Clowns

For the most part, the playoff teams in the first round performed like a clown act.

Okay.  You guys have me seriously reconsidering the playoff format for next year.  Maybe instead of playing a 14-game season to determine the four best teams, and then staging a 2-week playoff, maybe we'll just award the title to the guy with the best clown makeup.  Or maybe we can run around shouting 'Beagle, beagle, beagle!!!' while wearing various muppet characters as hats.  Wait, I know.  You can all come out to Minnesota, where I live, and we can go sledding down this big hill that has a lake at the bottom.  Each of you guys can sled down the hill one at a time, and when you get close to the bottom, I'll smash a big hole in the ice so that one by one you can sail into the ice-cold water at 60 MPH.  The winner will be the guy who stays in the lake the longest without dying.

Seriously, though, why did we even play this season?  After performing well enough to make the playoffs, the top three seeds --- Levi, Adam and Mex --- all took a dive (metaphorically, not literally), and stunk up the joint, scoring a combined 122 points.

They were SO bad, they were actually outscored by EVERY OTHER SINGLE TEAM IN THE LEAGUE, including the ones competing in the Toilet Bowl (except not Taylor, obviously).  Yes, either Levi or Adam will take the 3rd-place prize of $60, and Mex might even win the whole thing, but at the moment, it sure doesn't seem like they deserve it.

I should take time out from the rant to congratulate Kubicek for being the one playoff team to actually play like one, whipping Levi by a score of 79-42.  So the finals will match up Mex's 9-game winning streak against Kubicek's actual competence.  Kubicek is installed as an 8-point favorite, and I have to give him props for having the stones to actually start a Jaguars RB in the finals.  No matter how the game eventually is decided, he has my respect for that move.

There are really only two other game anyone cares about (if that many).  In the battle for the 2015 #1 pick, yours truly faces off against the Hollow Graham's for no doubt the final time.  Sure, I'll have more games against Jody in the future, but I doubt his team will have that name.  I'm guessing that the instant the Broncos/Bengals game is over Monday night, Jody changes his team name back to the Oddly-Shaped Golf Clubs, or whatever the hell he wants to call it.

It's been 2 years since Jody got to name his own team, so I've forgotten what the 'real' name is.

And finally, there's the Toilet Bowl, featuring Strike Team against the Golden Graham's.  Wouldn't it be ironic if, after 2 years with Jody as the league goat, Kevin finally had to take a turn?