Jeremy Baxter's Charleston Navigators have been a hot team this year. First they won the Spring 2014 UWFFL Developmental League title and breezed into Division II competition, finishing first in the MSC with an 11-2 mark. They will host the #4-seeded 8-5 Little Rock Navigators, also a 2014 D-League graduate, in the first semifinal. Little Rock is wearing their gold lids with white jerseys and brown pants, while Charleston is wearing their standard white helmets, blue jerseys and white panted home uniforms.
In the other semifinal, the #3-seeded 9-4 Florida Geckos will travel to the 9-3-1 second-seed, the Missouri Swordfish. Florida, last year's Division II National runners-ups, get a second chance this year to move on up to the big leagues, but their first step will be to get past the upstart Swordfish, yet another 2014 D-League graduate.
The Geckos are wearing their white road unis with green pants with their redesigned 2014 helmet, while the mix-and-match Swordfish are pairing a white helmet with a sleek baby blue alt and white pants this week. It is sure to be a barn-burner in the Show Me state when this one kicks off.
note: corrected graphic that was sent later after voting began ----- should have read "Magnetic" not "Swordfish"!
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Also this weekend the AAIFA, the UWFFL's "experimental indoor football league" is having it's championship game. The St. Joseph Couriers will face off against the Sarasota Spitfires at 6 PM Eastern this evening, and it is sure to be an exciting deal. As I'm sure you all know, there is nothing more exciting than indoor football, and that holds true even if it is imaginary indoor football. And now we'll get to find out who will take home the James B. Dineen AAIFA Championship Trophy.
To learn more about the AAIFA, check out their Google+ page here. You can go there for an in-depth break down of the game and read "5 Reasons Why Sarasota Wins the AAIFA Championship" or "5 Reasons Why St. Joseph Wins the AAIFA Championship" and much, much more.
The AAIFA matches aren't determined by voting for uniforms -- game outcomes are determined by randomizers, algorithims, lucky eight balls, slide rules, mice eating peach cobbler and dice rolls, or at least one or two of those things -- however if you were voting for them by uniform, which team would you vote for? Sarasota or St. Joseph?
With the Missouri Swordfish in the MSC semifinals and St. Joseph in the AAIFA Championship, today has shaped up to quite possibly be the biggest weekend for imaginary sports in the Show Me State ever, or at least since Larry Fuller's team, the "Ain't No Hasselbeck Girls" in his Independence, Mo., fantasy football league came from 51 points down in a 2002 game when Shaun Alexander had a big day.
With that, we'll see you next week, and let us be among the last to wish you a Happy New Year's.
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