Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Silver Hammers Beat War Ducks - Proclaim Themselves "The Greatest"


With a thorough 172-119 victory over the expansion War Ducks, Maxwell's Silver Hammers can place a check mark by their final goal for the season. Those goals were to have a respectable showing against Erick Byrd's former team, the Peon Gorillas, and to be the best of the three expansion teams of 2007. Already besting both the Agate Types and the Peon Gorillas, the Hammers completed the trifecta Monday by defeating the War Ducks. In a post game interview, Hammers owner Byrd declared, "We are the greatest! ...expansion team in 2007, that is. Honestly, I was doubtful that we would win more than four games the whole season, so our 5-4-1 record is wonderful." When asked whether any new goals have been made, Byrd said, "I've got two, make the playoffs and win a playoff game. Those were the second year goals, but we've stepped them up to this year." The Hammers victory can be credited to the continuing surprise year from Tony Romo (54 pts) and a four touchdown game by Jamal Lewis (37 pts), with help from a solid Packers defense (28 pts). Looking forward, the Hammers take on their most formidable opponent, the league leading 8-2 Curley Wolves. The current line on the Curley Wolves vs. Silver Hammers game is -7.1 in favor of the Hammers, leading this reporter to wonder what crackhead is running the line on the FFFL league site. MSH will need to have big games from all starters to have any chance at defeating the Wolves. And that may be a tall order, considering that the Hammers 2nd best receivers, Laveranues Coles, will be on a Bye week and it is not certain that top receiver Chad Johnson will play after a strained neck in last week's game.
Silver Nuggets: Heather Mills, the estranged wife of former Beatle and writer of the song Maxwell's Silver Hammer, Sir Paul McCartney, has laid a claim to Silver Hammers' profits in recent divorce proceedings. While still claiming that she didn't marry Paul for his money, she has proceeded to demand over 50% of his estate, and has now staked a claim to 50% of all MSH profits from home game ticket sales and merchandising, as well as future TV contracts. When told that the Maxwell's Silver Hammers was not owned by McCartney and was only a "fantasy" football team, thus having no earnings to speak of, Mills went into a tirade and threatened the Hammers owner. In response, Byrd has reportedly inquired about hiring Yoko Ono as an extra bodyguard, giving her an opportunity to defend her title of most hated Beatle wife... After a dismal first half of the season, the MSH Promotions department is struggling to fill acts for half-time entertainment. This past week, the "talent" that was presented was yet another 80's retro act, Buckner And Garcia, who performed their 1982 hit "Pac-Man Fever"... Fearing that the recent writers strike in Hollywood will increase gaps between new episodes of LOST even more than in seasons past, Byrd - a self proclaimed LOST fanatic - stated he available for hire to finish this season's remaining episodes. Byrd's LOST scripts will reportedly include a story twist where Charlie is brought back to life, the Silver Hammers team arrives on the island to defeat the evil Others, and then drafts Hurley as an offensive lineman.

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