World Bowl XVI - Utopia Power of Kiev vs Spartak Russia

Well we have finally made it to the final week of the inaugural UWWFL 2013-14 season.  

("This was longer than we thought it would be.  That's what she said".)  

Congratulations again to all of our champions, the <b>Minnesota Mustangs</b>, who won UWFFL Bowl XIV, the Anchorage Orcas, who won the minor league national championship game and will be promoted to the UWFFL next season, as well as the three conference champions, Hartford, Birmingham and Vancouver, who will also be promoted to the big league this fall.  Now it is Week 27 and this week we will crown one last champion as we present the championship of our international section, the La Lega Internaztionale di Uni Watchers Fantacalcio, World Bowl XVI in Sao Paolo, Brazil, along with a few exhibition games.

In the World Bowl, we have a matchup which some may find an analog to in current events.  Since, however, this is all just made up anyway, don't read to much into that when picking a winner.  Try to focus more on the team's uniforms than on which country is invading the other.  For the <b>Utopian Power</b> from Kiev, they have eschewed their normal red and blue colors and has are wearing a new World Bowl version of their away kit in the Ukrainian flag colors of blue and yellow, and which featurs the Ukrainian Tryzub (or, Trident), a symbol more than a millennium old and a part of the Ukrainian heraldic history since the very beginning of the 20th century.  The "home" team, <b>Spartak Russia</b> from Moscow, is <strike>dressed like an angry aggressor</strike> wearing their black third kit.

Our first post-season exhibition matchup is a memorial/benefit game in Copenhagen, Denmark, in honor of the unfortunate giraffe, Marius, who was <a href="http://world.time.com/2014/02/09/marius-giraffe-copenhagen-zoo/">euthanized and then fed to the lions in front of schoolchildren</a> last month at a Copenhagen Zoo because he "wasn't needed".  Our minor league team from Virginia, the Roanoke Giraffes are wearing a special uniform for this matchup against one of the international teams, the Stockholm Lutekvist, who are also debuting an updated look for this matchup.  Both teams are wearing special patches and helmet decals to honor Marius, and any imaginary money than may be raised by this game, were it to have been real, would have been donated to some sort of fund which seeks to stop zoos from mistreating animals.

Sadly, our two other exhibition matchups to wrap up the season have fallen through.  First there was <b>The Rob Ford Classic</b>, which was supposed to be held in Toronto, however everybody involved apparently was smoking crack or something because no teams showed up, and no one involved can even remember which teams were invited, or if any teams even were invited at all.

...and then finally, there was also supposed to be a game played in either Tijuana or Mexico City involving two teams that had found themselves at odds with league management, (and in one case, on the lam from the law), however that game was being organized without the league's blessing and outside of the league's jurisdiction, so we can't really tell you anything about it or if it is even taking place at all.  (Don't ask what FTV stands for.)

Well that's about all we have for you this season, we'll be back next week with Week 1 of the Spring 2014 Developmental League where fifty teams will begin to fight for placement in UWFFL's various leagues in the fall.    From the commissioner's podium, we bid you adieu.