*Into the Record Books

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Season 7 is in the books and it was a pretty wild one. For the first time in league history we had a team not named the Arizona Outlaws or the Orange County Otters finish with the best regular season record as Yellowknife finished tied for the best record in league history at 13-1. We had our first team in the Philadelphia Liberty win a championship for the NSFC. We had our *checks notes* second consecutive 0-14 season in Colorado. And we saw a lot of individual performances break into the record books, which is what this post is about.

First of all, Mat Akselsen set the single season record for most rushing touchdowns with 16. He is the only non running back to appear in the top 10.
Second, Stephen Harris set the single season record for most field goals made with 42, making the most out of his opportunities as he didn't miss a single field goal all season.
Finally, Micycle McCormick is the first and only kicker in league history to not miss a single extra point or field goal for an entire season.

This was a weird year in terms of punting as we saw single game records set in punt average, punt yards, punt return yards, and punt return touchdowns.

Forfeit had only a single punt in Week 6 against Arizona but he made it count with a 63 yarder that stuck the Outlaws at their own 12 yard line. His 63 yard "average" is a new NSFL record.
Iyah Blewitt on the other hand had a very busy Week 5 against New Orleans when he punted 14 times for a total of 772 yards, a new league record.
Dermot Lavelle, our fearless and inscrutable commissioner, had one of the best return games we've ever seen with 214 punt return yards and 2 punt return touchdowns against New Orleans in Week 4, both league records.
The only non-punting single game record that was set this season came in Week 14 as Mike Boss attempted 68 passes against San Jose.
The punting theme continued in this season's playoffs as Brad Madlad had an 51.7 yard average for the Otters, a playoff record, and Reg Mackworthy set records in punt return yards (104) and longest punt return (88 yards).
Erlich Burnsman also had a 39 yard run in the Ultimus game that is a playoff record.

In addition to those record-setters there were quite a few notable performances this season that challenged some records. In total we had 71 new entries in the top 10 for single season records.

Tyler Oles was just 29 pass attempts from breaking Mat Akselsen's record of 695 from Season 5.
Ardie Savea tied the previous record for rushing touchdowns with 14 but was outdone by Akselsen's 16.
Mat Akselsen tied the league record for longest run with an 80 yarder against Arizona in Week 8.
Ian Bavitz tied for second in interceptions with 8, just 2 behind Isaiah Rashad's 10 in Season 1.
Vincent Sharpei had 140 sacks on the season and fell just 5 shy of breaking the record set by Kendrick Hendrix in Season 1.
Three players had 2 punt return touchdowns this season, tying the league record: Dermot Lavelle, Reg Mackworthy, and Shane Weston.
Three kickers had a perfect season on field goals as Shane Harris went 42/42, Iyah Blewitt went 30/30, and Micycle McCormick went 21/21. McCormick and Turk Turkleton were the only ones to be perfect on extra points, going 10/10 and 46/46 respectively.

Also now that I have you trapped and you can't leave we'll also cover the New Orleans records that were set this season.

Borkus Maximus III began his campaign to expunge Logan Noble and Josh Bercovici from our franchise record books with 641 pass attempts and 4,149 passing yards this season.
As mentioned, Ardie Savea set a franchise record with 14 rushing touchdowns.
Some scrubbo named Blackford Oakes had 179 interception return yards.
Vincent Sharpei finished the season with New Orleans so his 140 tackles are now considered a franchise record. His 133 last season stand as the San Jose franchise record.
Dustin Evans had 511 punt return yards.
Peg Leg attempted 32 field goals, made 27 extra points, made 93.1% of his extra points, and punted for 5,370 yards. All four of which are franchise records.
Larry Armstrong recorded 78 pancakes, though we're waiting on the results of his blood tests before making this one official.