Visiting Khans HQ

Khans owner D.J. Wanberg sent this picture of some guests coming to make a visit recently to team headquarters in Ulan Bator.

Week 7: Household Bowl

The battle between husband and wife owners Miazga and Herigodt came down in favor of Herigodt's Brawlers, 57-32.

From Miazga: "At least I got all the byes out of the team's system. Kris has a very good team with Rodgers and Peterson combo, tough to beat a 57-point effort even with a full team most of the time. That was our only regular-season meeting I believe. And if memory serves me, she moves to I think 3-1 or 4-1 lifetime against me."

Week 6: That winning feeling

My Fumble's 48-37 victory over Quags left me scrambling through recent results for my Shakespeare teams. Holy jeez. When's the last time I've been two games over .500? I finally found the answer going back to 2008.  The feeling was fleeting. Just Week 8 in 2008 and then my team suffered another loss to drop down closer to .500.

One shocker for Fumble is that the team already has surpassed last year's franchise-worse three-win season.

ALL IN THE FAMILY: The matchup of week for Week 7 belongs to the Herigodt-Miazga household. Wife and husband are tied for first in each division, which led Dah Commish to wonder what happens if the married couple meet in Finger Bowl 18?

Week 5: Watching football with my wife

I root for the Saints. My wife roots for the Bears. She doesn't understand why I don't root for the Bears. Well, that's because when I was growing up in the 1970s, I don't remember anything but Bears losses. Who would want to root for that? I was originally a Raiders fan as a kid, but found a different team when the late Al Davis took his Raiders to L.A.

Sunday was a typical day of watching football with my wife. We watch silently, but have different reactions. We attended a kids birthday party early in the afternoon when the host finally turned on football as the party came to end. I was wearing a Saints hat, watching the end of a rare Saints game on the a Chicago market TV when the host asked me what team I root for. Believe it.

When I watch the Saints, I am usually grinning and have no other expression. When my wife watches the Bears, she is usually seething and has no other expression.

Which takes us to a bizarre Monday Night game for the Bears when my wife expresses disgust for Lovie Smith's decision making and I am smiling just a big when Jahvid Best breaks a big one against the Bears to help give me a 59-57 fantasy victory over Newt.

NEAR RECORD: The Brawlers scored 82 points in Week 5 to come within eight points of equaling Matt Simo's league record of 90 points for a single game in 1995.

One more thought from Eggers owner Mike Miazga on Week 5: "This is a win I was lucky to have. I thought for sure I would get killed given I left Janikowski and his 3 50-yard field goals and 1 40-yard field goal on the bench (24 points) as well as Bowe from Kansas City who had a big day (17 points, I believe). I went back and forth with Janikowski and Akers but went with Akers kicking at home. Bowe I also thought about quite a bit given I do not like starting two players from the same team. Roethlisberger (5 TDs) I did not even consider starting."

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Week 4: And then there was none

Newt had one of his best efforts of the season to topple the Eggers from the ranks of the undefeated, 58-27.

On the sports radio, some owners complained that they still lost despite QB Rodgers GB big weekend. Not so in Finks League, the Brawlers earned 33 of their 52 points from the QB. That is one of the greatest single-match totals by a single player in recent memory. At least in the last two years since we began keeping track of P.O.W.s on the website.

From Serkus owner Goff: "Serkus Act is regretting having benched my Player of the Week Cowboys kicker this week. (Sure could use his 3 FGs and 3 PATs). Should also have went with Romo....but at least I did get two Dez Bryant TDs out of that disgusting Dallas loss."

 

And then there was one...

The Eggers remain the only undefeated Finks League team through three weeks by virtue of their 61-34 victory over Fumble. It would take a little bit of research to determine the last 3-0 start for veteran owner Mike Miazga.

The Eggers play Newt (1-2) in Week 4 to try to keep its season-opening streak alive.

Reports from around the league in Week 3:

From Serkus: "Serkus Act can report an improbable win -- the second week in a row a kicker scored big points for me -- after Dallas kicker Dan Bailey booted 6 field goals last night to outscore the rest of my entire lineup. Hurricanes held a 34-13 lead going into MNF and while Dez Bryant was blanked, Bailey tallied 25 points (three 40-yarders, one 30-yarder and two short FGs)."

From Barrels: "In front of a hostile, bloodthirsty throng in Ulan Bator, the Creighton Barrels escaped with their first Finks League victory of the season, a 28-19 defeat of the homestanding Khans. Despite losing Kenny Britt to a knee injury and the less-than-stellar Barrels debut of Rashard Mendenhall, the squad was able to prevail thanks to the performance of quarterback, and POW Nominee, Matthew Stafford, who rolled up 15 points in the second half of the Lions' OT defeat of the Vikings, quite possibly the best 0-3 team in the history of organized sports (Hey, I'm a Vikings fan; I have to console myself somehow). Creighton also benefitted from Mark Ingram's first career touchdown, while the Khans could only manage TDs from Freeman and Fitzgerald and 7 Kasay kicking points, which were offset by the 7 points from the Barrels' Bironas."