2014 Season - Week 17

Congratulations to Johnnie who becomes the first owner to have won the Papas Fritas four times, breaking the tie he had with Chief and Wayne. Johnnie’s 2014 total score of 578 is the sixth highest of all-time. Craig scored 18 points in the final game of the season (Sunday Nights Steelers win over the Bengals) to pass Aaron and finish second. Craig was also the runner-up in 2011. Aaron’s phoenix-like rise from bottom of the table and a Hall of Shame week in week 4 came up two places short as he finished third two points behind Craig. Mark was fourth, Ron fifth and Chief finished sixth. As a result Chief’s streak of six consecutive top two finishes is broken. Going Down As mentioned a couple of weeks ago the bottom three have been doomed for a few weeks now. Wayne’s injury-hit season finished with only four active players in the final week, Running Backs Montee Ball and Ryan Mathews were both out injured, Rob Gronkowski was held out to help him recover as New England had already secured the one seed in the AFC and Cleveland had suspender star receiver Josh Gordon for disciplinary reasons. Earlier in the year his franchise QB Robert Griffin III missed a number of games injured, Detroit cut his kicker Nate Freese and Tennessee placed his wide-out Justin Hunter on IR. It was clearly a nightmare season to forget for any owner. Meantime Cheryl and Dave G will also be heading to the little league. In the end the Rhodesia Rams finished four points ahead of The Misunderstood. The Conference Story Andy H has led the Conference since week 10 and he paced nearest challenger AP in the final week to win the Conference by 11 points. Congratulations to Andy H who won the Conference for the first time in his third attempt. Each time he has been relegated he has bounced straight back up but this was the first time as Conference Champion. AP was bottom after week 14 but three good weeks when it mattered scoring 97 points, saw him finish second. The real excitement was the race for the final promo place. In the end the bottom three were covered by just two points. At half time in the final game John looked in good shape as George had already had all his players play. John had Bengal receiver Mohamed Sanu on the field and Shaun Suisham (his Steelers kicker) had scored 8 points in the first half. That meant he only needed a single field goal in the second half to tie George on 403 points or a TD by Sanu to return to the Premiership. Sanu was held to one catch for sixteen yards and when the Steelers reached the Bengals 30 yard line (comfortably in Suisham’s field goal range) Ben Roethlisberger was intercepted and John finished with just one PAT from Bryant in the second half. On the final whistle David S scored six points from his head coach Mike Tomlin and he and John finished just two points short.