Live game log

7:48 pm cdt - Not even 5 minutes into the game and McNabb hits Kevin Curtis for 6. Could this be the start of Rube Nation's miracle comeback? The rushing yards by Westbrook officially knock your mom from possibly going to Vegas. Good run harold. Cinderella lost (her) slipper.

7:57 pm - Darnell Dinkins drops an easy TD pass for Cleveland. I think he's on the take as reports say touched by an uncle 2 slipped him a few grand in pre-game warm ups to not score points against the Philly defense. The field goal however, drops the 4 teams with the Eagles defense 3 points as the shutout is now gone.

8:10 pm - I heard a lot of oohs and ahs when McNabb's pass was deflected high in the air and two Cleveland DB's were there to intercept it, only to collide with each other and give the Eagles another chance. McNabb then misses a wide open LJ Smith in the endzone making them settle for a short FG. This puts Who Wha in the field of 15 and only INT' s by McNabb or a missed FG by Akers can prevent Dwain from going to Vegas.

8:29 pm - Jon T (skull crushers II) was happy to see DeShaun Jackson make a big catch to get him up over 120 points and in contention. But then DJax (sorry Darrel Jackson) showed his inexperience as a qb when he had a wide open hank basket but instead of lobbing it up over the linebacker to him, he tried to throw it on a line and it was intercepted. One step forward and one step back for Jon. The owners with no players are rejoicing and hoping for a long Cleveland drive.

8:35 pm - Pick 6 for the Eagles. That should put skowman and touched by an uncle 2 in for sure. That knocks out Donald's last team (beantown's best). It's mathematically possible that teams can lose points and fall behind him, but very very unlikely. Even if Cleveland scores a lot of points, this 6 point play should offset any negative points they may get. Braylon Edwards has been productive and if he can work in a TD or two, Shelly F may never take his jersey off! For Shelly's sake, I hope Romeo Crennell doesn't have any plays in the play book where Edwards throws a pass.

8:56 pm - In what could turn out to be the plays that changed Vegas, the half ends in wild fashion. First, Westbrook gets stopped less than a yard short of the goalline. A TD would have cemented Chad and Michael's spot in Vegas (even though I've already anointed them as in). Then McNabb throws an interception on the next play since Phil didn't have any time outs and didn't want to risk not gaining 8 inches on a running play. The pick really only hurts Giantboys as they need McNabb to stay hot and get them in. And on the same play, I thought Cleveland had an easy TD, which would have dropped down Korey of rotoplay.com a few much needed points, but Westbrook's hustle saved him (for now).
As it stands now, I have eliminated 4 teams from any chance of making it: your mom, beantown's best, rock ur world 58 and orange juice. They were replaced in the top 15 with coctails and dreams, who wha, skull crushers II, and touched by an uncle 2. The next swap of top 15 will be either rotoplay or giantboys knocking out Gargoyles and possibly mark's dogs as well.
It looks like I may have been one off on where the cut line would end with the top 11 teams coming into tonight not having any players going. Now the biggest suspense for me is whether or not Chad's second team will withstand a second half comeback by naked boot legs, prevent defense, and rotoplay giving him 2 teams in the top 15. Some expect him to get at least 1 in since he bought 20+ teams, but I'm sure there are plenty of owners that bought just as many teams and they won't have any teams going to Vegas, much less two. Chad had a great inaugural FFOC season!

9:30 pm - the long Eagles drive helped Korey out, as there is now less than 20 minutes left for Cleveland to score again and possibly drop him out of the top 15. Rick is sitting at home hoping for a Josh Cribbs kick return for a TD. Not much else happening right now.

9:54 pm - the interception by the Eagles gives Rotoplay some cushion. Unless the Browns get up to 14 points for the game, Gargoyles will be eliminated.

9:57 pm - the TD pass by McNabb puts Giantboys into the top 15 and eliminates mark's dogs for now and Gargoyles for good. Now Greg and his Hip ID liquos team has to worry. If Braylon Edwards has a big drive or two, naked boot legs can eliminate them.

10:07 pm - The eagles have pulled their offensive starters, so it appears the final 15 is set with one spot to be determined. Naked boot legs needs 5.2 more points out of Braylon Edwards to knock Hip id liquos out of the money. In the long shot that Cleveland goes on a scoring rampage, Rotoplay can still drop out, but that's highly unlikely. It also looks like Chad will squeak in with 2 teams in Vegas. Does that mean he gets to fly in 3 friends with him at the cost of the FFOC? I think he's earned that right. :-)

10:11 pm - sorry to jinx you Korey. Just like that, Brandon McDonald finishes what he started at the end of the first half. He takes a Kevin Kolb pass back to the house to get Cleveland up to 10 points. Now another TD and rotoplay will drop out of the top 15 and mark's dogs will sneak back in (unless edwards gets 5 more points then it would be naked boot legs knocking out rotoplay). Just when I was about to go to bed, things got interesting again.

10:29 pm - One last drive by Cleveland doesn't go very far as Shelly and Mark put their heads in their hands thinking what could have been. Congratulations to the following 15 who appear to be heading to Vegas!

Mark W - Kram madness 3
Dwain M - Who Wha
Shane S - Xfactor
Aaron W - www.peepdot.com
David S - skowman
Jeremy S - junk yard dawg
Eric H - touched by an uncle 2
Michael B and partner - mike and shea dynasty
Chad S - cocktails and dreams
Kenneth S - giantboys
David S - wolf river dragons
Korey G - rotoplay
Jon T - skullcrushers II
Chad S (again) - cocktails and dreams xiv
Greg M - Hip id liquos

Condolences go out to Mark and his dogs who finished .18 out of the top 15. Let the woulda coulda shoulda's begin. As it turns out, my pre-game top 15 prediction was correct with one exception. Korey G made it on the strength of Philly's defense which bumped out Mark's Dogs.