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Playoffs Underway: Fall Behind 17 and rally to win...

Cheetahs Complete Championship Comeback:

The Top-Seeded Southside Cheetahs entered the Big Daddy Championship Series with momentum, a top-notch roster, and a wily, veteran, experienced Butch Neal at the reigns of the Sin Wagon (and even a make-shift Rudolph at the head of the contraption to light the way). The Cheetahs were facing the upstart, Null Set Club representative Fieldstown Bellcows. Then the unimaginable happened at the outset of the game. The underdog Bell Heads jumped to an early 17-point lead. Could the championship campaign end that soon for the Cheetahs? It looked pretty bleak, muddy, and scary for the Sin Wagon. But, then Butch’s team showed their “championship pedigree.” The Cheetahs began a comeback for the ages. The Sin Wagon was still facing an uphill stretch against the fired-up and ready Bellcows after the completion of the Sunday NFL games. It would all be on the line on Monday Night Football. Needless to say, the Cheetahs came through with flying colors in the last game of Week 16 in the BDFL. The Sin Wagon rolled to an epic, come-from-behind, 45-35 vict’ry to “survive and advance” to save the holiday season for themselves and their legions of fans.  

Monday Night Nightmare for Freebirds:

Monday Night Football was also clutch for another team, and crushing for another. The second-seeded Black Creek Freebirds did not play their “A-game,” but they were still in a position to win a low-scoring, sloppy, and potentially overtime game against the Jugtown Juggernauts in Round One of the playoffs. But, it was the underdog ‘Nauts that rallied down the stretch, got a significant touchdown on MNF, using a “spinning, Emperor Palpatine, flip,” into the end zone to win the game 17-11, and send “Jammin’ Jaimie” Hand into a bout of depression, angst, and melancholy following a “perfectly good season, shot to hell.” Meanwhile, the ‘Nauts were dancing in the streets from Fultondale back to Gardendale, and talking trash and posting meme’s all over social media. “Naut tonight – F’Birds.”  

Cats Claw Commissioner:

The Western Hills Wildcats hosted a team that looked a lot like the Gardendale Rockets of the late 1970’s at Fairpark in the opening round of the BDCS. It was the Commissioner – looking like the vintage GHS teams – in the gray helmets with the homemade “Rockets” script on the sides, and the white jerseys and gray pants, with maroon numerals and trim. The old-fashioned “Sharp Dressed Man,” was looking the part for the playoffs. Old Iron’s team though forgot to play defense. The Mineral Springs Grenadiers gave up 35-points and the “five-wide” Wildcats won by a dozen points to advance to the next round. The “James Gang” has had a solid season and they will be a tough team to beat during the Christmas season, and on into the New Year.  

Dogs Subdue Sloths:

The evenly match Brookside Dogs and Shades Creek Sloth Monsters battled for four quarters in Week 16 action in the Big Daddy Football League. It was a classic. The Dogs were barking. The Sloths were moving with stealth. “Mark’s Mutts” were attacking and biting. Muke’s Three Toed Tree Dwellers were *holding their own (*reminder: that’s without opposable thumbs). It was a dog fight. It was a slug-fest. Neither team was going to back down in this opening round game in the BDCS. As the game progressed, the Dogs started making a few more plays, and the Sloths started to lose their grip on vict’ry. Ultimately, the Dogs scored 40 and the Sloths could only manage 33, and the Brookside Dogs were able to subdue the Sloths and “survive and advance” in the winner’s bracket of the BDFL’s playoff tournament.  

Meanwhile, in the Big Mullet Series:

The Duncanville Armadillos were one of the top teams in the BDFL this season, except for one crucial category: the ‘Dillos didn’t win games. They scored points. They looked good getting off the bus. And, they even warmed up like the J.C. Williams Titans from the Disney Movie. “Every where we go…. People want to know… who we are… so, we tell them… we are the Dillos… the mighty, mighty, Dillos.” Well, K.P. and Company did not qualify for the BDCS, knocked out under the auspices of the proverbial Bullet Rule. So, they took their case to the Big Mullet Series. The Dillos didn’t “opt out,” they responded and roared. In Week 16, the Armadillos outscored the resurgent Altadena Bandits, 33-25, in a very entertaining game at The Joe (K.P.’s old stomping ground of Sewell-Thomas Field, turned Sewell-Thomas Stadium on the campus of the University of Alabama, where K.P. and B.S. were once roommates.) So, in true BDFL fashion, even the teams in the consolation bracket (BMS), are still giving their all, playing for pride, their fans, their families, their old school coaches, and also to “play it forward,” for posterity.  

Sleds Slide Continues with “L” to Vulcans:

The season has spiraled away for the spinal tapped Fairfield PowerSleds. Going from bad to worse (“Worse, how could it be any worse, Ellen? We’re at the threshold of hell.” – Clark Griswold.) Well, for Mad Jack… he looked a lot like Cousin Eddie, in a bath robe, emptying out the RV crapper into the sewer on Christmas Eve. That’s bad. The beneficiary to all of this in the first round of the Big Mullet Series was the North Birmingham Vulcans. Young, but naïve, Nic Hand captured a 29-24 vict’ry over the Sleds this past weekend. The season has been pretty rough for the defending champion Vulcans, but it has been much worse for the proud, brave, and seasoned Sleds. “I wouldn’t want to play the Mean Machine over the holidays,” said a nearby observer after hearing Jack’s post-game, closed-doors, locker room speech.  

And a Bullet in a Pear Tree:

No one was seen hanging from a tree at Pat O’Briens on Bourbon Street, but there were unconfirmed reports of a “Bullet in a Pear Tree,” following round one of the Big Mullet Series. The old Bullerino was spotted celebrating a Week 16 vict’ry over the Gulf Coast Gamblers. The Benton Bullets topped the Gambino, 26-16, in a game that went virtually un-noticed along the Redneck Riveria.  

Mayors and Blitz Stagger in the Big Mullet:

The game that did get noticed down on the coast that borders the Gulf of America was a game that the Grinch would’ve labeled as “stink, stank, stunk.” The Druid City Blitz scored just 13-points, but daBlitz defeated the Magic City Mayors, 13-9, in the BMS. The Cronies tried everything to stay competitive this season, but it just didn’t work out for Mr. Arrington. The Fritz Gritz Blitz also under-performed in 2025, but they were awarded a win in Week 16. Upon further review, the Mayor also won something this past weekend. They won the “Toilet Seat Team of the Weak,” award.  

“It’s all about the kids.” - Week 16 in the JrBDFL:

The Bulletin has lost the rights to the JrBDFL. It was a bidding war that The Bulletin just could no longer be involved with from this point forward (even the playoffs). We wish the younger generation the best in their decimal place faction of a point league just like “what everyone else is doing.” Everyone else, except the Big Daddy Football League, which continues to adhere to a Points Only format, a T.S. Rule, a Pony Draft, and many other elements that make the BDFL the nation’s and the world’s premiere fantasy football league.