL payout at 30 Fair Street this year.
Without putting too fine a point on it the Virus is just too frightening.

Most, if not all, BRFLers have grandchildren and/or frail, elderly parents.
Last night Denise and The Commissioner entertained, outdoors, our next door neighbors. And while it was fun it was also a complete Covid shit show. By the time we adjourned, everybody was drunk and hugging and had been having 12 inch distancre face to face "discussions" for hours. Not to mention the shared tasty treats.

Several BRFLers (Komronovich, Obama, Mrs. CCS, etc.) have seen the Virus up close and personal. I think the consensus of opinion would be that the best thing that can happen to you if you get it is to die.
So the Commissioner, in a disturbing turn towards mature decision making, is pulling the plug on the Jambo. Maybe we can virtualize something. I'll work on it. You fuckers still have to pay up so we can make the winners whole. But as far as getting together, with the attendant hugging and kissin'? No. Not going to happen.

Your thoughts?

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Strange Days




Well...uh...more bleak college football news rolling in.
Still, let's focus on the pay out.

I'm thinking August 15th, the latest possible date.
I think the last time we did this we had Lucy Townsend's outfit cater. Basically Lucy did it herself. And it was awesome.
Need some input from the group about what they feel comfortable with.
Do you guys feel comfortable getting together? Denise and I do. I know McLovin is in. We can sort of distance, have families sit together. Work out something with the serving of the food. Wear HazMat suits. Bottled oxygen.
Open to suggestion.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

The BRFL must Represent


Your Commissioner is very skeptical that we will be seeing college football this fall. At all. If we do see it, then brace yourself for something weird. The stands are going to look like, well, I guess a Trump rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Many of the arena’s 19,000 seats remained empty as Mr. Trump spoke.

There will be a fan "sound track" for those nail biting 4th and goal plays. About half the band at the game. I mean, my God, they're talking about socially distancing Script Ohio. See how I didn't put quotation marks around socially distancing? That's because I've become so accustomed to this jack-ass phrase. And that's pretty alarming all by itself. Socially distancing is now a ridiculous verb that is just sort of accepted.

From a gambling standpoint, uh...wow.



You could pick Clemson or Ohio State and they could run the table for five games and look like world beaters and then BOOM Covid 19 hit's the campus hard and your #1, 2 and 3 running backs are in the ICU, your D line is wearing portable oxygen, your coach is on the ventilator. Do we really want to make the person who picks Clemson start 10 points in the hole? It's all so confusing.
Still.
Here we are.
And the BRFL must Represent.
I'm tilling the soil and preparing for our usual blow out pay out. Not that I'm ignoring "these difficult times" but let's look at all the things we, the BRFL membership, have going for us;

Plenty of parking in Cooperstown in high summer. (Fuck you, Derek Jeter).
A ridiculous number of sunny days thus far.
Our first female Champion of Champions.
Masks! Get creative. Or not.
For once we get to brag about 1) living in NYState and 2) our Governor. These are special times.
This year's draft is already the Story of the Year. NY State has the absolute lowest virus transmission rate in the country. Could this be the University of Buffalo's year? Would Rutgers be a crazy pick? Would it? U Conn? Yale? Boola boola!

I'm looking at August 1 or August 15, whichever is worse for Snottie.
No rule changes. Including Bet The Ranch.


If the season gets cancelled I'll mix up some Kool Aid and we can all drink it together at the same time.
If the season starts and gets cancelled the winner is whoever is ahead at the time.
If the season gets suspended we put the BRFL on pause until it resumes.

Personally, I'm pretty jacked.

When no one can see a smile, some people are improvising, like this worker at a drive-through earlier this year in Wake Forest, N.C.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life.


Saturday, May 30, 2020

The BRFL adapts to social disorder

Take THAT, tax-payer.

Greetings from Columbus, Ohio!

Yes. Oh, yes.
Pandemic.
Social disorder.
I read a disturbing article (also an overlong article, but still) about the Boogaloo movement.
Now I  know what all those Hawaiin shirts at Stewart's were all about.

Trying times, Brothers and Sisters.

Apparently there will be college football this year.Though it promises to be pretty weird.  Maybe a late start? Social distancing makes every game look like Alabama v the Citadel in Tuscaloosa near the end of the fourth quarter?
I don't know.
The Omniscient Commissioner is having a really hard time wrapping his massive cerebrum around this.
But I am concerned.
Admitting a fuck-up here (rare for someone as genius-level as the Commissioner).
Should NOT have skipped the payout last year. Remember; Skipped 'cause of our new puppy who was, let's just say, a "biter".


 Still. A few wounds, easily bound. We could have honored CCS and his win with...Alabama? Clemson? I forget.
Yet, sure, it was a bad call. After further review, I should have doubled down on the hydrogen pyroxide, bandages and tetanus shots and just called the fucking caterer. Who knew?

Now we are really in the shit.
NY State has an ever-shifting menu of what is allowed and what is not allowed thanks to our ( "I only want to be the Governor of New York" ) Governor.
Travel is complicated. (Imagine "Timmy!", who is probably, right now, sitting down at the baccarat table in an all-nude Casino in Macau, showing up at the BRFL shindig with a nasal swab still sticking out of his nose?).
Even I, so like a God, don't really know what to recommend.

Rest assured, or as the case maybe, less than totally panicked, that Your Commissioner is STILL THINKING ABOUT IT. That may not sound like a big deal but be not afraid, Plebian, Your Commissioner considers this  a VERY big deal indeed.

More details after I talk it over with The Man Upstairs,

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life


Friday, May 15, 2020

BRFL, post-virus apocalypse.


I'm not having fun.

And you probably aren't either. 
Scuttling down the alley to the liquor store at noon, wearing a mask. 
Sleeping 10 hours a day. 
Spraying down tomatoes with Lysol, then eating them.
Caring deeply about inane posts on Facebook from people you barely know. 

Sad. 

Don't even talk to me about "social distancing". 
You're supposed to stay 6 feet away from everybody when you're not at work, but if you're an essential worker you can jump into a pig-pile like it's fourth and goal from the one. 

Nutty.

But, hey, we, the BRFL membership, have bigger fish to fry. 
We have to figure out how we keep our beloved league going through "these difficult times" (tired of hearing that much?). 

Fear not, Brothers and Sisters. 
The Commissioner is hard at work. 

Actually, not. 

The Commissioner works doing lot of shit that his insurance company would take a very, very dim view of. And then he goes home and crawls into his safe, quiet place and thinks dark thoughts until the booze takes over and he "falls asleep".

 But that's not your  problem. That's the Commissioner's problem. For the Commissioner there are twelve steps. Or something. But YOU deserve better.

So.

Soon's the Commissioner can figure out whether we're at stage 1 or stage 4 or whatever the fuck they are talking about on the news (which comes on alarmingly late according to the Commissioner's Happy Hour Schedule 2020) we'll be scheduling our pay-out blow-out. If there is to be no college football season this year (shudder) well...I don't know what we'll do. Ritual suicide? Not ruling that out. But the more pressing issue is that we are two parties down right now. HIstorically speaking. We haven't recognized CCS for his 2018 win and we haven't crowned Q for an impressive 2019 campaign. 

So party we must. 

And party we will.   

Until then, never forget what an asshole Dabo Swinney is. Never. Forget.

And enjoy a few of my favorite things.

Yours sincerely,

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life.



Saturday, April 11, 2020

Dumb and Dumber



What the fuck is wrong with Dabo Swinney? Seriously. This guy is, well, just a douche. Yes, he works hard. Fine. Good football coach. Not great. But good. I can't take that away from him. But he does have certain advantages. Starting with the weak-assed conference he plays in. And his candy-assed out of conference schedule. Is there a brigade or two of bag-men that help him harvest the recruiting hot-bed that he was lucky enough to land in? Probably not anymore than at TOSU or USC or Alabama. But he's no Bear Bryant. He's no Urban Meyer. He's no Fielding Yost.
He's just a corn-ball turd with big old ears who says dumb shit. And he's riding a wave of great recruiting classes. Enjoy it while it lasts, Fucker.
But at least Lil' Dabo has a friend.
Release The Mullet!


Yes. YES. It's the Mullet Man from Stillwater here to put your fears to rest on this whole virus thing.
Dad-gum-it, people need to see football and feel better and for Christ's sake keep that Oklahoma economy humming. Keep those oil derricks a-pumpin'. Well, no. Not the oil derricks. But, god damn and FUCK IT, young people have ANTIBODIES and he's a football coach so let him get ta coachin' and fuck you if you don't like it. "I'm a man. I'm 40. Swab me!"

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life


Thursday, March 26, 2020

Ole Miss Shows the Way


It's not enough that Lane Kiffin (yes, that Lane Kiffin) is the new Ole Miss coach. Here's how the folks in Oxford are cat-fishing for the silver lining in this lil' ol' once in a lifetime apocalypse.

Nice, huh? "You gonna' die, Bojangles? Well, just, ya' know, don't forget about us, okay?"
Hey, sure, fund raising is inherently a gross, dirty race-to-the-bottom affair. I live in... well, you know where I live. Every douche and their brother Don is raising money for SOMETHING. But this is a new low. This is like at the start of the AIDs epidemic when ward clerks at NYCity hospitals used to scour the records of recent admissions for AIDs cases. And then call real estate brokers for a slice of the commission when the AIDs victim died and the apartment got sold. True. Fact. Bitches.

I wonder how The Rebs are feeling now that the center position has had a little Covid shakeup? Dog the Bounty Hunter, you know how important the center position is. Sure you do, Dog.

Now, I could go on bloviating for an hour and a half like a certain spray-on-tan Leader-of-the-Free-World might do and turn this IMPORTANT MESSAGE into a campaign stop but I'm not going to. Basically because I'm not campaigning. I'm already the Commissioner, you Fuckers, and if you didn't know it you'd best learn it right quick. I'm in charge here. Not Anthony fucking Fauci. Me. El Supremo. So, no. Not going to blibber on for an hour and a half. Not going to talk about the time I mowed my mom's neighbor's lawn for a whole summer for nothing. Just to be a  nice guy. Just to do the right thing. Because this is America and that's what American's do. I got a blister mowing that lawn but I never once told anybody about it. I just popped it with a needle and went to work. I didn't miss one day of work because of that blister because that's what you do in America. You work. You take care of business. I took care of business. I did it with a blister that maybe took a little longer, a lot longer, yeah, a lot longer, to heal than the ordinary blister because I have really soft hands. I have soft hands. I have the softest hands in America which is the greatest country in the world and everybody knows it and they watch my hands. If they could have seen that blister they would have shit themselves and then where would we be? I spent thousands of pennies on band aids and neosporin to heal that blister and I was glad to do it because, basically, I wanted that blister to heal. And when it healed my hands were softer than ever. They were like supernaturally soft. Like amazingly soft. And my work productivity went, like, off the charts. Also because the internet wasn't working at my office and I couldn't surf but also because my hands were soft and could do things with a keyboard that, frankly, other people, though I'm sure they're very nice people, can't do.

And they're probably some of the nicest people you know. But they don't have my two, soft, Commissioner's hands that are so soft that they can feel the  Chinese virus on a counter top and save millions of lives every day by screaming, "Stay the fuck away from that counter top you...you... dumb shits! It's crawling with coronas. What's the matter with you? Come here, away from the corona counter, and let me grab your pussy." I can do that, you know. I can. I have arms that are 6 and a half feet long. So I can pull off a social distance pussy grab and you can't so don't even try. Idiot.
And I'm not going to go on and on. Because there's a lot of stuff to do. For me to do. Because probably only I can do it. Like make ventilators. In my basement. Which is kind of a  mess so why don't you lazy turds get off your asses and clean it because I. DON'T. CLEAN. BASEMENTS. You do,  Mister Nobody. So, maybe when you clean my basement I can continue building ventilators. Which I can build. I'm building them. Hundreds of them. No, wait, a million. A million or two ventilators. I build them out of garden hose, air conditioners and bicycle pumps and these are the most perfect, the most beautiful ventilators you have ever seen. You'll never see a more perfect ventilator. And they're so easy to use. So easy. A monkey could run these ventilators. A  monkey with Ebola, which is, thankfully, not what we're dealing with here. This is not Ebola. If this were Ebola you would be, like, so amazingly screwed and I would be so, so gone. Like, in the Commissioner's sealed bunker eating pork and beans until you all die.

No, I'm not going to go on and on about all the great stuff I've done and am still doing. Because I'm still doing it. I'm doing it right now. I do it all the time and it's a beautiful thing. I's a great thing. Do I get tired of doing great things? No. Well, yeah. Sure. Great things are hard to do. But I spent tens of dollars getting to be the Commissioner and I like it. I like it a lot. But it's a lot of work. And I don't get to do some of the other great things I always used to do. Like, the great athletic things, because I'm probably the greatest, most fantastic athlete you've ever met. Some days I play golf and ride a bicycle uphill. I walk the dog. I walk the dog and the dog knows that these are the greatest walks a dog could ever go on because I'm on the other end of that leash, wearing a mask and a face shield.

But, everybody knows I'm one of the greatest athletes, well, THE greatest athlete that ever lived. Ever. I don't have to talk about  my accomplishments. I don't. Why would I have to? They were great. They were beautiful. Everybody talks about them. Like my 6 career solo tackles. Like that time I took down that large African American youth from Clinton. Sure, he was 5 yards down the field already. And, yes, it was  one of those chop-the-knees tackles where you don't really have to take the guy on and he goes sailing for another 2 or three yards after contact for an 8 yard gain which is, really, a very successful running play. So successful.
Why should I take on a large African American running back head to head? I love African Americans. They love me more, of course. But I love them. And, frankly, I had never seen an African American before, let alone a great big one running downhill straight at me with a football. But I did a beautiful, perfect thing. I went low. I prayed. I love God. Not as much as he loves me. But I love God. And I love knees. Knees are beautiful. But if it's a choice between somebody's knees and me getting my jersey dirty, with stains that will be on my nice jersey all afternoon? Well, as the Chineses say, "chop chop".

Hey, you know, I'm not going to say bad things about the Chinese. Or their virus. We have a lot of Chinese here in this country. Do we have more than we should? I don't  know. I don't think anybody knows. How could they know if I don't know? They're stupid, which is not their fault. But it's a fact.

And the Chinese are hard workers. Could it be they work too hard? Maybe that's why they invented viruses. Novel viruses that nobody knows what the fuck to do with. Not even Anthony Fauci. Who looked like he just got a haircut the last time I saw him, which he is  most definitely not supposed to do, so, like, in your fucking FACE Little Tony's Pizza Fauci.  I guess you're not the Sawed Off Saint of Novel Chinese Viruses after all. Nice looking haircut though. Not, of course, as nice as my haircut. Which is not a haircut at all. Because my hair is beautiful. And who would cut such beautiful hair? It's not going to happen. I already had to shave my beard because of the god damn Chinese Virus. And my beard was beautiful. It was perfect. Perfectly beautiful and somewhat reminiscent of a shaggy dog's ass walking backwards but it was mine and I loved it and now it's gone. Gone down some sewer pipe with a bunch of paper towels and hand sanitizer sheets and Huggies. But at least my mask fits. And my goggles and my face shield. And that's beautiful. And perfect. Like me.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

EDIT- DPO
Ol' Miss Be Like:


Tuesday, February 25, 2020

A Brief Rant About the Payout Party Date


                                                                                                                       
                                        
Closing in on that BRFL Jamboree Date, Brothers and Sisters. 
Snottie is in Maine August 1 so that would be the ideal time for the rest of us to get together.
But this is about me. ME. Not you, Snottie. And my schedule for that block isn't out yet. Do you know what I'm even talking about? Of course not. Why not? Because I have a boss and you ARE the boss. So you make your own schedule. Resentment much? Chyeah!

In summary; Maybe August 1st, maybe the 8th. Get back to you on that.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

BRFL Jambo Dates

Hungry? 

Hi.
It's the Commissioner.

Gambling (just love that word, don't you?!) that we haven't all been struck stone dead by the Wuhan (see the peaceful panjolin above, a strange, scaly, ant-eating creature that Chinese apparently like to eat so much that he's almost extinct and who is apparently an intermediate host) we gonna' have us a big old BRFL Jamboree this summer.

Canvassing the tribe for dates.

July 26 is when Derek Fucking Jeter and a couple other baseball jocks are being inducted into the H of F. So that weekend's out. R Bros, family reunion is when? McLovin, vacation planned or are you just going to make the kids dig ditches and appropriate 75% of their earnings again? ClemboSlice, what's the calendar look like? Paul, the Wisconsin trip? Dog and Q, family get together when?
I'm thinking first or second weekend of August. Can't be much later than the second weekend of August because of, well...Draft?!

Start throwin' out the dates.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Sunday, February 2, 2020

BRFL 2019. The Cash Money Story.





And here you have it.
The Numbers.
The Cash.

Though this is only one data point I couldn't help noticing that not as much money changed hands this year. Last year it was $2,254. This year, $1400. This may reflect incorporating GG into the BRFL which I am aware some did not look favorably on (looking at you, Snottie). But the 'GG into BRFL' move seems to have saved a few lives this year.
We'll have to discuss this at the BLOWOUT Fiesta this summer. Do we want to go back to the old ways? And watch the blood flow in the BRFL like it did in days of yore?
Or are we getting soft?

Dunno'! I'm just the Commissioner.

The spread sheet is attached to the email. But basically...

QXX: +425
McLovin; +155
KBronie" +140
Timmy!; +80
Jimbosuke; +80
DogTBH; +35
CCS; +20
Ronde'; +5

BroFro; -10
Kitten; -10
DPo: -70
Snottie; -130
Obama; -160
SkHank; -235
SockPuppet; -325


Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Friday, January 24, 2020

BRFL 2019, Inside the Numbers



This is what happened. This is how it went down.

QXX; Goes into Bowl Week with 31 points. Wins the bowl, 28 - 27 over Wisconsin. A bowl win is worth 3 points. (Refer to Living Document). AP poll comes out, she gets 1 for the no drop and moves up 3 spots. 7 point Bowl effort. And then, just to be an asshole, she adds fucking SIX from finishing 5th in GG. 13 points added to her 31 makes her the winner by a ridiculous margin with 44. Lawd have mercy!!



 McLovin; Clemson 29, TOSU 23, that's a semifinal win, worth 7 points. Came up short on the Natty. Still. Move up one in the final AP. Gets the no drop. It's a total nine point bowl season. Had +17 going into the bowls, got closed out of GG for sucking, that's zero. Final is 26, good enough for second place. 
Chicka. Chicka. 
Yeah. 



KMan; The Liberace comes home to Firebase Omega. Florida 36, Virginia 28. 3 points for the bowl win. Nails the no drop. No love from the AP. 4 point bowl season. Had +19. Snags another 2 from his GG finish. Add 'em up and it's 25, third place and the old piano pounder is headed to P Street.

Timmy! International Man of Mystery backed ND this year. Notre Dame schools Iowa State 33 - 9 that's 3 for the bowl win, 1 for the no drop and of course, 'cause it's Notre Dame, the AP moves the douchebags up 2. 6 point bowl season. Had +15. Bungled GG so, like, naught. Total is 21 on the season. Good enough to tie for 4th with...

Jimbosuke! Looks like Utah pretty much checked out after that ass-whipping from Oregon. BTW, I hate you, QXX. Texas 38, Utah 10. Are you fucking shitting me?! AP drops the Utes 4 spots. Minus 4 was  my bowl week. Had +24. Tied for 10th in GG, so got 1 point. 21 the final tally. I'm disappointed as shit. Fuck off.


SeannieG; LSU truck drags Oklahoma 63 - 28 in the semifinals. Embarrassing much? AP flushes you minus three down the Poll. Had +20 going into bowl week. Got one for tying for 10th place in GG (seriously, how do you live with yourself?) and it's 18 on the season total.
Point of order: SeannieG will henceforth be "Dog, the Bounty Hunter", "DogTBH" or just "Dog". SeannieG is just too close to, well, SeannieG. Identities must be protected.


CCS; Bama 35, Meechy 16. Thank you for that. Otherwise, Tide still a team I love to hate. 3 for the bowl win, 1 for the no drop, AP moves the boys from Tuscaloosa up one and CCS hauls in 5 on bowl week. Had +10. Makes a killing in GG with 7 for 4th place. Total on the  season is 17. Not too shabby.

Ronde'; The Gambler. Florida 36, Virginia 28. Zero, zero, zero on the bowl week. Had +12. Grabbed a nice 4 from his GG finish. Cashes out with +16. Again let it be noted that Ronde' was only one of two BRFLers to pick an unranked team, as immortalized in his emotionally wrenching haiku:

                                         "You all pick ranked teams
                                           Pussies are you with no balls
                                           Virginia to win"

BroFro; Army not eligible for a bowl game. Yes, the Bro's season sucked that  much. Had +5. But wait...GG perseverance pays off. The GG Champion bags +10 to finish with +15 which is way the hell better than I would have thought a doofus who picked Army would finish. It should be noted that Army was unranked and, by choosing the Black Knights, BroFro also distinguished himself as a "True Gambler". Congratulations. I guess.


Kitten; UCF 48, Marshall 25 in an ass whipping. 3 points for the bowl win. Wait...WHAT?! DIDDLE! DIDDLE!DIDDLE! 5 more for landing in the final AP at #25 (tied with Texas). That adds up to an 8 point bowl week. Had minus 1. Insanely picks up 8 for a third place finish in GG. Thus this bastard finishes with +15. Coin flip coming with BroFro come draft time.


DPo; A bold pick but a pretty horrible sesason. Let me disclose that these clueless turds were on my short list. Air Force 31, Washington State 21. Coach Leach bails (officially, this time). Bungled bowl game means a zero across the board on bowl week. Had +2 going into it. But wait. There's more! DPo chased BroFro hard all GG season. Thus he bags 9 from GG and his total is a much more respectable +11 on the season.

"Talk not of blasphemy to me, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me."

Snottie; Meechy 16, Alabama 35. Bitterly, bitterly disappointed, to quote our boy Jimmy. Dropped only 1 by the AP after this dog walking by the Tide. Had +5 going into bowl week. Picked up three from your GG toil. Total +7 on the season. Call me Ishmael.

Obama; Utah 10, Texas Longhorns 38. DIDDLE! DIDDLE! DIDDLE! 3 for the bowl win over the Utes, break into the AP at #25 so that's 5 more from the Diddle, strong bowl season with +8. Picked up 5 more for the power finish in GG. Had minus 8 going into bowl week, final tally turns out to be +5. Major redemption.



SkHank; Redemption? Not so much. SKankford was not bowl eligible. The SkHank entered bowl season with 0. He exited bowl season with 0. He picked up 0 from GG. His season ending total was Zero. I don't know what else to say.


SockPuppet. Nebraska. Also not bowl eligible. Zeroes down the line in the bowl season. GG delivers a zero. What the hell happened there? "Billy" losing his mojo or what? You started bowl week at minus 6. You end the season at minus 6.

And that's pretty much the way things went.

Next: talkin' CA$H.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life


Tuesday, January 21, 2020

BRFL 2019, The Numbers



Here's how it went down, Brothers and Sisters;

QXX; The Winner and Queen of the BRFL, with 44 points.
McLovin; 26
Komronovich; 25. Hello Liberace.
Jimbosuke; 21
Timmy!; 21
SeannieG; 18
CCS; 17
Ronde'; 16
BroFro; 15
Kitten; 15
DPo; 11
Snotti; 7
Obama; 5
SkHank; 0
SockPuppet; minus 6

Tomorrow: "inside" the numbers with an explanation of the results.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

GG, National Championship Round and Wrap up.



First, GG.

Here is where those hours obsessing over obscure games during the regular season come home to roost.

Clemson 25, LSU 42.

Remember, those GGers who had picked the semifinal games correctly were playing for 5 points. Everyone else was playing for 1.

BroFro, 5 points and he takes the GG cheese with an monstrous 82 points. The Bro now receives 10 points added to his BRFL final score. Plus the pride that goes with a GG Championship.
DPo; 5 points. Ends with 75. More importantly the Po picks up 9 points to be added to his BRFL total and, as we know, DPo has been sort of a BRFL bottom feeder for most of the season.
Kitten; 5 for the win, end the season with, um, 69. Also a BRFL catfish. Add 8.
CCS; A swing and a miss with Clemson. Zero. Finish GG with 68 points. Still, add 7 to your BRFL score.
QXX; 5 on the Natty. Total 66. The Championess adds 6 to her BRFL pile.
Obama; 5 on the win, finish with 65. Picks up 5 to add to the BRFL effort.
Ronde'; 5 for the win. End GG with 62. Apply 4 to your BRFL score.
Snottie; 1 to end with 59. Adds 3 to the BRFL effort.
KBron; 1 to go to 58 on the GG total. Add 2 to your final BRFL score.
SeannieG; 1 on the win. Gives you 57 on the GG season. Get one more for your BRFL total.
Jimbosuke; 0 but ends GG with 57, tied for 10th with Seannie G. I get one more in the BRFL.

McLovin; Stoogatz. Your BRFL total stays the same.
SockPuppy; Zed.
SkHank; Nada.
Timmy!; Oh, Timmy. Nothing for you.

Next up, the BRFL score round-up.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Thursday, January 2, 2020

GG Rose, Cotton, Sugar Bowl Results



Alabama bests Meechy 35 - 16. This game was a lot closer than the score looks. Shea Patterson was off target on deep balls all day. If not for that this one could have gone the other way. Late touchdown by Harris makes it look lopsided. Wasn't.
Oregon edges Wisconsin 28 - 27 in an instant classic Rose Bowl.
Georgia bullies Baylor 26 - 14.

BroFro; 2 to go to 77.
Dpo; 2 to make 70. It appears Bro is untouchable.
CCS; SWEEP! Nice pull and another power  move. 5 to go to 68.
Kitten; SWEEP! Holy shit, what's gotten into you lately? 5 to go to 64.
QXX; 1 to go to 61.
Obama; 2 to go to 60.
Snottie; 2 to go to 58.
KBron; 2 to go to 57.
'BoSuke; 1 to go to 57. Shit.
Ronde'; SWEEP! Whoa, ho, ho, 5 to go to 57.
SeannieG; 2 to go to 54.
McLovin; 2 to go to 54.
SockPuppet; 2 to go to 51.
SkHank; 2 to go to 51.
Timmy!; Train hopping across Siberia. No cell coverage. 36.

One left.
Clemson vs. LSU on Jan 13.
These GGers picked the semi final games correctly and could pick up a "sweep" (5) if they pick this championship game right. If you pick it wrong, you get zero for this round:

BroFro,
DPo,
CCS,
Q,
Kitten,
Obama,
Ronde'

The rest of us are picking for 1 point. Including Timmy!.

Roll the bones.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

GG, KState Games Results


GG, KState games

Navy downs Kansas State 20 - 17 with a trick play. Not pleased.
Wyoming guns down Geo State  38 - 17. Count on the Cowboys in a bowl game.
Texas power-douches a depleted Utah secondary 38 - 10. 'BoSuke's season keeps getting worse.

BroFro; 1 to go to 75. Not your best outing.
DPo; 2 to go to 68.
CCS; 2 to go to 63.
Q; Zero. Stay at 59.
Kitten; 1 to go to 59. A missed opportunity to gain ground. Bad move.
Obama; 2 to go to 58.
KBron; 1 to go to 56. Trick play saves your ass.
'BoSuke; 1 to go to 56. Never pick against a service academy. Dumb ass move.
Snottie; 2 to go to 56.
SeannieG; 2 to go to 54.
Ronde'; 1 to go to 52. Thank a Midshipman.
McLovin; 2 to go to 52. Betrayed by Utah.
SockPup; 2 to go to 51.
SkHank; 2 to go to 50.
Timmy; Satellite image has him on a roof top in Pyong Yang. Appears to be running. 36.

Jimbosuke,
Commissioner for Life