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Week 16
Al Coble RB Cincinnati 12-2 @ Miami 8-6
Al Coble may have gotten the hang of 100 yard games, as he was able to have back to back 100 yard games for the first time this year. 24 carries for 172 yards and 2 TDs. The game is not even close as Miami’s hopes of making the playoffs grow dim. Final 38-14.

Marty Gage RB Los Angeles 9-5 @ New York Jets 9-5
Tow teams that are both fighting to hold on to their respective spots in the post season. But one must fall.
Marty only runs for 69 yards on 29 carries, but his is able to score from 16 yards out late in the second quarter. All of the game’s scoring took place in the second quarter, with LA putting up 14 and New York just 7, and that was the final score. The victory seals a playoff spot for the Blackwings, one of the most amazing stories of the year. “I have never had a season where we didn’t reach the playoffs, and from the first day of camp I was determined to continue this trend. The pundits all said that it couldn’t be done but we proved them all wrong. On to the Super Bowl!.

Antoine Preston DE Las Vegas 9-5 vs. Baltimore 9-5
Las Vegas’s lead in the AFC west has grown to 2 games with just 2 games remaining. One more win will seal the title for the Bombers.
Antoine is able to pick up 7 tackles and 2 assists, but they are not able to put up more than 7 point offensively. Final score is 10-7 Baltimore. Las Vegas will still need one more win to seal up the division.

Carlton Gomez DE Hartford 3-11 vs. Atlanta 7-7
Atlanta is just one game back in the wild card race and they feel like it will be theirs. Hartford looks beaten down and totally demoralized. They are ready to be finished with the season and try to right the ship for next year. But can they ever recover from The Curse?
Hartford played but their hearts obviously weren’t in the game. Gomez refused to give up though and was able to pick up 1.5 sacks as well as 5 tackles. But the final score will only show an embarrassing loss, 28-0.

Percy Buchanan QB Washington 12-2 @ Huntsville 7-7
Huntsville is also a game back in the wildcard race and with Atlanta’s win, a win this week becomes even more critical.
Percy had still another solid game with 17 of 26 passing for 243 yards and 2 TDs, but Huntsville lit up the fourth quarter to score 21 points in the final 10 minutes of the game. Percy and company just weren’t able to keep up and they lose for the first time since week 3, 31-21.


Week 17
Al Coble RB Cincinnati 13-2 @ Tennessee 4-11
A win against the Titans will give the Bengals home field through the Super Bowl. Tennessee is just hoping to salvage some pride.
The game was much more difficult than the Bengals thought it would be. Apparently they were thinking about there next opponent more than the Titans. With just 2 second remaining in the game, the Bengals hit a 21 yard pass to go up 21-20. They could now go home knowing that all roads to the championship come through Cincinnati. However, they forgot that there was :02 left in the game. The kick was returned 98 yards for a game winning TD. What a way to lose! Coble finished the game with 21 carries for 116 yards and 0 TDs.

Marty Gage RB Los Angeles 10-5 @ Arizona 7-8
IT was a hard fought game, but a the Blackwings came up just short with an INT on their final drive of the game. It didn’t help that LA lost their starting quarterback early in the fourth. This could hurt any playoff hopes that may have. Marty Gage had a solid game, with 130 yards and a TD. But as I said, it wasn’t enough to stop the Cardinals. Final 24-20. This loss may well cost LA a home game in the post season.

Antoine Preston DE Las Vegas 9-6 @ Seattle 8-7
The chances of Las Vegas not reaching the playoffs are slim at best, but a win would lock it up.
Preston records 3 tackles, an assist and the .5 sacks that he needed to reach 10 for the season. Seattle keeps the game close. With just over 2 minutes left in the game the Seahawks were able to tie the game with a 35 yards TD. But it only took Las Vegas 77 seconds to deal the victory with a 55 yard field goal to win it, 27-24.

Carlton Gomez DE Hartford 3-12 @ Las Vegas 3-12
The battle of the two worst teams in the NFL. Both teams may prefer to lose to get the rights to the first overall draft pick.
Gomez adds one more sack as well as 3 tackles, but the Muskrats overall play a terrible game. The 49ers dominate the game and give Hartford the #1 pick of next year’s draft. Final: 27-7.

Percy Buchanan QB Washington 12-3 vs. Miami 8-7
Miami still has a hope of reaching the playoffs, but they have to win this game in order to do so.
Miami jumped out to a 10-0 lead, but from there on out it was all Washington. Buchanan tossed 3 TDs, while completing 18 of 30 for 170 yards with 0 INTs. The final score was 33-10.


Post season review.
Four of our men make the playoffs this year.
Al Coble RB Cincinnati 13-3
Al Coble finished the year with 1146 yards (2nd), 20 TDs (1st) on 301 carries (3rd). As a receiver he has the worst season of his career, 236 yards on 26 receptions and 2 INTs. His 4.8 yards per carry is a respectable 5th in the league.

Marty Gage RB Los Angeles 10-6
Marty finished by being part of what may have been the most amazing seasons in NFL history. The expansion Blackwings reach the wild card round of the playoffs, an amazing feat for an expansion team. Marty finishes with a league leading 1609 yards and 11 TDs (5th) on 365 carries.

Antoine Preston DE Las Vegas 10-6
Preston had another solid season this year. He once again led all DEs in tackles with 52. He also totaled 10.0 sacks, blocked 2 passes, and he had 6 hurries. His assist total is quite a bit lower as he only managed 8 for the year, making that one of the disappointing notes to his season. He helped Vegas recover from a 1 year decline back to a place atop the AFC West.

Carlton Gomez DE Hartford 3-13
No team had a worse season than did the Hartford Muskrats. After the great year that they had the previous season, people expected them to fair even better than they had before. But with the cold hearted dismissal of Marty Gage, the team just fell apart. The year before attendance climbed to 80%, this past season it fell to a mere 66%. The team went from making $50,000,000 to losing $28,000,000. The fans are irate at the owner and so are many of the players. There are rumors of more cost cutbacks to make up for the big losses the previous years.
In spite of all the trouble that Hartford had this year, Carlton had a good season. 30 tackles, 17 sacks, 2 blocked passes and 7 hurries. These are the kind of numbers that Hartford was expecting when they gave up so much to acquire his services. There is some question about Carlton’s future with the club though. He is under contract for one more season, but he is

Percy Buchanan QB Washington 13-3
Percy had a fabulous season. Thanks largely to his efforts; the Redskins are poised to make another playoff run. Percy’s 39 TDs are just 1 shy of the league’s single season record. Percy led the league in completions (358), completion percentage (64.5%), TDs (39), fewest INTs (8) and rating (105.6). His 4319 yards was second in the league, and he had a respectable 7.78 yards per attempt average. And remember this was with a very weak crew of WRs. Most of the pundits feel like this year’s Super Bowl will come down to a match-up between Percy and Al.