The Football Club

Week 6 MVP Award Winner –
Drummer Boy (41 Points)

Drummer Boy & Bob Swerski posted near-perfect weeks as they both picked 14/14 games correct.  As you may know, there have been three Perfect Weeks in club history: 2004 & 2019 by The Rickster and 2012 by The Cat.  Drummer Boy & Bob Swerski nearly matched those legendary feats and landed themselves in the Hall of Fame, but they were denied by picking the Over/Under wrong.  Even so, it is worth celebrating the accomplishment of both players because they have done the nearly impossible.  We are in the 23rd year of the club, so on average a Perfect Week happens once every 7+ years.  Drummer Boy scored slightly higher than Bob Swerski as he selected Triple Jeopardy to snag the 2 Bonus Points and the Week 6 MVP Award with 41 Points.  Drummer Boy also fell only 1 Point short of another Hall of Fame record which is the Highest Score in a Week, accomplished by Captain Jack Sparrow in 2006 with 42 Points.  In addition, he is now 3/5 of the way to matching Slick Chick’s seemingly unbreakable Hall of Fame record of 5 MVP Awards in a season from 2010.  As things stand right now, Drummer Boy seems to have broken the club.  I’ve never seen a player make such great picks week after week, year after year.  He now has a 14 Point lead in 1st Place and the 5th Place player is a staggering 25 Points behind him.  There’s not much the rest of the club can do except stand aside and tip their hats (or helmets).  Bob Swerski claims the Week 6 MVP Award Runner-Up with 39 Points, which seems a bit unfair when you pick 14/14 games correct.  But he is no doubt happy to be all the way up the standings into 6th Place while at the same time watching his Bears win some big games.  The current Top Five consists of #1 Drummer Boy (3 Weeks at #1), #2 Captain Insano (14 Points back), #3 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (19 Points back), #4 Double-Double (21 Points back), and #5 Mr. T (25 Points back).  It’s also worth noting that the best two players so far this season at picking Triple Jeopardy are Captain Insano & Stinkerbell (both 3-0).

Taking a look at Head to Head Weekly for the first time this season, the division leaders are as follows.  Division One: Drummer Boy (4-0), Division Two: MJD Hogg (3-1), Division Three: New York City Sewer Rat (2-1-1), and Division Four: a current three-way tie between The Rickster, Shaylene & Stinkerbell (all 2-2).  Over in Pro Bowl Team Weekly, we had some notable results in all three matches last week.  In the first match, Daddy & His Boys sent a message to defending champs Wild Animals that they are a serious contender by beating them 93-91 and moving into a 1st Place tie.  In the second match, The Gridiron Guardians def. The Hulkamaniacs 92-71, which also allowed them to move into a 1st Place tie.  And in the third match, McTriple Play crushed Tuna Generations 105-50, which brought them very close to the all-time Hall of Fame record 112 combined team Points (accomplished by Wild Animals in 2012).

Here are the club’s picks for Week 6. Drummer Boy wins the Week 6 MVP Award with 41 Points, while Bob Swerski wins the MVP Award Runner-Up with 39 Points.  Both players picked every game correct but only missed the Over/Under.

Week 6 full picks now posted (Sat 8:00pm).  All players are welcome to view my picks once they have turned their own in for the week.

Week 5 MVP Award Winners –
My Wife Loves Jimmy G & Nighthawk (28 Points)

Two players stepped up in a huge way last week to claim a share of the Week 5 MVP Award with 28 Points each.  The first was My Wife Loves Jimmy G, who was the only player to score Points in each of the major categories including the Double Stakes, a Game of the Week, Sunday night, and Triple Crown.  Let’s not forget that just two seasons ago, My Wife Loves Jimmy G finished as the Club Champion Runner-Up to winner Rad Dad, missing the title by a mere 8 Points.  With his MVP week, My Wife Loves Jimmy G has placed himself solidly into 2nd Place in the Current Standings.  Very impressive, indeed.  The second was Nighthawk, a club legend who returned this season to help out the club when he found out we needed an extra player.  For that reason alone, Nighthawk deserves to be this season’s winner of the Sportsmanship Award.  But he has his sights set on more than that, as he has now climbed the standings into 12th Place.  What makes that especially impressive is that when you join the club late, after the season has already started, the rules state you must begin 1 Point behind the Last Place player.  With that in mind, you can see that Nighthawk is having a huge impact this season.  And last week, Nighthawk was the only player in the entire club to correctly pick both Games of the Week with Houston & Miami.  The Week 5 MVP Award Runner-Up was none other than Drummer Boy, who scored 26 Points and narrowly missed a three-peat of MVP Awards, which would have established a new Hall of Fame club record.  Only Drummer Boy can miss both Games of the Week and still have a massively high overall score for the week.  If that happened to any of the rest of us, we would have flopped and ended with a very low score.  I’m not sure how he keeps doing it.  A look at the current Top Five reveals #1 Drummer Boy (2 Weeks at #1), #2 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (7 Points back), #3 Mr. T (10 Points back), and tied for #4 Captain Insano & Double-Double (11 Points back).  And that wraps up the Main Page column for this week.

Here are the club’s picks for Week 5.  My Wife Loves Jimmy G & Nighthawk share the Week 5 MVP Award with 28 Points, while Drummer Boy wins the MVP Award Runner-Up with 26 Points.