Rule Clarification: Blitz

If the ball is hiked and tossed back, and then a defense player yells "Blitz" after the toss back, the defense will have used up their one Blitz per drive, unless of course a penalty occurs on that play and the down is replayed.

CFL Q1 Report

Quarter of the way through for most teams and Christian and Mando think they're good, Snoopy and Juan think they don't suck and everyone else in the middle don't know about either.



Week 4 will feature the Eagles vs Patriots, Raiders vs Vikings, and Jets vs Giants. After that nobody knows who they play next cause the schedule's still in Mando's head.

2009-2010 CFL Rosters (Part 2)

Three additional team have submitted their rosters for the 2009 season:

GIANTS:

Christian Campos (Captain)

Javi

Brian

Yamil

Jose Campos

Gill

Christian Camacho

PATRIOTS:

Juan (Captain)

Hernan

Danny

Alex

Alexis

Geo

Kike

VIKINGS:

Ismael (Captain)

Brian

Q

Said

Aldo

Norman

Tito

2009 Season Opener: Raiders vs. Titans

The Raiders defeated the Titans in the 2009 season opener 54-35. The Raiders first round pick and number one overall selection in the draft, Unitas, threw for 5 TDs in the opener and Mando caught 3 TDs and rushed for one. Marco added 2 TDs for the Raiders and Nestor added one. Nemo, who the Titans faught so hard to obtain, didn't even make it to the Titans game and even though the Titans kept it close halfway through the game at 28 all, the Raiders pulled away and scored 3 of the final 4 TDs of the game. The Raiders will take on the Jets on Saturday, September 26 at 11am kickoff and the Titans will face the Eagles at 12pm noon kickoff.

2009-2010 CFL Rosters

The Eagles, Jets, Raiders and Titans held their draft on Saturday, September 12 with the following players being drafted/added to the following teams:

EAGLES:

Eman (Captain)

Eric

Frank

Roque

Meño

Chaks

Steven

JETS:

Gomez (Captain)

Mark Brady

Jay

Dre

Sergio

Marty

Elliot

RAIDERS:

Mando (Captain)

Unitas

Nester

Marco

Mando

Enrique

Rocky

Edward

TITANS:

Snoop (Captain)

Zok

Robert

Ramon

Toady

Punz

Nemo

Week 12 Rankings

Standings going into final week of the season:



Final season standings for teams that finish tie with the same record are decided by their head-to-head record against each other, but if the season series is split at one game a piece, like the way it would be if the Chargers and Eagles win their games this weekend, then it is decided by those teams' record against the other top teams. And if the standings are still tie after that tie-breaker, then it could get a little more complicated.

Depending on what is decided, those teams should be prepared to play a short wild-card game up to 3 or 5 touchdowns to decide their ranking among themselves, unless of course one team decides to voluntarily give up the higher seed and just head right into the playoffs.

Three Cheers For Ten Years

Halfway through November and the 2008 CFL regular season is drawing to a close.



With just two more weeks to go the Colts stand a top the standings with an 8-1 record, followed behind closely by the Raiders at 8-2. The red-hot Colts victory over the Raiders this past weekend basically puts the Colts in the driver's seat, and while the top spot could still go to either of these teams, what would be real interesting is if these two teams finished with the same record having split the regular season series at one game a piece.

The Colts and Raiders have put together some of the most impressive seasons of any team, but the other four teams are having a difficult time battling it out for the last two spots in the playoffs. Even at this point, any of the four teams could still find themselves out of the playoffs. Should the Bengals lose their final two games, they could find themselves tied with the Eagles, Chargers or even both, with the regular season series evenly split.

At 3-7 the Titans have the longest shot at trying to get into the playoffs needing to beat the Raiders in their final game and needing the Chargers to lose their last two games, while needing the Eagles to win only one of their final two games. All this would give the Chargers, Eagles and Titans the same record, but trying to figure out what team would have the playoff-seeding advantage is the difficult part considering what their series record against each other would be.

While not yet over, this season we've seen the fall of old time greats like the Titans' Captain Nemo who had his season cut short with a devastating finger injury and Chargers' Captain Snoopy who left his team during part of the most crucial time of the season and let his team decide its own fate without him. Likewise, we've seen the rise of new faces like Gomez of the Raiders and Eric of the Colts. And even witnessed the brief return of former CFL captains Frank and Unitas.

It's been a somewhat erratic season at times, and no doubt the quickest in the CFL's 10-year history, but the oh-so-dreadful end is drawing near and before you know it one team will finally hoist the trophy at year's end and retire into the winter as the season's greatest.

Rankings At Midway Point

Brand New Draft, Brand New Season

Pre-season will begin Sunday, August 24th.

The regular season schedule will also be finalized that day and depending on how the league ends up being structured (with two divisions, or just one), the regular season could be 10 to 14 games long.

One proposal is having two conferences with each conference having two teams from their respective church. The teams would play each team in their conference twice and each team from the other conference once, for a 10-game season.

The team with the best record in each conference would get a bye week in the playoffs, and the second and third seed in each conference would play a wild-card/playoff, for a chance to meet the top seed in the conference championship game.

Another option is having one big conference with everyone playing each other twice, for a 14-game season. The playoff structure would be somewhat similar to the previous scenario, but all these terms and structures will be resolved at pre-season.

The regular season begins next week on Sunday, August the 31st, and the season schedule and times will be posted by the start of the week hopefully.

Vida Division announces Draft results

BENGALS
Team Captain: Ismael Jr
Rnd 1. Edwin
Rnd 2. Daniel
Rnd 3. Aldo
Rnd 4. James
Rnd 5. Byron
Rnd 6. Hilberto

GIANTS
Team Captain: Christian
Rnd 1. Carlos
Rnd 2. Alexis
Rnd 3. Geo
Rnd 4. Sam
Rnd 5. Mike
Rnd 6. Ismael Sr

COLTS
Team Captain: Brian
Rnd 1. Javy
Rnd 2. Jose
Rnd 3. Ozzie
Rnd 4. Alex Q.
Rnd 5. Steven
Rnd 6. Alex B.

RAVENS
Team Captain: Danny
Rnd 1. Sebastian
Rnd 2. Manny
Rnd 3. David
Rnd 4. Tito
Rnd 5. Angel
Rnd 6. Israel