Lucky Week 7, lucky for some, not so lucky for others… It was a sharpie-less week for Terrell Owens, who did score a TD, didn't sign anything, and didn't win as the Saints beat the 49ers to run their record to an NFC best 6 - 1. The Chargers beat the Raiders in OT as Ladainian Touchdownson scored yet again. San Diego's also 6 - 1. And the Packers get a scare as Brett Favre goes down. But never fear, some strategically applied cheese in the locker room and Brett's OK, and so is Green Bay, also 6 - 1. Bet you didn't know that cheese had that kind of medicinal value, did you? Anyway, other Week 7 highlights included the J-E-T-S getting a W-I-N over the helpless Vikings. Priest led the faithful once again with 3 more TDs and Marshall had a Faulking good time with 4 TDs of his own. Ah, man! Ahman also found the Green with 3 TDs and four other backs found the end zone two times apiece… And speaking of running backs, I wonder if Corey Dillon was practicing flipping burgers on his bye week?

Now on to the Rowdiness… Austin Powers in Golden Domer keep coming up bigger than Fat Bastard! "Get in my belly", The Commish and Marky Mark devour KGB, 64 - 48, take their 2nd high points dollar in a row and drop the Komrades from the Kremlin out of first place… Quite the high scoring game here as The Commish exorcises one of his many fantasy demons. 14 out of a possible 24 players scored in this match-up but not one of them was Charlie Garner! For those of you who are not old enough to remember, The Commish has lost at least 3 games to Ken and Pam in his career where Charlie Garner has scored a late, otherwise meaningless touchdown that put K&P over the top. In fact, one year The Commish actually drafted Garner in an attempt to break the cycle. However, Charlie refused to score so he was dropped and guess who picked him up and beat The Commish three weeks later? Yep, you've got it… Oh and one more oddity to report. With the dropping of a Bengals kicker two weeks ago and the Green Bay defense this week, Ken becomes the first person to drop Rackers and the Packers in consecutive weeks! Rackers, Packers, Polly wanna Cracker?

And with the fall of the KGB, guess who's back in first place? Yep, it's the current owner of the aforementioned Garner, Neil Eskow and Bubba's Brew Crew! Neil's wins his 20th game out his last 24 (20 - 3 - 1 in that span) with a 45 - 41 win over Douche's Wild and moves back into prime title defense position. Rob's Wild squad had more players score (7) but somehow The Crew managed to score 45 points from just 4 players (Green 18, Edinger 11, Dawson 10 and Vick 6). Pretty efficient, wouldn't you say? About as efficient as this short paragraph after I overdid it on my own game recap…

How about Kang Kong's 25 - 21 win over Cut The Cord? For what has to be the first time in Rowdy Friends history not a single kicker scored a point in this game! What is this, the XFL? Man, Ken Bamrick would've loved this game! Kevin Kelly, the man formerly nicknamed the Staten Island Sniper who incidentally hasn't won a game since the real sniper has struck the D.C. area, had both his kickers on a bye (nice drafting, eh?) and Dave Kang had one kicker bye of his own. The Lone Kicker (somebody check the grassy knoll!) active in this game, Dallas' Billy Cundiff, fell victim to a high snap in his only XP attempt and thus we've got the first Kicker Shutout in league history…

Late For The Draft falls to 0 - 7 after The Moon Runners laid the Mack down on them 55 - 17. Things are definitely not going well in Seattle folks. With one more loss next week Chris and Ian will match the league record for most losses at the start of a season, an auspicious 0 - 8 start by Better Days in 1993 in what was definitely not the better days of the Binder Boyz franchise. As a result of this horrendous start, I hear that Ian Morris will once again be getting involved in the team's personnel decisions. Can't be long now before all these under performers are replaced with the like of Phil Simms, Joe Morris, Earnest Gray and Ali Haji Sheik…

Perhaps the Binder Boyz were feeling a little nostalgia themselves as they also suffered a "sympathetic loss" along with Late For, dropping a 53 - 15 decision to the suddenly scorching hot Wet Toast Offense. As a matter of fact, I hear that Mike and Bobby are going the way of the '72 Dolphins squad and are prepared to break out the champagne (and a case of O'Doul's), should Late For The Draft win next week and their own record for futility remain intact…

Was it officially "score in the teens" week or what? Also lacking a little in the offensive department were the River Ave Rats who come up on the short end of a 41 - 15 drowning by Down Boy! Only three players scored for the Rats who are in such desperate need of offense they've tried to talk yet another QB from Mike Flinn's alma mater out of retirement. So far, Jeff Hostetler's not biting… And in the late game, The Last Touch Don became the second straight team to go 40-plus on the Bubble Boy defense as Fab and his crew gave The Caruso Brothers "the Ralphie treatment" (and you Sopranos fans know what I mean!) defeating The Moops 46 - 36…

Week 8 match-ups are thus: The Wet Toast Offense (3 - 4) tries to keep things well buttered when they play Down Boy! (4 - 3). The O'Doul's will be on ice as The Rising (3 - 4) look to get back to .500 against Douche's Wild (3 - 3 - 1). Austin Powers in Golden Domer (4 - 3) tries to complete the high points trilogy against Cut The Cord (3 - 4). Can Bubba's Brew Crew (5 - 1 - 1) make it 21 of 25 when they go to West Virginia to play the River Ave Mountaineers, er Rats (2 - 5)? The Sharpe Division leading Moon Runners (5 - 2) take on The Last Touch Don (3 - 3 - 1). The Moops, leaders in the Berman Division (4 - 2 - 1) don't want to become the first victim of Late For The Draft (0 - 7) and KGB III (5 - 2) hopes to get back on track against Kang Kong (3 - 4) in the always special Battle of the K's (Special K that is)…

Well I'm running a little short on time this week, sorry 'bout the quick column, I'll try to write a little more next week. Meanwhile, don't forget about this week byes. We've got Green Bay packing it in for a week's rest. The Dolphins get a breather as they try to teach Cris Carter the offense in one week. Ladainian gets a little la-rest-ian as the Chargers take a one week siesta and the only way to cool off Marshall "4 TD" Faulk? Make him and the Rams sit a week as well. 'til next week…

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