Playoff Preview โ Quarterfinals (Part II)
Matt May Have The Answer For Rich And The Elves
#14 Happy Little Elves (9-7-1-2) at #1 Corlears Hookers (12-6)
Written by playoff correspondent Abby “Tayne” Meisterman
Location: Tompkins East, 3:30 PM
All-Time Series: Corlears Hookers lead 5-2
2011 Result: Week 1 – Corlears Hookers 4, Happy Little Elves 1; Week 10 – Corlears Hookers 5, Happy Little Elves 0
Game Notes: Think back, if you will, to your childhood. There you were, a presumably pleasant child, sitting on a braided-rope rug in the rec or living room. Your mother is talking to your father about your grades, your sibling is listening to music, and Legos and Star Wars figures are strewn about you. Your cherubic face ignores all that and gazes up toward the epileptic light of the television. There, pouring out of a cartoon tree, are the Keebler Elves: joyous in their creation of delicious cookies and crackers, fanatic about their baking. Thereโs a certain delight that flickers through your eyes when you think of their tree-house on fire.
Now go forward, into your future. You and your friends are standing outside, waiting for the large, forbidding man to let you into the bar. Itโs not that you donโt have the right clothes on — that Kangol hat is very in right now — just that the bar is full, and lots of people want to drink. Suddenly, a seemingly attractive woman approaches you and attempts to start a conversation. She wants to invite you to a party, a private party. You step off the queue and abandon your friends only to end up in a back alley with a man named Tito demanding payment for services rendered.
Now imagine these two parts of your lives coming together, chasing after an orange ball. Weird, right?
Abby’s Pick: Hookers
Watchability: Infinite
Nick Is Easily Amused
#12 Dark Rainbows (10-7-0-1) at #2 Fresh Kills (12-4-2)
Written by playoff correspondent Jesse Kalb
Location: Tompkins West, 3:30 PM
All-Time Series: Dark Rainbows lead 7-5
2011 Result: Week 2 – Dark Rainbows 3, Fresh Kills 2; Week 13 – Fresh Kills 7, Dark Rainbows 3
Game Notes: A clear indication of how tight the Hackett Division was this year: Number 2 overall seed and division winner Fresh Kills finished just five points ahead of the cellar-dwelling Dark Rainbows. Bill Parcells once said, “You are what your record says you are,” but by several metrics, the Rainbows are probably a better team than their #12 seed would indicate. Top 10 in point differential, 7th in scoring, 9-7 overall and a 5-2 record in a very tough division; all of it points to a team no one should be sleeping on. Fresh Kills rode a stellar defense (second-fewest goals allowed) to the 3rd-best record in the league, although nasty rumors are swirling that the team plied Derek and Eli with raspberry Mentos to move them up to #2. This is a very tough one to call, but if the opportunistic Rainbows can sneak in an early goal or two, the Kills might not have the firepower to come back.
Vegas Line: Fresh Kills by 1.5
Jesse the Greek says: The squares will see the difference in seeding and be all over Fresh Kills, but this one stays close. Take the Rainbows and the points.
Watchability: 5 candy corn mini-packs.