ALL MUD TEAM
 QB : Drew Brees - Slutty Bitches
Kurt Warner - Game Cocks
Tony Romo - Keelhaulers
RB: Brian Westbrook - Pizza Bandits
Maurice Jone-Drew - Keelhaulers
LenDale White - RPM
Clinton Portis - Crackhouse Warriors
WR: Anquan Boldin - Honey Buckets
Randy Moss - Wife Beaters
Andre Johnson - Pocket Protectors
Terrell Owens - RPM
TE: Tony Gonzalez - Pizza Bandits
Antonio Gates - Wife Beaters
K: Matt Stover - Fish Heads
Rob Bironas - Game Cocks
ST/D: Green Bay - Slutty Bitches

MFL MVP
Drew Brees - Slutty Bitches

13/14 Starts 228 pts - 17.5 ppg
31% of Bitches Total Pts
28 Touchdown Passes

   Williams Scott Kirkland ran away from RPM on the magical feet of DeAngelo Williams, and after years of futility banked his first Mudbone Cup Championship.

  In what was proving to be a stubborn brawl, RPM and the Slutty Bitches traded blow for blow through the Sunday afternoon games - with RPM laying down a six point 54-48 lead.  With all his bullets spent, Mike Lee had to dodge any and all TDs from DeAngelo Williams in the Sunday Night Game and Green Bay's Special Teams and Defense Monday Night.

  Midway into the 1st Quarter of the Sunday Night Game, Williams broke 13 yards to paydirt and delivered the Slutty Bitches their first Championship in 13 seasons of play.  For the night Williams torched RPM and the NY Giants for a total of 4 touchdowns and 30 points.

  DeAngelo Williams four touchdowns gave him 20 scores for the season with one more NFL game to play.  The Carolina Panthers' RB started the season as the Game Cocks' 12th Round Draft pick but was cut September 24 and replaced by Steve Slaton.   At the time Williams had zero touchdowns.  For an entire month Williams remained available for any and all takers until Kirkland made a free agent move and Williams was a Bitch.
  Over the last 4 weeks of play Williams has poured in 11 TDs, though the Bitches

had benched Williams for the King of the Hill Game and the Week 13, passing on six of those eleven scores.  Of the 20 TDs Williams has posted, only 9 have made it into a MFL Box Score.  But when it counted...Williams brought home the trophy.

  The Championship battle began Thursday when an exasperated Mike Lee started Marion Barber, and despite reports to the contrary - Barber remained sidelined for all but a few token plays.  RPM did manage 6 points from Terrell Owens only to be outdone by the Bitches Jason Witten's 21yd TD. 

  Into the Sunday AM games each team had their QBs facing off and saw the lead change hands four times, until the fourth of Phillip Rivers' TD passes deadlocked the contest at 45-45.

  The afternoon pitted an exchange of kickers with RPM's Sebastion Janikowski besting the Sluts David Akers and claiming the 54-48 lead.  And then DeAngelo Williams took over. 

  Coupled with his Points Scoring Title and the Cup Championship, Kirkland's take for the season is $750.  (Check was taken from the mailbox by the Postal Service today - For those of you who are "concerned")

  Coincidently, Kirkland can show off his new hardware on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 - when he hosts the XVI Mudbone Draft.

 TRYING TO BE BAD?
  Many times we can curse fate or damn the luck for our misery.  Without question we all are a "what if" or one "could of" from making it all the way - after the fact of course.  And while I, the head coach/GM of the Game Cocks truly have nobody to blame but myself - I defy anyone to match the set of circumstances that put out of the Mudbone Cup playoffs.
  In the first round of the playoffs I lost to Crackhouse by 8 points.
  Since the last bye week game in week nine the Game Cocks starting line-up was unchanged: until the playoffs began. Bad Decision #1 - Game Losing Decision #1.  I was contemplating picking up the Baltimore D/ST or getting a TE.  I took a TE.  Baltimore Defense scored (bad decision #2 - game losing decision #2).  My first TE that prompted this thought was Donald Lee who was previously on my team, but I researched the decision.  I came to choose between Lee, Kevin Boss, and Visanthe Shiancoe (who was playing Detroit).  I took Boss and benched John Carlson.  Lee scored (#3 -#3), Shiancoe scored (#4-#4), and Carlson scored (#5-#5).  The guy I cut, Heath Miller scored (#6-#5) but just a six pointer.
  I continue...Apparently since messing with part of my line-up wasn't enough I took Ryan Grant out and put Steve Slaton in.  A sound choice given their track record, none the less Grant scored - just a six pointer (#7-#5).
  And perhaps the most puzzling... I had played Steve Smith every single week that he wasn't suspended or on a bye week, every single time...until the playoffs.  So I figure put Lance Moore in and take Steve Smith out.  Smith scores, of course - Lance Moore doesn't (#8-#6).
  I've heard before it not good to have a bad golf swing, but if its the same bad swing every time then you're good.  I wish my perfectly poor decision making would leave me as something other than an idiot, but it doesn't.  I somehow managed to make at least eight choices and every single one of them was bad.  Anyone of six of those decisions and I win and would actually be playing for the Championship this week.  Instead, I played in the Toilet Bowl playoffs against the one single team that could top my 58 points I scored.
  But lets not stop piling on...
  Crackhouse essenially beat me with a guy named Peyton Hillis.  Literally Denver's sixth string runningback.  Hillis scored 9 points on a 18 yard touchdown run in the first quarter.  On the Bronco's next drive Hillis tore his hamstring and is out for the season.