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It is Championship time!!  Just like last season, the top two seeds will be facing off for the Sacred Sundays title this year.  Last year, American BadAss went in as the top seed and fell to BoomGoesTheDynamite, who was seeded second.  This season, Channel 4 News Team goes in as top dog after an unprecendented regular season, (no team has ever finished at 11-2), and through 15 weeks of play have scored 163 more total points than the next closest team!  That has to be some kind of record!

Speaking of records, this past week Channel 4 News Team set the record for the highest score ever posted in a game in Sacred Sundays history.  The prior record of 148 had been achieved twice, most recently in Week 14 of 2012 by BoomGoesTheDynamite.  Timmy did one better than that this week, finishing with 149 points, courtesy of another record…a single player record for most points in a week.  Jamaal Charles tied the single game record of 54 points (Doug Martin did it last year in Week 9), by gaining 195 receiving yards, 20 rushing yards and 5 total touchdowns!!  Tim-Tim also sets a record this week for most Weekly High Score Prizes won in a season by being the highest for the FIFTH time this year!  Last note on the News Team – had Tim had in his optimal roster, he would have finished with 173 points!  That would have only required changing Alex Smith for Cam Newton and Rashard Mendenhall for Ben Tate.  I don’t think I have ever seen a possible score that high.  Well done Timmy!  Well done indeed!

The match-up for 3rd and 4th place should be an interesting one to watch as well, with sprouts and SOFA KING GOOD battling it out.  Sprouts has four Weekly High Score Prizes this season, and has outscored SOFA KING GOOD by 55 points on the season.  However, over the last three weeks, SOFA KING GOOD is averaging 106 points per game, while sprouts is averaging 98.  So this game has the makings for a real nail-biter.  Remember that 3rd place wins $54 and 4th gets $36.

Well with the holiday season in full force and with family visits, caroling, ristra-making, etcetera, this is just a quick update.  But I would be remiss if I didn’t give out the Best Bench Award for this week.  After going all season without snagging a Best Bench Award, Shawn Martin has now made it two in a row!  With four roster moves, the Coors Light Drunk Guys could have improved their point total by 31 points.  J. Edelman for S. Smith (+17), M. Colston for E. Decker (+11), B. Pettigrew for J. Gresham (+2) and the Giants for the Patriots (+1).

Fifteen weeks gone by and only one left!  Who will take the crown this season?!?!