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NFL bye weeks continue week 10 and will run through week 14, with no NFL teams on byes for week 13. Week 14 will be the last week the waiver wire will run and that waiver wire you can add a maximum of 3 players and will not be required to drop any rostered players. Rosters will expand to 23 players for the playoffs. Plan accordingly. International games are back week 10 and 11 in Germany and Spain, respectively. Be cognizant of the international game starts. No line up deadlines. Waiver wire runs on Thursdays, 5 pm PT/8 pm ET. Each team is permitted a maximum of two adds. Must include a drop for each add. No drops. No adds. Each player added is 5 bucks. No scraps. Waiver wire order is reverse order of points standing. Twelve through one round 1. Twelve through one round two. Weekly trade deadline is Fridays 9pm PT/midnight ET. Entry fee is 100 U.S. Dollars. You can Venmo me @Harold-Wenz. Look for the bearded guy wearing a Maybe Next Year t-shirt. Also, I accept PayPal and Zelle. And also, an old-fashioned check in the mail always works.

For The Record

Halloween – Halloween is a holiday celebrated on October 31st, which originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain and is the evening before the Christian holiday of All Saints' Day. Historically, it was a time associated with the end of harvest, the coming of winter, and the belief that the line between the living and the dead became blurred. It has evolved into a secular celebration featuring activities like trick-or-treating, carving jack-o'-lanterns, wearing costumes, and attending costume parties.

Dia de los muertos (Day of the Dead) - a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1 and 2 to honor and remember deceased loved ones. It is a vibrant and joyful celebration, not a somber one, that welcomes back the spirits of the dead for a brief reunion. The celebration involves creating altars, called ofrendas, with photographs, food, and personal items to commemorate the lives of ancestors and to rejoice in their memory.

Dynasty – in the scope of sports, it is a team or individual that dominates their sport or league for an extended period, winning multiple championships within a short time frame. While subjective, it often involves sustained success, a core of star players, strong leadership, and a lasting impact on the game.

Parity – A state where a league or sport has a high degree of competitive balance, and it is difficult for one team to achieve sustained dominance. This means there are more frequent winners, and the top teams change from year to year.

The 2025 All-Halloween NFL Team

Being that it was the Commish’s second favorite holiday this past weekend, I give you the NFL’s 2025 All-Halloween Team. At QB – Spencer Rattler, Jalen Hurts, Boo Nix, CJ Shroud. Okay that last was a stretch. At RB – JK Dobbins “for apples”, “Kill”man-i Vidal, Tyjae Spears, Cam Skatte-boo. At WR – Steffon Diggs, Alec Pierce, Kayshon Boo-tte, Kahlil Shakir. At TE – Jake Tonges, Trey “Frankenstein’s” McBride, Kyle Pitts and the Pendulum, Michael Mayer“s”. At kicker – Andres Borregales (only cuz sounds like he would be from Transylvania), Jake “Norman” Bates, and Jake Moody.

Around the NFL – Week 9

Are we back to the Colts being frauds? They didn’t look like a one seed against the Steelers this weekend. Which reminds me, Mike Tomlin now 4 wins away from 19 consecutive winning seasons, with the Chargers up next, 3 wins away from 19 consecutive seasons. Pats fans, you might want to look away. I’m gonna gush about Josh Allen. This guy just keeps amazing me every week. Josh Allen now the all-time leading QB with most career rushing TDs (playoffs included) with 79. Allen also joined Ladanian Tomlinson, James Brown, and Marshall Faulk as the only players to have 6 or more rushing TDs in their first 8 seasons. Additionally, those 79 rushing TDs puts him 26^th on the all-time rushing TDs list. He just passed Earl Campbell.  He is 85 behind the all-time rushing TD leader Emmit Smith. Only 31 behind 5^th place Walter Payton. Top 5 is achievable and then only 14 more to pass Marcus Allen for 3^rd all-time. Ridiculous. Speaking of Halloween, I’m guessing Sam Darnold wasn’t seeing any ghosts on Sunday Night. Yikes. 16 of 16 for 282 and 4 tuddies in the first half? That was a horror show for the Commanders. The Pats keep on rolling. Currently now in a 3-way tie for the best record in the AFC, with another “stomping” as they continue their Patriot’s pillow soft schedule. This week they faced the Georgia Chamber of Commerce Intermural Touch Football Team and won by one-point. Does anybody want to guess the Patriots strength of schedule in 2025? Don’t bother, I looked it up. The Patriots have the 30^th ranked strength of schedule with their opponents having an overall .429-win percentage. Let me take out my abacus, give me a second, here we go, 32 teams total in the NFL, which equates to the Patriots having the 3^rd easiest schedule in 2025. Soak it all in now Pats fans. Just remember, next year the schedule will be top 10 if you make the playoffs. Can we give Matt Stafford some MVP love? 9 TD passes and zero INTs in the last two games. And have put up 86 points in the last 3 games. Joe Flacco’s 470 yards was the first time in his 18-year career that he has eclipsed 400 yards. No QB in NFL history has thrown for more yards in a regular season NFL game after his 40^th birthday than Joe Flacco. Not even Tom Brady. Flacco Fever. Catch it. Gotta give a “Little” love to the new NFL longest FG record holder. 68 yards.

THFFL Week 9 Recap – Can’t You Hear Me Knocking

Three teams surging ahead of the pack and separating themselves from the contenders. Danger Russ, Day Spa and Smoking Scoobs leading the league at 7-2. Two teams hanging in the thick of things at 5-4 and then a handful of teams knocking on the door. Yeah, you got satin shoes. Yeah, you got plastic boots. Y'all got cocaine eyes. Yeah, you got speed freak jive, now. Danger Russ with the first 200-burger of the season, just laying it on the MoroXcan’t in a bloodbath 200-73. Somebody call the Red Cross, that’s a 127-point deficit. Yikes. Just the margin of victory alone, 127 points, was more than 7 teams’ total weekly scores. Just the deficit alone would have beaten 7 out of the 12 teams. And with an Odunze bagel putting up a 200-burger? Unprecedented. I mean can you be concerned about anything when you bust out a 200-burger? Come on? This is the Moss Head Commish here. I could point out a flaw in the painting of the Sistine chapel. Bijan did have back-to-back consecutive single digit duds. Doesn’t he have the same trainer as CMC? It might be time to take a visit to the old Dr. Flexer McStretcherson. I don’t know what happens in those closed-door sessions. I don’t want to know. But it helped out CMC. Just saying. For MoroX, all I can say is thank God for Cam Little. MoroX had more bagels than a NY City Jewish Deli. Day Spa also with another impressive win. Wasn’t quite the 200-burger but a very impressive 167-144 victory over the wily veteran TWT. It got a little dicey there in New England with Drake London putting up 118 and 3 TDs for 32. Would have been classic if London scored a walk-off tuddy against the Pats for a 40-burger. But those things don’t happen to Day Spa. Not in sports anyways. Those moments are reserved for less fortunate sports enthusiasts. TWT made a valiant effort to stay within striking distance with 68 combined from CMC and Darnold, and Day Spa might have gotten a little uneasy with that blocked punt. Imagine how sweaty Day Spa would’ve been if Aubrey hit that 68 yarder before halftime? Could’ve been a whole different outlook. TWT is not out of it yet at 3-6, but he’s got some work to do in a hurry. Speaking of less fortunate sports enthusiasts, Moss Head Commish went into the Monday Nighter needing 15 points from Trey McBride to pull off the upset. McBride had 55 and a TD for 13 points and dropped an easy 20-yard pass. Abacus says, those 2 points would’ve been enough for the win. Or maybe those 2 missed extra points? How bout a great opportune time for DK’s only donut of the year? The Commish had the opportunity as the Scoobs were on a down week with more byes than a San Francisco gay pride parade, but Moss Head didn’t take advantage and stumbles to 5-4. Number 9 rising from the dead-on Halloween weekend with another clutch victory to keep him knocking on that post season door. Hear me ringin', big bell tolls. Hear me singin', soft and low. I've been beggin', on my knees. I've been kickin', help me, please. Geno leading the way for N9 with 26 huge points and the Astral Cowboys needed a big Monday night from the Briskett, Willams, Harrison trifecta. And it was promising right out of the gates with the Briskett/Harrison stack looking unstoppable, but N9 looked to Bam “their” Knight in shining armor to come to the rescue. Don't you know promises were never meant to keep? Just like the night dissolve off in sleep. I'll be your savior, steadfast and true. Number 9 might want to add Astral Cowboys to your Christmas Card list with that Dowdle 29-burger on the bench. That was a Halloween Treat right there. With that victory Number 9 moves into a logjam with 4 teams at 4-5 currently in the race for that last Wild Card berth. It’s madness in the THFFL. Reefer Madness. It looked like we were going to get a double-200-burger in week 9 with Reef heading into Monday Night needing only 22 from CeeDee to reach that mark, but the Dallas offense sputtered, and Reefer was held to a still very stellar186. Reefer definitely had some help with a Flacco 40-burger and who the heck is Kyle Monangai? Reefer knew who he was and he stepped in nicely with 22 points. It wasn’t Toe Cheese’s week. I mean when you get 8 TD passes from your starting QBs and your opponent has Joe Flacco with only 9 points less than your 2 starting QBs combined, you just pack a bong at that point a pop open a cold one. Maybe next week. This week we close with the Sibling Rivalry Bowl Part Deux. In the first Brother Bowl, the veteran Astral Cowboys took it to the rookie Smoking Scoobs, and Saquon makes it veterans 2-0 as they take down Uncle Rico 136-116. Caleb Williams leading the way for Saquon with a rushing TD short of the QB trifecta. Williams had a receiving TD and 3 passing TDs for 33 points while McCarthy added a bonus rushing TD on his way to 23 points in his first start back. Rico getting plagued with the injury bug as CJ Stroud went down and with Swift and Skattebo already on the shelf it was slim pickings for Rico in week 9. All is not lost at 4-5. Saquon improves to 2-7 and I guess crazier things have happened. It is the THFFL after all. Hear me prowlin'. I'm gonna take you down. Hear me growlin'. Yeah, I've got flat-ten feet now, now, now, now. Hear me howlin'. And all, all around your street now. Hear me knockin'. And all, all around your town.

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