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| Village Green owner Dave Goodrow scoffs at the curse of the champion. |
Associated Web Press
With their division title-clinching, 60-point smackdown of the Sylvan Park Dead Cherokees last weekend, the defending champion Village Green gave the finger to the curse of the champion. “This division is getting too easy,” a Dom Perignon-drenched Dave Goodrow said in the locker room after the game. When asked if he wasn't tempting the football gods with that kind of bravado, the Green owner said, “I am a football god!”
The Green (9-4) also locked down the number one overall seed in the upcoming championship playoffs. The only other thing decided in week 13 about the championship playoffs is the London Bakers and East Nashville Black Dogs will not be part of them, as both teams were eliminated with last weekend's losses. The Bakers (4-9) will have the first pick in the 2020 draft and the Black Dogs (5-8) will have the second selection.
The Cambridge Animals, the Atlanta Smack Daddies, the Pie Town Ballers, the Dead Cherokees, and the West Nashville Beelzebubbas are all still in contention for a ticket to the playoff party. For division titles, the tiebreakers are: 1. Head-to-head; 2. Division record; 3. Points for. For the two wild-card berths, the tiebreakers are: 1. Head-to-head; 2. Points for. Here are the playoff scenarios for each team still in the playoff hunt going into the season's final week:
• Cambridge Animals (7-6): The Animals control their own destiny; if they win the finale against the Bakers, they're in as champions of the Jorge division. If they lose, they can still get in as the division champs if the Beelzebubbas lose to the Black Dogs. They could also lose and get in as the final wild card team by virtue of the head-to-head tiebreaker if the Ballers lose.
• Atlanta Smack Daddies (7-6): Like the Animals, if the Daddies win this weekend against the Dead Cherokees, they're in as a wild card. If they lose, they're out regardless of the outcome of the Ballers-Green game.
• Pie Town Ballers (7-6): Like the Animals and Daddies, the Ballers are in as a wild card if they can knock off the division champion Green. If they lose, they will still earn a wild-card berth if the Animals win and the Daddies lose, or if the Animals win and the Dead Cherokees lose with a week 14 score that no more than 24 points greater than the Ballers week 14 score.
• Sylvan Park Dead Cherokees (7-6): Like the Animals, Daddies, and Ballers, the Dead Cherokees are in the championship playoffs as a wild card entry with a win over the Daddies. They can still get in with a loss if the Animals win, the Ballers lose and the Dead Cherokees score at least 24.2 points more than the Ballers on the final weekend.
• West Nashville Beelzebubbas (6-7): Unlike the other teams still in contention, the Beelzebubbas do not control their own destiny. They can claim the Jorge division title with a win over the Black Dogs and a loss by the Animals to the Bakers. Asked if he was worried about needing help from the Bakers, the league's lowest scoring team, Bubbas GM Mos’ Ded said, “The world depends on the Bakers every day for moral clarity, so we are not afraid; we are never afraid.”
