The Football Club

Week 6 MVP Award Winner –
Fearless Tuna (32 Points)

After enduring a stormy start to the season, Fearless Tuna scored 32 Points to win the Week 6 MVP Award and move into 6th Place for the first time since finishing there last season.  The key to his success was being 1 of only 4 players in the club (along with Young Tuna, NYC Sewer Rat & Shaylene) to correctly pick KC over Detroit in the Sunday night game.  An assist in making the brilliant pick goes to Double-Double, who tipped off Fearless Tuna about Detroit dealing with a lot of injuries, thus causing him to go with the Chiefs.  Double-Double decided not to make the switch himself, instead sticking with the Lions.  The 6 Point SNF/MNF category game has been the hardest to pick this season for the club.  After six weeks (which means six games), 3 players still have picked zero correct, while 11 players have only picked only one correct).  Fearless Tuna also got both Games of the Week correct with Seattle and TB, as did 6 others.  The Week 6 MVP Award Runner-Up was Captain Jack Sparrow, who scored 26 Points to move into 2nd Place, a mere 6 Points behind the leader.  Captain Jack said that he was motivated by Coach Gruden’s locker room speech encouraging members of The Football Club to strive for excellence.  He doesn’t have to worry about walking the plank anytime soon, but MJD Hogg might have to if he is not careful.  This coming week will reveal if the Black Pearl can fire its cannons and sail into 1st Place.  A couple of other standout players this week were Rad Dad, who scored 23 Points to rebound from his dismal Week 5 showing, and Drummer Boy, who scored 23 Points to quietly enter back into the Top Five.  Young Tuna also had his strongest showing of the season, posting 25 Points to get back into the Top Ten.  The current Top Five is #1 MJD Hogg (4 Weeks at #1), #2 Captain Jack Sparrow (6 Points back), #3 Mr. T (8 Points back), #4 Captain Insano (14 Points back), and #5 Drummer Boy (15 Points back).  MJD Hogg really needs to step up this week and deliver a strong performance if he wants to hold onto the top spot, because the race for 1st Place is tightening up quite a bit.  Finally, let’s take a quick look at the current status of Head to Head Weekly and Pro Bowl Team Weekly.  In Head to Head, we still have two undefeated players, which are Captain Jack Sparrow (4-0) and Nighthawk (4-0).  Let’s see if they can both win this week to get halfway to a perfect 10-0 regular season record.  The other current division leaders are Drummer Boy (3-1) and a tie between Roadrunner & Shaylene (both 3-1).  In Pro Bowl team play, Wild Animals are the final undefeated team at 3-0-1.  They gave a heartbreaking loss to their main rivals last week when Wild Animals def. Daddy & His Boys 47-45.

Here are the club’s picks for Week 6 . Fearless Tuna wins the Week 6 MVP Award with 32 Points, while Captain Jack Sparrow claims the MVP Award Runner-Up with 26 Points.

Week 6 full picks now posted (Sun 7:10am).  All players are welcome to view my picks once they have turned their own in for the week.

Week 5 MVP Award Winner –
MJD Hogg (20 Points)

MJD Hogg has returned to 1st Place once again in the club by scoring 20 Points to win the Week 5 MVP Award.  That makes 2 MVP Awards and 3 Weeks at #1 for the hoggster, who has had an utterly dominant first 1/3 of the season.  So how did MJD go hog wild when an astounding ten club members were stuck in the single digits on a difficult week?  He made some key picks that very few others got right, such as both Games of the Week (only 3 other players managed that), the Double Stakes (only 3 others players got that), and Carolina in the Regular Game (while 8 players sunk their weeks with Miami TJ and -2 Points).  And now that MJD Hogg has received a shoutout from Coach Jon Gruden, he just might be able to keep up the strong momentum he currently has going for him.  Of course, the others who received mentions by Coach Gruden included Stinkerbell, the wife of My Wife Loves Jimmy G, Mr. T, Captain Insano, and Captain Jack Sparrow.  Many club members found Coach Gruden’s speech to the club highly motivating.  It was almost like we all received our own locker room pep talk.  This week, we will find out which player responds the best to Coach and goes out and posts a strong performance.  And we just might have another NFL-related person stop by the club later this season to check up on how everyone is doing.  (If you missed Coach Gruden’s speech, it is posted here on the Main Page two posts down.)  The Week 5 MVP Award Runner-Up was claimed by Mr. T, who scored 19 Points and moved up into 2nd Place.  Mr. T’s claim to fame was being 1 of only 2 players (along with Double-Double) to correctly pick Jax over KC on the Monday night game, thereby scoring the big 6 Point prize.  In looking at the updated statistics, it is notable that five club members still have not claimed any 6 Point games for the entire season.  That means they are all 0-5 at picking that one.  And we need to give a word of encouragement to Rad Dad.  Rad Dad may have been the first club member in history to end the week with -1 Points.  He only got one game correct with Minnesota but then he promptly lost that Point when he picked Miami with Triple Jeopardy.  I took a moment to add up Rad Dad’s potential score if he had just picked everything opposite of what he did.  And Rad Dad would have ended up with 29 Points for the week and been the runaway MVP Award winner.  Tough break, but hang in there Rad Dad.  We are all sure you will rebound strongly this week.  The Current Top Five consists of #1 MJD Hogg (3 weeks at #1), #2 Mr. T (11 Points back), #3 My Wife Loves Jimmy G (12 Points back), and tied for #4 Captain Jack Sparrow & Roadrunner (19 Points back).

Here are the club’s picks for Week 5 . MJD Hogg wins the Week 5 MVP Award with 20 Points, while Mr. T claims the MVP Award Runner-Up with 19 Points.