week 8

🏈 North American Football League Weekly Recap: Week 8

The scoring around the league ticked up a bit from last week thanks to the P.E.I. Skin Pigs. They routed Team Squizard by a league high 8.00 points. The Skin Pigs tallied a season high 23.34 points in their Week 8 blowout. They have not reached 23 points in a game since Week 13 of last year. Congrats CI! The top three spots in the league remained the same. With the P.E.I. Skin Pigs, Fireball and G.E.T.S.O.M.E. recorded Week 8 victories. Fireball has kept their losing streak down to a minimum this season. They stopped the bleeding with a 3.22 point victory over KERMIT HAS DOWNS. However, Fireball moved down one spot in the standings due to the outstanding performance of the Skin Pigs. G.E.T.S.O.M.E. might have had the most impressive performance of the day. Their starting QB went out on IR in the early minutes of the 2nd quarter, but they managed to collect a gritty win in Week 8. G.E.T.S.O.M.E. sit on top of the Power Ranking for a second week in a row. After losing 5 straight games, Goch_Deep has reeled off three straight. They are locked in a monster 4-way tie for 3rd place. The Uncrowned Champ joined Goch_Deep in that 4-way tie for 3rd place with a much needed win against the Hog’s Hawgs. UC moved out of the cellar with the win. The Snickers Game of the Week for Week 9 will be two heavyweights. Fireball will travel North to play the P.E.I. Skin Pigs.

🏆 Snickers Game of the Week:

Team Squizard vs P.E.I. Skin Pigs

The Week 8 Snickers Game of the Week looked promising on paper. However, the P.E.I. Skin Pigs made short work of Team Squizard. They never trailed in this spotlight game as they would go on to wipe the floor with T-Squizzy. Both teams threw haymakers in the opening frame. The Skin Pigs outlasted Team Squizard 4.31 to 2.19. Brock Bowers led the P.E.I. Skin Pigs in 1st quarter points with 2.92. The game was even through the 1st half. The Skin Pigs broke the game wide open at the start of the 3rd quarter. They tallied a league high 7.88 points to break the game wide open. Team Squizard would never recover from the blowout quarter. The P.E.I. Skin Pigs went on to record their league leading 4th wire-to-wire win of the season. The Skin Pigs moved back into a 1st place tie with Team Squizard by recording their 32nd career DirectTV High Score Award. The same can be said for the Toyota Tundra Biggest Blowout Award. Well Played CI!

Goch_Deep vs Scorpions

Watch Out! Goch_Deep is tearing through the league as they collected their 3rd straight win. Goch_Deep has been the masters of the rally of late. Their last two game consisted of a comeback victory. The Scorpions have been a heater as well. They were riding a season high 6 consecutive quarter win streak before Goch_Deep snapped their streak in the 4th quarter. Goch_Deep came up big in the 4th quarter scoring 2.68 points to take the lead. That would be all that they would need because the Scorpions ran out of starters in the 3rd quarter. Goch_Deep moved up 3 spots in the Power Rankings to 6th place.

G.E.T.S.O.M.E. vs Kickers Rule

Just a gusty performance by G.E.T.S.O.M.E. last week. Their QB goes down to a thumb injury and G.E.T.S.O.M.E. somehow someway manages to record their 6th win of the season against Kickers Rule. Kickers Rule missed a golden opportunity to take their record to 5-3. They enjoyed a brief lead in the first quarter. G.E.T.S.O.M.E. exploded to score a game high 15.52 points in the 2nd quarter. That turned out to be the difference in the game. Kickers Rule rallied in the 3rd and 5th quarters, but it was not enough. G.E.T.S.O.M.E. got the win, but they will have to add a backup QB for Caleb Williams. G.E.T.S.O.M.E. is currently ranked 9th in QB points with 17.35.

KERMIT HAS DOWNS vs Fireball

KERMIT HAS DOWNS is experiencing a down year. They missed their scoring projection by 9.61%. The one shining moment for KHD was taking a small lead into the 2nd quarter. Fireball quickly erased the lead by exploding for a league high 16.87 points. That scoring performance was the largest 2nd quarter tally of the season in the league. It ranks 2nd to the Scorpions’ 18.24 points scored in the 3rd quarter of Week 1. KERMIT HAS DOWNS chipped away at the lead for the rest of the game, but they could not overcome their 2nd quarter deficit. Fireball led for 4 straight quarters in their match-up against KHD. They are ranked 2nd in the league with 29 quarter wins.

Hog’s Hawgs vs Uncrowned Champ

The Hog’s Hawgs vs Uncrowned Champ is one of the better rivalries in the game. It is almost always a good game when these two play head-to-head. The Uncrowned Champ has a winning record against the Hog’s Hawgs with a record of 11-9-1. They have won an impressive 5 straight games against the Hawgs. Well, you can make that 6 games in a row. UC rallied late to earn their 3rd win of the season. The Hog’s Hawgs started out well by winning the first two quarters. They snapped a streak of 6 straight losing quarters. Although the Hog’s Hawgs controlled play in the first two quarters, the Uncrowned Champ was not far behind. UC outscored the Hawgs by 1.53 points in the 3rd quarter to take the lead and put the game out of reach. The Uncrowned Champ won the Week 8 Gillette ProGlide Razor Thin Award with a winning margin of 1.16 points. It’s their first Razor Thin Award of the season. They are ranked 1st with 34 career Razor Thin Awards.