QCS wrote:

they need to have someone put their ego in check, man.

If you've ever been to Texas, you know it's impossible to check our egos.

C'mon lions! That first came was great and we had the momentum. Oh well, well get back at you next year Miami.

I have a question, do the Sea Lions play in San Jose or San Francisco?

Seattle Sawyers vs Texas Redbacks
As awesome as all those upsets in the first round were, it meant that Texas’s road was suddenly a lot easier. Not that Seattle was a bad team, but it was going to take a great team (and possibly a miracle or two) to take down the Redbacks. Texas showed exactly that in Game 1, with their two-headed monster of B/K Semarias Garcia and W/ZB Larry Whitt combining for 93 of the Backs’ 178 points on their way to a 40-point win which on the surface seemed convincing enough, but 40 points was closer than any regular season game between these two teams and 138 was the most the Sawyers had scored against the Redbacks all year by a significant amount. Garcia and Whitt ran a similar show in Game 2 and led the Redbacks to a more impressive win, but there was the faintest glimmer of hope in Seattle as the teams showed up for the next two games.

In Game 3, the Sawyers very nearly handed Texas their first loss, slowing down the pace of play, and with their F/ZB Walt Duncan and B/ZB James Terry showing up bigtime on defense, held Texas to just 123 points, a heroic task to be sure. The same slow pace that helped them so much on defense, though, limited the time their offense had to score points, and as a result, Seattle was only able to put up 107. With the Sawyers in a 3-0 hole, the Redbacks put their feet firmly on the gas pedal. The building was nearly half-empty by the time the fourth quarter came around, and the 58-0 Texas Redbacks waltzed to yet another Finals berth.



Philadelphia Row vs Miami Palms
This series was bound to be a defensive affair, with Miami and Philadelphia finishing with the 2nd- and 4th-best defenses respectively in terms of points allowed. (The best was Texas, because we can’t have nice things.) In Game 1, Miami’s defense had the upper hand, as the Palms limited the Row to 113 points, with B/ZB Gerald Hartline and F/ZB Mack Lauder leading their offense to 139. Things would only get tighter for the Row in Game 2, weirdly, due to an injury to Miami B/C Steve Locke. Locke’s injury forced a 41-year-old B/C Patrick Sanders, Jr. to replace him, and while Sanders’ offense was showing some age, his defense wasn’t so much, and with zone backs like Hartline and W/ZB Terry Rothgeb playing behind him, the Palms held the Row to just 92, taking a 2-0 series lead in the process.

At home for Game 3, Philly desperately tried to get their offense going against a stingy Miami D. Nothing they could do seemed to work, and they ended up going for big plays far too often, resulting in another 92-point showing and a third straight loss. With their season on the line, though, the Row finally seemed to have evened the scales two nights later. F/K Ray Thomas was finally getting some breathing room, putting up a respectable 35 points, and the Row led as late as the sixth inning, but they couldn’t hold up down the stretch. The Palms outscored the Row 36-16 in the fourth quarter, collecting a 127-113 win, and nabbing their first NDLCS berth in franchise history.

Burmy87 wrote:

Help us, Miami Palms.  You're our only hope.

Yes if Miami loses, you can kiss my love with this league goodbye