Week 1: Better lucky than good

(and some of us were neither)

Undefeated is picking up where they left off at the mid point of last year. Eli hit Burress for TDs 3 times and the Colts D destroyed the Saints, each going over 20 points. Zach Thomas threw in another 13 to get Undefeated the top score of 113.4. Ghostriders were nominated to the first team unlucky team as they scored 104 in the loss. Romo was out of his mind with 5 TDs and 36 points. Seattle, Portis and Andre Johnson were also in double digits.

Big Red was .21 points off of Undefeated's pace as they blasted the Homies. Everyone contributed for Red except for Cooley (.5) and Rackers (5). That receiving corps of Holt, Wayne, and Moss produced almost 43 points. As for the Homies, well, Donovan was flat (8). Caddy?? (1.7). Shawn Alexander, London Fletcher and the Bears were in double digits and Miller got in the end zone, but 69 points wasn't going to do it against Big Red's 113.

Cali was just short of 100 as they manhandled the Cushions. Brady had a great outing for 24. Coles hit paydirt twice for 14 as did the Viking D putting up 29 points against the Falcons. The Cushions got a solid 33 from their receiving corps and 20.5 from the defensive combo of the Pats and Donnie Edwards, but less than 2 points from Rivers and the running backs sunk them.

Ballin' is in 4th after rolling over the Hillbillies by 19. TO, Cutler, Elam, Gore, and a 20 point Steeler outing carried Straight to 84 points. The Billies weren't very good sitting 20 points in Taco Bell and Calvin Johnson. LT got 16 points (on 25 yards rushing) and Palmer had 15, but the receivers (including TE) combined for only 7 as the 'Billies only managed 65 points.

The Ogres won the Super Bowl rematch, beating last year's champ, the Bullets by 22. Big Ben came out firing with 4TDs and 27 points. Chad Johnson got 10 as well. Akers, Eagles, and DeMarco added another 26.5 to get the Ogres to 79. The Bullets were bitten by the injury bug with Bulger only getting 10 after Orlando Pace went out rendering the Ram signal caller defenseless. Jacobs went down and Maroney is now running in a bit more of a running back by committee. The Raven D had 13, but it was a tough day for the Bullets.

The Raiders started their season on a winning note. Their drafting strategy of Manning, Gates, Chargers, Vinatieri paid off in week one. Each over 10 with Manning getting 23. The rest of the team... well they combined for less than 10, but it was enough to beat the Conicals. Henry and Hanson combined for 24, but VY and Boldin were the only other ones to get it the end zone.

Reavers were definitely LUCKY. Scoring second to worst 44 points and still getting a win. Only Witten had more than 10 in that game. The Illini were, well, not lucky and definitely not good. Ward got a TD for 8 and Wilkins had another 8, but nobody else got more than 5 points and 6 players had 2 or less as the Fighting were more like "flopping 'n ill" getting 28 points as a team. Who would have thunk it, Brees -1.8 and Steven Jackson .05? The team's ineptitude is not a record, however. It was surpassed quite a few times with the 18 team league in 2005. The Frodonites had 25. Stenner had 2 weeks of 23 and 25. Obispo had a 24 and 27. The Bullets and Bitco were close with 29 pointers also in 2005. Romo, Eli Manning, and the Viking D each outscored the Illini team.

So as we look to Week 2. The top 2 point scorers play the bottom 2 which on paper looks bad, but as we know the luck settings are reset each week.