My god, we are done with another season you say? Man do these go by fast! Well as the seasons are over then it is time to congratulate both the Portlan Pythons for their Ultimini title as well my team, the Arizona Outlaws for their Ultimus championship. As I have a much better grasp on the International Simulation Football League, I will take a look back at the season for the Arizona Outlaws and how they arrived in the playoffs and ended the season, hoisting the storied Ultimus trophy for their back to back championships baby!
This season was another red hot race in the American Simulation Football Conference, so let us see how it played out! The Arizona Outlaws started out the season very strong with a road win against the Orange County Otters who were one of the pre season favorites to go all the way. They then followed that up with a home win against the Austin Copperheads and a road win against the Cape Town Crash. They then took their first setback with a loss at home to the San Jose Sabercats who were looking to surprise everyone and both teams were sitting at 4-1 after this game and at the top of the American Simulation Football Conference. The loss stung a bit, but there would be ample time to get revenge on them, but more on that later! Through these four games, rookie Purdy Mediocre was starting to make a name for himself and have people think he had mispelled his name was it was more likely to be Purdy Awesome. After that the Outlaws made sure to not lose any ground to the Sabercats by going on a six game winning streak which involved a great win on the road to the resurgent New Orleas Secondline, a nailbiting one point victory over the New York Silverbacks and another win over the Orange County Otters to sweep the season series. Things started to get a bit hairy at the tail end of the season, with losses to the Baltimore Hawks, New Orleans Secondline and New York Silverbacks. Thankfully the Outlaws were still in control of their own destiny in terms of playoffs and they helped this caused with a road win over the San Jose Sabercats and taking revenge part one. In the end they ended up with a 12-4 record which was good enough for second place in the conference and a place in the playoffs! The American Simulation Football Conference was a bloodbath as the pre season darling Orange County Otters missed out with a 10-6 record and the San Jose Sabercats surprising many by winning the conference with 13-3 record
The first test of the playoffs would come in a home game against the Secondline in the wild card round. This was yet another hotly contested game with it coming right down to the wire. Arizona had a chance to almost win it, being at the one yard line, but Winters was sacked and fumbled the ball which was then recovered by the Secondline, but they could get nothing on their possession. Down 3 points, the Outlaws moved the ball far enough to kick a field goal with 28 seconds remaining to tie it (but could have gone further as it was a 3rd and 1). In overtime the Secondline fizzed out and after a great Aguilera punt return, a touchdown to BMP sealed the game for the Outlaws. In the conference championship game, the Outlaws were looking to gain full revenge on the Sabercats and after a very back and forth game, two touchdowns in the final 4 minutes helped pull the Outlaws to a 35-28 victory and take them to the Ultimus game. The Ultimus did not start well with the Outlaws down 17-10 at half time, but after that it was all Outlaws as they put up 23 unanswered points to take the game and the championship with a 33-17 victory of the Cape Town Crash! Yeah baby, yeah!
This season was another red hot race in the American Simulation Football Conference, so let us see how it played out! The Arizona Outlaws started out the season very strong with a road win against the Orange County Otters who were one of the pre season favorites to go all the way. They then followed that up with a home win against the Austin Copperheads and a road win against the Cape Town Crash. They then took their first setback with a loss at home to the San Jose Sabercats who were looking to surprise everyone and both teams were sitting at 4-1 after this game and at the top of the American Simulation Football Conference. The loss stung a bit, but there would be ample time to get revenge on them, but more on that later! Through these four games, rookie Purdy Mediocre was starting to make a name for himself and have people think he had mispelled his name was it was more likely to be Purdy Awesome. After that the Outlaws made sure to not lose any ground to the Sabercats by going on a six game winning streak which involved a great win on the road to the resurgent New Orleas Secondline, a nailbiting one point victory over the New York Silverbacks and another win over the Orange County Otters to sweep the season series. Things started to get a bit hairy at the tail end of the season, with losses to the Baltimore Hawks, New Orleans Secondline and New York Silverbacks. Thankfully the Outlaws were still in control of their own destiny in terms of playoffs and they helped this caused with a road win over the San Jose Sabercats and taking revenge part one. In the end they ended up with a 12-4 record which was good enough for second place in the conference and a place in the playoffs! The American Simulation Football Conference was a bloodbath as the pre season darling Orange County Otters missed out with a 10-6 record and the San Jose Sabercats surprising many by winning the conference with 13-3 record
The first test of the playoffs would come in a home game against the Secondline in the wild card round. This was yet another hotly contested game with it coming right down to the wire. Arizona had a chance to almost win it, being at the one yard line, but Winters was sacked and fumbled the ball which was then recovered by the Secondline, but they could get nothing on their possession. Down 3 points, the Outlaws moved the ball far enough to kick a field goal with 28 seconds remaining to tie it (but could have gone further as it was a 3rd and 1). In overtime the Secondline fizzed out and after a great Aguilera punt return, a touchdown to BMP sealed the game for the Outlaws. In the conference championship game, the Outlaws were looking to gain full revenge on the Sabercats and after a very back and forth game, two touchdowns in the final 4 minutes helped pull the Outlaws to a 35-28 victory and take them to the Ultimus game. The Ultimus did not start well with the Outlaws down 17-10 at half time, but after that it was all Outlaws as they put up 23 unanswered points to take the game and the championship with a 33-17 victory of the Cape Town Crash! Yeah baby, yeah!