Maryland Flag Football - MDSSC - Happy Holidays!

Well, week number three is now up in the air. It is too bad that this is the year that we get in trouble for tearing up the fields. Week 1 we had snow and now Week 2 we could possibly have 6-10 inches of snow!! Here's to hoping for games tomorrow. However with the uncertainty of tomorrow, I have decided to forgo my typical write up. Last week it was all for nothing. So... here it goes.. 

QUICK HITS:

GAMES OF THE WEEK:

Able Danger vs Untouchables: Both teams 1-0 with solid wins in Week 1. This will be a true test for Danger as they were in the playoffs in the Fall and the Untouchables won it all. I say: Untouchables -3.

Jacked Up vs Victors: Victors lost to LBH2 in Week 1 in what some would say was an upset. There is room for argument there...another team that has historically given the Victors a challenge has been Jacked Up. The one thing the Victors have for them is that they played this fall and Jacked Up didn't. For that I say: Victors -2.

Fuzion vs Revolution: Both squads started out with a 1 in the wrong column but week 1 always has a few surprises. This week (if we play) might just be.....Fuzion -6

That's it this week.... I need some updates from players to let me know what is going on in Pro and Semi-pro... If we don't play this week have a Happy Holiday season and I will see you guys out there in 2010!

FLAG FOOTBALL GAMES CANCELED THIS WEEKEND

GAMES ARE  CANCELED.  WRITE UP IS BELOW BUT NOW IRRELEVANT. I WILL POST ON NEXT WEEKS GAMES ON THURSDAY.

Have a great weekend guys, and try to stay off the fields so we can keep this season going. If you want to get a practice in go to Meadowood or Seminary just to name a few parks.

Winter Flag Football Season is Back!!!

First and foremost..shout out to the teams that have new jerseys from AGame! Thank you Beltway Bombers, Spartans, Danger, Jacked Up (week 3)!

Call out to Hit Squad, Hit Men and WTF... you know you want to order these jerseys soon..

MDSSC - Hunt Valley Winter Flag Football kicked off with a BANG in week 1. What couldn't be better than starting the flag football season with a snow filled Saturday?

There are 42 flag football teams this season.. that's right 42! I am going to be honest with you guys. There is no way that I can stay up to date on 42 teams... I can tell you for damn sure I won't be hanging out from 9-4 either.. Not unless someone wants to pay. (insert smiley face or Lol) I will gladly accept guest writers from Pro or Semi-Pro. Just email me (flagfootballmd@yahoo.com) if you would like me to post something. With that being said, I will do my best to post every Thursday during the season with a write up on All-Pro.

Let's recap on last week...

All Madden kicked off the first All Pro game of the season in a classic battle versus Revolution. Thanks to yours truly, Revolution was spotted 6 points on a dropped pass/interception for a first play touchdown for the Revolution defense. In my defense, I thought our defense could use a little spark... it worked! We successfully stopped them on their next three drives. It was a sloppy game all around with All Madden holding on 20-18 after a successful 2pt conversion stop late in the game.

Fuzion jumped out on Mayhem and lead 12-8 at halftime. I heard Scott started the game rusty with two picks. Mayhem turned it around though and shut Fuzion down in the 2nd half for a 21-12 win. 

Untouchables put 49 up on Jumpoff... I don't even know how that is possible in that weather. I think what you have here though is a team that just marched through the playoffs in the fall and won the championship and a team that hasn't played in a couple months. 

Money beat the Black Panthers 25-6... the Panthers are a brand new team to the league and Money is chock full of veterans...This one will likely always go to the old guys. 

Rematch from the fall flag football Semi-finals pitted Able Danger against Pain... Pain won back in the fall in the final seconds that gave Danger a bad taste for the last couple of weeks. Danger redeemed themselves on Saturday and won 28-20.

Finally, you had the Victors in a rematch from a previous championship game (I want to say last winter but I can't remember.) against LBH2... LBH2 won that championship game and they won this one too. It was a somewhat high scoring affair resulting in a 32-26 win for LBH2. Like Mike said on the AP poll...this just takes the undefeated pressure off. You can never count the Victors out. With that said LBH2 is right back into it this season.

There are 8 All-Pro Flag Football games this weekend.. That is a lot of games. I will try to pick a few games each week to highlight (starting next week) For now, here are my spreads/predictions:

8am: LBH2 (1-0) vs Untouchables (1-0): LBH2 -4

9:15am: Mayhem (1-0) vs Black Panthers (0-1): Mayhem -12

10:30am: All Madden (1-0) vs Showtime (1-0): All Madden -6

11:45am: Victors (0-1) vs Fuzion (0-1): Victors -2

1pm: Com'on Man (0-1) vs Money (1-0): Money -7

1pm: Danger (1-0) vs Rezurrection (0-0): Toss Up (I haven't seen Rezurrection play in a while)

2:15pm: Pain (0-1) vs Jumpoff (0-1): Pain -4

3:30pm: Jacked Up (0-0) vs Revolution (0-1): Tough call (I haven't seen Bordner with his normal squad yet)

Notes from the other divisions last week... Hit Squad dropped 60 on a new team... 60! They might have to think about a move up to All Pro in the Spring or Summer... Beltway looked fresh in their new AGame jerseys breaking Broke 40-12... They were missing some key guys too. The Spartans looked like a new team (with awesome AGame jerseys) against Circus (Elijah?) but I can tell they have some great athletes... stop droppin INT's 42! just messin man...but seriously.

Best Team Name of the Year is a tie: Closet Flags and Each Hit & Die... Awesome guys!

See you guys at the fields... and as always I encourage trash talk and comments but not criticism. haha.

UNTOUCHABLES WIN IT ALL!!! - MDSSC Fall Flag Football Championship

I take my hat off to all of the teams that played today. In my opinion it was a day of upsets... although Untouchables would disagree with you. They deserve the credit. They beat the Victors by 21 points or so. They capitalized on every mistake the Victors made and just when you thought the Victors were making a push the Untouchables picked it off to help seal the deal. 

In the other game...Pain vs All Madden, it was a similar case. All Madden picked the wrong day to have everything go wrong for them. Pain led most or all of the game but All Madden made a strong push towards the end... they were trailing by 3 or 4 points but needed a stop or turnover to be able to take another shot at the end-zone. It was just Pain's day today.

I would love to say that the Championship game was a great game but it seemed like Pain had spent all of their energy in the first game. Untouchables controlled the game from the beginning...knocking down passes on defense and turning catches into touchdowns. They won 34-12. 

Congratulations to the Untouchables! They won their last three games by double digits. They picked the perfect time to start rolling on offense.

Winter Flag Football season starts on December 5th. I will post some pictures from this weekend sometime soon and will be back to posting in December. Thank you to everyone for reading. I hope you enjoy the blog and pictures. Have a great Thanksgiving! 

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CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAY - MDSSC Fall Flag Football - Hunt Valley, MD

FINAL FOUR starts at 9:30 tomorrow morning but before that let me recap. There were two feel good stories, in my opinion, today.. They were The Movement and Able Danger. Both of these teams excelled past the first round in stunning fashion.

The Movement was able to score and tie the game with about 20 seconds left. All they needed was a 1pt conversion and the game was theirs. They got it! Game over, The Movement...well moves on.

CHECK OUT THE FLICKR LINK ON THE RIGHT. I WILL BE ADDING ALL PICTURES TO THAT ACCOUNT.

Shamless Plug: 
AGAME Website - There are 4-5 teams that will be donning new AGame jerseys this winter and spring (THANK YOU).. Check out the website and email me if you want me to draw up a proof for you. You don't want to be the last team in the league wearing t-shirts... do you? 

Able didn't win their game in the final seconds. They were able to seal it a few minutes before the end of the game. Danger used their momentum to capitalize on a mistake or two by the Tarheels to make it to the next round. 

In the other two first round games, Hit Squad was able silence Roger and the Hit Men and The Express was able to take care of Beltway. I really thought that Beltway had a chance but The Express caused one too many turnovers and even though they were 1-7 on their season they were able to keep their composure and play as a team. 

Unfortunately, there is no Cinderella story here. The next round featured The Movement vs All Madden, Pain vs Able Danger, The Victors vs Hit Squad and Untouchables vs The Express. 

Now, I must say, the Hit Squad gave the Victors a run for their money. The game started out with The Victors throwing an INT on one of the first plays then forcing a turnover and scoring on their next drive. Then they picked off Brady Quinn and took it to the house for six. All of the sudden, after another series, the Victors were up 22-0.. I thought this game was over. Low and behold Hit Squad made a push scoring before halftime and two more times in the second half...only to lose 22-19. 

Pain vs Able Danger was a good game too... I had to leave early but I heard that there was a questionable pass interference call that negated a pick-6. I also heard that Able was forced Pain into a 4th and goal from about 20yds out and the Pain QB was able to squeeze one into tight coverage for the game winning score.

The other two games were blow outs. Untouchables easily took care of The Express...29-6 at halftime.. The Express didn't give up and kept throwing up prayers and scored a few times. It was too late though. 

All Madden... well let's say they were on point today. The Movement did not look like the motivated bunch that carried themselves into the playoffs on physical dominance. All Madden scored on every drive that I can remember and stopped The Movement from...well moving. 

For all those teams that didn't make it to tomorrow... Great Season and I hope to see all of you out there on December 5th for the Winter season. 

So here we have it... The top four seeds going at it tomorrow morning for all the glory. Victors vs Untouchables and All Madden vs Pain.. Both games are at 9:30am with the 'Ship at 11am. 

Here are my thoughts: 

The Victors vs Untouchables: This is a tricky one.. The Untouchables have been one team that has been able to get under the Victors skin. They beat the Victors this summer. I don't know what to say here. The Victors' keep on winning but they sure know how to screw around and keep games close. The Untouchables got handled by All Madden two weeks ago and lost to the Victors 24-12 earlier this season. Against my better judgment... (Victors -4)

All Madden vs Pain: I don't see this game as tricky as the Victor's. Pain has managed to well be a pain in everyone's neck this season. Unfortunately, they are running into an All Madden team that is running on all cylinders. It is the playoffs so I don't expect this to be a lopsided affair, but I do see All Madden winning. (All Madden -6)

CHAMPIONSHIP:

All Madden over the Victors... I don't have a spread for this one as both QB's know each other...better yet both teams know each other very well. If this works out this could be set up as one of the best Championships in a long time. 

GOOD LUCK TO ALL FOUR TEAMS TOMORROW!