The Football Club

Week 7 MVP Award Winner –
Captain Jack Sparrow (37 Points)

The strongest two players from last week kept up their momentum this week, although they flipped spots while doing so.  Last week’s MVP Award Runner-Up Captain Jack Sparrow scored 37 Points to plunder the Week 7 MVP Award and move only 1 Point away from First Place.  It seems lately that everyone who gets in his way in the standings ends up walking the plank to make room for him.  Captain Jack had proclaimed on Club Chat that he was going to shine some hooks and do a little fishing.  While his fishing failed to reel in the Tuna he was hoping to catch, he did end up reeling in all other club members.  Captain Jack Sparrow’s huge week resulted from his only missing two picks on the entire sheet: the Autopicker game and the Colts game.  If strong winds persist, Captain Jack could very well sail the Black Pearl into First Place next week, leaving all other vessels in his wake.  Last week’s MVP Fearless Tuna scored 35 Points to swim off with the Week 7 MVP Award Runner-Up.  The Fearless one has been swimming as fast as he can underwater, avoiding any fish hooks being dropped with bait, but still being outpaced by the Black Pearl’s sails.  Even so, the second strong week in a row was enough to send Fearless Tuna into the Top Five for the first time this season.  Looking around the league, there were a few other standout performances.  Scoring 30 Points or better last week were nine players in total, including Double-Double (energized from eating a real Double-Double during his recent trip to Las Vegas), Rad Dad (fully recovered from the -1 Point debacle and playing strong again but disappointed the Swerski Award suggested on Club Chat did not become reality), The Rickster (quietly moving up and lurking just 6 Points outside of the Top Five), Drummer Boy (feeling snubbed by Coach Gruden and thus playing hard to prove his All-Pro status), MJD Hogg (pulling out all the stops to hold onto his spot at the very top), Roadrunner (having rebuilt the engine of his 1969 Plymouth roadrunner 383 four-speed hard top with high performance headers, racing cam, and bored out cylinders), and Shaylene (recovering well from her season-ending knee and arm injuries last year to once again run the 40-yard dash in 4 seconds).  The Top Five currently consists of #1 MJD Hogg (5 Weeks at #1), #2 Captain Jack Sparrow (1 Point back), #3 Mr. T (13 Points back), #4 Drummer Boy (14 Points back), and tied for #5 Captain Insano & Fearless Tuna (18 Points back).

Here are the club’s picks for Week 7 . Captain Jack Sparrow wins the Week 7 MVP Award with 37 Points, while Fearless Tuna claims the MVP Award Runner-Up with 35 Points.

Week 7 full picks now posted (Sat 10:30pm).  All players are welcome to view my picks once they have turned their own in for the week.

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.