2003 Season - Week 17 (cont)

The road to BUMSBowl VIII starts here. There are no changes to the rules but to refresh your memory here’s how this knock-out tournament works. It’s a head-to-head contest with the highest scorer in each game going through. You must select one QB, one kicker and any FOUR outfield players to play within a budget of $7.5 million using the same player prices as the regular season. (See attached spreadsheet). You can change all players between each round and in each game no more than 2 players can appear in both teams. Please get your teams back to me by 10am on Saturday so we can sort out any swaps needed. Whoever gets their team to me first gets first pick of players to swap, if necessary, so a speedy reply is of the essence. If scores are tied at the end of the games the tie-breaker is the player that scored latest in any game. As always top scoring owner plays lowest and so on, so the Wildcard match ups throw up 2 classics, Mark v Johnny in the BrotherBowl and Gareth v Cheryl in what could be DivorceBowl. All the ties are as follows:- Wayne v Phil AP v Aaron Mark v Johnny Paul v Daz Dave G v Andy H Marcus v Ron Gareth v Cheryl David S v John Wildcard Schedule In the AFC the champs are New England (East 14-2) and Kansas City (West 13-3) with bye weeks & Indianapolis (South 12-4) and Baltimore (North 10-6) playing in the wildcard games at home to Denver (10-6) and Tennessee (12-4) respectively. In the NFC the champs are Philadelphia (East 12-4) and St Louis (West 12-4) with bye weeks & Carolina (11-5) and Green Bay (10-6) host Dallas (10-6) and Seattle (10-6). BUMS on Seats We’re at BUMS HQ on Saturday night from 9pm for Tennessee’s visit to Baltimore. The second game (Dallas @ Carolina) kick’s off at 1am Sunday morning. On Sunday we are back at HQ from 6pm for Seattle @ Green Bay and finally Denver travel to Indianapolis for a 9:30 kick-off. The viewing plan for the Divisional games on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th January will feature one live game at 9pm on Saturday, then we will be getting together at 3pm Sunday afternoon at BUMS HQ for a triple header, starting with the recorded 1am second Saturday game then the two live games on Sunday evening. If that’s not enough football for you then we are at BUMS HQ this Friday at 7pm to watch the Orange Bowl as the Florida State Seminoles take on the Miami Hurricanes.