It is really getting harder and harder to type these notes, so you better start pulling for the Dream Team or the quality of notes is sure to suffer. Happy Birthday L'il Norm and Uncle Ron. There are some teams off this week, so make sure you check. If you can live with the web version or if you want to try and receive these notes by e-mail, let me know. It is cheaper and also much quicker. The league's url is http://swffl.50megs.com .

Key Matchups to watch this Week

  The Black & Blue Attack and Jelly Beans will meet up in a contest between the worst 2-1 team against the best 1-2 team in points scored. So which holds up the Beans rather poor luck or the Attack's good fortune. The Attack takes on Uncle Ron and son after defeating Norm and sons in successive weeks. The Body Shop and Good Fellas meet up in a battle of the undefeated and winless. The Shop is on a roll since they unretired. The Fellas keep asking Dad what's up with the RAMs. The Bull Dogs and Black Revenge meet in a battle of Elite Teams. The Dogs have been playing well as Favre and Williams have been deadly. The Revenge has their own not-so secret weapon in Brooks. The Sharks will try to keep the Dream Team in the basement and pull their foot out of the basement door in the process. The Dream Team needs a break and the old BYE week may just give it to them this week. The M. Takers get their second undefeated team in the row in the name of the Quiet Storm. The Storm will try to maintain at least a chare of first place while the Takers will fight to get back to the magic 500 line.

  Spock was 5/5 this week, making him 7/10(70%) on the season. He gains top billing. Norm was 0/5 on the week, making him 2/10 on the season. His lines appear below:

  There was only 1 game that was technically over by Sunday night (11 Starters on Monday Night). Two others were more or less over. The Final two were up in the air.

  The Body Shop remains undefeated and on top of the standings by beating on an old-time rival in the M. Takers. The Shop had to rely on a decent kicking game (which had been missing up until this week). Conversely the Takers kicking game came up small. Neither QB was particularly spectacular. The Takers got a couple of big plays out of Smith and Owens. Both Teams had plenty of bench points doing nothing (Coaching efficiencies running at 60%). Wasn't there some guarantee mad here by someone? Where do I collect my refund on the guarantee?

  The Bull Dogs swam through the Sharks OK, in fact it was the Sharks that got bitten. The Dogs were led by Favre and Ricky Williams (OK maybe pre-season doesn't mean anything). The Sharks had a tough road to hoe, before Garcia left the game early. Garcia's exit made it academic. Favre put up a great game after last week's rather surprising benching. Methinks Favre's next and final benching will be the PACKERS bye week.

  The Quiet Storm remained undefeated by kicking the Dream Team when they were down and winless as Proehl and Wilkins could not overcome Pittman, Gramtica and a 15 pt. lead. Priest Holmes, who seems to score in bunches then take a week off, led the Storm. The Dream Team is only happy that the George benching did not cost them the game. The Dream Team front office has promised immediate results or heads may roll!!

  The Black Revenge kept there heads above the Elite Line by defeating the Jelly Beans. The Beans and Faulk could not overcome the RAMS and a 22 point deficit. The Beans actually looked OK late Sunday, until Jimmy Stewart grabbed a short pass and did his best Barry Sanders impersonation. Fine games out of both QB's, neither deserved the 'L'. The Beans lose to the helmet team for 2nd week ina row.

  The "Game of the Week" honors go to the contest between Black & Blue Attack and the Good Fellas. Keyshawn Johnson and a 31 point lead were just too much for the RAM triple ripple to overcome (at least the 2002 version of the RAM triple ripple). Brady is looking better all the time. The Black & Blue were led by a bye week plug-in (McNair) and a bye-week pickup (Feely). May all our bye week solutions work out that well.

CHATTERBOX:(Get Quotes in by Monday Night)
Dream Team (Norm): "Rams 0-3, Dream Team 0-3. Time to shake up the Dream team and the Rams."
Body Shop (Casey): "I am very fortunate to beat a stacked M. Taker squad" Editor's Note: Almost deleted because of a high reading on the old 'lame' meter. "
Bull Dogs(John T.): "Jeff who?"

BEST & WORST OF WEEK 3

MVP: McNabb,R. Williams(29) JB, BD       Best on Bench: Tom Brady (39) Good Fellas      Low Scorers: Good Fellas (30)    Coaching Efficiency: High: Jelly Beans (88%) Low: Good Fellas (48%)

Top Rostered Players By Position (Rostered Players Only)
QB - Brady(75),McNabb(72),Brooks(61),Bledsoe(54)
RB - Holmes(62),Williams(57),L. Smith(42),Garner(37)
WR - Thrash(30),Morgan(27),Conway(26),Harrison,Price(24)
PK - Hollis(41),Longwell(40),Akers(38),Vinatieri(37)
ST - PATRIOTS(16),COWBOYS(14),5 tied at 7