Farley Printing squared off against Servpro in the final week of the season with their playoff hopes on the line. Carrying a two game win streak and led by a rejuvenated Dutchman things were beginning to look good for a franchise that was on the verge of collapse just one month ago.

The Dutchman was the hammer star, throwing for 3 TDs and running for one more. And for his third consecutive game he went turnover free. But this was a story of too little too late. Because it never should have come to this. FPC should have turned it around by now. It is always in these last few games that the "Smoking Hot Second-Half Teams" emerge -- the teams that start slow, turn things around, then roar to the finish like Peter North. It always happens in the last few games of the season. And here was FPC. Talent? (Check.) Early-season stumble? (Check.) Easy schedule (Not exactly.) Showing signs of coming on? (Check). Coach with a midseason history of pushing his chips into the middle of the table, then getting everyone to ante up? (Check.) And now they get to fatten up against Servpro.

There were bad signs though, the Dutchman's QB rating was narrowly edging President Bush's public approval rating. I'm not sure who comes off worse in that last sentence. And in the week before, CComps led the offense to its highest scoring total of the season while the the Dutchman enjoyed the day off. Anyway, here's my point: With the Dutchman calling the signals, could you possibly justify backing FPC on Saturday, against a fairly explosive Servpro team. Of course not.

Add to that the fact that your star receiver has gone AWOL, asking for the plays to be re-written for him; threatening to play defense if he doesn't get the ball. Top it off with The Dutch being quoted in the local paper as saying that "Feaster was his number one guy" and you could see it coming. Jeez, what happened to The Big Angry? He's like a higher-profile Andre Miller, mixed in with Nomar Garciaparra's performance in September and October, multiplied by the slump Andy Roddick's about to endure now that reality-TV cameras are following him around all the time. It's unbelievable. Maybe Angry's quest to drink the most wheatgrass in three months has distracted his entire season. I knew this would happen. Anyway, rough week for The BA. Out of any sport, football is the one sport where you need to be 100% focused every week, or else it shows up on the field. Just look at that D.H. guy on "Playmakers" -- in the past seven weeks, his crack problem raged out of control, he injected fake urine into his own bladder, he slept with about 150 different call girls, and he found out that his brother was Snoop Dogg. Plus, he smoked hillybilly heroin on a UFO, ran for the governor of California, started a feud with Ja Rule and killed his blonde ex-wife and a waiter who was returning her glasses. You think his stats weren't affected? Of course they were. My point: The BA put up (-2) hammer points in he last 5 games. End of story. Period. The End.

The game started out well enough with the teams exchanging TDs. Franchise sack leader L Train again disappeared before the playoffs leaving the rushing duties to Boscheezy. Mitts, Myura and Co., slowed down but were unable to stop the Servpro offense. Luckily The Dutchman was able to march FPC right back down the field and score with a nice pass to Geo.

Again the FPC defense was able to slow down Servpro but couldn't hold and gave up a TD late in the half. Servpro 14 - FPC 7 .

When FPC took possession with 2 minutes left in the half, things were looking very good. All they had to do was tie the game and they would get the ball back after halftime. It was time for the team to make their move. But when the drive opened up with FPC running its classic "Run a clearly terrified Delli over the middle, have The Dutchman throw the pass too high like he always does, make Delli try to catch it as three defenders are hitting him at the same time, then see if the other team can catch the deflection" play. That's when you knew they might be in trouble. FPC turned it over on downs and gave up its advantage. But with a fired up Dutchman leading them out on the field for the second half you had to be positive that they would win, right?

Wrong.

To make an unbearably long recap much shorter I'm going skip through a few parts of the game.

Dutchman to Feaster - touchdown. Game tied.

Servpro scores again.

Dutchman runs it in himself Game tied.

Servpro scores again.

Dutchman to CComps - touchdown. Game tied.

Defense holds - Overtime.

The question that arises is how does a team with this type of offensive explosion drop 5 games early in the season. The answer isn't simple. Is it because the Dutchman was doing his John Kitna 2002 impersonation until week 8 when he changed to John Kitna 2003? Was it because The Big Angry didn't start drinking his hulk juice until week 7? Was it because the L Train again went AWOL mid season? Was it because Willie D left and never came back? Or was it because there were too many guys with too little mitts? 

Regardless, there was overtime. Mitts went out and lost the toss as he has done on 34 of his last 36 attempts. On play 1 The Dutchman took a shot to the endzone and just overthrew Geo. On play 2 Delli dropped an easy pass on the 15. Play 3 went complete for 10 yards and it was decision time for Mitts. Kick or play? Keeping in mind that this team has yet to hike up its collective dress and kick in its 6 years of existence, the decision was made to keep off the skirts and go for the TD(editors note: due to an upset, if FPC had kicked the field goal and taken the tie they would have advanced to the playoffs. Lesson: Mitts is an idiot.). On play 4, The Dutchman handed off to Trevor on a wide receiver reverse. Question: This play made sense because:

A) the wide receiver reverse had not worked all game
B) Trevor had yet to throw a ball all game
C) FPC hadn't run this play all game and plays always work best the first time you run them.
D) Servpro is a young team that usually falls for trick plays
E) FPC was tired and this was the quickest way to get sacked and thereby end the game so that everyone could go to the bar.

For those of you new to the team, the answer is E. Either that or someone was high in the huddle. We'll never know. And I don't want to.

The FPC defense held Servpro on three downs. On the fourth, they kicked the field goal for the win, slamming the door shut on FPC's season.

The team will relocate next year to their newly built stadium just outside Elsmere. However, due to the impending sale of the team it is unknown just who will return to the team if anyone is brought back at all.

"We may need to start over. This team is has a bunch of sick sick sick individuals!" Mitts was quoted as saying after the game.