JC's Ramblings....

From the healthy, Norton virus protected notebook of your commish. Tuesday November 28th, 2006 4:15 PM

Bulldog Champs - Juice (10-2)
Husky Champs - Nookie (6-6)
Bison Champs - Air JC (7-5)
Wildcard - Smitty (8-4)
Golden Toilet - Tang (3-9)

Now let's continue my recap of the season I started last week and finish up the final 5 teams...

As far as the first 7 -- Tang, Soo-peer-eee-orrr, LBs, Kinger, Horse, Scottie and Nookie - Nookie is leading his crappy, crappy division. Scottie and Kinger are on Ben's heels and have a chance at the division. Jason is dead on track for his 7-7 again. The LB's are barely keeping their nose above water and avoiding the Gold Throne. As for our defending champ - there will be no repeat this year. Jugsie has been officially eliminated from playoff contention as of this week.

I'd expect our 2007 Champ to emerge from this group. Who is the most likely contender?

Will it be.....	Why it could be	Why it might not be	Championship Odds
Drunken Sailors	Mike's team is looking solid with S-Jackson and now McGahee back. Don't forget about Ray-Ray and the boyz in Baltimore either	Inconsistency. 58 a few weeks ago, 175 a couple weeks before that.	Not a difficult schedule with LRH and Kinger to finish....but at a game back will need both W's. 8:1
Flying Hellfish	Suomala's depth. Brees, Edge, Portis, LJ Smith and Lee Evans are all on his bench....not to mention the stud starters he has.	Closing against the LB's and British Pigeons. Should be a win vs. the former and a toss up against the latter. 1-1 might not be enough.	Suomala looks like as good a bet as any to make his 4th postseason appearance. 3:1
Air JC	Shaun and Chad are back. Watson is rolling. Plaxico is huge. And really - the MVP of this team - Frank Gore.	Due for a let-down week after 137, 127 and 127 in the 2nd round of divisional play.	Finishes the season up with Kinger and in what could be the wildcard decider - Pigeons. 7:2
Fat British Pigeons	Roy Williams - Andre Johnson - Antonio Gates - Larry Johnson. Damn. Especially if they let LT throw the ball to the big guy a few more times.	Well, Smith's luck always stinks in this league, and he closes out against a couple playoff contenders.	Flying Hellfish in week 13 and Air JC in the finale. Tough break. Still, one win pretty much gets him in. 5:2
Team Juice	Two words. Ladainian Tomlinson. Two more words - absolutely ridiculous.	The obvious. I'm glad to see McSuck take down someone else's ship. But I think the Kevin Jones loss hurts even worse.	Juice cakewalks into the playoffs by finishing with Tang and WoJo. Will he have enough to win his 2nd title? 7:3

I attended the Vikings game on Sunday. Now, I've been to quite a few 'Dome games in my days, but this was the most odd game out of them all. From the 99-yard kickoff return to the final incompletion in the direction of Larry Fitz, it was a good one. I found it interesting that the Cardinals chose not to run the ball with Edge, yet the Vikings D-line could not get a pass rush on Leinert at all.

Matt Leinert is way better than I thought. He doesn't have a great deep ball, but his 20 or less stuff is dead on.

Larry Fitzgerald is by far the best WR I've seen in person -- and I've seen Randy Moss a bunch of times. I'm not kidding - the guy is ridiculously good.

Anquan Boldin is overrated. He's a stat guy - a product of the current evolution of the NFL. Big target for a passing offense. Nothing overly athletic or special about him in my estimation. Good hands - don't get me wrong there - and some quickness, but nothing special.

Brad Johnson - his arm isn't as bad as I thought....it just might be the playcalling. He put the ball right on the money towards Williamson down the field. Sure, Troy would probably drop a newborn baby, but that's another story.

One of the best parts of being at a game is watching the off field action. (yes the cheerleaders too) I watched Neil Rackers walk around a lot bouncing a football off the turf and practice kicking. What a lonely job....no one really talked to him at all. He missed the 41 yarder and came off the field and threw his helmet and then went back and kicked about 4 dozen times into the practice net.

I caught one of those tee-shirts they shoot up into the crowd between plays - I didn't see it that night, but I'm just guessing I made SportsCenter for the grab I made.

December already this week.....time is flying. No snow on the ground yet in Duluth, but we did have what seemed like 3 or 4 inches of rain today.

Looking forward to Vegas in about 5 weeks....anyone who wants to meet me at centerstage of the Bellagio - that's where you can find me on the evenings of January 3rd through the 5th.

BIGFFBL senior writer Jeremy Carlson sounds off whenever he feels like it on www.bigffbl.com

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