Battle at Buffy

With Week 4 being wrought with divisional drama and rivalries, here at CTDB we've chosen to focus on the downtrodden. Battle Angels against Buffy. A game featuring two teams with a combined record of 1-5 and a combined point total this year only 30 points higher than the Jammers. A game where CBS is sending its intern announcers and where where media coverage is limited to JVC home video recordings. However, of all the matchups this week including the highly anticipated matchup between the Jammers and the Monkeys or the undefeated Shrapnel team against the rumbling Green Team, the Angels versus Buffy game is perhaps the most interesting, the most fabled.

While regarded as this year's doormat, many forget the glory days of yesteryear. Let's refresh our memories shall we? It's November of 2001. CTDB is a fresh young league. Young fans are going nuts as the playoffs loom. Atop the standings are two juggernauts, two offensive giants that simply could not be stopped - two teams that were simply larger than life. Team Buffy led by rookie GM Roger and the Battle Angels and their D&D-Master GM, Vu. The two were roommates in college. Good friends in life and arch-rivals on the field. This was child's play for the two.

Buffy was led by Rich Gannon, Marshall Faulk, Rod Smith, David Boston, and Torry Holt while the Angels were equally equipped with veteran talent with the likes of Steve McNair, Curtis Martin, Jerome Bettis, Randy Moss, and Amani Toomer. The two teams led the league in scoring with a 118 ppg and 97 ppg average respectively. The CTDB Championship Game was epic. Battle lines were drawn, blood was spilled and an era was to be established. It was the match up that every kid dreamed of. The dominant passing game of Buffy against the unstoppable running attack of the Angels. Even dreams didn't get better than this.

Eventually, the Angels defense succumbed to the fabled Air-Buffy offense but that didn't really matter. What mattered was the glory, the fanatic Angels fans with cheesy neon halos on their heads (this is all before the stupid rally monkeys and the fake angels fans down south last year) and the rowdy Buffy legions storming the field after their beloved team's final victory. What mattered was the legends that were being written. The generations of fans that were being born. A year of glory that will never be forgotten.

So as the two teams take the field this Sunday, despite their poor records and their nano-miniscule odds of making the playoffs, there will be a few of the older fans mixed in the booing crowds who know better. These two teams are part of the league's legends. These two teams help make CTDB what it is today and let's not forget that. Play ball!