2001 Season - Week 5

Sunday saw 10 hours of Football chat, trading, Sky’s first doubleheader and a chocolate cake the size of Gilbert Brown - thanks Mark. In total 26 players were cut although Wayne re-selected his cut WR, David Terrell of Chicago. Only Andy H & Gully made no trades. The most popular NFL team was San Diego who saw 4 more players picked up(Carney, Dwight, Conway and Coach Riley) whilst New England was the least popular with Bledsoe, Johnson and Belichick being cut. Upsettingly for Mark, who cut Belichick and signed Mike Riley, he then watched as New England beat San Diego in overtime. He was so annoyed he spent most of the second game creating two of his infamous ‘Name’ teams. They will be with you next week. While we’re convinced our teams are much better if things still need improving the second and final trading day will be either Saturday 17th or Sunday 18th November prior to week 10. Double 0 Botten The name’s Botten, John Botten and last week he did the unthinkable. On Monday Night Detroit drove inside the Rams 10 yard line 3 times and had 2 Interceptions and 1 Fumble preventing John’s kicker Jason Hanson from scoring a point, leaving John with 0 points and back-to-back visits to the Hall of Shame. This is phenomenal - prior to week 3 we have had 1222 weekly owner scores and just 4 scores of 0. So is his team that bad? No, research shows that through the first 4 weeks of last season (1998 for Hearst and 1999 for Westbrook due to injuries) his team scored 97 points an average of 24 points a week. At The Other End Chief became the first player to enter the Hall of Fame this year after a 56 point week, the highest score since Cheryl posted 57 in week 17 of 1999 and 6th highest total of all time. Top scorers are Mark & Johnny with a 60 point week each followed by Andy H 59, Chief 58 and Cheryl’s 57. It’s the 4th posting in the Hall for The Chief but the first since week 14 of 1995. In the League it’s a father and son combination as Dad is 28 points clear of Marcus who continues to impress and moved past Johnny and Paul into second place. Monday Night Football The Toilet Bowl will be watched as live at BUM’s HQ on Wednesday from 7:15pm as Dallas take on Washington in the first Monday Night match-up of two 0-4 teams.