Championship Preview! Phat Girlz vs. Vickskennel.com!

Well, it's been a long road to get here, and the two teams could not have had more disparate paths, but we've finally arrived at the pinnacle of the season. Appropriately, we'll end with the #1 seed vs. the #6. The team that everybody expected to be here vs. the team that nobody did. These two squads last matched up in week 9 with a surprising victory for Vicks that kept them in the playoff race (118-67). Vicks would go on to lose three of their last four regular season games, to slink into the six seed, while Phat Girlz would win out in thundering fashion to take the top bye. Vicks will have to run the "upset countdown" gauntlet after beating the #3 Nauts and #2 BDT. PG will get the reverse after slipping by the #5 Pelicans last week. Phat Girlz spent nearly half of their cash picking up key free agents to win clutch games to ensure their bye, Vicks spent nothing and the vicissitudes of the season have turned some of their lumps of coal to diamonds. It's an unlikely mash-up! It's a Beauty and the Beast contest! It's the 2010 Pre-Socratic All Starz CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Redd's Tavern

Phat Girlz - The Girlz came perilously close to ending their season last week, but sneaked out the backdoor into the finals. 86.4 is a pretty low score for this team, as their main motor (MJD) sputtered, their flex fell off the boat entirely, and their team was jointly led by Schaub and Santana Moss. Not exactly the ringing semi-finals endorsement you'd hope for from the #1 seed. It drags their ppg down to 108.4. Still, this team's second trip to the finals is an exciting moment for the league, and there's every reason to think that they'll rebound to take this season from cradle to grave. MJD has a nice match-up against Washington, although the Jags have looked near pitiful on the ground the last two weeks. Roddy White will face a dinged up New Orleans secondary. And if Moreno can get healthy, he'll get plenty of touches against a good look in Houston. S.Moss looked as comfortable with Grossman as with McNabb and could be in for another big one. With the Steelers' D playing the Panthers they could be up for a 20 spot. If Moreno is as questionable as they say, look for PG to go to the well to secure this one. Phat Girlz are still the favorite to win this one, but they'll need to get everyone on the titration bus if they want to take this one downtown.

Vickskennel.com - Vicks put up 109 in week 15 and took out the #2 seed BDT, bringing them up to 97.6 ppg, nearly 11 points behind their opponents this week. Still, even the potential of their victory has rocked the league to the core, unleashing a brace of penetrating questions. Such as, how can a team that spent no money on free agents make it to the PSAS championship? How important is draft strategy? Does it matter if you go 1-4 during NFL bye weeks? Vicks does not have the high ceiling that PG does. They don't have their consistency. But they may have fortune on their side. Ray Rice and Jonathan Stewart have picked up the pace at just the right moment combining for 70 points over the last two weeks. If anybody thought there might have been a QB controversy in the finals between Philip Rivers and Tim Tebow, it certainly wasn't me. Everything seems to be falling the Kennel Klub's way. But will it hold? Rice will visit the Browns in Cleveland next week. Stewart run against the Steel Curtain. Vicks' hot-and-cold Jets will face the formidable Bears. And New Orleans' defense will face the high scoring Falcons. In their current formulation Yahoo projects them in the low 90s, against a 110 projection for PG. It should be interesting to see if the Kennel Klub decides to make a pick-up, or even set their line-up, or if they'll be content to be as laissez-faire about the championship as they have about the season.