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Woolfs Repeat as Champs
TAMPA--No team in BFL history had ever returned to the Bucco Bruce Bowl as the defending champion, much less repeated as Culverhouse Cup winners. Apparently however, no team in BFL history has been as driven as the West
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A disappointing regular season is a distant memory for Julius Jones after being honored with the Doug Williams Award as Bucco Bruce Bowl MVP.

During the preseason, Woolfs owner Rick Lord predicted the second-year rusher would be lead whatever team he was on to a championship.

When Jones managed a paltry 407 rushing yards in the regular season, failing to break a hundred in any game, the rest of the league's owners had a chuckle at Lord's prognostication, but the Woolfs are the ones laughing now.

"194 yards and two touchdowns can overpower a lot of 'failure stink,'" smiled Jones.
Virginia Woolfs this season.

"I would just like to dedicate this historic win to Jake Bell and Barry Sanders," declared Woolfs coach Michael Moore, ruining an otherwise dignified moment, "the best general manager and head coach in the league this season... according to the media." The snide comment marked the second consecutive year Woolfs management got snotty about Moore being shut out of the post season awards during the post-Bucco Bruce Bowl festivities.

The Woolfs relied on their ground game to beat Bakersfield into submission. Last year's Bucco Bruce Bowl MVP, Shaun Alexander, combined with this year's, Julius Jones, for five touchdowns and nearly 350 rushing yards. "I'm honored to share this honor with such honorable players as Brad Johnson, Kordell Stewart, and Jamal Anderson," said His Honor Mayor Julius Jones upon accepting the award.

The win not only made West Virginia the first repeat champions in league history, but also tied them with the Athenian Woodchucks as the only teams to win two championships, though one of Athens's titles was won while the team was residing in Pueblo, Colorado. By that same token, the West Virginia franchise also won the first Bucco Bruce Bowl as the Iron City Blitzers. Technically, the Blitzers' title is not credited to the Woolfs due to ownership change, but that doesn't prevent Moore from taking credit.

"I'm the only coach in history to lead his team to three championships," Moore boasted, flashing a 1997 championship ring legend has it he bought off Natrone Means at a garage sale.

The Woolfs weren't the only team continuing an impressive postseason streak. Bakersfield matched West Coast's historic record of three straight Bucco Bruce Bowl appearances. Unfortunately, it also

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West Virginia Woolfs
Pts
Carson Palmer
32
Shaun Alexander
32
Julius Jones
35
Hines Ward
20
Randy Moss
9
Bobby Engram
1
Todd Heap
12
Nate Kaeding
1
Broncos
22

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Bakersfield Circus Bears
Pts
Peyton Manning
11
Corey Dillon
19
Jonathan Wells
3
Anquan Boldin
20
Eric Moulds
16
Donald Driver
12
Jeremy Shockey
3
Mike Vanderjagt
7
Jaguars
14
matched the Mennonites historic record of losing three straight Bucco Bruce Bowls.

Things went south for the Circus Bears when quarterback Peyton Manning made an unexpected move on the team's third offensive drive. Given his long history of choking in big games, dating back to college, Manning benched himself after completing nine passes for 116 yards on the first two drives of the game.

"We seemed to be doing well," Manning explained. "[Corey] Dillon got into the end zone. The receivers were catching everything I was throwing up there. I figured all I could do was screw it up.

"I mean, don't you people have Google? Just type in 'manning choke' and you'll have get more than 100,000 results. Hell, there's an entire paragraph on Wikipedia's entry for 'Choke' that describes every big game of my career." Manning then donned a 1998 Tennessee Volunteers National Champions hat and wept to himself.