Holiday Classic 1st Round

Okay live from the Superdome, the first match up will be between the Aces and Navy, this serves as a play-in game with the Pioneers.

Las Vegas advances to Round 1 to play Lincoln, Connecticut is now eliminated.

LV-0-21-0-7-28

CON-10-0-11-0-21

1st Quarter

3:05 - White to Cosby for a 13 yard Touchdown (CON 7-0)

1:58 - Plackemeir 22 yard Field Goal (CON 10-0)

2nd Quarter

4:30 - Wilson to Parrish for a 4 yard Touchdown (CON 10-7)

2:13 - Wilson to Moulds for a 62 yard Touchdown (LV 14-10)

0:25 - Wilson to Hall for a 31 yard Touchdown (LV 21-10)

3rd Quarter

3:42 - Plackemeir 46 yard Field Goal (LV 21-13)

0:26 - Green, 12 yard Touchdown Run, 2-PT was good: White to Stovall (Tied 21-21)

4th Quarter

3:59

Wilson to Hall for a 22 yard Touchdown (LV 28-21)

POTG: D.J. Hall, 6 REC, 108 Yards, 2 TD

The next game will be between the Orlando Aviators and the Boise Grizzlies, which will also serve as a play-in game to play Louisville, this game will be played at the Georgia Dome.

Boise advances to Round 1 to play Louisville, Orlando is eliminated from the tournament.

ORL-7-7-0-7-21

BOI-7-7-7-3-24

1st Quarter

3:09 - Hall returned Interception for 54 yard Touchdown (ORL 7-0)

2:03 - Irons, 2 yard Touchdown Run (Tied 7-7)

2nd Quarter

1:20 - King to Bruce for a 24 yard Touchdown (BOI 14-7)

0:28 - Dixon, 3 yard Touchdown (Tied 14-14)

3rd Quarter

1:11 - Carter, 16 yard Touchdown (BOI 21-14)

4th Quarter

3:55 - Dixon, 2 yard Touchdown (Tied 21-21)

0:05 - Huston, 20 yard Field Goal (BOI 24-21)

POTG: Isaac Bruce, 5 REC, 103 Yards, 1 TD

Coming Up Next: Hawaii vs. Alabama @ the Superdome

Alabama has won the First Round Match-up, they will play the winner of Las Vegas/Lincoln. Hawaii is eliminated.

HAW-7-7-3-13-30

ALA-7-14-0-14-35

1st Quarter

3:33 - Vick to Hall for a 59 Yard Touchdown (ALA 7-0)

2:34 - Brennan to I. Johnson for a 11 yard Touchdown (Tied 7-7)

2nd Quarter

4:30 - Vick to Upchurch to 29 Yard Touchdown (ALA 14-7)

2:13 - R. Johnson, 2 Yard Touchdown Run (ALA 21-7)

0:27 - Brennan to Barnes for a 9 Yard Touchdown (ALA 21-14)

3rd Quarter

1:20 - Graham, 50 Yard Field Goal (ALA 21-17)

4th Quarter

3:44 - Vick to Hall for a 38 Yard Touchdown (ALA 28-17)

3:06 - Brennan, 71 Yard Touchdown Run, 2-PT Failed (ALA 28-23)

1:36 - R. Johnson, 1 Yard Touchdown Run (ALA 35-23)

0:33 - I. Johnson, 3 Yard Touchdown Run (ALA 35-30)

POTG: Rudi Johnson, 134 Rushing Yards, 2 Touchdowns

Quebec vs. San Antonio @ the Georgia Dome (3 OT)

San Antonio advances to play the winner of Boise/Louisville, Quebec has been eliminated from the Tournament.

QUE-7-10-7-0-7-7-0-38

SA-3-7-7-7-7-7-3-41

First Quarter

2:04 - Larson, 25 Yard Field Goal (SA 3-0)

0:20 - Plummer to Jarrett for a 51 Yard Touchdown (QUE 7-3)

Second Quarter

3:19 - Furrey, 4 Yard Touchdown (SA 10-7)

2:05 - Coutu, 48 Yard Field Goal (Tied 10-10)

0:52 - Plummer to Jarrett for a 11 Yard Touchdown (QUE 17-10)

3rd Quarter

3:42 - McAllister, 10 Yard Touchdown Run (QUE 24-10)

2:52 - Carr to Jones, 30 Yard Touchdown (QUE 24-17)

4th Quarter

1:26 - Carr, 1 Yard Touchdown Run (Tied 24-24)

Overtime 1

Carr to Jones for a 17 Yard Touchdown (SA 31-24)

Johnson, 1 Yard Touchdown Run (Tied 31-31)

Overtime 2

Plummer to Jarrett for a 5 Yard Touchdown (QUE 38-31)

Carr to Jones for a 4 Yard Touchdown (Tied 38-38)

Overtime 3

Larson, 20 Yard Field Goal (SA 41-38)

Plummer threw a interception in the endzone on Quebec's final possesion.

POTG: Jim Leonhard, 5 Tackles, Game-Winning Interception

Memphis Unveils New Identity

The Memphis Tradition has ended, as the team moves to Orlando to become the Aviators. The long awaited logo sheet is below.

The primary logo is inspired by the Air Force Enlisted Crew Badge, with the ten stars representing the year they were moved to Orlando (2010) and the 10 teams in MLF. I am more than willing to see this revised, or even redone, so if you want to take a shot at it, the file is below.
Logo & Jersey FIle

Holiday Classic Begins Tommorow!

Okay so I am back from vacation and I will go ahead and start the tournament tommorow, I may only get done with 2 games but I will try and get most of the 1st round knocked out tommorow. If I don't I may have time Sunday or Monday, I go back to school Tuesday so I want to try and get it done by then. I will sim them live and do a scoring recap along with a Game Summary on each game, and I may do a Broadcast of the Championship game. Here is the bracket, I changed some of the match-ups to get some more inter-league play, each game also has the order of games being played.

Looks like the Kings will be playing a couple more games as the Kings since we haven't heard where they are moving to, I seeded them ahead of Las Vegas because the Aces were eliminated from the playoffs first so I guess that means they will get the #1 pick. Wish you guys would comment some more, hopefully the tournament will get this place jumping some because I don't want to sim a bunch of games if no one even cares.

Johnson is coming back to the Gladiators!

Rudi Johnson introduced as a Alabama Gladiator.

PRESS CONFERENCE 8:00 PM HOOVER, ALABAMA - "Good Evening everyone, today is a big day for the Alabama Gladiator Franchise and Gladiator Nation. We have been in talks with Connecticut and we have reached an agreement that will send the Season 2 MVP back to Alabama." The deal sends 2 players and Alabama's 1st Round Draft pick for the Navy's star running back. Connecticut had 2 running backs that were possibly up for sale after Ahman Green had a breakout All-Star season while Johnson was injured. Green will be bumped up to a 87 overall this season and will be the new starter. Rudi drops 1 point from his 90 overall to 89 after sitting out most of the season, he still finished in the top 3 rushing. Michael Harbison also had this to say, "We are very excited to make this deal because we have gained a offensive Superstar, we needed one since Michael Vick is now leaving for the NFL. We are going to try and play Marcus Vick at Quarterback and move Roy Upchurch over to Wide Receiver for the tournament, if they play well, we will likely trade our replacement signing for Michael Vick, if not we will sign a new QB and possibly shop Upchurch or one of our big 3 Receivers." Okay so enough talk, here is the deal broken down.

Alabama gets:
RB Rudi Johnson - 89

Connecticut gets:

RB Michael Smith - 84

DT Grady Jackson - 84

1st Round Draft Pick (8th Overall)

The Navy gain an advantage to their Defensive Line, now Aleric Mullins (84) will slide over to Left Defensive End to make room for Jackson. This is an upgrade because their starter before him was Angelo Craig who is a 74 overall. Smith will likely be a backup and could move to Receiver or Return for the Navy. This is also Rudi Johnson's 2nd turn with the Gladiators, he was a vital part to their East Champion team in Season 1 and almost helped lead them to a Championship.

Throwback

I shot you an email, your pm box was full on the boards so if you don't get the email, let me know and I'll try and pm you again if you clear your box.

Thanks, Mike.

1st Annual MLF Holiday Classic?

Okay so I think TC came up with this idea a while back, he thought it would be cool to have a Winter Tournament. So I told Mykl about it today and he made a logo for it.

Basically what I was thinking was to have either a 10 team Single or Double Elimination Bracket, I don't know really how to seed everyone. I was kind of wanting to split everyone up in regions but I don't know how that would work. For the rosters we would just have to use last season's because I'd be pushed too much to take out most of the players and try to replace them, the Gladiators may try Marcus Vick out at QB too see how that works, if I decide not too though Michael Vick will play for this tourney. Also, we don't have a identity for droozer's team, now if we know the name and colors we can just use practice styled uniforms like Lincoln did last season but droozer hasn't really said anything about his team in a couple weeks so I guess we will wait to find out. I'd like to start this in the next day or two, I'm leaving for a trip on the 26th and I'll be gone 3 or 4 days so I'd like to get about half of the tournament done by then.

Championship & All-Star Game Locations

The results are in! Looks like the 2011 All-Star game will be played in Boise, Idaho, so that means the all-star game will be played on the smurf turf. And Pasadena, California has been selected as the host for the 2011 Championship game, so that means we will have a rose bowl themed Championship. Out of 3 comments, sounds like South Africa is the favorite for the Globe Game so I'll just go ahead and announce South Africa as the coach, I'm assuming Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg would be the stadium used for this game. If you were thinking a different place, let me know. Mykl I don't know if you want to do the logos or not, but you like doing them so if you wanna make logos for all these go for it, obviously Roses should be in the logo for the Champ. And blue and orange would fit the All-Star game best since that's the true color of the field.

Boise Grizzlies Concept

Well the site has been a little dead lately, so I decided to do a Boise Grizzlies Concept, at first I was just going to move the striping from the last uniform to this new template but as I was doing that I kind of came up with a new design. It is similar to their last set but the striping is a little bit more modern, the pants stripe is supposed to match the jersey sleeves and I can actually make some like these in teambuilder. I kept the helmet the same although I could try out a different striping style if it would look better, I only did a home uniform since this is just a concept, if you like it Beast I can make a whole set and make any changes.

Home and Away Uniforms

Alternate Uniforms

Pro Combat Uniform

For the Pro Combats, I wanted to do something out there because most Pro Combats are, and so far we only have 2 really out there uniforms so I wanted to try and break the retro trend, I used TCU's template but I added a grizzly fur texture all over the uniform. For the pants I just tried something really pro combat-ish.

Happy Belated Birthday, MLF!

Two years ago last Wednesday, the first post of this blog was posted. Two years and three seasons later, we're still going strong! Congratulations, gentlemen.

Memphis Relocation Naming Contest!

Edit: I have made a choice and have PM'd elliott. The choice won't necessarily be the top vote getter and it will be announced once I've designed the uniforms. Thanks for the help.


Ok, so the team will either be relocated to Columbus, Ohio or Orlando, Florida. I'm leaning towards Orlando. I'll keep a running total of the nominations below. Post your suggestions in the comment

                      Orlando                                                                                    Columbus                               

                       Aviators (2)                                                                                 Cannons

                       Coasters

                        Juicers  (2)