Best of the LFFL Message Board: 2003

In an effort to preserve the history of the LFFL message board, Prospect Pioneers owner Dan Coulter set about to find the gem posts that tell the story of each season's happenings. For more info, see here. The editorializing is Coulter's, and the reader should beware that the language on the message board is not appropriate for all audiences. Frankly, it gets a little blue. Enjoy.

Best of the LFFL Message Board: 2003
By: Dan Coulter

This is the only reference I could find to the 2003 inaugural season of the LFFL. It comes on Dec. 18, 2004 from Iron Men Owner, Todd Leight, whose 2003 championship team did not make the playoffs in 2004. Resentful about his place in the standings, Mr. Leight bitterly turned to nostalgia to make himself feel better.


A Walk Down Memory Lane: Last Season's Game of the Year
by: (Allentown Iron Men) Dec 18 3:17pm

While this week's playoff games have yet to be decided, I thought it might be fun to take a look back at what happened last year in the first round in the playoffs.

In what was already a big playoff game, #1 seeded Prospect hosted #4 Allentown, with the Pioneers having lost only one game all season long. Heavy favourites, Propsect was expected to roll their way to the inaugural LFFL Championship. However, Prospect would have to get past Allentown first.

The following is the post Allentown coach Todd Leight made after the game.

What a day, two evil giants have been knocked down to size, and the world is a safer place.

First, Task Force 121 of the US Army's 4th Infantry Division captured Saddam Hussein and put an end to the terror he inflicted upon the global community by digging his ass out of a hole in the ground, and putting him behind bars.

Then, on the other side of the world, the Allentown Iron Men put an end to the horrific reign of terror of the Prospect Pioneers by upsetting them in the first round of the LFFL playoffs, burying them in a hole of shame and irony.

Today is a good day for democracy and comeuppance. It seemed as if Saddam would taunt the world by evading capture, running on the lamb, keeping the coalition from the one victory they needed so desperately. Similarly, it seemed as if Dan and Prospect would taunt the LFFL by winning week after week, with incredible luck, sometimes squeeking out close wins and stealing the ones they couldn’t earn outright, thus running away with the league championship. However, like I said, today was a good day. Saddam is secured away in an undisclosed location, free of head lice, and Dan and the rest of the Prospect Pioneers have been sent to the friendly confines of the consolation game, to play for 3rd place overall, hopefully free of head lice as well.

Dictionary.com defines comeuppance as, “A punishment or retribution that one deserves; one's just deserts: ‘It's a chance to strike back at the critical brotherhood and give each his comeuppance for evaluative sins of the past’ (Judith Crist).” That said, I can think of no better word to sum up today in a nutshell than comeuppance. Truly, Dan got his comeuppance.

I direct all to posting # 119, which if you’ll recall was by Kurt in response to Dan’s usual prick-like pronouncement of his superiority over every other team in the league. Kurt said in his post, “keep talkin your shit dan... im gonna laugh when you lose first round of the playoffs.” Truly this was the finest act of prognostication in the LFFL all year. I can not help but wonder how hard Kurt is laughing now, and how that Humble Pie tastes to Dan.

The ultimate truth, after the opening round of the playoffs:
Prospect Pioneers (1) 76.81 vs.
Allentown Iron Men (4) 88.09

With an upset victory that will echo through the ages,

Todd Warren Leight
Owner and Chief of Football Operations, Allentown Iron Men