DYNASTY

Starring George White as Joe Montana and Mike Aring as Jerry Rice, the Dawgs have managed to establish an arena football dynasty much like the 49ers did back in the 80s. I guess that makes Tim Ballor the Ronnie Lott and Brian Moore the Roger Craig (sure, why not?). They have gone 13-0-1 in their last 2 seasons, their only tie having come at the hands of a rather surprisingly talented Secret Agent team led by the one guy who happened to know their playing style better than anyone else (me). But in the end, the Secret Agents wouldn't even get to avenge their only tie of their undefeated season, having their season cut short by a new-look Dirty South team. The Secret Agents had beaten Dirty South easily by 3 touchdowns in the regular season. But Mike Branson came out firing. He had seen the Secret Agent defense led by Steve Bloom and managed quite an impressive offensive attack the second time around. Led on the other end by Jay Macelhenney, Dirty South managed to shut out the Secret Agent offense for a better part of the game. In fact, not only was the 22 points that the Secret Agents scored the lowest point total of their season, but it was less than half of their 44.3 point average. And so ended the legacy of the free agent team. But they had a pretty impressive run in the 2003-04 season, and I'm sure you probably haven't seen the last of Jeremy and Tom either. Props to Shorty Got Shook for beating out the Recruits for the last playoff spot. But their run ended abruptly, as they were standing in the way of the Dawgs' second consecutive championship. The Dawgs tore up Shorty 63-21 in the other semi-final game, ending the well-orchestrated season that Chris Reese and Nick Shade put together. And so the Dawgs were to face Dirty South in the championship game. And I know they were much happier to see Dirty South there instead of the Secret Agents. I know this because they told me. But Dirty South apparently decided to get a lot better between the regular season and the playoffs. The Dawgs beat them by 4 touchdowns in the regular season. Not so easy this time. Mike B. and his troops had no problem finding the hole in the Dawgs' zone coverage and they traded touchdowns for a bulk of the game. In the end, Dirty South came up one touchdown short, but showed the rest of the intramural football world that they meant business. And all the congratulations in the world to the Dawgs for their repeat undefeated season, but seeing as how Mike B. is a freshman here, I would wager to say that between outdoor and arena, he'll leave school here with at least 4 t-shirts. Unless he's one of those overachievers that graduates in 4 years. So good luck to you, Mike. And best of luck to Jeremy and the rest of the free agent crew. And I think I can squeeze some good luck wishes in there for Nick and Chris. As far as the Dawgs are concerned, they're going to need a lot more luck than I can give them. But then again, the Niners found Steve Young after Joe Montana, so who knows?

Dawgs, Spring 2004 Intramural NFL Arena Football Champions

FRAT ATTACK

First of all, props to SAE for not only winning the whole thing, but also for doing it with only people in the fraternity. I know what goes on with your greek points, or at least I have some idea. SAE doesn't recruit "ringers" just to win. And before I get yelled at, Pi Kapp is the just as loyal to their brothers. But enough about all that crap. Let's talk football. Now I'd be lying if I said I saw more than two SAE games all year, but it just looks like a different game with Rob Symonds out there. I don't care how many surgeries he's had on his knees, he can run circles around most anybody out on the football field. They managed to shut down DJ and the Skullz in the first round 35-14, while Teke snuck by The Best in the lowest scoring game of the year (14-7) in the semi-finals. And so SAE had their rematch with Teke from two weeks ago when Teke had upset them 35-28 to dethrone them from their top seed. But SAE busted out of the gates in the championship and never looked back. The first play of the game was an interception returned for a touchdown by Nikhil. Or Chris Casini. Or somebody else. It's tough to remember because the next three Teke possessions all ended up in interceptions and they all kinda run together. It was pretty brutal. At the end of the half, Teke finally looked like they were getting going when Tom Hamlett caught a pass. But while running, he thought to pitch the ball back to one of his teammates. It went right into Rob's hands, who threw a touchdown pass on the next play as time ran out. In the second half, Teke finally connected with a few of their bombs to at least put some points on the board, but the championship game was a total domination. Other than the SAE-Beefcake game in the regular season, this game not only had the highest team point total, but also the highest margain of victory. Well done, SAE. Now somebody keep Rob healthy so you have a fighting chance in outdoor next year.

SAE, Spring 2004 Intramural CFL Arena Football Champions

SHIRT HOGS

Come on guy, let somebody else get the shirts! But as good as the guys on the team are, that isn't the reason they won. When it came to girls in the coed league, there was Steph Allen and then there was everybody else. Maybe I'm a little biased, but anybody who saw her play would tell you the same thing. She ran at a different speed than everybody else out there. To my knowledge, she's the only intramural particpant we've ever had who has led the entire NCAA in any individual statitstical category (WLAX - most draw controls, 2002). So there's that she has going for her. And when you're busy double-covering her, Lauren, Amy or Alexis could sneak away with a catch too. And so the Dawgs blew by Teke in the semifinals 56-14. They would meet the Recruits in the finals after the Recruits upset Rich, Seeni and the Res Life All-Stars 37-29 in the other semi-final game. And lining up across from Steph was probably the girl who could give her the most problems of all the other girls in the league, Janet Banas. Janet was also the only player returning too the league this year from ADOBO, the coed champions of last year. And I must say that the Recruits did a heck of a job against the entire Dawgs team, holding them to only 29 points, their lowest scoring total of the year. But the Recruits couldn't muster up enough offense to make it work for them. They could only manage 15 points and when you play the Dawgs, that isn't going to be enough. But I will say about the season that I'm happy to see that Teke and the Recruits made it to the playoffs because both of these teams were teams that Geoff and I had to sort of manufacture so that we would have a coed league (as well as the Harbor Hotties). Thanks to Keith, Justin, Candice and Frank for helping us out and making the tournament a lot more fun than it would have been with two teams playing each other every weekend.

Dawgs, Spring 2004 Intramural Coed Arena Football Champions

April 29, 2004 - Due to a change in programming on the WB, the CFL Championship and the Coed Championship game times scheduled for Sunday May, 2 have been switched. The CFL Championship (Teke vs SAE) will now be played at 7:00 and will be shown live after a re-run of Jamie Kennedy Experience. The Coed Championship (Dawgs vs The Recruits) will be played at 8:00 followed by an all new episode of Charmed.

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