(S8) - Ultimus Week

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PLAYOFF PREDICTIONS:

ASFC Championship: 17 - 24
I'm spying an upset here in the ASFC Championship, as the Otters fail to make it out of Orange County for the first time in as long as I can remember. The Second Line have a good mix of old vets that they have traded for as well as young rooks looking to make a name for themselves, while the Otters are a team that are old and only getting older. Borkus and Smallwood allow New Orleans to be two dimensional, and while the Otters have been seen as an untouchable team at home, we all need to remember they lost to the Yeti there this season too.

NSFC Championship: 35 - 10
While I see the upset in the ASFC, I think the Wraiths hold their own over the more mediocre Hawks. Yellowknife have had the top seed locked up for a few weeks now, while the Hawks barely scraped into the playoffs over the tanking Liberty and the resurgent Yeti. They have plenty of talent, but I think the Wraiths are just too strong right now. Add in to that home field advantage deep in the Northwest Territories (though I guess that hasn't helped them before) and we're looking at a massacre waiting to happen.

Ultimus: 23- 6
This is finally the year where the Wraiths take their place at the top of the NSFL, after many many years of choking in the playoffs. The Second Line, unfortunately for them, are just not good enough to overcome the Wraith's home field advantage and the Wraith players' experience, and the Ultimus newcomers fall hard.

Now that these predictions are written out, I fully expect an - Ultimus (edit: I AM A GODDAMN GENIUS)

THAT MAGIC MOMENT:

The magic moment for me, as a kicker, was watching former teammate Peg Leg knock through the game winner for the New Orleans Second Line at the end of the ASFC Championship Game. With two and a half minutes to go, Borkus and crew drove the team 37 yards down field to get barely within Peg Leg's range. From 46 yards out, Peg Leg smashed the ball between the uprights and led his Second Line teammates to the promised land, the Ultimus game.

But this was more than just a game winning kick - this was redemption, it was proof that he belonged. Peg Leg's career has been one of ups and downs, the most recent down being replaced by some plucky kicker from Rutgers, and shipped away from Colorado for scraps. He was given up on, and really was only seen as a stop-gap kicker that could hold the team up while they looked for someone better. And while Peg Leg was never the most accurate or consistent kicker and punter on the Second Line, he proved his value this season. Peg Leg only missed 4 kicks all year, a career best, and it was all culminated by his clincher in Orange County to pull off one of the biggest upsets in recent history.

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