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| No NFFA team quarterbacked by Tom Brady has ever won a title. |
Associated Web Press
After the dust settled after the first week of the playoffs, the Curse of the Champion remains undefeated. In eighteen seasons, not a single NFFA champion has been able to repeat, including most recently the 2018 title holders, the Village Green. The Sylvan Park Dead Cherokees were the instruments of the curse this year, pounding the Green this past weekend, 202.7-156.1.
Speaking by cell phone, Green owner Dave Goodrow admitted to being “a little sad” about the loss. Sad was the word that former Green owner President Donald J. Trump used in a tweet early this morning in response to the news about the Green's loss.
It was a big comedown for the fans of the Green, whose owner, brimming with confidence just a week earlier, had described himself as a “football god.”
The Curse of Brady remains undefeated, too. Although Brady has six Super Bowl rings, no team with him as their starting quarterback has ever won an NFFA championship. So it figured the Brady-led Cambridge Animals would be toast, and they were, getting smacked down by the Pie Town Ballers, 211-116.2. Cambridge is also afflicted with the Grandmother of All Curses, but it's unclear what role, if any, it played in the Ballers’ domination of the Animals. “I've seen prison rapes less brutal than that,” said sportswriter Woody Larry, a longtime observer of the league.
It was second time in NFFA history that the winners of the first round of the playoffs both scored more than 200 points. In 2011, the Atlanta Smack Daddies and the East Nashville Black Dogs topped 200 on their way to the title game.
The Ballers and the Dead Cherokees meet this weekend to decide the 2019 NFFA champion. The Dead Cherokees are an early 8.9-point favorite.
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