NWSL SEASON XX WRAPUP
Well, it's a wrap. As soon as Season 20 began, it seemed as if it was over as soon as it began. We've officially turned out the lights on a great season, thus, the blackout background. A great season with a lot of drama, exciting games, frontrunners, heartache, (well maybe not heartache, but definitely disappointment), and a lot of emptied beer cans.... The Year In Review should be interesting. Here goes, in true Corral fashion. Meaning, every bit of it is true, but its up to the reader to determine if all of it is true. hehehehe... In the words of Dakota Rayne Prescott, "Here we Goooooo!!!!"
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JUNGLE BOOGIE BUNZ
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What immediately comes to mind about this team is the fact that they won the Super Bowl in what turned out to be an exciting, last minute win over BigPlanz2. It was probably one of the best NWSL Super Bowls of recent memory. So congratulations to Jungle Boogie Bunz. We at the Corral, for obvious reasons, are happy that he has deprived the trophy from the clutches of daLordOfTheRings and FireMarshallBill. NOW, in true Corral fashion, lets unearth the real wrapup about JB.
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JungleBunny ended his season with an 8-6 record, to end up fourth in league standings. JungleBunny's initial draft grade was a D+ according to Yahoo! and Mel Kiper. And when we look at JB's overall season, it becomes clear that he was probably the worst, most unlikely team to win the Super Bowl. Kind of like the 2011 New York Giants who had to be one of the worst teams to win a Super Bowl due to their mediocre 9-7 regular season record. Or the 2006 Indianapolis Colts, who struggled in the regular season but got hot in the playoffs. That's basically what we saw from JungleBunz. A team that was all over the map during the regular season, but then caught fire at the end of year, winning his last four games.
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Check this out: He started the year 3-1, but struggled to beat "HoldMyBeerAndWatchThis" by TWO points. (Sorry Mikey. LOL) Two weeks later, JB got blown out by BigPlanz2. This was followed a win, loss, win, loss, loss. And worse still, those back2back losses were to LEGGYPEGGY by FIDDY points, and KCNoStars by SIXTY points!!! How in the heck do you lose back-to-back games by a total of 110 points to the ESTROGEN's of the league???? (Sorry Cory, we know you're part of the KC Management Duo, but we all know who makes the pancakes in the house. We all know that KC is 80% estrogen and weaves, the other 20% is Cory) hehehehahahee.
After getting dragged by the League of Women, he won a game, then lost a game, then won the rematch with Planz2. BUT that win over Planz was the beginning to a 4-game winning streak, ending with a scintillating win in the rubbermatch Super Bowl over Biggie Biggie.
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So when we evaluate his season, we see a marginal team that make some great cocahing decisions at the end of the year, caught 4 weeks of fire, and upset MellyMel and BigPlanz2 to win it all.... Wowww...
​Finally, when we focus on just WHY they won it all, it was because of: 1) the switch from drafted QB Justin Herbert to waiver pickup Brocks Purdy. This QB switch came at exactly the right time as Purdy was on a heater the last four weeks of the year. Good coaching move. Another good coaching move was inserting Herbert as his starter for one week over Purdy when Herbert played against the Cowboys. Great move, especially since the Boys are JB's favorite football team. Herbert torched the Cowboys, and scored major points for JB in his playoff game.
Finally, his WR combo of PukaBuka was just too much for most teams to overcome. Puka and Emeka Egbuka, and JChase was a WR nightmare. So despite a mediocre, up and down season, similar to the 2011 NYGiants, JB caught fire at the right time, went on a roll, and upset both demHeavyHitters and BiggieBiggie. In the famous words of Malcolm X, JB won it all "by any means necessary".....
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OH! rYAN(hadABad)dAY
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We just wanted to finally reveal that, after watching College Football Playoffs for the last two days, we now clearly understand the meaning of Diggys switch to the team name "OHRyanDay". Ohio State coach Ryan Day is the coach of Melly Mels favorite college team. Diggy lost a bet to Melly and payment was changing his team name to Melly's college team coaches name, which, is definitely NOT Diggy's favorite team... heeheehahaheehahahee........ What a bet to lose... BUT Diggy gets the last laugh as Ryan did NOT have a good Day in the playoff game against Miami. Ohio State got blown away by the Hurricane's and their new mascot, Michael Irvin.
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THE O.C.
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The O.C. had his sights set on winning another Super Bowl, or at the least making it to the playoffs. Well, he accomplished one out of two of those objectives, albeit, a short stay in the playoffs. The O.C was killed by his brother Cain, who showed no mercy on him with his Puka/Buka combo and Brocks Purdy (good).
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O.C. finished his season at .500, with a 7-7 record. Like his Super Bowl Champion brother, his season was up and down throughout. Problem was, when The O.C. lost a game, he LOST IN BIG FASHION. After starting the season 5-1, the O.C. was feeling mighty good about himself. About as confident as Pharoah felt as he raced into the Red Sea in pursuit of his trophy, aka: Moses and his crew of Isrealites. That confident feeling didn't last long. At all. The O.C. would go on a FIVE game losing streak. It was like someone kept taking wheels off his chariot as he slogged through the muddy seabed. Making matters much worse was how badly those wheels came off his chariot. Lets rewind the videotape. Lost to Maddog by 20. Lost to BMoreKid by 40. Lost to daKidd by 40. Lost to MellyMel by 40, then lost to BiggieBiggie by 30. Not even Apostle Paul got beat THIS BADLY. lol......... Anywho, O.C. somehow managed to get up off the carpet and win two of his last three games. Somehow, he made it to the playoffs, but as mentioned earlier, JungleBunz aka Cain invited The O.C. to "take a little ride" with him into the fields. And as we all know, The O.C. didn't come back. He just kinda disappeared. Perhaps buried under a building somewhere. JB beat him by 75 points! The worst beatdown the O.C. endured all season..... The O.C. went down like Frazier! Drowned like Pharoah.
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The beatdowns were no doubt a direct result of losing WR Garrett Wilson RB Austin Ekelar to early season ending injuries. Throw in the issue named (WR) Rome Odunze who was a bust for 80% of the season. Add Kareem Hunt and Rashod Bateman to the "80% season bust" catagory. The ONLY consistent players O.C. had was Dakota Rayne Prescott, D'Von Achane and Brandon Aubrey. Its hard to swim above .500 with only 3 consistant players..... Oh well... Like the yearly refrain of Cowboy fans, the O..C. says: "Next year is Our Year!!"
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daBombDiggidees
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Many of you may not remember that Diggy aka OhRyanDay was originally daBombDiggidees, wayyyyy back in Season One. The names have changed over the years, most of the name changes prompted by The Corral. DiggyDoo to DiggyDoRight to FireMarshallBill to the F.C. (Fake Comissioner) to name just a few. But no matter the name, Diggy has remained a constant threat to be in the hunt for the SuperBowl trophy. Off hand, we can't remember how many titles he has won over 20 years. We would have to consult Moody, the keeper of the Archived Scrolls. Unfortunately, Moody has not been available for comment since his Skyline crashed and burned.
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Unfortunately, Season 20 was one of Diggys worst seasons, as he finished .500 with a 7-7 record. He ended his season with a two point win over The O.C. in the playoffs. His issues stemmed from losing his starting QB Jayden Daniels to injury followed by Zach Ertz, Tyreek Cheetah Hill, and J.K. Dobbins. His team became a virtual M*A*S*H unit. Good thing Diggy is a medic. Yet and still, FireMarshallbill scrapped and clawed his way into the playoffs. Rest assured he will be back again next year.
Diggy became a GrandPa this season, so we can see a new name being gifted to him for next season. GrandPappyBill comes to immediately to mind. In addition to being a Pappy, he has become a workout freak, spending hours in the weightroom bulking up. Apparently, cats are getting heavier each year because of whats in the cat food these days. Diggy gotta keep in shape and bulked up in order to pull those heavy cats out of the local trees.
BmORE kID tEAm
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We're linking these two Baltimore teams together for a reason. You will soon see why.
What is there to say about this team? We have no idea. We don't have much data or intel into this team. Maybe the acting Comissioner can give us some insight when he gets out of the weightroom.
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WHAT WE KNOW
We know that they ended their season under .500 with a 6-8 record. We know that they reside in B'More, or thereabouts.
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
Their name ends in the word "Team" which begs to wonder whether this is a co-owned team ie: KCNoStars, or is this a family owned team. THAT WOULD be cool actually.
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What does the owner(s) even look like? Are they young, old, middle-age or a Kid? Black, white, asian, hispanic or Other? lol
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We'll have more to share when we have more information to work with. The Corral is an equal opportunity newsletter. Translation: Every manager gets clowned on, picked on, and basically hazed. Equally. But The Corral can't rightly pick on someone if we don't know what to make fun of...... hehehehhehe
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BIGPLANZ2
What is there to say about this team? Again, we have no idea. We don't have much data or intel into this team. Maybe the acting Comissioner can give us some insight when he gets through changing the grandbabies diapers and showing him ancient videos of the Redskins winning a Super Bowl.
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WHAT WE KNOW
We know that they ended their season with a respectable 10-4 record. We know that they reside in B'More, or thereabouts. We know they knocked Melly Mel out of the playoffs and came ONE Puka reception from winning the SuperBowl. What a great game that was!!!! Uhhhhhhh, we know they came in second place.
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
Who really is BigPlanz2? What was his/her original Planz? Is he or she big, or was it just the planz that were big? Is Planz2 related to Diggy or Moody? Does Planz2 even LIKE Diggy and Moody? hehehhehe Since he/she didn't win the Super Bowl, does that mean the planz were scrapped or will it still be the planz2 next year?
What do the Planz2 look like? Are they written on paper, scribbled on a paper napkin, or are they the figment of imagination? So many questions, so little time....
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We'll have more to share when we have more information to work with. The Corral is an equal opportunity newsletter. Translation: Every manager gets clowned on, picked on, and basically hazed. Equally. But The Corral can't rightly pick on someone if we don't know what to make fun of...... hehehehhehe
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590 AREA CODE
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Somewhere between Baltimore MD and Dallas, TX should be a little piece of land with the area code 590. Factually speaking, the 590 area code isn't a U.S. code but rather the international calling code for French territories in the Caribbean, specifically Guadeloupe, Saint Martin, and Saint Barthélemy. But for as good as MadDog, KCNoStars, and NYSkycries played, they might as well be in Guadeloupe!! All three reside in the 5-9-0, reserved for teams that end their season 5-9-0. hehheheheehe
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We've already did the Wrapup on KC and Sky, but we need to go ahead and throw MadDog 20/20 into the same pot. The ONLY REASSON we don't bring the heat on Reef and by default, his lovely wife, Tasha aka Bighead, is cause they don't bother nobody. They move in silence. They don't make no waves. They line up their team, watch the game, lose, and move on quietly to the next week. hehehehehee.....
Mad's QB, Baker Mayfield didn't do him any favors with his very slow start to the season. Baker didn't start baking until the back part of the year. McCaffery wasn't what he's been in years past and Worthy X was victim to the Chiefs having a bad season. Basically, MadDog20/20 was done in from the jump...... But.... he's in good company out there in the 5-9-0. Kim makes good pancakes and Moody always plays good music. So they'll be alright during the off-season....
daKiddieCorporation
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The Corral refuses to be petty on this one. Wayyyyyy too much intel to pick from so we choose to stick to the straight facts, in true Corral style.
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In the words of Steven A. Smith, "we have to give credit where credit is due." Given how daKidd started out this season, he gets props for finishing the season in third place. After starting his season 0-4, daKidd began the 360-degree turnaround by winning his next three games. He took another "L" but his team catapulted into hyper gear. daKidd shook his baby rattle to the tune of SEVEN CONSECUTIVE WINS. That turned out to be the longest win streak of all teams this year. Kudos to him for that accomplishment. (tongue in cheek).
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daKidd was obviously quite confident and as the playoffs neared, he and MellyMel began engaging in back and forth chat on the NWSL Chat group of their eventual meeting in the Super Bowl. We'll come back to this paragraph in a few........
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But in the words of, again, Steven A. Smith, "when the lights get bright, buttcheeks get tight". And THATS exactly what happened to KiddiePoo.
BiggiePlanz 210, KiddiePoo 175 happened. Yep, Kiddie's diapered buttcheeks got tighter than Kim's current weave.... oops... sorry Kim. My bad!! Kiddie's diapered buttcheeks got tighter than Mikeys grip on a Budweiser beer can.
KiddiePooPoo went down in flames in his first playoff game. The irony of his situation parallels the MellyMel scenario. BOTH teams came in hot, but instantly flamed out in their first playoff game. Kiddie flew in on a 7-game win streak. Melly rolled into the playoffs after winning 5 straight games. But in each case, THE ALGORITHM caught up with them. (see the MellyMel wrapup)
The good old Algorithm says that you can only win so many games in a row before you, in the famous words of former ESPN personality Keith Olberman, "MUST go down and go down HARD!".
Not even the 2007 Patriots could beat the Algorithm. They went 16-0 into the Super Bowl and lost to the NYSkylines,....... oops, my bad. They lost to the NY Giants. hehehehehe . Only the 1972 NFL Miami Dolphins defied the Algorithm when they went 17-0 and won the Super Bowl. So it stands to reason that daKidd would roll into the playoffs on a 7-game bender, to only choke on his rattle and crawl into the consolation game.
OK, now back to that earlier paragraph. Remember when we said that KiddiePoo and MellyMel engaged in confident banter about their meeting up in the Super Bowl. And perhaps rightly so, since they were steamrolling on 7 and 5 winning streaks respectively. Well, someone forgot to send them the memo that confirmed that they would meet in the playoffs. In the CONSOLATION BOWL. hehehehe.... which was won by daKiddieCorp.
BUT, at least he ended up in third place. Those are the unmitigated facts. Then again, its also a fact that nobody remembers who came in third place.
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Sorry, my pettiness can only be stiffled for only so long.
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NYSkyCries
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Well, well, well. ABSOLUTELY NOONE would have predicted the fall, no, the crash of NYSkyCries. Noone could have ever expected the LordOfDaRings to end Season 20 with only FIVE wins. Yep. Five. As in the Jackson Five. As in Take 5. As in The Five Senses. As in The Fab Five. Or as LeggyPeggy would say, "Cinco, como el numero". OK, so if you know anything about The Corral, you know that all the pettiness is coming out on this one!! Who remembers the year The MoodMeister posted a picture of his bedazzled hand, with crusted rings on the fingers to remind everyone of how many NWSL Super Bowls he's won? Who recalls TheSkyLord reminding everyone of how great a draft he had...... for the past 20 years? And speaking of the draft, we all recall the Infamous Draft Season when Skylines broke the Gentlemans Code when he literally stole The O.C.'s keeper player, AFTER being told that that same player was off limits? So pardon the Corral if their staff gloats over this years demise of the LordOfdaRings. Call it retribution for him stealing our Keeper. hehehehehe...... Yep, it's ridiculously petty to bring it up, but as a famous newscaster used to say, "that's the way it is".......
Ok, enough of that. Moody's draft featured Josh Allen , Justin Jefferson and ChubbyNick as his top tier players. So you could say that he had a good draft. Skylines took flight with a huge 200+ points win in the season opener. One could say that he was cruising at a great altitude with sunny skies and zero turbulance or rain in the flight pattern to another Super Bowl. He hit an air pocket in his second game but came out ok after winning his third game to go 2-1. But he was already having altitude problems as his crew was averaging in the mid-100 points per game.
Then came Week 4. The week he hit major turbulance and his quick descent began. SkyLord got pummeled 219-174. By whom you may ask? hehehehehe...... MoodMeister took a Week 4 "L" to none other than The O.C. Realizing that his crew was in major distress, DJ MoodMeister turned down the music, got on the mike and said; "Mayday, mayday, mayday!!!!" . Skylines was in huge trouble. That loss was followed by consecutive losses in Week FIVE, six, seven , eight, and NINE!!. By our count, after the O.C. beatdown, Skylines lost the next FIVE games. Are we starting to see a storyline here? Making matters worse, it was PeggyLeggy that gave him his FIF' loss after the O.C. beatdown. And as a reminder, which week did he play PeggyLeggy to end his FIVE game skid? It was Week NINE. the same number of games he LOST this year. hehehehhehe. You can't make this stuff up!!!
He would finally win his third game, but the crash was now complete. As his little plane lay on the ground, smoke ascending to the Sky, he has been mighty quiet on the NWSL chatline. His mike has been turned off. In the famous sign-off words of Walter Cronkite, "And thats the way it is."
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HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS!
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So he asked us to hold his beer. He asked us to "watchTHIS". Now that the season has ended, we all want to know what it was we were supposed to be watching. We never did hold his beer can(s), we left that up to PeggyLeggy to handle. BUT, we're waiting to see what we're to watch. Or maybe we missed it. OR, maybe we did watch and just didnt realize that we were watching exactly what he wanted us to watch. It just didn't turn out to be exactly what he expected it to be. He didn't expect the reviews to be what they turned out to be.
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Kind of like the movie trailer that you watch for an upcoming movie. The trailer got you all hyped up due to high expectations from producers. Because of the star power, you were excited especially when you were told to WatchTHIS. So you bought your ticket, went to the movie, beer in hand, and watched what turned out to be a dud. Remember "The Cable Guy"? Jim Carrey was the star power. The trailer showed tidbits that made us want to "watchTHIS"..... We ended up pulling the cable on "The Cable Guy".
So what did we actually watch, after Mikey told us to "watchTHIS?"....
His team certainly didn't lack for star power. Jared Goff. Ashton Jeanty. Scary Terry McLaurin. Amon St Ra Brown. and Travis Kelce. So we we got our popcorn and settled in to watchTHIS.
What we got was a season that opened with an "L". ScaryTerry got killed in the opening scene. This was followed by a win, followed by two losses, followed by two wins, followed by another "L", then two wins, then three "L"'s. By this time we had seen enough. We had pulled the plug on this show. It was too sketchy. The storyline wasn't flowing. It was choppy. One good scene, two bad scenes, one great line, followed by three headscratcher scenes.
Kind of like a Tubi movie where you see the reflection of the camera crew in the mirror or the actor starts falling to the ground two seconds before you hear the gunshot!!
Anywho, Mikey did have one great scene, near the halfway point of the movie. It was when he beat MellyMel by one point. THAT was the high point of the movie. It captivated us. It took us by surprise! It left us wanting more scenes like that one, but unfortunately, it tanked after that.
Before Mikey even made the playoffs, where he actually won both games (although one shouldn't have counted because it was LeggyPeggy that gifted him the win). we had already left the theater. The Rotten Tomatoes reviews were not that great and certainly was not what we expected when Mikey told us to WatchTHIS. Maybe he will produce a better movie for next year. We'll watch and wait.........
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PEGGY'S MIGHTY TEAM aka PEGGYLEGGY
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There was a day when The Corral's favorite lovable manager was Mikey aka G-Mike. No real reason other than the fact that he used to get picked on for his penchant for NOT winning games, no matter how hard he tried. Over the last few years however, G-Mike has been supplanted by none other than his lovable wife PeggyLeggy, the NWSL's Second Lady. If Mikey loses 7 games, Peggy loses 8. If Mikey wins 6 games, Peggy wins 4. hehehehe. Sorry Peggy. Peggy struggled again this season, coming in 12th place with a 4-10 record. And guess who she was right behind? Yep, Mikey. Who finished with a 6-8 record!!! There is apparent truth to the expression "behind every losing man stands a losing woman!" OUCH.... Noone can ever accuse LeggyPeggy of not having Mikey's back! Ok, so that was kinda petty........
But we're not gonna be too hard on Peggy. We like her so we will spare her the long season wrapup we reserve for managers that annoy us, ie: Skylines, Diggy, daKidd, and the 'K" in KCAllStars, lol.... And to PeggyLeggy's credit, her signature win came in Week Nine when she gave The Skyliner his fif' straight loss before his crew crashed to the ground! Thank you Peggy!!! In the famous words of Heath Ledger's Joker in Dark Knight, "hehehahaheehahaaa" . That in itself gave you major props with The Corral and at least half the league managers!!!
In all fairness to PeggyLeggy, her MightyTeam suffered mightily when her QB Joe Burrowed himself into a hole after he went down with a major injury for the first half of the season. Jerry "DontCallMeJudy" and Kareem Hunt didn't do her any favors by underperforming all year. Lets see who Peggy drafts first next season with what should be the first pick.....
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KC AllStars, AllPoints, NoWins
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Ok, I know everyone was wonderng who The Corral was going to be petty with first, so it's only right to start with the co-managers, KC aka Kim and Cory, aka Jerry and Stephen Jones. This is the Connundrum if there ever was one. KC came in second place in total accumulated points with 2921.98, meaning they posted 2922 points this season. Thats 183 points per game. And why shouldn't that have been the case? After all, KC had Drake, the possible MVP of the league, they also had Jaxon Smith-Enigma, DK Metcalf, Derrick OhHenry, SaquonBarkley, Caleb Williamss and Jake Ferguson. KC rolled out to a week One win, afterwhich, the wheels fell completely off their raggedy chariot faster than those driven by Pharoah in the Red Sea. Despite scoring nearly 300 something points per week, each opponent had their outbreak game against (including LeggyPeggy). Like the modern day Cowboys who made EVERY QB look like a Hall of Famer, KC made EVERY TEAM look like a Super Bowl candidate, including PeggyLeggy. After winning their first game, they lost their next four. It was pretty much lights out from there. More is actually less I guess. More points. Less Wins. hahahahaha. Note to KC: Try scoring less points next year. It might result in more wins. Now THAT was petty.
One day, while watching an Olympic Games marathon with my Dad, he looked at the person who came in last place, then looked at me and said, "he did all that training for years just to come in last place. He could have done that staying home drinking beers all day!" Before yall start thinkin' this is about last place MadDog20/20 and his co-pilot Tasha, its not..... Nope, this intro brings us to:
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demHeavyHitters aka Melly Mel, aka MelvinNobody, aka The OhioPlaya.
Now this manager did the work. He drafted greatly. He managed his team with great effort, setting the appropriate weekly lineups so good that he raced out to a league leading 12-2 record. He led the league in scoring with 3006 points. Unlike KC, his More (points) was not Less (wins). hehehehe. Petty, I know. It gets even pettier. Trust me.
MellyMel had a 5-game winning streak. Twice. In fact, he went into the playoffs on a 5-game winning streak. But a deep dive into his season revealed that five games was the most he could win consecutively and therefore, going into the playoffs, it was inevitable that he would not go 7 straight. The ALGORITHM says "Win 5, lose. Win 5, lose again. And thats exactly what happened. He might have fared better had he lost the last game of the regular season. At least then, the algorithm says he wins his next two. So "Melvin went into the playoffs and tried to do the same thing. (win) But it didn't happen. That algorithm told him the most beautiful words you want to hear in our fantasy profession. That algorithm looked Melvin dead in the eye and said "Forget 12-2. Beat Me!!" (heeheeheehee IYKYK.....)
Melvin couldn't beat the algorithm. He lost the first game of the playoffs (reminds me of the Cowboys with all those home wins, then losing to GB in the first playoff game....) Anywho, demHeavyHitters not only lost in their first playoff game, they followed that with another loss in the consolation round. That certainly had to be a major disapointment for Melvin. It ranks up there with the aforementioned Cowboys who did all that winning only to lose in the first round. Its like being ranked number 1 and losing in the NCAA first round to the 16th seeded team in your bracket.
The Corral staff kinda feels bad for Melly Mel, after all , he's a really nice guy and good brother. He just fell victim to the Algorithm. He picked a bad time to have a bad game. Which brings us back to what my Dad once said. "Melvin did all that great managing to get 12 wins just to come in fourth place. He could have done that hanging out with Mikey drinking beers all season!." Ouch.... Now THATS REALLY PETTY!!! Sorry Mikey....... LOL LOL
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PUKA LATE TD CATCH PROPELS JUNGLE BUNZ TO CLASSIC SUPER BOWL XX 219-211 WIN OVER BIGPLANZ2
WHAT. A. GAME. The type NWSL Super Bowl we have been waiting for. A seeming blowout turned nail-biter. A high volume super WR averaging QB1 numbers versus a Barry Sanders-esque RB playing as if his dreads were on fire. In this corner, wearing UCLA blue and white, we give you WR Puka LaChuka. The challenger wearing dark red and black: RB Bijon Mustard Robinson.
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Honestly, going into the Monday Night Thriller, no one, other than Diggy "The Prophet Wanna Be", gave BigPlanz2 a chance. Planz2 came into the Monday night game trailing 197-148, thanks largely in part to JB's Brock Purdy's 65.95 points on a 5-TD epic game. Combining that with the thought of having Puka on deck, averaging 50 something points a game, and even Big Planz2 was congratulating JB on the Super Bowl win before the Monday nighter even began. How in the heck was a RB going to outscore a Puka? And THATS WHY WE PLAY THE GAMES!!!!!
SECOND QUARTER
We fast forward to 2 minutes left in the second quarter, because THATS when things went from JB having a comfortable lead to JB's booty cheeks tightening up. Bijan had already caught a 4-yrd TD, the Falcons were up by 14, but JB was still double-digit points ahead and was totally unbothered.
Until. Until, with 1:41 left in the first half, Bijan took a handoff, blasted though a hole the size only the Dallas Cowboy run defense allows weekly running backs in wheelchairs to roll through. Bijan trucks a would be tackler, spins cycle's a linebacker, jukes a cornerback, stiff arms another Ram defender then runs over and knocks the helmet off of a safety (oh wait, sorry, my bad, that was Commander Deebo Samuel running over and knocking off Dallas Cowboys Donovan Wilson's helmet last Sunday) Anyway, in that 8 second timeframe, Bijan scored on a 93-yrd TD run!!! Suddenly, JB's unsurmountable lead was down to just 10 points, 200-190. Bijon was cooking!! The halftime had plenty of posts from all the managers on the sure possibility of Planz coming from behind and perhaps winning this thing. Bunz was nervous. He flirted with turning off the TV and waking up to hear if he had won or lost.
THIRD QUARTER
11:08 (3RD Q) : Jungle Bunny goes up by 15 points on a FG by his kicker....
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4:59 (3RD Q) With this much time left in the game, Bijan ran and ran and ran and finally cut JB's 15 pt lead down to just 4 points. Managers text messages were coming in fast and furious now. An upset, comeback victory in the making as Bijan was steamrolling Ram defenders while Puka was losing targets to the Ram tight ends and any WR not named Puka. At this point in the game, announcers mentioned that Puka had only 7 targets as the Falcon defense was very much focused on Puka not beating them..
2:56 (3RD Q) Bijan catches a pass that narrows JB's lead to a miniscule 2 points.
End of third quarter: Bijan had pulled BigPlanz to a 207-207 tie going into the final quarter.
FOURTH QUARTER
14:43 (4TH Q) Bijan puts BigPlanz in the lead for the first time, 208-207. This was the point when all the "popcorn memes" started to be posted on the NWSL feed. Yes, all the managers were fully invested in this game. JB wanted to go to bed early but we wouldn't let him. Kim was more nervous for JB than he was for himself. But all of her accumulated 3,000 points couldn't help JB one bit. Meanwhile, The O.C. was beginning to work on an alternate version Super Bowl victory video clip..
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Then an interesting sequence of plays happened. Atlanta gets a FG attempt blocked. Its returned 200 yards for a Ram TD. JB falls to his knees realizing that the last thing he needed was Bijan back on the field without the Ram offense getting a possession.
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Diggy, sitting at Firehouse 59, laughs and trolls JB by posting a screenshot of his prophetic post in which he said that "Bijan can go nuclear on anyone at anytime and that this "championship game is not over". Essentially, he was reminding JB that his win was NOT in the bag!
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12:50 (4TH Q) Puka makes a showing by catching a short pass, enough to push JB back into the lead 209-208. Jungle Bunz sweats out that one point lead all the way down to 7:38 left in the game. BUT now he has TWO additional problems. 1) Overtime: The game is tied at 24 and now the possibility of it ending in OT is real. Translation: More touches for Bijan. 2) With only a ONE point lead, The 3AM Gremlin is now a huge threat. Managers are killing the feed with the OT issue, and who it would favor. Meanwhile, the Gremlin is somewhere out there cuing up the game replay, searching for data that can be used to flip the score.
5:00 (4TH Q) Puka makes a stupid crazy TD catch that literally puts the game out of reach. JB jumps for joy!! Diggy slides UP the firestation pole and runs back to the firehouse TV in disbelief! Biggie BigPlanz is downcast. Leggy Peggy jumps for joy and tosses Mikey his 4th beer! Kim is whipping up the pancake batter!! But wait....... Hold the elation. There's laundry on the field. A yellow piece of cloth is on the field, nullifying the TD catch! The Gremlin rolls the score back to 209-208. All of a sudden, the "fix is in" posts start scattering the feed. Somewhere out there, former NWSL manager Kama is busting his gut laughing cause he knows its a conspiracy!! Nobody knows for sure, but what we do know is that this game is just tooooo fun and nailbiting to watch!
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2:46 (4TH Q) Puka does what Puka does. FINALLY. Puka catches a TD!! All eyes quickly scan the turf, looking for the dreaded yellow fabric cloth. But there is none. TD counts!! Jungle Boogie wants to jump for joy but he's just too scared to do it, even though his lead is now 219-208. Biggie Biggie gimme, oops, gets one more chance!!
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Its now Bijans turn. Bijan gets two carries to bring the score to 219-211. But with Atlanta playing for the winning FG, Bijan gets no more carries. Atlanta kicks a FG with 30 seconds left to put them up 27-24. Now you would think that the Super Bowl is now over. JB wins! But hold Mikeys Beer. The Rams desparately want to win (or send this into OT) so they throw passes to everyone except Puka, and move to within FG range. The last thing JB wants is OT.
:05 (4TH Q) Five seconds left, and a pass is launched to Puka on the sideline, well within game tying field goal range. Puka, a full step ahead of the nearest defender raises his hands to catch the pass. JB freezes, then screams at the TV "Noooooo Puka, DON'T catch it!!!!" Imagine THAT. All night long, JB is in mourning because Stafford is sending all his passes to other WR's and tight ends. Not to Puka. But now, JB does NOT want a Puka reception. A Puka catch potentially sets up the game tying FG, giving us MORE BIJAN mustard for our game snack sandwiches. JB just wants the clock to hit all zeroes. But lo and behold, Puka catches the pass on the sideline. Rams are about to trot out the kicker to send this thing into OT but.............not so fast!! The eye in the sky rules that Puka did NOT catch the pass, ruling he did not maintain control of the ball before going out of bounds. The game was now officially over! JB escapes, bag of Tums in hand, with a 219-211 win on a NON-catch by Puka!!! No chance for overtime, no chance for Bijan to do what Bijan had been doing! No "one more chance" for Biggie Planz2!!!
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We at the Corral got what we, and everyone else wanted. We got Moody missing the playoffs. We got the R.C. (Replacement Commissioner) coming ohhhhhh so close, but not getting the cigar, and we got a GREAT GREAT Super Bowl classic!!!
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Congratulations to BigPanz2, who we STILL DON'T KNOW WHO HE (or she) actually is on a great season. Congratulation to JB on his thrid title ring. And congratulations to ALL THE guys and gals on their great seasons. Stay tuned for a season recap from The Corral coming very soon.......
DECEMBER 25 - 29, 2025
The 2025 NWSL SUPER BOWL has finally arrived and will feature one team that was expected be here and another that we didn't see coming. For most of us, we felt that the season long front runners, aka Melly Mel and his Hail2DaVictors aka daHeavyHitters with their league leading, first place 12-2 record would face off against BigPlanz2 who ended the season with a 10-4 record. At least one manager felt very strongly that his 9-5 record would vault him into the Super Bowl, but alas, that didn't happen. Instead, Season 20 will end with Biggie Biggie gettin' one (mo) chance to win it all against Jungle Boogie, looking to win his third ring. But how did we get this matchup? What happened to Melly Mel, who we haven't heard from on the league post (he declined interviews with the Corral press) ? And what about them 9-5 kidd's that rose from the ashes and ended their season in third place? (daKidd refused interviews with the Corral press also). Lets go to the video tape, back to last weeks Final 4 games..........
BIGGPLANZ2 210 daKIDD 175
NWSL Championship Week started with the 4pm prime time game featuring second place BiggieBiggie vrs. third place daKidd. Kidd came into this game with all the confidence in the world that he would wreck BiggiesPlanz, but..... thats why they play the games!!!
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Kidd's demise began when he started Jaxon (got no) Darts in the QB1 spot over Capt. Kirk (Cousins). Very bad coaching decision. Dart's FIRST completion of the game came with 1:47 left in the first half!! Ouch!!! He continued to struggle throughout the second half and ended up with seven completed passes for 33 yards, no tuddy's and one INT. That ended his day with a whopping -0.15 fantasy points. You gotta know that daKidd had to know it was over at that point. daKidd would have done better with PeggyLeggy as his starting QB. She surely could have threw more beer cans at Mikey, and we're sure Mikey would have caught at least 10 of them!! LOL daKidd certainly could have done better starting Capt. Kirk, who totaled 41 points on the bench.
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Meanwhile, BiggiePlanz2 got double-digit production from ALL but one of his starters, with QB Bryce Young leading the way with 36 points. Planz2 could have really routed daKidd had he started QB Tyler ShoughNuff (46 points) and the TitanDefense (50 points).
JUNGLE BUNZ 263 DEMLIGHTHITTERS 200
in the 7pm CST Primer Time Championship Game, we watched the NWSL version of the timeless movie classic "Titanic", with MellyMel playing the role of the Titanic and Jungle Bunz casted as "The Iceberg".
All season long, MellyMel's aka Titanic, floated, glided, and cruised across the top of the league waters, steamrolling anything in his path. His team was the luxury liner of the league. Melly was the Royal Carribean of the league. The rest of us was on Carnival. Surely, Melly would cruise past J.B. and his little tugboat of a team.... BUT that's why they play the games.... Melly's Titanic, expected to cruise through the night (game) did not expect to hit a HUGE ICEBERG laying in wait in the dark, icy, playoff sea.
Melly's crash started from the jump, with the Thursday Night game featuring JB's WR1, PukaNaChuka. Melly's Titanic slammed into Puka, causing major damage to his luxury liner. Puka knocked a massive hole in the Titanic to the tune of 74 points!!!! THAT WAS CRAZY yall!!! Melly was literally DONE before his games even started. He was in a no-win situation, starting in a 74-point hole.
Puka's 74 point collision set off a series of intermittent glancing blows over the next few days to Melly's Titanic that ultimately resulted in his ship sinking into the dark frozen playoff sea. The next blow to the Titanic came from Justin Herbert's 62 points, followed by 25 points from JChase, and 20 from someone named JJennings. Melly's crewmen fought back valiantly, doing all they could to stave off sinking. JalenHertz tallied 41 points, and all but one of his starters posted double digit numbers.. but despite it all, it wasn't enough. The damage was done. It was over when he initially slammed into the iceberg, Once Puka posted 74 points, the band came on deck and began to play "Nearer, My God, To Thee". Melly's season was over!
In a post-game interview with the Corral, JB admitted that despite his personal feelings about starting Herbert against his Cowboys, he had to remember that EVERY QB has had a record setting game against the Cowboys, and so, albeit hard to do, he wisely started Herbert. And the Cowboys defense did NOT disappoint.
STILL SCORING POINTS!!!!!!
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KC's AllPoints scored a whopping 310 points last week against MadDog, a total score that would have beaten EVERYONE that played last week. KC is this years Dallas Cowboys. Literally. All points, but no defense. LOL KC ends the season with 2921 points, second only to demHeavyHitters, who led the league with 3005 total points. So what happened? Well a look at the numbers show that, while KC scored 2921 points, they allowed 2954. Translation: NINE teams had marquee games against KC. Much like EVERY QB has their best, record setting game against the Cowboys. KC simply caught 9 teams on those teams best day................. Sorry Kim. Sorry Cory... Just think. If the schedule makers had altered the order of KC's schedule by just ONE game, KC might be playing in the Super Bowl this week....
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN!
The NFL is NO (country) place for Old Men. Once retired, they should have to stay retired. The O.C. was the victim of the NFL allowing an old old, previously retired man to play a game as QB against 20-year old superior athletes. Old Man Rivers, retired and working at as a Walmart greeter came out of retirement to return to the gridiron as a QB. His late game pick 6 interception was the SOLE difference in Diggys 2 point win over the OC last week. Diggy was all but dead in the water. He had already fed Gerbers Banana baby food to the new grandbaby. Diggy was just about to put the gran to bed, mad that he had lost his game to the Real/Former O.C.... And then.... "Old Man Happened".
Old Man Rivers, with 3 minutes left in the game, shot puts a pass that falls 8 yards short of the nearest receiver, and is picked off by a LINEMAN. Making matters worse, the 380-lb lineman rumbles, bumbles, and stumbles his way 72 yards for a TD, outrunning the geriatric Rivers by a mile. Somewhere in Maryland, Diggy wakes up the grandchild, puts a Redskin jersey on him, and carries him around the house while doing a triumphant dance and singing that stupid "Hail2daRedskins" song. The grandchild, meanwhile, is dazed and confused, as he tries to understand why he is being treated like a sacrifice being carried to the alter. So not only was the O.C. a victim to the NFL's allowing an Old Man to play in an NFL game, but some poor little grandbaby was a victim to the same. The NFL should be ashamed of themselves.
